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CB Fry will be ******ed off. Apparently Vickery knows so much about Ramirez that his opinion shouldn't be questioned.

He left Anderlecht 5 years ago!! Played twice in a season for Fiorentina, played 31 times in 2 seasons for Genoa, and 16 times in 2 seasons for Genk. He has been very poor since Anderlecht I'm happy to say he was good at Anderlecht, but you can't judge a player on the back of him being highly rated at 19 years old, otherwise we'd have Cherno Samba, Tonton Zola Moukoko and Freddy Adu playing for us.

Was crap at Pompey, failed at Genoa and poor at Genk. But yeah, he used to be good on FM.

Website does work for me. Gotta say, don't really believe it. Like Nostradamus etc, it's all guesswork.

Speaking at the event, London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "I barely understand it, but information will spout unstoppably from these gizmos. He is a bit of a legend.

But did he look off the pace? As Vickery is an expert on Gaston Ramirez (club and country) I expect he did.

Yep, but until he tells us we still won't. He really shouldn't be playing this out in public, he's going to get himself sued.

My God, the guy does not know how to spell or capitalise. Don't give a **** what he says. I do agree however that he was massively over-priced.

This all makes me very sad...

Oh, I'm sure he does. I seem to remember games when MLT used to as well. Many great players do, and I don't think GR is a great player.

My judgement is based on watching a fair amount of Italian football over the last 5 years, and the fact that the Italian team I support is Bologna (since the Di Vaio days). I can't believe that you think he has spent this much of his life watching a promising penarol player, when you have the ridiculous number of youngsters that come through the Brazilian and Argentinean leagues. Frankly, I think you're talking absolute ******** if you think Vickery has spent THAT much time watching GR, and that you are very much mistaken. For example, I guarantee Tancredi Palmeri has seen him far more than Vickery, and also in a more comparable situation (a club side). If you want to discount everything I have put forward on this thread then go ahead, but I prefer to trust my own eyes and expectations above a guy that covers a whole continent.

Right, however I had. An Italian journalist saying this kind of thing would take far more credence in my book than one who has seen him playing occasionally for Uruguay. I would venture that he hasn't seen that much of him on the club scene, mainly because the guy concentrates on South American football, and not just International, but Domestic. That is a **** load of football to keep you going without following each SA that plays outside of SA. No sneering went on, however I question his ability to be able to judge a player based on him seeing him a handful of times (also don't see any mention of him watching GR bor Bologna). So instead of throwing a wobbly and calling me pathetic for questioning this, why don't you calm down and accept that I don't have to take his opinion based on the reasons above. Not unreasonable is it?

I'd suggest to make an informed opinion on GR he should watch a lot of Italian football.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2197903/Rickie-Lambert-believes-play-England.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

This is exactly my opinion on it. We needed 2 x CB's and 1 x LB. We didn't get that. However, I am very happy we've signed Ramirez, he really is ace.

Not worried about this. Messi tends to struggle a bit more more the International side than at Barca, plus the South American qualifiers are very different for players playing in Europe. Weather conditions, humidity and altitude all differ greatly to Europe, and can have adverse effects on players that aren't correctly conditioned. Couple this with such a small sample size and frankly, I don't care what he says. Gaston Ramirez a luxury player? Of course he is, and that is why we bought him. He is a player to unlock defences, pull players out of position etc. We didn't lose against Wigan because of a lack of tracking back.

I'm not. I don't feel we needed him as desperately as we needed a wide player though, and what a wide player.

No, however I do believe the £7m we spent on Rodriguez would have been better spent on the defence.

I voted Guly, for a laugh.

35? In lime green.

Got released yesterday.

Still a bit worried at CB, but apart from that I am happy, and the last 3 signings (not including Cropper) were of the requisite quality.

Because both teams probably can't afford the money we'd want for them now.

Hilarious reading on NSC.

Hammond to Brighton.