I'm stunned at his lack of impact at Stoke to be honest. He was terrific at Spurs and lost his way through injury, it seems that the same injury problems have followed him to Stoke.
There's no doubting that he is a terrific player though, a proper premier league box to box midfielder. If he can get over his injury problems I'd take him in a shot.
Most managers are a fan of Adam, Wolves wanted him more than most though.
It probably comes as no suprise to you, but I was told that our most saught after player is Morgan.
If Holt, Graham, Pilkington and Bennet haven't got calls up - after their decent seasons, then Lambert and Lallana will need to rip up the league to stand a chance.
An attacking goal scoring midfielder, nice. Ignore the penalty miss in that video though.
To be fair this is probably a pipe dream as Man Utd were looking at him in March.
And with 1year left on his contract, a scary asking price.
That's what you get with young english players though.
We would save so much money looking abroad. Newcastle got Cisse for something like 7m
Blimey, my posts were good
Seriously though, the initial reactions to Adkins were moronic. I bet you my bottom dollar that if we had gone for this ''MASSIVE NAME'' that many craved, we wouldn't have done as well.
Just my thought.
Really interesting looking back at that.
When you read the reasons behind the choices of WHU, Lecister etc, then you look at where we finished and it looks an even more remarkable achivement.
He'd only be a loan here, and Chelsea wouldn't want him to sit on the bench. He made a total clanger last night though to be fair, but he's proven to be a very good keeper for Atheltic Madrid.
I'm sure Chelsea see him as the long-term replacement for Cech.
Actually, thinking about it, Leeds at home on the first day was pretty awesome wasn't it?
They didn't know what the hell had hit them and it totally set the tone for the season. You could sense the confident flow through the players after that performance as they all believed they were good enough for this level.
We totally took the **** out of Leeds that day.