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Hard to make a judgement like that at the moment. I personally think both are very good young keepers with enormous potential, too early to say who will end up being the better of the 2 - they're both no where near the finished article yet.

That's the one, got the games the wrong way round...doh.

Davies? Do you mean the new GK that was on trial with the development squad? And it won't be buttner, that's dead and has been so for weeks. I'm sure of it. (hope I'm proved wrong, but can't see it happening now.)

You don't need to wait for it to know the content ''Fantastic weeks training, we're in a good place. Good bunch of professionals'' ''Bristol City will be a good test for us, will be looking to give players a bit longer in terms of building up fitness'' ''We're working hard behind the scenes to bring in new additions, we do it sensibly behind the scenes and only comment when it's done'' End conference.

Can't see anything he's said about a press conf. and if it is a press call, I'd imagine it's for the Bristol City game on Saturday.

Butland looks absolutely outstanding.

That's worrying if they say that, when the system it's self says ''A new password has been sent to your email address. Please change your password immediately once you've logged in".

I'm having exactly the same problem. Wouldn't log me in y/day with my normal password (Which I had firefox store) - thought that was odd. So i reset it, the one in the email doesn't work either. Not a great experience from this so far. Bloody thing.

In my opinion their appraoch for Caroll is just to please fans, I don't think there's any real intent to make it happen from either side. - I doubt it will happen I don't necessarily think a ''massive'' signing is what we'll do, we'll go for young quality, with potential - but genuine potential, i.e potential internationals. As long as we kind of consolidate thus year, once all our potential matures, we're laughing. It's all about taking it steady, rather than rushing out and buying big this summer.

I think it'll be obvious to most who they are . (hence why this thread was started!)

TBF this won't happen, but he's exactly the sort of CB I think we lack. Physical, powerful and pacey. The guy from Rennes (I think?) is supposed to be in a similar mold.

Looking good now. GB are also currently beating Uruguay 1-0 @ HT, and they only need a draw to progress as group winners.

Some good points raised here and I'd like to add my 2 pence. This is a great forum with many terrific contributors who all have great understanding of the game (and at the end of the day, this is what it's about - A football forum!). As people have stated the issues occur when ''certain posters'' (We don't need to name them) add their sarcastic/witty replies to pretty sensibly started threads. More often than not it's a thread from MLG. I can understand why he gets on peoples nerves somtimes, but the amount of abuse and to a degree, bullying, he has had to put up with recently is out of order. The bloke is a saints fan, who is positive and passionate about our future, yet for some reason he's not allowed to be and a nice positive discussion about stadium improvements, training ground improvements etc gets eaten up by sarcastic and witty remarks which go round and round in a circle. I think it's obvious when these threads are going to go down that route, so maybe the mods need to catch these early before they descend into the mass sarcastic contest they become. Don't get me wrong, the mods do a decent job here as it is - but maybe we need a few more to hit this current issue? At the end of the day we all have opinions and there are some very good posters here that will slowly start to fade away if a certain group are allowed to continue taking over every thread with their drivel.

He's chelsea's player, they bought him from Lens as well as Edin, so it would only be a loan for him to gain experience.

They've just packed up the fair tbf, that's why they're there at the mo.

Sunderland have bid ''Up to £12m'' for Steve Fletcher. Blimey, that's alot of money for a striker who doesn't score a great deal.

Good shout, they took a huge gamble swapping Alonso with him, as Aquilani was injured when they signed him so whoever sorted that medical needs shooting.

Peaked too early, again.

Carroll stands out as the modern day flop, the fact he cost more than David Villa is insanity. But a couple of transfers made by clubs up on tee side stand out. Alfonso Alves -cost Boro £12m. He was a disaster, was supposed to fire them to the ''next'' level but it went horribly wrong. Sunderland - Asamoah Gyan. Another 'big name' signed for £14/15m, and was hopeless for them. Went awol and then left for a club in Dubai.

Get over yourself. What I cannot understand is how people snap shot on 1 game, 1 hour, 20mins - and that's that, decision made, mind up, no way back. Have you ever heard about giving someone a chance? You've given Gazzinga all of 20 minutes before deciding he's not good enough. I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure that makes you the idiot in this argument.

If you say stupid things like you did about Gazzinga, then what do you expect? Open yourself wide for it.

Don't be such a pillock.

He's being realistic to be honest. We need pace and a better CB, otherwise we will be in the **** when we come up against top PL teams. Let's not kid ourselves. There is a good basis to this squad and we have made clever signings, but we need a couple more little dots of quality to finish it off in the most important areas.

This is one of those bizarre rumours that has no substance, apart from the fact he used to play for us and is fast. And we're looking to sign quick player. 2+2 = 25252525 We won't sign him, and I'd be surprised if we even enquired as it would have been obvious before that he's well out of our range.

Frank De Boer singled him out for praise, he was a hell of a lot more than just tidy