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Not sure that that sort of agreement wouldn't be against PL or FL rules actually, it would be akin to match fixing. Now when it's a loan player you can understand it but a contracted player deliberately being left out...nope don't think so. Doubt if he'll be sold in January, too much to play for still this season.

34 million € apparently, or if you believe L'Equipe anyway, works out at about the 28 million £ that Koeman said it would cost to buy him last summer. L'Equipe isn't known for it's 2+2=7 maths but a journalist is a journalist the world over.

Work it out for yourself http://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/dec/21/1 Remember the Echo saying he was better ranked than Nasri or Terry...yeah right.

Mind you with the way our front men are playing we'll be lucky to score zero. It took the other sides black box departments about 10 games to suss them out, good while it lasted though.

Nope 85th in the whole wide world, probably a poll conducted amongst Zambian 2 year olds after he scored in the ANC final.

I presume Mayuka is only still at the club because we can't find anyone stupid enough to take him off of our hands. We'd have done better to keep Gaston.

Didn't, he was "ill".

Same injury that forced him out of the last France game ?

Most of the time actually,

Or a Japanese tourist.....

Surely though if they aren't good enough they wouldn't be playing in England Unders sides all of the time, Koeman obviously didn't fancy giving Reed a chance although he's supposed to be the best player that's ever come out of our academy (isn't he?)

So it's up to the ST holders to bring in the new fans, not selling out for City seems to have hit them hard. Are there many tickets for Utd still available ?

Perhaps Hull wouldn't be totally unpleased to send him back to us, still a move I don't understand. Seville would have been much better for him. Perhaps he'll get more game time at Hull when (and if) Bruce gets sacked.

I thought it strange in the summer that he actually turned down Seville because he preferred to be eventually loaned out to Hull (that's what Seville said, he turned them down after everything was agreed), I mean what was that all about really, surely it can't be about money and Hull's European campaign was destined to be short lived.

ok I give up have it your own way, if it wasn't a balancing factor then Pellé's miss is all the more uncondonable. For those who don't remember the incident well, about a minute in, that's a 2 footed lunge and a red card anywhere else in the world but in the UK it's a yellow for diving, just shows the standard of reffing really. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ZAJRX7sNQ

Been a standing order to refs for a couple of years now in the hope of instituting harmony, same crime, same punishment, 2 feet forward, no matter what, you're off. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2092434/Two-footed-challenges-red-cards.html

2 feet forward, red card, it's in the rules.

Tackle was dangerous, red card, seen it loads of times as C+ have re-run the match 3 times now, red card, penalty.

So Szczesny definitely still out, Gibbs,Monreal and AOC doubtful then, Bet those 3 are all fit come tomorrow night though. If Gibbs and Monreal should not make it though that would leave them with a biggish problem at LB though wouldn't it?

Good scenario, hope it happens that way then and that whomsoever gets presented with a chance as a result of us tearing into them from the off actually converts it. If Pelle had sunk that sitter on Sunday as you'd expect him to the game would have been different, mind you so would it have if the ref had got it right when José hacked down Aguero at the other end, red card and a penalty.

I don't think it's a case of being scared or not up for the fight, I think it's rather a case of players being worn down by having played virtually every match and internationals to boot. We have no alternative options, what ou see is what ou get so those that are on their 20th or so match since August are beginning to look frayed at the edges. RK needs to understand that the League Cup is for the youth team and fringe players only. If you can win with that you do if you can't well tough titty.

the one in which the french word basically means getting some firkin end product.

Do we not still have money in hand from our summer sales, I thought that we did, perhaps not though.

Don't think it's a case of taking leaves out of anyone else's book, we need to get some rendement from our front 3, the problem lies there within, they just aren't performing so they give the opposition more men to shut the other players down, I'd drop Pellé, just not doing anything, same as his first few games with us really, trouble is we have no alternative., I suppose that's down to JRods recent setback.

Reed got 8 games or part games under Mauricio, so far I think he's had about 5 minutes in total under Koeman so far. Last season we had Shaw,Chambers,Lallana,JWP and Gallagher getting some game time this season it's just JWP in the main.