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What less well run than say Cardiff or Wrexham ???????????

Morgan has pulled out of Tuesday's game with a thigh injury.

No predictions but I'd be inclined to fancy our chances against Arsenal. Midweek sandwiched between potential maulings against West Brom and Stoke they'll be lucky to have a team to put out.

Already my boy.

co vice-captain with Lloris I think, Kaboul being captain this season. Not sure that Adebayor isn't out of contract in June next so they might not have too much difficulty in moving him out if that's what is desired.

Overestimating how exactly, we are today at the 13th November, he's not playing at all just now, his contract runs out on 30th June 2016, ie in 19 months and a few days, he'll have to force his way back into the side even then so I don't think I'm really overestimating anything whatsoever. By the by Walcott is back in the England side because it's selected by a raging idiot.

He will have 18 months left on his contract at best when he returns to anything like competitive condition, we shall see what happens.

If he did he must have his reasons. Bigger challenge perhaps, weren't several of our recent signings Koeman choices...not that I mind that really.

It's not my fault if some stupid erks paid over the top for average players and who are now regretting having done so. They should have listened to me :rolleyes: and handed me a handsome reward for saving them money really. I always said that at that moment in time Bertrand(no doubt amongst others) was as good a player as Shaw and that no-one in their right mind would pay 25 million or whatever it was for Lallana. They did, more fool them.

Wenger was supposed to have been all over Morgan at the WC and then it all died a death suddenly when Ralph said his piece. I thought they'd thought better of it as Wenger tends to do when big bucks are required, preferring to try and get something out of Diaby once again (yeah right, he's played one game I think and is now out for yet another 3 months). Arsene is reputed as having long pockets and short arms and always looking out for something for nothing or as near to it as possible. Still I think they'll have a disasterous season this year and then we'll see.

Indeed, but there are a lot of really good players who are potentially out of contract next summer, it all depends on what JRod does when he gets back into the game. I really don't think we'll get much more for him than we paid for Mané or Tadic or Pelle.

With JRod in his current state and out of contract in not so long his value is in fact negligible. 10 million will be a good price for him at the moment, we may think that he's worth far more but prices are dictated by form and residual contract period and nothing else. JRod probably won't even be fully effective until January or Febuary, then he might not even get into the starting side, A year left and also ran status isn't going to get us much more than 10 million.

I would have thought that Mitchell was in the category of staff who can leave whenever he wants provided that he gives the contractually agreed notice period. Depends whether he's on a fixed term contract or not I suppose.

Even the bloke who carried out the enquiy is saying that now. Qatar should be banned from anything and everything. They'll soon have more toubles that the 22 WC to think about.

As I've said on another thread, L'Equipe says we knocked back an offer of 34 million € for him in August but I really don't know how factual that actually is. 34 million € is about 28 million £ I think.

There's another interesting article on L'Equipe today about underated players of which Morgan is deemed as one, anyway there's an interesting line in it which states that Saints knocked back an offer from Arsenal in August for 34 million€. Don't ask me where they get that from but it's certainly a new information, true or untrue, L'Equipe rarely writes baseless crap but whether they've got that right or not I just couldn't say.

Absolutely right, a really good but sober DM sponges up a lot of mistakes that most people don't even notice, he also is always there to receive an out ball from anyone under pressure. When you don't have one then little mistakes turn into disasters and a bit of pressure on the back four is a one way highway. Until Rodgers leaves Gerrard out or moves him forward and puts Lucas in his place then they'll be in the shîtter.

You can make a case for anyone who you think is a respectable performer but if their efforts do not improve the results of the team, ie W,L or D not whether they get beaten 1 nil or 10 nil, then their performances count for nothing because the team is in itself bad, be it because some of the players are bad or the manager doesn't have a dicky what he's doing or has failed to instill the correct team spirit in the players. Look at us last season, we were only as good at the end of the day as Gazzaniga and Jos at times. What I believe we are seeing in the PL at the moment is a sort of equilibriation of "bad players", everybody gets enough money not to have donkeys all over the pitch although some teams haven't yet weeded out all of their crap.

Insomuch as anyone playing in a team that's lost 7 out of their last 8 games can be described as "OK" I presume. There are no good players in bad teams. Every player is eventually dragged down to the level of the mass.

especially when you look at our goals against column, 11 in total for the season, that is one stingy defence really.

2 years come June 2015

I've seen the actual interview, he said nothing about anything much, just that all remained to be seen next summer, nothing ruled out, nothing ruled in. This is all he said on the subject. Pensez-vous que votre progression passera par un départ vers un grand club? Je viens d'avoir 25 ans, j'ai franchi un cap. Une carrière passe vite et j'ai envie de jouer dans un grand club. Aujourd'hui je suis à Southampton, on est 2e de Premier League, ça se passe bien. On verra bien à la fin de la saison ce qui va se passer, si on est toujours dans la zone de La Ligue des champions, et je ferai des choix, je verrai avec mon club.» AFP

So anyway it won't happen at any time in the near future, they won't lose against Latvia and even if they did the Dutch FA probably couldn't afford to pay us off. Stand down, as you were.

I watched them yesterday, they either just don't have a clue what they're supposed to be doing or (and this is my hot favourite) they're just incapable of doing it. They don't keep posession because some dumb ferk always tries to do something that just isn't on, they don't recover the ball quickly, they don't press effectively and the don't defend very well because they don't track back quickly and leave their team-mate isolated most of the time, plus they can't score for toffee. As I said yesterday if I was Poch I'd tell Levy where to stick his job because it's impossible with the shower of shîte that they have.

In fact their squad is probably not good enough to implement any given system, bunch of wasters, if I was Poch I'd jack it in and look for another job whilst I was sort of ahead.