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Gaston is finished for the league season isn't he? Problems with both ankles . Think he's played his last game for us.

Has that not been done already in various statements since the new board has been in control. Steady as she goes, no-one out that Mauricio wants to keep, doing the utmost to keep the manager etc etc etc. Sounds like the board are talking to deaf ears actually.. Then again there have been few visible actions so far.

Hmm Occam's Razor. However we might be on the threshold of discovery with these bits and pieces that have been washed up south of Perth, probably just more flotsam from the ocean though.

That would largely depend on who's managing them next season, can't see Van Gaal wanting any of our players at all.

Martinez seems to have got an extra gear out of Coleman and it's probably been years since they had a striker like Lukaku. Seem to remember scoring goals was always one of their biggest problems, could be wrong.

How about this for a solution, we do whatever is necessary to keep Mauricio (as Ralph says he will) and let the other all take care of their own problems.

Err I didn't actually conduct any independent research, it was discussed at coffee break in the lab this morning. Some of them have some pretty wonky ideas, that's what makes them great scientists I suppose.

Apparently the Israelis have an identical plane in storage in a hangar in Tel Aviv, all sorts of speculation on that notably from the Israel is the root of all evil brigade. Surprised you missed that Pap

You didn't all ride in the bunch then or did he get dropped off the back ? Probably talks a good bike ride though.

Day trip to Mexico or you can probably find some on mail order on the deep web.

Chelsea have a top striker available to them, Mourinho didn't want him that's all. Mourinho doesn't have any time whatsover for young players which is strange really because Lukaku would count as an U21 and they've already got their full quota of 17 non-home grown senior players. .

Fox came from Burnley

In fact Stevy they would have been better signings because they would have at least played games and not caused trouble. I know you're Cabella fancier but I go to some Montpellier games and he has absent passages in nearly every game. He's a decent player but I fear that he won't be physically up to the intensity of the PL which is like no other league in the world. He's not very big and a bit lightweight and that's a big big risk for a midfielder in the PL. Toivonnen is a player who'd do really well in the PL actually.

An out of work football manager would probably agree to most things to get a job actually. I am far from convinced that he's really onboard with the academy approach. evidently he's not going to turn his nose up at players with genuine talent like Chambers but JWP has been cast aside of late and only injuries have given him a couple of recent starts. As for the rest they played in cup games which we all know Mauricio rates really highly. A manager is judged on his results and if he's having to use young players because he has nothing else (as apparently was the case at the end of his time at Espanyol) then he'll think twice about carrying on in that vein if ever he has a real choice.

We shall see. Personally I expect to see a renewed vastly improved contract for Mauricio and an end to all this academy nonsense concerning so/so players. We shall see what comes to pass.

Borussia Dortmund have signed Ramos to replace Lewandowski, bit of decent scouting and he'd probably have signed for us.

Yes it is, he wants experienced players and has been told to use the academy, this is all about that. He obviously plays lip service to the academy otherwise why would he take off a player 1 minute from the end of games to send Reed on ? He's being told what to do and obviously isn't over chuffed with it. If he was really convinced that Reed had something different to offer he'd bung him on with a bit of time to show what he could do.

I don't assume the club are at fault either but Mauricio isn't at all well paid and he obviously wants a lot more money and probably an end to this fecking about with the academy.

Ok I'll have a stab then. Ramos from Hertha, Olic from Wolsburg, Toivonnen from wherever he came from before he went to Rennes in January, Lacazette from Lyon, Remy etc etc etc . All of these players are better than either Lambert or Osvaldo and we could have obtained any of them for the ridiculous fee paid for the latter. Even Aliadiere would have been a better signing, as would Gameiro from Seville.

So he'd be waiting because he thinks he has a chance of getting what he might consider is a better job right ?

Looking forward to that then, me personally I won't hold my breath.

As I said, any reasonably efficient striker, Osvaldo was anything but, did feck all for us except cause trouble and hasn't done any better at Juventus. We got that all wrong.

Not as I see it actually, his close control isn't great, perhaps he needs some more game time to get the hang of it. Shouldn't be anywhere near the first team as of yet anyway.

Any reasonably efficient striker who we'd signed last summer would have greatly increased our points total this season, we got it all wrong and now we're left with the snail like Lambert and a leggy 18 year old who runs about a lot but can't control the ball correctly.

We actually made some inroads with the new ball (I presume), got 5 wickets fairly cheaply but now we're being slogged about by their late middle order again. Same old same old,staid, poor bowling will get us nowhere again this season. We could even lose this one if we don't bat well from the start.