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Normal, he doesn't play for the right club, you won't get into a Deschamps side unless you've played in european competition at some time or other. The FFF told him what he had to do back in 2009, he didn't listen and won't play for France until he does, he knows it so the fact that he's still here can be used as a measure of loyalty I guess.

If he wasn't in the extended group there wouldn't be enough Utd players...simples. I though Defoe was injured, must have made a miracle recovery I suppose.

Must be crap then as they've actually included 2 players who are injured in their selection, it's all about bizzybizz with them.

Doesn't seem to be much interest in this game on the OS, is there a presser this afternoon ?

Morgan is off of their radar and will be until he gets a move to a club that the FFF staff respect, there is no mystery, he's a better player than Grenier,Sissoko or Mavuba but DD won't pick anyone from a club that he sees as second rate.

What and miss our total demise,get paid in arrears and lose the chance of playing under the Dutch duo you mean. Fortunately for him he left when he did, not to mention that we probably needed the 5 million £.

but true....

don't think we need to spend anywhere near that amount but we need to be more astucious in our choices. There are good players available for 5 or 6 million, you have to know where to look for them though. I'd have thought we'd be well up on that with our planet wide scouting network. If we have one area where we can really improve it's player recruitment. Far too many cock ups in the recent past.

Once again that will depend on the state of his leg injury. I think if he'd been fit we'd have played him last Saturday but he wasn't so we didn't so when Cork went off we had to reshuffle the pack a bit, never helps really. Davis dropped back into the role and Morgan dropped further back. A like for like player would have probably benefitted us more actually.

he's found his level..League 1,

How exactly does he qualify for Northern Ireland then, must be pretty tenous.

Perhaps the accounts are disastrous who knows, doubt it. If we knew why Gareth Rogers was leaving before he got moved upwards suddenly we might even know a weeny bit more. Obviously there are people who know these things, whether they choose to share them with us is up to them but if they can't then they should say nothing whatsoever.

Except that we have at least err well let us say a certain number of players who want to move forward faster than the club will now do because they're coming to the zenith of their careers. So not only will we need the couple of shrewd additions we'll need more additions to replace those who will definitely leave this summer, at least 2, perhaps more.

I'm not saying anything, well apart from whatever it was that I posted yesterday, can't be bothered to find it. However our venerable poster Toomer has said on a few occasions that NC was in fact sacked, he may even possess some sort of evidence to that effect.

Chelsea must have about 30 players out on loan throughout Europe, they just buy players and immediately loan them out, happened again in January with Salah and Zouma. If you checked you'd probably find 20 or 30 Chelsea owned players out on loan , most of them will never ever play for Chelsea. Don't know why they do it, they must have their reasons I guess. I suppose by doing that they control the market, Everton used to do it back in their glory days. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/chelsea-fc/transfers/verein_631.html

As you say there were options open to them far better than Etoo, like keeping Lukaku for instance, that makes no sense whatsoever, then again it's Chelsea and strange things happen, no doubt for obsure reasons that wouldn't stand up to close examination. I mean with a 50+ game season coming up why loan out Lukaku again. Mourinho is a bit of a basket case sometimes, especially with young players oh and Spaniards..

doubt if he will though because he rarely does. Tbh I expect our usual starting side,Lovren for Maya perhaps. Only the subs will change if Victor is fit, we aren't exactly overrun with options..

Etoo you mean, he's an old hack, don't know what possessed them to sign him really.Schurrle as I said the other day is only average. Ozil was never ever going to last the pace in the PL this season, he's just not used to the intensity, again Wenger should have known that, I mean Mourinho dropped him at Real because of his attitude (and his globe trotting between games running after some woman or other). all these things are known, managers and recruitment directors just turn a blind eye to them and then act surprised when they get bitten in the ass.

Do we know if Wanyama is even fit though, guess we'll know more tomorrow. Depends on exactly what sort of reaction he had with his leg injury I suppose.

Ah yes a new shirt sponsor, no rumours on that yet then?.

This is what is so sad making, we could easily be 5th or 6th had we just been a little more focused in our recruitment last summer, another LB and a better reserve keeper wouldn't have bankrupt us surely. Now I think the opportunity is probably gone for the forseeable future.

Anyway needs to be made a sticky and then attached to the match reaction thread in the unlikely event of us taking a drubbing from Liverpool next Saturday.

No tin hat, probably still got his old Ice Hockey helmet though.

Can't have been the only applicant surely, if that were to be the case you'd have to wonder why that was wouldn't you.

Nice shirt