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Mauricio probably sacked him/her because ,well the results don't look very conclusive do they.

exactly, see post 4. Think of Tuttomercato as a sewage plant, I mean if you really sift through all the crap all day,every day then you'll probably find a diamond ring that someone dropped down the crapper by mistake.

Ah yes the UK's latest invention, a job that's not a job but could be a job, why would anyone accept terms like that really. Just be a tenured academic, a job that's not a job but you get paid anyway.

They're obviously having difficulty in finding a suitable candidate and then making their club attractive to him. Downing will probably get the job in the end and in that case they could have spared themselves the expense of sacking Clarke in the first place.

let's call it Nemesis.

What can you expect from a third division defender in the company of the world's elite. We should be trying to loan them Jos.

pity he's made an idiot of himself though. Bring and Buy, Brought and Bought, mistake that you'd never get in the days of scout's jumble sales, everyone knew the difference. But hey let's be generous and put it down to Tapatalk or T9 or whatever it is. You need to get out there and start teaching English to the ignorant masses Sue.

So that's Gaston, Osvaldo and Lallana that Fiorentina want, we should let them have either Gaston or Osvaldo in exchange for Savic...don't think we'd be the losers in that deal.

They want everbody and usually sign nobody at all. It's just Tuttomercato, I'm sure that that place is fuelled by 606 type rumours. What's the Italian translation of RocketSwanee ?

Lovely looking January day in Marchwood today then,

Anyway Thiago Silva is probably the best CB playing in Europe, don't see him on the list though. I'd swap Lovren for him anyday. Also isn't it strange that Juventus have 3 of the top 10 CBs in Europe and yet they couldn't even make the knockout stages of the CL.

I don't think Italian players or players from Italy in general translate particularly well to the PL as we have seen for ourselves. I mean there must be a reason why there are so few Italian defenders in the PL mustn't there. The game is so totally different in the 2 countries. Look at Mexes, now he's a really average CB but he's a big star hotshot in Italy and to suggest that all these 3 Juventus blokes are all better than Kompany or Koscielny really is a bit silly.

no idea, none I expect probably because they aren't good enough.

So what this is effectively saying is that Lovren is the best CB in the PL. Far too heavily biased towards Italy in general and Juventus in particular, we've all seen that Italian players aren't all that good in the PL. thus as usual complete bolloaks.

Neither of our reserve keepers controls anything whatsoever, they suffer the game, they do not influence it. Cannot understand just why we've allowed that situation to carry on unchecked since last season, it was disastrous then and still is now. You'd just have to assume that we're clinging on to the idea that Gazzaniga will one day make something of himself and that we haven't been conned again as we were with Forecast and look how that turned out. Needs to be loaned out as do many of our younger players but we don't seem to do that.

Excellent advice.

son plays for Totton I think.

Caveat lector as the Romans might say.

they do little mermaids as well as drives, that's handy then.

they sell millions of his comic annuals in France, Belgium and the like every year. I suppose he's our form of Andy Cap or Giles.

This is Gaston Lagaffe, a well known Belgian comic book hero. haircut looks familiar though. Gaston is also bone idle and anything he does undertake is invariably cocked up.

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well he's been injured for quite a while apparently, it was in the Echo the other day although nobody on this forum seemed to know that. He hasn't been training for weeks now, since about the Sunderland C1C game I think.

Couldn't say but we won't get any money for Gaston in the January window, he obviously wants to return to Italy but they only want loans at this time of year. Look at the Nainggolan deal, 3 million € loan fee now and the 6 million € in the summer if he's good enough for the AS Rome, and this was being talked about as a 20 million £ player only last summer. I read yesterday that Inter have proposed to us a sort of never-never deal for Osvaldo as well, loan fee now and then the rest of the 15 million on credit over a couple of years, can't see us accepting that either..

Haven't you heard we got someone better in the academy, or that's what I keep hearing anyway.