Window Cleaner

If a player as good as Diego is available for very little money then the number of candidates for his signature will be high. No WP problems, seems to have an Italian passport as well. We may be looking at 1.6 million to sign him but as he's a regular at Wolfsburg they'd probably just shrug that sort of amount off and keep him until the summer. He'd probably want an enormous signing on fee (circa 10 million) and 100K a week. Will be a great move should we pull it off but I somehow doubt it..

We'd still be top 6 but for the horrendous contribution of Gazzaniga.

the team struggles when we have to play one of our two crap reserve goalkeepers, the rest is irrelevant. As for Swansea did I not tip them for relegation ? They really aren't that good because they just cannot defend correctly. Without the goals that their Jamboree Bag surprise Michu got them last season they'd have been in trouble as well.

Mangala was awful anyway, another one of these French kids pumped up to stardom on one good game from time to time but he really isn't very good for the other 90% of the time. They develop very young because they're usually 5 times the size of all of the other kids and then they burn out very early as well. Top European League reserve teams are littered with next Zidanes, Vieras and Desaillys.

Red and white striped specs create optical illusions often enough.

As the commentator on the TV said yesterday Davis doesn't go wide or look to create attacking positions very often, so when we have the ball in midfield as we invariably do we have to check back as often as not because there's nothing better available.Lambert used to create a fair few wide options but now he just isn't getting forward anywhere near quickly enough. Once you get Gaston moving forward all of the time then you have more options even if he loses the ball on occasions. Ideally we need to be getting 60 minutes out of him in nigh on every game. Yesterday I thought he worked hard and tracked back as well as would seem to prove couple of very iffy clearances from the edges of our own box. Obviously something he's not used to doing yet but I'm sure that he'll get there given time..

Artur gets down very quickly which is something the other 2 don't excel at.

Good game, mainly because we won but I thought we outplayed them pretty much but just weren't very efficient in front of goal. I see that Gaston is buckling down and defending as and when necessary. By the by are those 8 miillion for Lambert still on the table because on his performance today we could be laughing all the way to the bank, slows everything down and loses the ball as consistently as gravity.

sheep gut too ?

probably because he hadn't played in a real domestic match for months on end.

Wait until they get to the stage of higher studies, you'll be taking so many for the team that splurging £70 on some rubbish songster or other will pale into insignificance. Worked out the other day just how much one BAC +7 and one BAC+5 to date had cost us, I think we could have bought a small island in the Caribbean with all mod cons and had enough left over for a couple servants.

Basket of Light !!

I expect you'd have to go back to Des Walker and before that John Charles, there's not enough money in the Calcio to attract good British players now, they aren't very well paid you know which is why they're all prepared to sign on in the PL. They double their pay as a rule.

I see Rogers criticised a ref and got fined about 8000£, didn't Moyes get £10000 not long back as well. Now we criticised Clattenburg in an occult sort of manner and Mauricio gets to keep his money. Now that's the Southampton way:smug:

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.