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Anyone see Steve Davis in any of these photos ?

Ranieri speaks to the French press in French...you can never understand a word he says.

but Mpo says otherwise, were building ourselves up for disappointment if we carry on thinking like that. I can see us signing a No2 keeper and a sort of LB/CB utility player (there I'm thinking Mathieu from Valencia). If Gaston goes we may try to sign a playmaker if Ever Banega is available, other than that nul prosequi.

As I said, agent bollix. Pity it's become part and parcel of football now. I think if you added up the potential cost of all of the players supposed to be moving to some "top team" or other each window the cost would run into billions of £s.

so we've got 2 one trick ponies capable of playing in only 1 position? wouldn't have thought that. So what he's saying is that if Morgan is out but Jack and Victor aren't neither is capable of slotting into the vacant role and we have to change everything around. Seems like an odd thing to say really.

and did he say why that is? Is it because of some football version of the Pauli exclusion principal? Or would it be because they don't get along.

bad news then,

but as I keep telling you there are 2 NUFCs, the one with Cabaye and the one without. They don't have a replacement for him, only similar players with at least one attribute missing. They are the nearest thing you'll find to a one man team this side of Hadrian's Wall.

Not sure then, thought the anecdote comes from the writings of Henry of Huntingdon who seemed to imply that Canute(or rather his counsellors) thought he could rule the waves and sit on the sea. However "only the lily rules the waves" is part of the motto of the house of Aquitaine so there could be some historical confusion in the whole episode and it's legend rather than fact.

well I don't think he actually turned back the tide, just thought he could because he was King. Taught us an important fact, time and tide wait on no man...apparently.

when you have a bloke like Torres on your team anything is possible. Now if Chelsea were to think of kicking him out on the cheap this January I'd personally be first in the queue if I were a PL recruiter. A real poison for oposition defences. Probably better as striker support now than an out and out front man.

Bags of talent, awful attitude if I remember correctly. In today's football players who are not on the verges of their first team by the time they're about 18 or 19 probably won't make the grade at that club. They may well do well a level down though.

oh yes Naismith, when did Fletcher last play for Utd out of interest, Scottish football is dying, Saints have 3 scottish full internationals? I mean there's Fox but he doesn't play and will soon be gone, who are the others, I don't mean snotty nosed kids I mean real full internationals who actually play for Scotland and their clubs.

are there any actually Scottish internationals playing at "big" clubs in England ? All I can see is Palace/Norwich/Cardiff type clubs.

Right a player nearly out of contract, agent's nightmare...start putting out wild rumours everywhere...it's what agents do and there's no better way of vehiculing them than Tuttomercato. We will not sign Feghouli, count on it. Anyway he seems to have quite a bit of contract left, June 2016 apparently. He's not playing much so his agent is trying to get him a move that's all.

I remember him from Grenoble, wasn't bad there but whether he can up his game to PL standards is something else. Still think we can do far better than a Valencia sub for what will be quite a lot of money.

Diego would encounter work permit problems so I'd think we'd avoid that.

One Neil McCann in a lifetime is quite enough thanks.

If we're going to do our shopping at Valencia I can't see us settling for second best really. Poch obviously wants Banega so why tart about with the vastly inferior Feghouli. Agent bollix.

He's been bought out by a group of investors for 10 million euros (approx) and rented out to Santos. Has had a relatively poor season for Internacionale.

Is that not how Einstein (or so say some) defined Insanity ?

neither have scored so far this season, Victor's shooting leaves about as much to be desired as Jack's really. For a big unit Victor doesn't seem to do much at corners and stuff, well not on the attacking side anyway.

if we're talking about Ghoulam and Hamouma from St Etienne they might well be OK in the PL after a suitable period of adaptation because the basics are still infused at StE, if we're talking about crap like Pïtroipa then certainly not. What you need to avoid when signing players from France are those who do not have EU nationality because if they take longer than a certain while to adapt you can't loan them out to the NPC to get realistic UK experience because of work permit regulations. Mayuka would have been much better off in the NPC, same as T Lee but it can't happen very easily..

well I don't watch every minute of every Sochaux game that's for sure but I've seen them a couple of times lately, when they got spanked by PSG last week and against Bastia, Mayuka really is just a non entity in a team of non-entities. He does absolutely feck all most of the time, Ligue 1 is of an incredibly poor standard this season apart from Qatar and NoTax Haven Fcs of course.You only have to look at results like Marseille and Lyon in the CL and Nice,St Etienne and Bordeaux in the Europa League to know that. Even PSG without their Italo-Brazilian-Swedish contingent got hammered by Benfica in the CL last night. French domestic football is a joke, only Matuidi (PSG) and Valbuena (Marseille) of the national side play in France because of the ridiculously high "social charges" drawn from every salaried employment. Bog standard french clubs just cannot afford good players any more.

he doesn't play well most of the time, you cannot imagine just how bad Sochaux really are. They've won 1 game (out of 17) this season, 5 draws 11 defeats. They've scored 13 goals and conceded 37. Winning player of the month at Sochaux is a non-achievement.