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there's a lot of rubbish in their squad, they aren't particulary overloaded at CB as Luiz is out for a fair while. Just leaves Cahill and Terry with Ivanovic as a stand in on many occasions, means they have to play Bertrand at RB. Azpilicueta is easily exploitable at LB as well. They have a shedload of midfielders but some of the other positions aren't too well covered.

he's been washed up since he left DC Utd, just not up to real football standards.

so no footballers in the shortlist at all then let alone Rickie Lambert..

They couldn't afford the vast majority of those, bookies should be prosecuted for fraudulent candidates. By the by whilst I'm on the Pompey topic, Arcadi Gaydamak has been arrested in Zurich and will probably now have to serve his 3 year jail sentence in France.

who cares, they'll get what they're given, football management is not a greek democracy. Anyway they've got AVB for now and I really can't see that changing any time soon. If they wanted success they shouldn't have sold Bale.

the Krankies...sounds about right then.

Missed the build up becaue I work Saturdays, why were Fox and KD not on the bench, anyone know ? Illness, Injury, being phased out ?

don't think it's about downloading really Bearsy, it's about illegal circuiting of regional rights. In theory Sky isn't available in France but I know a few people who have UK Sky subscriptions and just get the cards sent from home. I suppose in this case you just get a local to subscribe to Al Jaz and send the equipment back to the UK to show matches in pubs and stuff at a far lesser cost. BeIn sport costs 11 euros a month in France, don't think they show many PL matches though, that's Canal + which costs about 30 euros. C+ show about 6 games most weekends but I don't know how the cost compares to Sky.

No, because he hasn't won anything and really isn't all that good on many an occasion. The prize will go to some obscure cyclist or distance runner...you know who I mean.

It's certainly on Canal+ Sport. Big TV afternoon, 3 games, don't think I'll be doing much DIY or tidying up my woodland where 2 foot of greasy snow on trees with autumn leaves has wreaked havoc on Sunday.

Hopefully now with no more internationals until March we'll be seeing some more consistent performances from our away all the time internationals. I think 3 international breaks in 3 months of football can only produce stuttering performances from those trying to adapt to new surroundings.

and that's only on his good days, if you went back and looked at every match gallery since he's been here you'll see him bear hugging players or having them in a head lock. Surprised he gets away with it most of the time. Still probably a sign of a good player that he always hides it from refs but not the multi angled cameras. Giroud is as bad, every time he disputes a 50/50 ball he always gives his opponent a firm nudge in the chest or in the back, just enough to put him off balance for a fraction of a second but usually invisible to the ref.

Kids repeat everything they hear eventually, it's what they do, it's how they learn. No point in telling them not to repeat it in front of Mum or Gran or whatever because they invariably will. Only later in life when they have sufficient control mechanisms will they have the choice.

Plenty of shirt pulling on view on the Gallery on the OS. However if the ref had given a penalty for the offence shown in image 5 it would have been more logic. Fonte just has to cut that out.

And keep them out of the school playground. Jeez I had a full range of obscene words gleaned from the playground at BP Junior by the time I was about 6. Didn't learn a single new swear word at the Dell. Everybody knows all the swear words at an early age, just whether you choose to use them constantly or not.

I watched them yesterday and I can't quite see exactly why they replaced Dembele with yet another Brazilian, Sandro and Dembelé was a decent pairing until Sandro got injured last season, Parker afterwards perhaps not so much but I really don't think Paulinho has added anything that Dembele didn't offer. As for Capoué they'll soon learn what a heap of junk he is.

well as other leagues are less secret squirrel about player salaries it's known that Lamela was only on about 14K€ a week at Rome. I did read that he was going to be on an annual 2.4 million € at Spurs so that's about 40K£ a week I think, a long way off whatever Bale was on. Chuck in soldado for a similar figure and you've still 2 for less than the price of 1. Salaries aren't particularly high at a lot of Italian and spanish clubs, that's why they all jump at the chance to play in the PL.

but we should be doing exactly that, our strikers should be as good as theirs, perhaps we'd have less of them but if you want to compete with the best you need the best players. To me there is no point in spending 16 million on a striker who doesn't start nigh on every game or scores from about 1 chance in every 5 or 6. You might as well throw in another 5 or 6 million and get someone who scores in virtually every other game. We need to start Osvaldo in every game for which he is fit and if that means chucking Lambert onto the scrap heap then so be it.

wasn't it all sold out in 43 seconds or something like that ?

Obviously a class player but when he gets chances he seems to be mistiming his shot or not lifting it or lifting it too much. Compared to say Aguero or Negredo he isn't very efficient as of yet. Those 2 bury everything that comes their way. City had 10 shots on target yesterday and scored 6 goals.

Probably not as much as you might think. With the number of outs they must have saved a packet, doubt if Soldado and Lamela combined earn as much as they'd have had to pay Bale to stay. As for the others you can probably offset them as like for like because some of the blokes they shipped out probably weren't there for a low salary, like Dempsey,Caulker and Parker. They did pretty well in the transfer market monetary wise it's just that what they brought in hasn't really replaced what went out in terms of team effort. PL clubs should really steer clear of players from Italy, it just doesn't work unless they're vastly experienced and built like outside khazis. The problem with adapting to the PL is that there are no easy games, every week it's a tough grind whereas in other championships there are always a few really rubbish sides that take little or no effort to beat.

Perhaps they could get Adkins instead, sh*t hot, young English manager...or so I'm told.

Can't see why they'd sack AVB myself. The "board" sold his best player, the one who scored virtually all of their vital goals last season and replaced them with a bunch of lads with no PL experience (which is a handicap for just one and a major problem if there are several). Without Bale's goals last season they wouldn't have been far above the relegation zone, looks like one player just might be more important than the team in this case.

Storm in a teacup. Spurs will probably win 5-0 next week and all will be forgotten. A manager can only achieve so much, mind you they did spend a lot of money last summer but they cashed in a lot as well, no point in paying tax on the profits from selling Bale.

surprised that Lloris's faux pas yesterday hasn't been mentioned, put them on the slippery slope after 10 seconds. A keeper f*ck up is a keeper ***** up, they almost always lead to gift goals, bet not many PL keepers pass the season without one. In passing and on the subjects of GKs, do we know why Gazza was on the bench on Saturday and not KD?