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I just hope football is the winner

Cheers for that. Just bought 6 tickets.

Yet Giggs continues to have saintly status when carrying on with his brother's missus. No fan of JT but absolutely no consistency in media witch hunts

Must be wrong it was foregone conclusion and nothing was going to stop it happening. Barry told me this.

Cheers - surprised they didn't do their research as seems simple.

Retired from playing football finally this year and can already see the negative effects. Definitely going to get back into running. And need to shed over a stone. Has any one tried these tracker bracelet (Jawbone and FItbit) things? Don't want to waste £80+ for glorified pedometer but if they work then money well spent.

I take it Morgan definitely is suspended? No reference to it here but mentions Barry and Howard http://www.itv.com/sport/football/article/2013-12-27/premier-league-team-news-everton-v-southampton/

Does anyone actually under rate him now though? I started a similar post a few weeks back and everyone was saying the same thing about how dependable he is.

Now has a broken finger

It is like the summer transfers didn't happen

Now I think you are being awkward or are just a bit slow on uptake.

You are having this argument with yourself though and throwing in spurious references to the New Forest for good measure. I have no more time unfortunately but you have shown failure to grasp my point so no reason to think even over time that you may and appear to have a very simplistic view of transfer market and contracts.

I imagine Lallana woudl have same professional attitude shown by Baines. Not all players are like van Hooijdonk.

Fck me you think every player gets the transfer they want immediately?

Agree although subsequent contract is not the point though. Even if he didn't sign anything he still didn't leave in August despite all indications he was desperate to and having offers.

This is hard work. Short term he stayed. If he wanted to go still he will. You do understand contracts I assume? Does Cabaye play for Arsenal now?

I don't think the argument is whether Utd can attract our best players - of course they can and has always been the case. The point is if they want him in Jan transfer window it is not a given that he will go, whether he wants to or not.

The point was if a player wants to go nothing you can do about it. Pretty much every journo was saying he would but Liverpool proved didn't have to cave in. This was before his new contract btw.

And you don't appear to be reading my posts. Just creating the extreme opposing viewpoint in your own mind and responding to it when no one has said it.

Suarez wanted to go - Liverpool fended it off. Not saying can long term but there is no way saints have to agree to this happening in January

As opposed to those that see a daily star story and always give it so much credence and resign themselves to it happening. Do you count this reply as stalking btw?

I wasn't saying that - Utd have huge pulling power still however if they want a player within next 30 days that puts cards in our hand. They have good fans as well. Loads of hangers on who don't go to games but still brilliant support that is unrivalled

Can fend them off in January. Why have a Utd had such poor transfer success of late if they can just pick off players? They made that mistake with their Baines bid.

From Luke Shaw on Sunday : Could of played today they just didn't want to risk it, as we have a busy Christmas schedule coming up! I will be fit for the game Thursday! Not sure why people concluding Fox will play

Ramirez is up to this level just not for us. Would like to have seen more of mayuka to make a judgement but clearly not fancied. Every club has bad spends though - look at Spurs. Also have resale value which is key