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I would have thought there would be a few bargains to be had in Ukraine. I dont know to what extent they will be able to run the League this season. Certainly they won't be able to play fixtures involving Zorya Luhansk or the the two Donnetsk clubs, Shakhtar and Metalurg. The two Crimean clubs, Tavria and Sevastopol have been expelled, together with Arsenal Kyiv who I think went bust. Never in a million years will Shakhtar be allowed to take part in the Champs League even if they do have a squad left. At a guess Dnipro will take their place. I can't see the decent players staying there. The league has been ripped apart.

We don't need 7. If we sign another AM and striker to replace Osvaldlo and Guly, that will cover J Rod's injury for a few months. You're being pessimistic if you think Lovren and Morgan are both definitely off. It's possible but let's not talk about 'needing' replacements whilst they're still here. Agree on LB and GK. by my count that's 4 we need plus replacements for anyone else important leaving.

Important to hold on to Rodriguez. 9 letters.

No idea what you're point is. What we lacked last season was depth. Take out Lallana and Lambert and you're left with Guly and Gallagher in the team. If we get a couple more in we will have a stronger squad overall. Maybe one of them will be a dud and only hit 5 goals but then another might be a superstar and hit 20 on his own.

Bullsh*t, everyone knows his family is Kiwi.

10 goals and 10 assists for a player is decent but nothing astonishing. It's not like we're replacing a 30 goal a season machine like Liverpool are with Suarez. I see no reason why the new lads can't match L&Ls achievements last year. If we get another attacking player in they just need to average 7 goals and assists each and we're marginally ahead on last season.

You haven't understood the psyche of an Internet troll. He cares not about being popular, funny or accurate he just needs the attention. The easiest way to do that is to be irritating and inaccurate, so other people won't be able to resist pointing out the flaws in his argument. The only way to get rid of people like this is to ignore them. The fact that Dalek still gets a bite out of his Hoddle/lunatic minority/aiming for 17th routine says just as much about you lot as it does about him.

Those 8, plus the 2 we've already replaced - 100%

Routes vary from day to day depending in the favourability of the winds at cruise altitude. Particularly on long haul routes where it can make a big difference over a 12 hour flight. Another reason could be thunderstorm avoidance. Take it from me, those f**king things are everywhere in Europe. If you come across a particularly nasty squall line you could go 100 miles off course avoiding it. Has that map actually been verified by anyone official? It could be completely made up.

We are only a LB short of the squad that finished last season and I have no doubt that is being addressed. We need a very more options on top of that but we aren't far off the team who finished 8th last year. Tadic and Pelle may yet prove to be better than what we sold. 8 of the players who started against Man Utd are still here, I fail to see any problems so far.

I think the last time we signed a player from another Premier League side, whist in the Prem, was Squashie. Before that Crouch, before that I can't even remember. I'm not counting Bernard's loan, Phillips was already relegated, Le Saux was a part ex. With Bridge. I can't really remember before that. Were Derby relegated when they sold us Delap? We really don't sign many from Prem rivals.

Would seem odd for Ukraine to do it, given that it had already passed through most of their airspace. If it is proved Russia was behind this, there are going to be some massive turds hitting the fan.

I don't think Shaw is great value at £6m, he may not play every game with Evra still kicking around (who is cheaper and got more points last years). Likewise Lallana may not be a starter for Liverpool and I doubt will be involved in half as many goals without Suarez. I may take a punt on Pelle. Maybe three up front with Aguero and perhaps Austin as the cheaper option. He is the kind of nasty little player who will keep popping up with goals. I will make him captain when he plays Saints, likewise Nugent. Both guaranteed to score. Yaya is a shoe in if he remains City's penalty taker. Januzaj looks a good price at £6.5 , so I'd have him too. Mirallas, Barkley, Paulinho, Nolan and Puncheon also look decent options in midfield.

I never really rated Mayuka anyway but he did little to change my mind with those highlights. Maybe the rest of his game was better but to waste those chances against such poor opposition is disappointing. He wont get that much time and space next season and he still couldn't score. Personally I would try and offload him, doesn't look a Premier League player.

*sigh* No he doesn't. People are STILL not getting it. He doesn't want to be taken seriously, he just wants an argument and some attention. Are you familiar with the ignore function? It was designed with people like him in mind. To put it into context, arguing with alpine is like wrestling a pig in a sty. You may well be convinced that you are winning but the reality is you are wrestling a pig, you're both covered in s**t and the pig is loving every minute of it. You walk away thinking 'I won!' Everyone else looks at you like 'he stinks of pig s**t.'

You're still not getting it. He wants to be abused. He's never going to 'shut the f**k up'

That's exactly what he wants. Every time somebody argues with him he gets wood, that's why he does it. Obviously he doesn't believe any of the crap he writes, he just makes it up to antagonise people. He has a compulsive need for attention, which he gets by being deliberately abrasive on the internet. Quite a tragic individual, you would be best served just ignoring him. If everyone does that then he may go away.

I was actually. I was at QPR and Preston at home in 2006 too. I didn't go to Sheffield Weds or Preston away in 2007 though, I missed those games.

Good to see. I don't really understand why we let him go then spent £2m on Gazzanigga, they both seem a similar standard to me. Personally I thought he was better than Kelvin but it was always difficult for him with so little playing time.

Two of us going this year, camping the whole weekend from Thursday until Monday. We could do with 1 more to share the cost of the ferry, fuel and campsite. With another person, we are looking at about £250 for the weekend, including weekend tickets to the race.

I guess we will have to agree to disagree on that. A player can want to leave all he wants, he is still under contract and there is no obligation what so ever for the parent club to sell. Just look at Shaw, he wanted to leave and we made Man Utd pay an obscene amount of money for him.

I don't think it is. Bale, Ronaldo and Suarez all wanted to leave and they are the most expensive players in history. Bale wouldn't have gone for £100m if he had wanted to stay at Spurs. Wages might be affected by how much a player wants to go. Rickie for example would probably play for Liverpool on minimum wage.

Disagree. We didn't sell Lambert for a knock down fee, despite what some on here think.

I never disagreed with any of that. IQ suggested that Lallana is worth more because he provides more goals and assists, I disagree and think Khedira is a better player and worth a bit more. Like you said every deal is different. If someone lets Kenny Dalglish loose with a credit card, suddenly all the prices get doubled.

2000? We had Beckham, Scholes, Shearer, Owen, Neville, Adams and Campbell in that squad, to name but a few. When I said the weakest squad, I meant over the last couple of years but now in particular we have a ridiculous lack of quality. The fact that a lump like Carroll can score 2 goals last season and be on the reserve list for the World Cup says it all. Not to mention players like Cleverly and Smalling getting in or near the squad. Anyway, back to my point I would swap Adam Lallana for a world class player like Khedira for in a flash.