Dr Gloom

Anelka and Diouf?

i don't think he'd be a bad signing. not that spectacular but about the level of player we can expect to sign these days with no european football on offer.

plenty of other centre backs out there tbh. what happened to all the sol campbell talk?

luque blatantly isn't going anywhere. he's not going to give up the kind of money that he won't make anywhere else in the world is he?

Shearer is the only big name player I can remember in recent times that we've signed in whilst actually in his prime though. We need to sign the top players whilst the other top clubs do still want them, and not just rehome them whilst they're on their decline. owen?

can see him doing a george best only much younger. i read in one of the rags the other day that he was boozing just days after a stomach ulcer operation. savagery

they've got themselves a canny player there i reckon. tuncay that is, not aliadiere

i thought that about parker and emre too

1) barton stubbed a cigarette out on a teammate's eye 2) what was he doing with a cigarette?

i really hope we don't sign this odious turd

what a shite site

shame about guily. would have been a decent buy if we lose owen

God you're a twat sometimes Dan. If you don't like it, don't go.

"My main priority at the moment is signing defensive players and that is where we are looking to strengthen. We want to get that department right before we start looking at other areas. We are very interested in Ben Haim, but he is getting ready for his wedding next weekend. It is something I will be chasing up this week." thank fuck for that

i'll show me arse in fenwicks window if we get scholes like

i smell something that smells like shit

could be the only member of roeders's back four that keeps his place under big sam

average english side plays average italian side in meaningless pre-season shocker

Bring it on. any full backs among that lot?

good news for us. i reckon big sam could eke another 7 or 8 years out of nobby.

We didnt buy him for 17m (or 16m for that matter). This is about the third or fourth time you've posted this Laz - come on stump up, besides a hell of a lot of grief, what did Owen cost us? Part of owens transfer fee was offset against money owed from the woodgate deal. it wouldnt surprise me that all we paid for owen was 9m up front with the rest from the woodgate deal. 9m of course - is the rumoured release fee in owens contract. I dont know how the suits do the reporting - but we may have lost money on the woodgate deal, rather than the owen deal. i imagine you're right, but that money was still owed to us. just because it was a debt doesn't mean it wasn't real money. the fee in total, including the woodgate deal was widely reported to be around the £16m mark so if we let him go for his release clause, i still see us making a £7m loss.

what a twat. doesn't he realise how ridiculous he sounds? i get embarrased for him every time he does punditry for sky. what does he know about anything? he spent £20m on luque and boumsong! tarting up my arse

i think he's saying all the right things. he sounds very professional compared with previous managers.

he's cliche-tastic

true but even ashley's millions might not buy an entire new starting eleven during this window. we need to get the defence sorted before we address midfield where we're relatively well stocked. though i won't be complaining if he fancies splashing his cash all over the shop