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Fair enough, I misspoke in that phrase.

True football ability as far as I'm concerned. Watching him play, how can that be cheating? That's natural ability.

Read my explanation. You took it out of context.

Fair enough.

What's with the Sturridge negativity all of a sudden anyway? So he's missed a few chances, he's our second top-goal scorer and he'll keep having shots on target because of the direct approach he has. One thing you can't doubt about Danny is he will quickly find a goal, even if he hits bad form because he's still got attributes that'll allow him to find space for himself.

Defoe will not make the squad. Not with the way Redknapp keeps him on the bench, in favour of Saha

I was starting to think I was the only one that saw this.

Me55i

A 'council of Europe' committee has suggested UEFA should prohibit the City-Etihad deal as well as Real Madrid selling their training ground. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1032211/report-highlights-possible-financial-fair-play-circumvention?cc=5739

Effort mate, effort.

Oh lord. Even Szcz- is having a laugh at as.. This is beyond embarrassing now.

We're a club in a mess though, he'll have obviously taken notice of that.

It'll be a reality, we're a selling club.

I do notice these things, any persons would be blind to. His movement is better, he provides good passes and shows intelligence when he's not thinking about scoring. For this we can say his overall play has improved since last January. The thing is though, we need a striker in him to come out, we can't move his position (that would not work well for his confidence) so the only option is to drop him. Drogba, Torres, Lukaku all compete for that position, under Di Matteo the latter might get more chances now and Torres has to score goals to justify his place in the squad. I know service is still the issue, but Torres has issues that go beyond service. Psychologically he's not right in front of goal, he's like a child who panics when he's one and one and when he's finally made his decision he'll either miss/allow the ball to be defended away. His assists have been good this season, I'll always recall that beautiful cross for Mata v. United. He's a goal scorer, and those goal scoring instincts aren't with him.

You can't 'suggest' penalty takers. The taker must be 100% confident to do so, ideally they shouldn't be selected out of a pool the manager should ask (one-on-one) if said person wants that role. Torres was well within his rights to say 'no', if Mata was not confident it should've been given to the next assigned person.

Not in favour of Hoddle as long-term.. He's been out the game too long. I'd really like Lowe, if he was truly interested.

It did make me uncomfortable. At the same time.. Perhaps we'll see some positivity in our play now. I don't like what it's at the expense of, but this is football.

He definitely comes across as the type that will not go to a team that'll be in a rebuilding phase like ours, even if we did get CL football I think. Arsenal should be favourites, but let's be honest.. They're not paying £30mil.

LOL forget Hazard, I'm sure he's City's now.

I really hope so. Arsenal fans are getting so cocky now, they're even talking about 3rd place!! Are you f'cking kidding me, 3rd place?! No. This cannot happen.

I'm glad someone put this on YouTube, because he's dead on. The smiles and everything made me sick kind of. I don't expect them to act all depressed but they should show a bit of respect that they've just had their 8th manager sacked in 9 years..

Yup, heard it too.

We say this after every good performance though and it just doesn't work. His confidence has been down ever since he's moved here and it's barely improved. He doesn't play with any confidence in front of goal now and it doesn't look like it's coming back. (Thought I'd address that here, not in the post-match talk)

I'd still say the same as the post above. I do appreciate the efforts of Kalou, but the rate he gives the ball away is too much for me.

Yeah we do, but the manager still needs to assess what he's got at his disposable and then make the correct decisions. There are players who will be here through that overhaul and the replacements need to be carefully considered & sought out. The club's lack of clear negotiations will be hindrance in that so we'll end up with a majority of this squad still being here unfortunately.