Duppy Conqueror

the thing with Falcao that i have picked up from the games i`ve seen him play in. are that his great skill is his movement to get on the end of an attack and his finishing..but he doesn`t do much other than that..kinda like Jimmy Greaves. a great player but i don`t see him and Torres becoming a great partnership because of it. i haven`t seen him play that often tho..perhaps 9 or 10 times over the years. so i could be wrong.

that would be a dream duo IMO. Guus would be great as manager but only a short term solution. if Roman is prepared to pay Andre`s huge buy-out clause then maybe he believes in him enough to let him become our long term manager and at AVB`s age the guy could in theory be our manager for the next 35 years..unlikely i know that he would last that long but going off the guy`s age it`s possible. Villa-Boas was my first choice all along this summer but i didn`t think CFC would go for him.

he needs to play in less games per season than he has in the past (apart from last season) but i think it`s premature to think he`s past it at 33.

i agree. it would be like a kid passing his exams and then being told he has to sit them again. Ryan is smart..he knows that he can`t get ahead of the worlds greatest left back at present,but he can and is willing to be his understudy before eventually taking over from him. that smartness could however lead to his departure if we try to treat him like a fool.

he was our first ever manager. oh not that John Robertson..the one who played for Forest and scored the only goal in their European Cup final win over Hamburg in 1980.. seriously tho i can remember the one you are talking about...as a kid i thought he was great and wanted us to sign him,but then he came to England(well if you count Newcastle as English..is not like anyone speaks it there) and i was glad that we didn`t. we took Durie from Hibs instead..and then Robert Fleck..

maybe i`m looking at a different player than the majority, but whenever i`ve seen Turan play, it`s his right foot that appears to be his best.

ah, so it`s their turn to want one of our players..how the worm has turned.

maybe Roman has bought Hamburg on the sly...

bouncing between europa league and sometimes group stages of CL at best. if he`s got ambition to be a world star rather than just in his homeland,he will.

i`d play him on the right due to his right foot being his best foot.

does he live at 29 Acacia avenue by any chance? Eric is Bananaman.

wouldn`t mind having him but i`m sure we`ll be linked with every good player Guus has coached in the next few months.

I`ve voted. that is all.

and then we end up paying a lot more for him..i know what you saying but sometimes it`s wise to plan ahead and buy players who aren`t quite ready but have lots of potential,rather than get involved in a huge bidding war in a couple of years time. i`m not gonna speculate on how often a player may play when we currently have no manager. we could always sign him now,give him till january window to see how ready he is and if he`s not then loan him out during that window.

meaning you were wrong when you said he`s 29 soon to be 30. he`s not even soon to be 29 really.it`s 6 months away. it usually takes 2 years to fully recover from a serious knee injury..the way Bison has recovered in the past was not the norm. a little patience for one of the best players we have ever had and is only 28 shouldn`t be too much to ask for...never mind the cash. there`s a lot of players that should be sold ahead of Essien.

Essien is 28..will be 29 in december.

Folks are saying Bran aint a RB even after more than two years at the position for both club and country(has also won RB of the year in the EPL award) yet are happy to state that Luiz is a CB when he`s only played the position the same amount of time that Bran has played RB. interesting.. i personally would let Bran keep the spot as his, with Billy Clifford being his understudy..if Billy don`t pan out there are other options that could be tried out already at the club. if you can`t ever give a kid the chance to become a man then he`s never gonna prove himself to be one...is only a football game we talking about throwing these kids into, not some war where younger kids than these have already been killed. you get 16 weeks training before you go to war,these kids have been training to play just football for 10 years and more. some folks sound like overprotective mums,when it comes to the youngsters in the academy...yet if Billy Clifford had played like he did last year in a shitty league some of those same people would be saying we should spend millions on getting him i`m sure. i love Ferriera for his loyalty to the club but i think it`s got to the point now where like with Anelka and Kalou,he`s blocking the path to the future. when his play these days does not warrant it.

i think Dave meant that he`d rather have a cheaper AJ than an overpriced and unproven in English football player. not so much meaning that he thinks AJ is a better player than those three.

Paddy and Fergus were taking a short cut, walking in a field on their way home from a bar. Paddy falls 80feet down a hole.... Fergus:Holy Mary sweet mother of Christ,Paddy have you broken anything? Paddy: Fergus,there`s fuck all down here! just thought with all the shit jokes going around,it was time somebody added a decent one. a golden oldie..

i agree with everything apart from the part where you state no-one is gonna offer 20m for Sturridge. i believe there are several teams that would. but hopefully i am never proved correct on that.

when you consider Liverpool paid £35 m for Carroll. if they really would accept 20m for him. i think he`s gone. fortunately, it`s a tabloid report so in all probability it`s complete bollocks.

i`d love to know who would be Plan B. i`d love to have Guus be our manager for the next say 2-3 years before moving up.but i would feel a lot easier if i knew who is the fall back option. (something i know we won`t find out at this stage i know) i have a feeling it may be a shock to us who it is..like the Grant hire was. maybe that former assistant manager of hiddink and hughes and current welsh assistant manager. can`t remember his name of the top of my head,but maybe him as coach with Guus the DoF picking the players,maybe even the team on match days and the other guy just coaching during the week and making tactical changes during games.

i think the real drawback to a player wanting to join a manager-less club is that he would want to know how he is to be used,he would want to know if he`s gonna be in the middle of a power struggle between manager and owner. is he gonna be forced into playing a position that isn`t his natural one. things like that.

Arsenal and Newcastle. Arsenal because they`ve been 3 good players down the spine of their team away from seriously challenging for everything over the last few years but despite them having a ample supply of money they repeatedly neglect to fill those holes..they sell out their ground most games and yet don`t reward their loyal fans by spending the money they make from them on doing things that would give them trophies. Newcastle because the club wants to make money out of the fans but not spend it and because you could ask the city of Newcastle who they would want as their manager out of any coaches in the world and you can bet your house on the top two being..Kevin "the poodle" Keegan or the Messiah as he`s known up there. or Alan "what you mean i`m all elbows and penalties,awaaiii mun,i broke Wayne Bridge`s ankle when Chelsea had used all their subs,can`t say i`m not tactical" Shearer.

at some point probably has as all good players do,not recently tho that i know of..was just started by Tx to speculate..which is essentially what the paid sportswriters do every day in these "links"anyway..