Tomo

what bout Josh?

There be other kids from the academy coming through, according to my mate the current U12's are unbeaten for 2 years so there be a fair few of that crop breaking through around that time aswell. Plus i think John Swift and Fankaty Dabo have a shot of making it aswell.

The Arsenal "invincibles" were better than us when Jose came in and what happened?

bloody hell i give up Were crap were be lucky to get europa. Liverpool will finish above us with their frightening spine of Henderson and Carroll and a gaffer living of 80's glory. Manchester clubs are so much better than us and make us look like a poor mans Accrington Stanely. De Gea is not a dodgy keeper that will lose them points he makes Cech look like Turnbull and Mancini will let the shackles off for 38 games. They also have the fantastic Gareth Hernandez and Andres Milner. Now im off to have a wank over the Manchester clubs. Is that what everyone wants to hear?

his girlfreind who's on corrie or emmerdale, can't remember which one.

I genuinanly would be happy if no Chelsea player plays for that farce again.

Im talking about long term replacement.

Gyan would be a serious problem for us, he ripped us apart at SB last season but his performance was overlooked by the media wankfest over Welbeck. Him not playing would be a boost for us because he is a awesome player and a step above Bendtner.

Its strange how Rooney scores two goals and all off a sudden he is player that is rawing with passion for his country, shame he could not find this "passion" when it mattered most. Back to the Lamps topic we need to stop calling for replacements for Lamps he won't get replaced, yes McEachran/Modric or some-one will come into the team but no-one will ever truly replace Frank he is one of a kind, a 20 goal and 15 assist midfielder a season we not come around again in our lifetime and possibly ever. He might not be as good as he was in the past but we better make the most of what we have left of Lamps because we won't find another one. You see young players that play in the mould of Drogba (Lukaku) even young techinical midfielder are mini Inesta and Xavi's, you see a bit of Terry in Phil Jones and a bit of Gerrard in Conor Clifford for example, but there is not one young player around that resembles Frank he is truly unique. McEachran will be amazing for us in a completely different way but he is no Frank replacement, lets make the most of what we have left of Frank because the phrase "their is only one" does not ring more true than it does with Frank.

Exactly and lets be honest this City and United side's are not even close to the class off the Arsenal "invincibles" that we had to overcome that year.

As ive said in a previous post IMHO our main culprits for our slow game are Alex, Mikel, Lampard and Anelka, if Andre plays 2 of them maximum each game i reckon we will see a completely different ball game.

:goodpost: Basically summed up what im trying to say, we may have some weakness's in our teams but so do Utd and City, infact both in vital areas, United serious weak link is their goallie will he win them 15 points like VDS did? will Mancini go all out all season? i reckon City will lose more points due to managers tactics than we will and De Gea will without doubt lose United more points than Cech will lose us. yes we may no be fav's and no it wont be easy, but we have the best young manager in the world and have streghened from last season, so putting that into concept i cannot honestly see how we can just settle for top 4, we should be aiming higher than that.

im hoping for this -------------------------------Cech--------------------- Bosingwa--------Ferreira---------Terry--------Cole -------------------------------Anelka--------------------- --------------------Mikel----------------------------------- ------------------------------------Lampard-------------- Kalou---------------------------------------------Malouda --------------------------Kalou's twin brother------------

Would love to get English players but the harsh truth is their not good enough and the one's that are will be far too expensive, Liverpool proved that £75m on 3 english players that are shit (2 of them have been relegated) lol.

Am i the only one worried that Josh may turn out to be a new David Beckham publicity figure? Even tho he hasn't (fully) broke into our first team yet his realtionship with Brooke is getting quite a few paper colums, if their stlll together when he is a regular its not inconviable that it could happen.

your telling me their not the toast of the country anymore thats me told, now get to sky sports and try and tell that plumhead Phil Thompson

I dont get this massive hype around United, imo Fergie is the only reason they are contenders because in short he is a miricle worker. They are badly light in centre midfield, they have let expierence go and replaced them with inexpierence, their goallie makes Almunia look like Buffon. In short i reckon a few injuries their in the shit Fergie or no Fergie. What every one has to realise is VDS, Scholes and Neville were not just big players but big charracters in the dressing room when the going gets tough their presence will be a huge loss, because of Fergie there be there or there abouts butto rate them miles ahead of us im sorry but its insane.

We didn't in Jose's first season either.

Correct me if im wrong but didn't last season's champions fail to beat West Brom at home?

We can't have it both ways. Has Ryan got picked, played the last game against Valencia with Cole injured and qualification at stake and makes a mistake that gets us knocked out you would all bemome his selection and say we should have gone with expierence.

Its pathetic how England's failures are always our players fault but Ferdinand, Rooney and Gerrard beyond shite performances somehow get praised. Im caught in the middle here in one way i don't want a Chelsea player to play for England again but in another way i want to see the Jones, Smalling, Cleverly, Wilshere, Carroll and Welbeck wankfest come crashing down when it hits them Chalobah, McEachran and Sturridge are acutally better.

welcome

Tough one, i went for styles but to be honest all 5 of them are worthy winners this month. BL you have to put yourself up next month, i insist

+1 So that means last season (given the 6 they let go) they had 14 over 30s

Agree with that but they still lack compared to champs in the past, even themselfs when they had Ronaldo. When was the last time 80 points was enough for 2nd let alone 1st? 09/10 we played slow and shit at times (the Inter and Blackburn games in March nearly had me in tears) but we ended up with the double. I personally think Anelka, Lampard, Mikel and to a lesser extend Alex are responsible for our slow game atleast 3 of them out and 3 of Luiz, Romeu, Meireles and Danny in we will see a different game. Best to wait and see what Andre has up his sleeve now the windows shut he can focus fully on the squad and the players at his disposal. Were understandably not fav's but we are more than capable.