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No, I agree, but I can't see Essien starting ahead of Lamps.

Right....

We currently need someone to do the preview for the Steaua game. Can you do that?

Well I think that's because Eto'o has played all below average games so far. And no, I don't think he played well against Swindon, I expected him to do better.

Well obviously one of them would take that CM squad player role that MVG had before the injury.

You missed the goal against Basel. Yes, what about Drogba? In his best seasons, he used to get about 20 to 30% of our team goals. And that was when we did not have attacking midfielders cutting inside and taking the shots instead of the striker. We've never been reliant on strikers as Athletico were on Falcao, or Napoli on Cavani or even united on RVP last season.

Must read article about Nathanial Clyne's display against Liverpool: http://squawka.com/news/2013/09/25/stats-analysis-how-nathaniel-clyne-silenced-liverpool/2013092522674 Top class performance. Shame he doesn't get as much hype as Shaw does because he is equally brilliant.

Great prospect. His attitude is shit, but his tactical awareness is unbelievable for his age. But it's like saying we should get Pogba from Juve, never going to really happen as PSG have no reason to let him go. Josh and Chalobah will be back in Jan, might give one of them a chance instead of loaning them back out again.

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Even if you want to scratch the goals against the best team in the world, atm, and the goals against Swindon, we've scored 7 in 5 matches, not 6. It is irrelevant for me who scores the goals as long as we're scoring. We've never been, for over a decade, a team that relies on strikers only for goals.

Btw, it looks like Poyet is going to land the Sunderland job while RDM has turned it down according to an interview Poyet did with an Uruguayan newspaper.

We've scored 11 goals in our 7 matches so far this season. Our scoring "crisis" is not nearly as bad as you're making it out to be.

I think we're bound to see that at some stage this season. It's a long season and people will inevitably pick up knocks.

Yeah, but he cost Athletico Madrid 3m and he's been excellent for them so far.

It's not by much, but he's currently our best striker but Jose seems to believe that if he gives Eto'o a run of games he'll become better. So, let's see how that pans out.

I don't think so. I think we'll have to wait till after the group stages to update the squads. Anyway, I thought Essien was very bad in the first half but he got a lot better in the second half. Need to see him in a few more games to really judge, but it looks like he will play a role in our season with MVG out.

lol Who were you referring to, then? I was the only one saying he isn't as good as people made him out to be Anyway, when he had a great season a couple of seasons ago, Song was, imo, the only world-class DM we had in the league and he was MILES ahead of everyone else.

I'm not so sure, we still have four players for 2 positions.

Who he plays for has f*** all to do with anything. I just don't rate Sandro as a player. Actually, I do rate him; like I said, I think he's very decent player, just no where near "the best player in the league for his position". He's just too aggressive for a DM, imo. He commits himself needlessly at times and leaves the back four exposed. His passing is also no where near the level of the likes of Carrick, Song and Mikel. But that's just my opinion.

More hope than Valencia have, unfortunately

Apparently the new iPhone 5 accepts nipple prints for security

So sad..

The market is completely random and is affected by factors that have nothing to do with ability at times. Just look at the fact that Torres cost 50m while Villa cost 3! I was actually talking about Capoue who, to me, looks like another hyped up youngster for nothing. Sandro is decent, but he doesn't have the technical ability, tactical awareness or passing of Mikel.

Maybe it differs from one person to another. I said he wouldn't be able to walk because I've had a cruciate ligament injury myself in the past. It wasn't even ruptured and I still couldn't walk on it! Anyway, wish him a speedy recovery.