January Transfer Window Thread - rumours and signings here
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The biggest problem is that 3 of the very best players (Rosicky, Walcott, Fabregas) are all out with serious, long term injuries. Why can't Eboue mess his ligaments up, or Song
?I mentioned Liverpool because they can't play wide and are forced narrow too often. Nor do Liverpool have any wingers of a high standard, Chelsea at least have Joe Cole and other players who can go out wide if needed (Kalou/Malouda/Anelka)
Fabregas is 21 and has played 219 games for Arsenal and 37 for Spain
But we've only had Anderson for 18 months
. Fabregas is a freak occurance in football anyway.Couldn't disagree with you more. VDS was very good at Fulham too let's not forget, and he kept them in the EPL a couple of seasons. His record speaks for itself at Man Utd and he's been a key element in the back line and our successful defence the last few seasons. VDS is currently in the top 3 keepers in the EPL.
Yep. Two strikers only works well with wide players.
Not from what I've seen of him.
For £15m I'd have snapped their hand off for Jones.
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worth far more than that to sunderland. hes pretty irreplaceable at the moment, causes no end of problems for defenders and is scoring regualry at the minute too. im chuffed hes signed a new deal.
besides we dont need the money.
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We can and we do. Riera and Kuyt both stick to the wings and get in a lot of crosses. Chelsea play far narrower with only Cole and Boswinga providing any width.
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Harry has said all along that all Sunderland needed to do was say he wasn't for sale. Someone somehwere was playing games.
Riera's been better than all of those and is the most natural wide player too
I've watched many Liverpool games this season and Riera has been decent at best. I don't rate Malouda as you know, but my point was Liverpool have 1 wide player and Chelsea have 3.
I don't think anyone would take Riera over Joe Cole and I wouldn't even have Riera given at Man Utd. He's not that good, he's just a filler, like many of the Liverpool squad at the moment.
Except Cole and Bosingwa are better wide players than Kuyt (who is awful) and Riera (who is average). You also missed Ashley Cole who has been getting forward under Big Phil.
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I meant Ashley. Cole (Joe) doesn't really provide them with much width at all. Always cuts inside and rarely gets any crosses in.
Chelsea have been criticised a lot for being too narrow this season, can't remember the same being said about us.
Recent article
Chelsea have been criticised a lot for being too narrow this season, can't remember the same being said about us.
Recent article
LOL
Of the 3 Chelsea wingers only Malouda stays out wide so if you want to count them then i'll throw Babel, Benayoun, El Zhar and Kuyt into the mix. Now we have 5 to Chelsea's 3
And i certainly would take Riera ahead of Cole after the way he's played since joining us. He's been far from average and looks like being an absolute bargain.
Me neither. In actual fact the so called experts on Sky etc have put our good start down to the extra width Riera's given us this season.
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behave man, safc have said for weeks he wasnt for sale. harry knows all the tricks, hes basically admitted doing it as well.
funny how he never mentioned to the press that he was in for chimbonda, gets knocked back for jones so goes public. hes done it a thousand times.
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Two sides to every story, always is. From what I've heard you were looking at a swap with Bent and about £10m on top, when Spurs wouldn't play ball you kicked off saying stop unsettling our striker.
sbragia said about 10 days ago in the NE press that he would rather walk away from the club than sell Jones so our manager has been pretty clear about his stance
money is pointless to us this late in the window if its 10m or 20m, you wouldnt be able to replace what he brings to the side in the short timespace left...pleased he has signed up long term and his positive statement about the club and team...its obvious when you see them celebreating that he and cisse look to have become good friends..I assume we have given Jones some sort of guarantee that if we stay up we will be signing the frenchman
keane had tried previously to buy Bent so thats where our past link may be coming from..but Bent is too much like Cisse in the way he plays (and equally as hopeless with his head it seems) so would be of no benefit to the team overall..Jones has a lot to his game for us both attacking and defending set pieces that Bent simply cannot replace
money is pointless to us this late in the window if its 10m or 20m, you wouldnt be able to replace what he brings to the side in the short timespace left...pleased he has signed up long term and his positive statement about the club and team...its obvious when you see them celebreating that he and cisse look to have become good friends..I assume we have given Jones some sort of guarantee that if we stay up we will be signing the frenchman
keane had tried previously to buy Bent so thats where our past link may be coming from..but Bent is too much like Cisse in the way he plays (and equally as hopeless with his head it seems) so would be of no benefit to the team overall..Jones has a lot to his game for us both attacking and defending set pieces that Bent simply cannot replace
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Manage like Harry
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Someone posted it on another forum I go on, brilliant
Somebody should do one for Rafa:
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Somebody should do one for Rafa:
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You don't get the pictureWe had him when we were in our prime, he couldn't even make the first 11!
And you forgot COventry and Inter!
To be fair to Keane with regards to Inter, his signing couldn't have happened at a worse time looking back at it. Lippi signed him and then was sacked weeks after Keane arrives. New manager takes over and wants rid of Keane and he's loaned to Leeds (I think) soon after. People also forget he was only a young lad back then, 19/20yrs old. Stats would suggest he didn't do too badly at Leeds, same with Liverpool really if you look at games played and goals scored, but I guess seeing him on a weekly basis paints a better picture.
Four spots surely? 3rd and 4th have to enter qualifiers I think.
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I thought it changed, only two spots guaranteed, third has to qualify, or maybe it's next season I'm thinking of.