A former Premiership defender told me that Carvalho is the dirtiest player he's ever had the displeasure to watch. Knows all the tricks in the book and gets away with it all.
Villa would be a good signing. Didn't really know anything about him when we were linked but since then I've seen him a handful of times for Valencia and he's looked the business. He'd be really expensive now though.
According to Micheal Laudrup's autobiography he was getting ready to go on a plane to Liverpool to sign the contract when they got a call that we ahd pulled out. He then joined Juve. IMO he's one of the best players in the world.
That move was class. Too bad the ref ordered to be retaken. I would like to see us try it again sometime. Preferably against a team who didn't watch that match. Oh and let the ref know about it in advance.
Cisse, Kewell, Crouch... Oh and Hyypia too for good measure. Come May we'll have gone full circle and we'll be back to "sack Parry" again. If you didn't know you'd think we were fighting to avoid relegation.