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and?

This is fairly standard in Dutch grounds, where on avarage attendances are around 20k. They usually still have stewards in pairs on the turnstiles though who nonetheless check your ticket the moment you enter.

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Doubt they felt like laughing this weekend though

Spot on - hence the infamous 'defend like you did under Benitez' - -but we had at least five ways of defending under Benitez!' You could say the same for attacking and midfield play. We're now a very fluid, mobile team.

I meant the original fee we offered for Nando - between £6-£7m. If Owen wanted to be here he'd be here - all he had to do was say to Madrid 'No way am I going to Newcastle - it's Liverpool or I stay put and cost you the bulk of the fee for sitting on the bench anyway' and they were stuffed. He didn't - he bottled it. We didn't pay £17m because it would have been stupid having had to sell him for £8m the previous summer after he ran his contract down (funny he went where he wanted to go then, isn't it?) and if he had kept his nerve or his grasping ways to himself - we wouldn't have had to pay £17m either. On the £17m basis - one Owen = Sissoko, Agger & Reina. I know which I think is the better deal and would serve us better and it's not Owen.

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No - that bird has flown. Let it go.

Is it official merchandise? Or someone trying to make a quick buck out of the club?

So what stopped him? Where is he playing - not Anfield, is it? It was his choice - possibly influenced by the rumoured £122k per week he's supposedly being paid. Madrid did their damnest to offload Morientes back to Monaco - even saying they wouldn't sell to us as we were 'among their strongest rivals' - what was the result? Morientes said I'm going to Liverpool or I'm staying put. By the end of the window despite all their messing about he was a Liverpool player at the originally quoted fee. Harry Kewell : Man Utd and Arsenal in particular tried to hijack that deal - Ferguson phoning him personally 'biggest club in the world, massive wages, trophies'etc - what happened? Harry wanted to come to us, the team he had always supported and so thats what he did. Riise was on his way to Fulham - when we stepped in - he came to us as the better choice - his choice. So baring the above in mind, it leaves you with one of three conclusions really, a) Owen wasn't that worried where he went as long as kept his England place b) Owen wanted to come to us but was weak c) Owen was doing what he's always done and put Michael Owen first and took the money - possibly in the hope of a big deal after the world cup.

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Move to Ireland.

I'm a right-sided full back, for sure.

Given his incredible tactical and transfer nouse, I wonder if we shouldn't make him an offer of about £3m for his out-of-form reserve centre half Jemain Defoe?