honourablegeorge

Didn't Figaro say he was promised a payrise and a move in the summer for a reasonable fee, in exchange for staying for the rest of the season?

"Well, Elisha said he wants to move"

Heinze might well be Chris Kirkland's twin f***in' brother, though. Riise, for all his failings, has served us well, and I like him. There's a lot to be said for a bloke who's really, really good at kicking a ball very, very hard.

They shoudl piss off with their honours. "Sir" Alex Ferguson and "Sir" Jimmy Saville are more deserving than Shankly or Paisley? b****x TO THEM.

The thing about about Villa is this - The Spanish league really is so different from ours. If we signed the top scorer in the Spanish league last season and put him up front with the current top scorer, we'd expect to have an amazing strikeforce. In reality, we'd have Diego Forlan and Freddie Kanoute. We've already seen a player with undoubted class come here and fail completely, not through lack of effort, but becaus ehe just couldn't adjust. Villa's about the most exciting out-and-out striker in the world at the moment (maybe Eto'o excepted), and he's a player that I'd love to see in a red shirt. But the chance of him being an abject failure is always there, and I'd say his comments about English football make it doubly likely that he wouldn't settle here.

I reckon if Wenger squared up to Rafa the way he did Pardew, he'd be picking Spanish knuckles out of his face for a month.

Hopefully it won't obscure Arsene's view.

You have to laugh at an American criticising another country for having limited free speech and committing human rights violations.

Guardian Link

SACK ANSARI

Deffo, Vieira is the perfect example of how Sissoko could develop his attackign game. His passing's not as good as Vieira's though, he was always able to use the ball well. (And always played alongside another holding player with an eye for a pass, the distinctly no-as-good-as-Xabi Petit)

We'll use Sossoko, Alonso and Gerrard as the central 3 in a 3-5-2 more and more often, I reckon.

I think Kuyt's been ace in terms of workrate and link play, but criticism of his finishign is fair enough - he's missed a hatful of chances of late. We've won the games confortably, but it worries me slightly that he's missed so many. (I still think back to the one that smacked the bar against Chelsea, if he'd scored that, I'm convinced we'd be top of the table now)

Heh. Quality. "Altraorism", even...

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/12/..._move_that.html

You honour, we plan to use what we call "The David May Defense".

Heh. I thought the same. I have this weird mixture of fondness and sympathy for Djimi. "Good old Djimi, the poor gimp" sort of thing.

I dunno, I reckon Frank Lampard would look great with a nice Habano shiner. Times article at the time claimed they were hoping to get £12M for Carrick, when United hit them with the £18M offer.

When is Eto'o fit again? ("Never" would be a good answer)

fyds - go to http://www.imageshack.us/, hit the "Browse button", select your pic and it'll opload it for free, and give you links, etc.

It seems (and maybe it's just the pic) that the stands aren't very steep. I liek the idea of all the fans being right up close, whereas the pic seems to show the back of the stands being a logn way from the pitch. Anyoen know how it compared to the stands at Anfield currently? Steeper? Is this limited by new safety regs, etc?

Got a link/pic of the stadium?

He can be a direct replacement for Kewell.

Judging by this, the fact that Gerrard, Benitez and others have already met DIC. and all the positive sounds, i'd say this takeover is very, very close to being complete. Times Article

All seems fairly positive, this. Guardian link Echo Link