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Good shout. Carra deserves the goal. Without his drive, it would never result in a goal. Dont take away his hard work.

I already had felt guilty for beating the drum for Keane when we were linked. I just hope this move wouldnt jeopordise Rafael's postion.

How on earth that Keane managed to block Torres's shot is beyond me.

They are relentless. There's no way we could do about them.

Of course he can. Have you seen his past games? He is a physical player which can hold up the ball on its own and will bag a lot of goals.

He went straight into the game when needed, and didnt look like anything raw, panic. He's assured, composed and up to the physical demands of Premier League. He has had up against a very good Arsenal side and didnt look raw.

crisps is right, Pennant would worth about 2m only. He is only slightly better than Riise.

Think that's a good idea that would improve English football and benefit our club as well as we are going to bring on the youngster/reserve when the match is over. Definitely more reserves will getting a chance!

Keane and/or Crespo would be too good to miss out as they are similar to Torres, have strong phyisical presence to cope with PL. After his goal ratio not so impressive, I can see Kuyt's place not as secured as first thought.

I think the reason Barry are over Xabi is because he can offer some width and linkup with Dossena on the left. We're also looking to Degen linking with Keane on the right. Width is an area when Rafael want to move on.

Barry-Yes. Downing-No. Barry formed a good partnership and have a good understanding with Stevie. Stevie recommended him and he's Stevie's mate. He will improve our set pieces greatly. He also will fit the bill to replace Alonso.

Barnes deserves his chance. He doesnt talked like doping.

He is a legend. I am surprised he was not offered any job to become coaching staff at our club.

I think Milner is very much underrated here. He has pace, run at defender, have a good shout at goal around the box, can play at RM. I'd like to see him here.

There would be more teams playing for draw when 3 points are scrapped because in the knowledge that the difference would be 1 point it would be easier to close the gap.

I have told a lot times but I take my time to repeat it again. It's time to align the developments of our academy system to our transfer strategy this season. This is a make or break time for our youth system. We should be looking to bring in some reserves in the first team lineup. If we are not doing that, it will deal their confidence a great blow. They're going to think how much hard works they put in, they are not going to break into the first team. It will destroy their marale. If the above scenario materialised, it will wreck our academy system eventually.

How do you calculate that? 18m Euros not 18m quids, that's about 15m quids.

Are you mad? Torres has no price tags. Torres is not for sale at any price. Without Torres we are nothing.

DH, you'd better ignore my previous post if you want to rid Lucas, not getting Dossena and keeping Alonso.

Those statistics are interesting. I wonder where did he get these. But in football it's of little relevance and importance.

I think we should look at our prime target or option first like David Villa, before we continue to negotiate with Villa about Barry. Villa likely to cost sky high and we had competitions from other big clubs and he wont come at cheap. We have to review our transfer stategy carefully when we are a club laden with debts.

Pennant represented the worst piece of transfer done by the scouting department and Rafael himself, especially when we can sign for Simao for a few millions more. Compare and quantify the impact Simao would have made.

Really hopes him have a good EURO and Holland go all the way so that his price will bump up a few millions quid! You know what I mean.

Rafael is not infallible but for the amounts of great works he has done for this club, doesnt he deserve a bit more recognition and backings from us fans against a CEO who accounts for nothing, but would put his personal interest before the club, just to rid Rafael from this club. 1 point I agreed with are the works done by G+H into our club. This club has not stay back and regressed since they took over instead we have progress in terms of transfer. They took a substantial investment in 2 players in the last season in 20m in Torres and 13m in Babel. Under Moores, we would had never spent 24m on Torres hence their impacts.

WSO, nobody has boasted Rafael will definitely deliver the league if he's given blank cheques. But we all are fed with information he has to compromise when he looked for RW, he has to settled for Pennant when the team could have a Simao for a couple of millions more. But wouldnt it made a lots of differences if we had gotten Simao than Pennant. That's 1 example of how shortage of funds had cost us.