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sry abt that. looked good before i posted it, then presumably many of our players got injured in the process and resulted in this mumbo-jumbo...however numerically we do not lack depth...

At home?... hmm, we do not have that penetrative winger but Yossi on the right and Riera on the left will create more chances...Johnson on the wing and Kelly RFB is an alternative option...

Kuyt is simply awesome for away games. His passion, hardwork and also his abilities make him a top asset in away games. However he is simply not good enough for home games or when you have loads of possession, cant score and you need to penetrate down the wings.

We just need another quality winger and a striker in order for us to have the necessary penetartion. Investments in babel, doss, pennant proved too much of a liability. It s not totally Rafa s fault as it is impossible to get it right everytime in the transfer market. Other managers have the luxury of hiding their transfer market mistakes by buying new ones. rafa does not have that luxury. most time he had to sell the likes of bellamy to be able to fund other players. However given the current financial situation, i cant understand why rafa doesnt seem to consider loan options more often saviola when he was at barca, pavlyuchenko at spurs is a current possibility...surely there are plenty others lying around. However a Ribery and a Bellamy and we may have gone to win the title this year... so near yet so far.

fecked up with this code thing... however either we are unlucky with injuries or our squad players lack the necessary quality

I thought that we lacked more depth, but when you compare our squad to that of chelski and manure we dont really lack depth Goalies Van der Sar Cech Reina Foster Hilario Cavalieri Kus Right-Full Backs Gary w***** Ivanovic Johnson Brown Bosingwa Degen Rafael Ferreira Kelly O shea Belletti Left Full-Backs Evra Cole Auerlio Fabio Zhirkov Insua Doss De Laet Central defe Vidic Carvalho Carra Ferdinand Terry Agger (Brown) Alex Skrtel (o shea) Kyriagos Evans Central Mids Anderson Essien Mascheran Hargreaves Mikel Aquilani Carrick Ballack Lucas Scholes Lampard (Gerrard) Fletcher Spearing Gibson Left Wing Giggs J. Cole Babel Park Malouda Riera Tosic (Yossi) Right Wing Nani Kalou Kuyt Valencia Deco (Yossi) Obertan El Zhar Strikers Ronny Drogba Torres Berbatov Anelka Gerrard Owen (kalou) Vog Welbeck Sturridge Ngog Macheda

Gerrard is 29...he still has at least another 4 good years left in him and by then we would have won the league.

cant get over fulham...cant keep thinking that we missed a great opportunity to get really close to mancs and chelski with them playing vs each other nxt weekend and we vs supposedly vs lowly Brum! Wed cant come fast enough for me. hopefully a good performance and a thumping win would over-shadow this doom and gloom.

kelly and dalla valle.

hypothetically i cant imagine what he must be thinking of his team-mates after their display on craven turf but most probably he s just as gutted as we are. most probably he thinks that the vog is just a vog, the greek is a greek, de-gen quality

g+h cant be here for another 5 yrs, but rafa can under a proper chairman.

yeah..just what we need...another 5 year plan.... see yo again in 5 yrs whining for the managers sack manager is not the main problem..sure he makes mistakes just as the slur wenger maureen capello ancellotti etc but sacking rafa will not solve our real problem which is FUNDS... Sacking Parry and appointing kenny as ambassador are positive steps in the right direction, but rafa cant do much more on that front. change of ownership is what is really needed

hmm veron, hargreaves, djemba-djemb, kleberson...i m sure there are loads more only difference is that there monies keep on flowing...ours stops

not if ur fullback wanted to leave for real... johnson is one of the best around and we all know what happens when we go for 2nd best. aqui- rafa was told he would be fit by august he needed him to fill alonso s void. then...no money!

You ll have to ask G&H that

Although none of us can say or know anything about Torres condition but it seems that today rafa was thinkin of lyon game. subbing torres, yossi and kuyt he seems to think that with more of the first 11 fit we can still redeem or league position bt cant afford to lose vs lyon or he already thinks that with this sqad we are never going to win the league and wants to focus on the CL.... season still long but 5 defeats already are too much. we cant lose another one for the remaining games of the season.

physically he has all the attributes to become a top player. bewildered as to his lack of progress in his years here. he seems to have gone backwards. he is one of the last major prospects that ajax and holland has had in recent years. his problem is a mental one...this twittering, rap singing, bulls*** is doing his head in. he s not focused on improvin his game and whats worse and what makes rafa red with anger and bitter with disappointment is that he simply lacks the desire to succeed in football. anyway thats what i think.

Pity Kelly is injured as well. He could have had an opportunity to play in the league instead of Johnson. That leaves Degen who will probably get injured during pre-match warm-up...hmmm

s***, double s*** and triple s***!

owen who?

Really hope Yossi doesnt need to feature in this match. Pacheco is not available? Kelly still injured i presume. Hope Aqiuilani gets at least half an hour...

agreed with maybe kelly instead of ayala, based on their respective performances with the senior team this season.

Only thing i didnt hear the Rafa Benitez song as much as I expected. Think only heard it once throughout the whole macth...

TORRES loves those through balls. he needs more quality balls like the one Yossi gave him yesterday. Hopefully Aquilani Yossi and Gerrard can abundantly supply Torres with these type of quality through balls. Yossi is quality. I now consider him as the most important player in our team behind SG and FT.

i ll second that :applause: