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The Eredivisie has a similar method for both CL places and relegation CL Link Relegation Link

From BBC Gossip Column: Bayern Munich have earmarked Rafa Benitez as a possible replacement for coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, who is out of contract next May. Discreet enquiries have been made about the Liverpool manager, who has previously rejected overtures from Inter Milan and Real Madrid. (Various) Must be very discreet if various papers here in the UK have picked up on it!!

Don't mean to be picky, but he's Brazilian!

Interesting figures about nationality of players playing in the Champions League. There are only 26 English players out of our 4 English teams playing in the CL, Scotland have 25. Make of that what you will. Here are the figures and article: Champions League of Nations Brazil 98 France 64 Italy 55 Spain 53 Portugal 41 Germany 38 Turkey 37 Argentina 32 England 26 Scotland 25 Romania, Ukraine and Netherlands 23 Serbia 22 Czech Republic 20 Norway 16 Russia 15 Ivory Coast 14 Greece and Poland 10 Denmark 8 Sweden, Uruguay and Nigeria 7 Croatia, Slovakia and Mexico 6 Switzerland and Cameroon 5 Belgium, Colombia, Ghana, Finland, Australia and Senegal 4 Bosnia, Chile and Mali 3 Albania, Paraguay, Israel, Belarus, Ireland, Peru, Northern Ireland, Austria and Georgia 2 Wales, Macedonia, Montenegro, Lithuania, New Zealand, China, Honduras, Japan, Iceland, Togo, Congo, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Cyprus, Guinea, Ecuador and USA 1

I'd love to see us get Ramos as he's also able to play CB altho it's highly unlikely.

Well Hamburg bought him for 8m Euros and I'd imagine they'd wanna make a profit on him.

He works hard but does he posess that creativity we also need?

I'm going to be in Recife, Brazil for the Everton and Besiktas games and in Rio for the Arsenal game. Can ayone suggest anywhere to watch the games or what channel they might have the games on out there? Thanks.

Depends how well he's doing or what context the price quoted is used in!!

Anyone know if Leiva is in the squad for Brazil's game against Colombia tomorrow?

Theoretically yes, but Anelka being on the bench all the times Torres starts would make him even more pi$$ed off than Crouch. If Torres and Anelka could play together then that'd be a different story.

Thing is he'll have the International break as an excuse for rotation for our next game.

A nice few attacking options from the bench if things aren't working out. Glad Lucas has got a place.

We already have the Dutch version.

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Kaka would be very nice!!

Not gonna happen, especially in January, but would love to see Villa come in and link up with Torres.

If Torres doesn't start this one I'd like to see Babel given a go up front in his place. Give the lad a chance to shine in his preferred position. As to who partners him I'd probably say Kuyt as they should have a better understanding due to their time with the national side.

Come and get me plea to Rafa to learn his trade as his assistant?

Torres has only scored in 3 games out of his 10 appearances.

Are we missing the tempo settinng passing that Alonso can provide? From what I can judge listening to commentary we need to start upping it a bit.

I think Hobbs is the only realistic candidate from the reserves as the other players who have been here for a while such as Antwi, Roque, O'Donnell and Paletta are either on loan or have left. The new guys such as Huth, San Jose etc are probably still a bit inexperienced to risk in the first team.

Aurelio for Riise and you've got tourself a deal!!

I wonder if Giovanni dos Santos will be one of those as we've been linked with him recently? Altho he made his debut in the CL last night as a sub so they'll probably want a fair chunk of that £20-25m!