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think that's right. whether it's henry or not, we need someone who's going to turn draws at villa park and bramell lane into wins, and perhaps even the losses at ewood and st james' park too. henry's done it. doesn't really matter if he doesn't turn up for the champions' league semi final since we seem to be quite good at those without him.

baines can't defend.

voronin's similar in style.

good point, well made.

he dropped alonso, his most trusted centre mid, and a player chelsea always target. thought gerrard's extra mobility through the middle meant we invariably had at least two players threatening their defensively fragile full backs. the free kick for the goal came from just such a situation.

kuyt's guaranteed to start isn't he?

just like milwall getting to the fa cup final is it you humourless c**k-end?

think the intelligence of his movement is the main thing. not sure you can learn to carry the ball like he does, that's god given, maybe just where and when to pick it up and thrust forward. also, we play gerrard in the kaka role occasionally, but he is relatively new to that role whereas kaka's probably been doing that since he was five. think there's probably a few things kaka could learn from gerrard too, mind.

got to love radio five's alan green/jan molby commentary dream team.

exactly. and ronaldo and scholes too.

but, but, he threw on wright-philips and robben. it's tactical genius when it works against spurs. the only piece of plan B brilliance missing was moving essien to right-back. oooh he is clever.

alternatively milan might be harder to beat.

beginning to believe that too. if we're going down the 'big foreign name' route, at least. think he has the most untapped potential as well as the physical side. price and baggage concerns with both villa and eto'o, for me.

who would you rather beat? we're liverpool ffs!

for a start off the mancs have given as many dull performances in europe as chelsea over recent seasons, although they may have reached greater heights at times. the arsenal-esque 'style' snobbery stems from the fact that they realise they've underperformed in europe over fergie's twenty + years, and are historically on the second rung of european powers. they'll dive, spoil, hoof and backs to the wall scramble with the best of them when it comes to the crunch. their record suggests that they just haven't been as good at it as either mourinho's chelsea or benitez's liverpool.

he has had two badly broken legs in that time, and had been struggling in french football up until very recently. i'd take 3.5 now, and try to negotiate a couple more million added on for games and goals. he has no future at liverpool under benitez.

looks like a giant in the spanish league.

exceptional at set-pieces and decent in front of goal generally. not a wing wizard though, from what i've seen.

sabrosa to be nailed on.

could play agger left-back, particularily if finnan's out. think he might consider it anyway since arbeloa struggled against chelsea and by all accounts wasn't much better at the weekend.

yeah, think that's right.

that panorama programme on corruption in the english game implicated that we had tapped him up.

he's obviously massively over-rated since he's english. we do need experienced cover at centre-half once sami's gone. arbeloa might do? paletta, hobbs and antwi might too. not entirely convincing options any of them, when you look at how injuries to centre-halves have effected the seasons of chelsea and arsenal, and may still scupper united. recent struggles against drogba and henry suggest we might also benefit from an added physical presence to our back line anyhow.

saw the marseilles game. cisse was okay. team performed much better second half and he looked more lively as a result. the goal was a tap-in after good work from ribery. he also gave the cushioned head pass for nasri's excellent goal. was taken off with 15 left, fans chanting his name. ribery was the real star though. le tallec sat watching the game from sochaux's bench.