Lee W

What interests me far more than Arsenal's financial situation is the state of their team. No Campbell this weekend, Toure in Africa and the prospect of partnering the inexperienced Senderos with either Flamini or Gilberto. Add in the fact that they don't have a half-decent, fit left-back and they are in total disarray at the back. Hopefully, by the time we play them any confidence they might have will be at it's lowest. As one of our major rivals, that is very pleasing.

He'll have to get in line first

What like Golf-Punk ?

And barring Crouch's mini-run of goals our strikers have struggled for goals all season, yet we lie in 3rd place, 3 points behind the Mancs with 2 games in hand. What's your point ? Considering our lack of activity/progression in two transfer windows regarding positions of weakness in the team, I think the manager and the team are doing pretty well. Ok, two points dropped - it happens.....

Over and over again, and it is a nailed-on foul by Heskey on Riise as he heads it across goal. Liverpool fan my a*se.

I didn't see the game so what do mean by "not right" though ? It seems tt's more a case of poor finishing, not killing teams off and not getting the 'rub of the green' myself. We badly need a consistent goalscorer though, I have to say....

To be fair, that was probably the ideal game to blood Agger considering the quality of recent and upcoming opposition, and the boss was probably giving Hamann and Garcia some match fitness before the awful schedule we've got this month. They'll be much more rotation to come this month, I would imagine.

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Probably a combination of b) & c) added to d) 17m was too much for a club with our ambitions Oh, and Nando didn't came to us for the "original fee" - that was 11m It's all moot anyway

Of course he wanted to come back - you think he'd rather be playing for Newcastle than Liverpool. That is such a myth - Owen has plenty of assists to his name, but yes he isn't as creative as say Henry or as good as holding the ball up as say, Crouch or van Nisatleooy. Anyway, Crouch and Owen are totally different players individually, but I'm of the opinion they would strike a deadly partnership. Owen is especially good at anticpating the second ball. I can't see Owen back at Anfield now, but would be delighted if it happened - because despite our superb form we still lack a clinical striker with pace upfront, to push teams back towards their own goal.

Ghost written by Robbie Fowler ?

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We'll sign Walcott for a bargain 35m quid.

Have to agree with Rushian here. If anything we've achieved far more historically buying what I would call "mid-range" quality 'names' or up and coming youngsters (e.g. Hansen - 100k, Whelan - Free) with the odd indulgence (Barnes, Lawrenson, Beardo) - the key ingredient has always been hunger, desire and workrate. Not price. You could add players like McMahon and Wark, both highly underrated but talismen in our teams of the past. They cost a combined figure of 800k, which was at least 250k less than what the Mancs payed for Peter 'Barn Door' Davenport, iirc. From my memory it was always the Mancs that splashed out on the flavours of the month with the headline-grabbing fees (Gary Birtles, Danny Wallace and who could forget Neil Webb ). Their list of big money flops is superb ! I fact when you weight it up, particularly in recent years we've been burnt a hell of a lot by signing players for "big juicy" fees rather than those at the cheaper end of the market.

My apologies, all I've read that Cherno, Freddy Theo was a striker in the Thierry Henry mould that played through the left-channel like Henry.

Probably not, but if this statement from Mihir Bose is accurate: ...then they are up[ sh*t creek without a toilet brush. The funny thing about debt, it doesn't matter how long the terms are, it still has to be paid off eventually.

Is he a right-winger or even a left-back ? No. Next....

Probably because he isn't worth 20m.

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King ? There's a whole royal family of them around these days. We've got David Hodgson as the Crown Prince and Crouchinho as the Princess Royal (with an unhealthy crush on Daniel Agger.

Ronaldo is the best all-round centre-forward I've ever seen. Even as a lard-a*** he's better than all his peers.

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