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Well, guess what? Yossi plays behind Torres and we win 4-0! Who'd have thought it?

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Think it would be better with Kuyt staying on the wing and Benni playing just behind Torres meself.

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Total nonsense. We missed our chance when he left PSV, IMO. Look at the queue of clubs waiting for him to make his mind up! You think he would choose us over them? Anyway, think Chelski will make him an offer he can't refuse before push comes to shove.

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I thought it was the Daily Express, meself.....

It takes one to know one. It was you who said the acceptable standards at this club have dropped massively. You think that there's going to be a sharp turn-around when Aquilani finally appears? Let's wait and see.

And you would call that a niggling injury, would you? Glad you don't work in the NHS!

What are you, a mystic? And don't bring that bloody dog round here!!

Except that if Aquilani comes back in November and then gets another series of niggling injuries till the end of the season, there will be enough people on this site slagging off Benitez for buying a guy for that amount of money who is injury-prone!

But we are now in 2009. I'm sure the big clubs have already said they will kick this into touch?

Fingers crossed indeed. I've had this feeling a long while that Rafa shot himself in the foot with his chase for Barry the previous season and that sowed the seeds of doubt in Alonso's mind. Can't blame the player for saying 'up yours' to Benitez the following season, especially when Real come calling. We could have an interesting debate on whether Alonso would have gone at all if the Barry nonsense hadn't occurred.

I don't profess to know the breakdown of players salaries but don't some of them have ten percent docked to pay their agents? Read that somewhere in the past but can't remember where....

Right on. And just to highlight that, we now have Spurs seeking a couple of new players before the deadline just because their midfielder has cracked his leg. Can't see us being able to do that if necessary at the moment, can you? Frankly I think he should have told Alonso he wasn't going anywhere for another year.

Agreed. And he had personal problems too, didn't he?

Sell Mascherano? Do me a favour. Do you honestly think that if Rafa sold Mascher he would be able to buy in a couple of quality players? Where have you been the past month? You don't think the Yanks won't do an Alonso and cream off some of the transfer money from Mascher's sale to service their debt.?? And as for the view that Garcia and Cisse are better than Kuyt and Riera, words fail me. Garcia was unpredictable and did some brilliant things - he also did some stupid things as well. Overall, they aren't in the same league as Kuyt and Riera.

Except that unlike Carra Legent I don't regularly read the Daily Fail.....Nice to see that you do

Er. Johnson told him?

I didn't say they couldn't match it. I said they chose not to compete on that level.

If we are forced to sell Dalla Valle to get funds, then we really are up sh*ts creek.