Gerry

I think Bayern would be a great tie to get.

That was a quote from the Kuwaiti side.

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For some reason I thought you were talking about Michael Johnson. There has been talk of Arbeloa wanting to go back to Spain for a while. Could happen. Not sure whether Johnson is defensively sound enough for us though. Good going forward, but prone to being caught out at the back. Won't come cheap either as he's signed a new contract.

So who exactly plays RB?

John Salako trotted out the line that Rafa "insists on playing Gerrard down the right constantly" last night. Makes you wonder whether he's actually watched us play in the last year or so. All in all though, it makes me laugh. There's hardly a pundit out there with a worthwhile comment to make about any team, so it's not worth getting worked up about.

haha No names of course but.... "anyone wanting Torres ahead of Villa need their head testing, Torres is a showpony. " "Torres is a poser" "bet you any money we don't sign either of them. " "So I am not the only one who thinks that Torres is very overrated."

Judging by his previous posts I would guess there's a certain level of sarcasm involved. Not sure why he thought it was necessary though.

As has already been pointed out Man Utd had recently floated on the stock exchange and had a financial windfall from that. Over and above that I'm sure they simply loaned the money from a bank - that's what banks do, help you finance projects like this if you ask them (or did do until recently). The reason we haven't built a new stadium is because we didn't have the balls to take on the required debt. That and delay after delay after delay, which saw the project costs soar. The Millennium Stadium was build for not much more than £100M. Debts from the construction of that stadium have recently been reduced to £20M. It pains me to think if we'd have had the foresight to build something in the same timescale we could be in a similar position. And we'd have filled out the stadium 25 times a year.

Premier League teams make money from overseas fans by a) selling broadcasting rights to their TV networks (something which is out of our hands) and b) going on pre-season tours to their countries (and isn't that popular with us) Shirts sales and the like are a pretty trivial revenue stream. The main reason we're financially well behind Utd is the stadium and match-day revenue. The amount that Man U/Arsenal/Chelsea make on corporate seats is astronomical. Parry should certainly take his share of the blame for not getting the stadium project up and running however.

On that note, I'm sure this was dealt with in some study last year. They analysed all the goals scored in football games since the dawn of time (well, close enough) and found that statistically you were no more likely to concede just after scoring than at any other time. All our bookings were a load of old b******s last night. The ref was conned.

haha You're not joking.

Gerrard for Riera.

Riera misses the return leg with that booking.

Get in!!!

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What does my head in is that he shows glimpses of what he can do. Even yesterday, he clipped the ball past Bridge (?) and left him for dead. Trouble is he then ran 20 yards with ball, cut back inside, then cut back again, then got tackled. He must have been caught in possession 3-4 times in his brief appearance. He appears to select the wrong option time after time after time. You'd think he'd learn from his mistakes, but it's not looking likely at the moment.

That was a particularly dire cameo performance from him it has to be said.

Bad foul by Dossena. City don't even get a free-kick. Torres skews a half-chance well wide.

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