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Heskey was quoted in his Wigan press conferance announcing he had not shut the door on his international career. McLaren must be thinking Christmas has come early.

My point was Moyes transfer record is questionable. He has made some good signings, he's also made some bad. The players I listed were all failures to some degree or another. The Kroldrup fiasco was a defining point, to lose millions on a player and send him back within the same season is poor judgement and it cost us. Van der Meyde has so far been a major failure there's no two ways about it. You have actually agreed with three of the players I've listed so how can you say you dont see the point. Moyes had little to no pulling power in the European transfer market which leaves us paying top dollar for home grown market.

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It's no gamble its just a simple waste of cash. Heskey has never had a good goal talley except his first season with the shyte. I'm stunned Jewel has done this, i thought he was a bit more savvy than that. I'd be pissed off if I was a Wigan fan.

That is a problem for us though, Moyes has little influence in the international transfer market and judging by the some foreign players he has signed not much knowledge either. And you see how Premiership managers generally plunder their own countries for under rated talent, I think we come up short with a Scottish man at the helm.

Lets be realistic Van Der Vaart - one of the very top Dutch prospects and Maniche - touted as one of the best players of the tournament by Motson tonight are not going to go to a club who arent in Europe.They are out of our league by some distance at the moment not that we could afford it anyway.

Rumours are Ronaldo is deffo getting sold, according to Talksport he told his agent any big European club outside of England. I hope it's true but it would be funny to see the twit booed at every away game.

Both Gerrard and Terry are natural leaders and hard men unlike media-whore ladyboy Beckham. Either will do a great job though Terry would just edge it for me. Beckham talked a good game and he's supposedly great at settling the younger new squad members but on the pitch he was the invisible man untill a set-play. The only time I saw him start shouting at the team was after he lost his marker for the Sweeden goal.

We were never in the game before or after the sending off. After seeing the first twenty minutes a draw was a the best we could really aim for. Everone's saying how brilliant Hargreves was but his link up play between defence and midfield was shyte as was Gerrard and Lampards. Thats what cost us, lack of movement, an inability/lack of confidence to keep posession and poor positioning. Portugal had two passes on most of the time in posession many times in acres of space on the wing. England players were happy to be shadowed by their marker resulting in failed 40 yard killer balls or direct punts straight back to the opposition. Our creative players bottled it for the first 60 minutes and the sending off let us slip into the comfortable backs to the wall 8 man defence we are making a new formation. We found our level with these players, no excuses we deserved to go out. I'm glad Erickson's gone but Mclarren wont be making any wholesale changes, he picks the team now as it is.

This was mentioned on TTalk Silva has said in interviews he will join the rest of the Everton team for Pre-Season training on the 3rd and he is looking forward to playing for us and hopes he can link up well with Arteta to create many goalscoring chances for our fast and strong strikers (according to MalagaFans Forum)

Figo's headbutt was a joke, if that had been any England player FIFA would have been all over it. Ronaldo looks like he wont be 100% even if he does play which is great. Zed you must be watching a different game to me if you think our performances have been good enough. This is the worst we've played in the finals of a tournament for a long, long time and its not a one off, its four games in a row. We were in the weakest group of the tournament and we scraped a win against the weakest team in the last 16. If we put in the same level of performance we did against Ecuador we will get taken apart by Portugal like Euro 2004 and we were playing better then. We can win the game but its goin to take a huge improvement.

10 goals in 94 appearances, he can fook off back to Scotland and save us some wages to buy a striker who can actually score.

Same crap disjointed performance as our previous three games. We give the ball away far too cheaply. Unless we suddenly start playing as a unit (i'm not holding my breath), its gona be Euro 2004 again, Portugal or Netherlands will run rings around us. It took a wonder goal to save us again. The problem is that goal papers over the crap performance golden bollox has been putting in for a long time. We looked far more threatening when Lennon came on. Robinson looked indecisive to say the least, a couple of his attempted clearences were very David Jamesesque. Lampard had another poor game and should have scored at least one.

That was the point, they shouldn't be awarded the competition in the first place if they cant provide adequate stadiums to hold the event.

We get 1 mil this august, 1 mil next year and another in 2008 if they havent already been payed via the other agreed incentives. We also get 1.5m when they sign him on a new contract which I would expect to happen sometime next year. We also get another .5 when he gets 20 caps is hes still a man u player which isnt far away + another half for his next 20 caps.

It doesn't matter who made the back pass the point was him rubbing it in the fans noses after he scored. When Cahill scored against Millwall he just trooted back his own half.

Its all about politics, inadequate infrastructure doesn't come into FIFAs consideration. Austria and Switzrland obviously dont want to be left with white elephants after the competition like Greece were in the Olympics. Never mind England and most other major nations take well over 60,000 supporters to every game. with the usual 50% of the 30k going to corporate sponsers imagine five to seven thousand supporters either side for a major tournament finals. 6 out of the 8 stadiums with a 30,000 capacity is pathetic.

He's been sent back home by FIFA today, no suprise.

It's a lot better than playing Crouch up front in a 442. At least now Lampard and Gerrard, our highest goalscorers in the squad can push forward with Rooney and not worry about cover.

Easily the hardest game of the tournament so far to ref but its no excuse, his performance was abysmal. I think we've seen the last of Poll at any major international.

His goal celebration against us at Goodison when he took Weirs crap backpass and scored said it all. He loved every second of it, as far as I'm concerened he's no longer an Evertonian or has any existing connection with the club. I support him in an England shirt but thats as far as it goes. I always love seeing the mancs lose, if he's playing it makes it all the sweeter.

He never did say where he was from

Weir's been one of our club best players in recent times and definately Walter Smith's best transfer at 250k or so. But the time is right for him to move on. He'll only be filling in for injuries and his pace was severely lacking last year never mind this one coming.

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