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Barnetta is an interesting one. I've seen him play a couple of times and he looks quality.

I don't know how it's obvious if nobody has seen him play. I'm just saying there is no actual logic in that and so if we did buy him then the lad shouldn't be put under undue pressure.

I hope his second season is injury-free

Very good point, Everton Lad.

"For the sake of football"... lol, that line makes me chuckle coming from a Tottenham fan. Sorry mate, but with the money your board has spent, I see little difference with yourselves and the other over-spenders in the league. But still, I am happy to see your lot through, just to break the monopoly.

lol, me too. I was made up when Villa scored those two quick goals but strangely relieved when Crouch scored, as you said Mike...

...willing to lend a few bob toward that particular cause, Blue? Scott Brown... interesting. Maybe for a small fee, but I wouldn't want to spend a lot of money on him. Obviously if he was anything like Roy Keane you'd be stupid to not take him. And after seeing how limp Neville and Cars look together, along with Cars making some mistakes as he is playing too many games for his age, we most definitely would benefit from someone with a bit of fire in that position. Just as long as they don't have a criminal offence to their name....

Yeah... we don't want someone like Davis to cover Cars but people were willing to take Hunt??? Doesn't make sense to me.

As well as that is there also anyone here who has seen Arshavin play over the past few years? It'd be nice to know if he is as good as people are making out before we buy him.

Like it matters. I'm sure plenty of people here would be moaning when the press would inevitably turn, as it does on each of the teams that get a lot of attention.

After the recent hash of extensions signed at the club this is also good news for us IMO

RS and Villa have just drawn. Good result for us.

When put like that, yeah ok Hmm, was just looking at the price really but now that I think about it I'd definitely prefer Arshavin right now, especially after yesterday's game.

... just wasn't funny.

Yeah, Keegan could have taken on a challenge. But no, he has taken on a job where he is virtually guaranteed to have plenty of money to spend, is already seen as a great manager by the fans, and doesn't need to worry about stadiums or balancing the books etc... And fair play to him, but I definitely much prefer the Moyesiah.

Another Liverpool fan making an account here? Wow, that's just sad.

Yeah, we nearly had him but he failed a medical. I think he could be a good option for so little money.

Nobody else thinks he was saving Manny for Chelsea?

Voted, Mike.

Lucky lucky lucky teams win trophies. I'll take this result as Wigan are still hard to beat under Bruce.

SHIT own goal

Well, he hasn't been playing much but he looks much sharper than recently to me. Also, the service and support has been virtually non-existent and even the Yak couldn't do anything with that. If Manny comes on in place of Hibbert or Neville then we may see an improvement...shit, own goal by Jags.

Not really, teams on the continent know how to treat players like VDM to get the best out of them, so we could still get some interest.