Wirral Wizard

I'm glad you're not the manager! Neville cannot play left back other than in an emergency, you could see on Sunday that he was limited because of his inability to use his left foot effectively. Arteta is no good in a holding role because he's too much of a lightweight when it comes to tackling and he gives away too many free kicks in dangerous positions. If he's going to play for us it has to be in a creative role further up the pitch. Personally I've still got my doubts about him - I hope he can show better form away from Goodison than he's done so far. Petrov may be of interest but at the moment the priority has to be at left back and up front. What worries me now is that Moyes has gone public on his failure to land Owen or Kuyt (as if we ever stood a chance!) and that might be an indication that we won't be signing a quality striker before the transfer window closes. I am baffled to know why he didn't pursue an interest in Baros.

Aye Pat...I was thinking about some overweight computer nerd in the crowd and how he'd react when we sing "There's only one Fatty Techy!"

Smeghead...'Beattie' is 11 years old.

Just told my son 'Beattie' that we were after a Turkish striker and his response was "Is it Fatih Tekke?" I said "Yes, how did you know about him?" He said "He's amazing. He scored 28 goals last season and was the top scorer in European football. He plays for Trabzonspor". Sometimes he amazes me with his knowledge of football! Let's hope we actually do sign him 'cos this will be another huge disappointment no doubt. But I am convinced we'll be signing some players before the end of the week...let's just hope it's worth all the angst we've suffered from the gossip columns over the summer!

Mark Viduka - do me a favour. He will not fit into our team - no work ethic, mercenary, sulks, overweight, overpaid has-been. A typical Middlesbrough signing and we certainly don't want their cast-offs. All this smacks of desperation, I just hope DM is keeping a cool head and knows what he's doing. If he goes for Ashton I could see us offloading Beattie in January as they are two similar type of players and it's starting to look like we made a mistake with JB. Nugent is a big risk if we're looking at £3 million - a player who has only played half a season in the League Championship after a couple of years (and only 1 good scoring season) in League 2. Think he needs to spend another season at Preston to prove he's good enough. I still think Baros is the right man for the job and I'm puzzled why we've not pursued our interest. I'm sure we'd appeal more to him than Villa, unless they've offered stupid wages, which O'Leary did to get Leeds in the mire. Good article by Charlie Nicholas today on skysports.com which sums up my thoughts about the Villa manager - who has to be the most over-rated in the Premiership.

Hooray! TT is back! Whilst it was away I spent yesterday looking at the 606 forum at BBC Sport. There's a guy on there who insists that Dickson Etuhu is definitely coming to us next week. There is no news on David Nugent though, although he's a Blue apparently. Then there's someone who's a Norwich fan saying Ashton's coming to us for £7.5 million. Personally I don't think he's the type of player we are looking for and certainly not at that price, but I could be wrong. I'm sure we will believe it when we see it. On another subject I was delighted to see that Bellend is injured already...Hate to say it, but I told you so!