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Chaplow has been cited in this role before. Are people ignoring him or forgetting him?

 

Personally I feel that if Nigel had brought on Chaplow to disturb the Man U midfield after Scholes came on, we just might have saved (ie held on to) that game.

 

Yes and rightly so. He is nowhere near good enough for the Premiership.

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Why do most people on here say nearly everything is an awful article?

 

Because they personally don't agree with it or don't like what they're saying. Therefore it's an awful article.

 

Articles that say how great we are, how we've done so well over the past few years and how great our academy is, are all wonderfully written articles.

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What's your take on the general quality of the French LEague? Watched a bit of Toulouse v Bastia the other night and even taking the terrible quality of pitch into consideration, there wasn't much class on show.

 

Poor, far too many Africans because they're cheap and run around a lot. I'm not a fan of French domestic fooball at all . I go to

St Etienne sometimes because I like going to matches and I've a few friends on the staff there .

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Interesting. And if the Scott Dann/Paul Robinson rumour is accurate, well its about time we started using Blackburn as a feeder club, they did it with us for long enough when jack walker bought them the title.

 

 

LOL Jack Walker mugged Guy Askham who was Chairman at the time - huge difference in class of management

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Watching the game, 75mins gone and an Ibra hattrick means PSG are 3-0 up.

 

Im a positive person but in this game Sanchez has shown nothing to suggest he is worth signing. He hasnt really sat in front of the back four and hasnt got forward, he has been bypassed really. Seems average on the ball.

 

PSG are too good for Valencienne all over the pitch however.

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Watching the game, 75mins gone and an Ibra hattrick means PSG are 3-0 up.

 

Im a positive person but in this game Sanchez has shown nothing to suggest he is worth signing. He hasnt really sat in front of the back four and hasnt got forward, he has been bypassed really. Seems average on the ball.

 

PSG are too good for Valencienne all over the pitch however.

 

 

He seems just to occupy a 20 metre by 30 metre rectangle centred on the centre spot. Risible, still as I have very little appreciation of our transfer committee I could see us signing him, wouldn't even make the U21s...now Pompey.......

 

Valenciennes are (or were) 5th in the division. Apart from a few stars at PSG,Lyon and Marseille the standard of the league is a joke.

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He seems just to occupy a 20 metre by 30 metre rectangle centred on the centre spot. Risible, still as I have very little appreciation of our transfer committee I could see us signing him, wouldn't even make the U21s...now Pompey.......

 

Valenciennes are (or were) 5th in the division. Apart from a few stars at PSG,Lyon and Marseille the standard of the league is a joke.

 

The Colombian Claude Mckelele??

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The Columbian Paul Wotton.

 

Committed, gets stuck in, runs around a bit and screams. He sounds perfect. He'll be a fans favourite before you can say 'get rid of it' and much better than that ponce Schinderlin who just fannies about with it.

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Cannot for the life of me seeing this happening, and if it does, I'd be worried. Firstly, he's a centre back havig to play in midfield for his club as they're short of options.

 

Secondly, he's poor, no better than what we have (about same standard as Hooiveld)

 

And his off-field behaviour says to me it won't happen. 3 agents in 3 years (one sacked him!), demande £60k a week at Bolton. Can you really see Cortese dealing with him? His file should be placed in the "no thanks" pile

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Lucas Biglia from Antwerp - he's 25 so got the mix of youth and experience we need. He's Argentinian but holds an Italian passport. As a Defensive Midfielder who can pass the ball he is exactly what we need to give some cover and competition for Morgan and Cork

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Lucas Biglia from Antwerp - he's 25 so got the mix of youth and experience we need. He's Argentinian but holds an Italian passport. As a Defensive Midfielder who can pass the ball he is exactly what we need to give some cover and competition for Morgan and Cork

players like this are just not going to happen

 

we will probably pick up an NPC player or a foreigner we have hardly heard of...

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Biglia is class but if we signed him and a CB we would be spending 45m + in a season which just won't happen.

 

Why not? DIdn't they say man would never climb Everest?

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Lucas Biglia from Antwerp - he's 25 so got the mix of youth and experience we need. He's Argentinian but holds an Italian passport. As a Defensive Midfielder who can pass the ball he is exactly what we need to give some cover and competition for Morgan and Cork

 

Biglia is at Anderlecht not Antwerp (or as far as I remember anyway) Saw him in the CL a while back, doubt if he's big enough

for a DCM in the EPL though, bit of a midget lightweight; You need to be able to do your share in the air in the Prem.

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Biglia is at Anderlecht not Antwerp (or as far as I remember anyway) Saw him in the CL a while back, doubt if he's big enough

for a DCM in the EPL though, bit of a midget lightweight; You need to be able to do your share in the air in the Prem.

 

And if he does his share in the are we can give him this song....

 

He's great on the ground

He's great in the air

Lucas Biglia

He does his fair share

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players like this are just not going to happen

 

we will probably pick up an NPC player or a foreigner we have hardly heard of...

 

Pretty sure he was linked with us, norwich and arsenal in the summer. Any premier league club is an up from Anderlecht.

 

saying that -

 

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11863/8316598/Anderlecht-midfielder-Lucas-Biglia-sets-sights-on-January-transfer-to-Italy

 

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/transfer-rumours/121210/manchester-united-and-arsenal-target-lucas-biglia-set-bundes

 

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2012/12/12/wolfsburg-enter-lucas-biglia-chase/74753/

 

Man Utd, Arsenal, Dortmund and Wolfsburg all mentioned in there so we might be abit low for him.

 

Biglia is class but if we signed him and a CB we would be spending 45m + in a season which just won't happen.

 

Priced touted is 8 million euros so with a bit of negotiation we could probably get him for about £5 million

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Pretty sure he was linked with us, norwich and arsenal in the summer. Any premier league club is an up from Anderlecht.

 

saying that -

 

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11863/8316598/Anderlecht-midfielder-Lucas-Biglia-sets-sights-on-January-transfer-to-Italy

 

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/transfer-rumours/121210/manchester-united-and-arsenal-target-lucas-biglia-set-bundes

 

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2012/12/12/wolfsburg-enter-lucas-biglia-chase/74753/

 

Man Utd, Arsenal, Dortmund and Wolfsburg all mentioned in there so we might be abit low for him.

 

 

 

Priced touted is 8 million euros so with a bit of negotiation we could probably get him for about £5 million

throw in a CB and any loans...that would bring our spending to nearer £45m (including other fees)...you really think that is going to happen..?

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Biglia is at Anderlecht not Antwerp (or as far as I remember anyway) Saw him in the CL a while back, doubt if he's big enough

for a DCM in the EPL though, bit of a midget lightweight; You need to be able to do your share in the air in the Prem.

 

I know it was only a pre season game but our players couldnt get near him at SMS. He looked very classy.

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throw in a CB and any loans...that would bring our spending to nearer £45m (including other fees)...you really think that is going to happen..?

 

Honestly I don't know, would be a gamble, but maybe worth it to stay in the league considering the TV deal next year. I can see us spending more than most around us bar maybe QPR. To be fair if rumours were to be believed in the summer another £12 million was going on a CB and Phillips.

 

I think we are going to struggle with the centre back anyway, I think the quality of player we need is going to be more than what the club want to pay.

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He was the stand out player for Anderlecht in pre season. Think he would be an immense signing but I would have thought bigger clubs would be fishing around him. CB must be the priority and seeing as though this is about him, Carlos Sanchez is one to definately miss out. Not good enough.

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Sunderland spent £40m in 2007 when they got promoted and that was when TV money was lower and they didn't even have a chairman as ambitious as Cortese. I wouldn't rule it out.

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Sunderland spent £40m in 2007 when they got promoted and that was when TV money was lower and they didn't even have a chairman as ambitious as Cortese. I wouldn't rule it out.

 

IMO Cortese is ambitious 9/10 which equates to very ambitious.

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IMO Cortese is ambitious 9/10 which equates to very ambitious.

 

If there is one thing you can say he is, it's ambitious. I wouldnt give him 10/10 though, there is always room for improvement.

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Sunderland spent £40m in 2007 when they got promoted and that was when TV money was lower and they didn't even have a chairman as ambitious as Cortese. I wouldn't rule it out.

 

They also built a 42,000 seater stadium and rapidly increased it to 49,000. So we shouldn't rule that out either.

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They also built a 42,000 seater stadium and rapidly increased it to 49,000. So we shouldn't rule that out either.

 

All this from a club that only got 13,000 crowds in 1986. Just imagine the possibilities for us.

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If there is one thing you can say he is, it's ambitious. I wouldnt give him 10/10 though, there is always room for improvement.

 

SFC is IMO an ambitious football club because NC, NA and Les Reed are all ambitious and want to drive the club forward with ambition.

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