Originally posted by strikeboy1: trouble ahead for the blue boys me thinks, unless moysey can sign a couple of midfielders very soon, no RS allowed in here please
Is this some sort of joke? You didn't do badly agaainst us yesterday.
Originally posted by strikeboy1: what joke ? yep considering we were missing arguably are 3 best players, cahill arteta and yobo, plus osman, your team needs a decent centre forward.
yep fernandes looked very good last year but i believe he isn't fully fit at the moment, osman injured, faddy gone and piennaar away at the aonc, but when we have a fully fit squad we are a decent team.
I think we're a bit light. With Faddy gone, Yakubu at the ACN and Johnson still injured as he was last week. We're left with just Vaughan and Anichebe up front. Still a bit short in midfield as well but with Osman to come back soon. I am really hoping we make the Pienarr and Fernandes deals permanent and understand we have first option and an agreed fee for both if we choose to take them up. Rumours abound that Arshavin could be Goodison bound - I'm not sure where I stand on that. He's a fantastic footballer no doubt but one whose best position is a support striker or right midfield. We need a left winger more than anything.
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Lescott is in Moyes' top 3 signings along with Cahill and Arteta. The man is an absolute monster. He has everything - pace, positioning, power, poise and goals! (ran out of p's)
To think that at the time some of our fans wanted us to sign Robert Huth instead. Makes you shudder.
This will get people going but I wouldn't swap Lescott for another centrehalf in Europe. Seriously. I wouldn't.
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AJ isn't getting the breaks at the moment, so we could struggle but looking on the Reading websites, they are convinced he is going to score against them, as he always does apparently.
I'm quite annoyed that the Yak would do this, especially as his Nigerian teammate Yobo came straight back and was in training for 2 days before the Yak came back. I think Moyes has to make an example of him here, you just can;t accept that sort of behaviour and it would be pretty hard on AJ or Vaughany to see Yak come back in to the team having had a 2 day break and not trained.
This said. If we don't take 3 pts from this game, I won't be happy.
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I have seen this happen with my team. Not sure it has been entirely the players fault. One occasion Cameroon took away Lauren's passport so that they had to stay to see the president. Nigeria is one of the worst for this or maybe Nigerians as Kanu had no real excuse but he was the model professional at other times and very out of character. When your entire family is still back in that country maybe they figure its best to just suck up and take the punishment for it being their fault. It always seems to be the big name players that dont come back from Nigeria.
Lauren retired from international football after the incident citing that he nearly lost his place. Not because he was punished but because his replacement of the time did a bit too well and he was unhappy he couldnt get back earlier to claim his place back.
---------------------------------------------------- Touched by his noodly appendage - RAmen.
Maybe the watches they make in Africa and South America are different from ours. Players from these parts of the world do seem a bit unreliable when they go away. And then there's sleeping 'beauty' Benjani who can't even wake himself in an airport lounge to catch 2 planes. New alarm clock for Christmas this year methinks...