Recent content by benblue

I know we do have a lack of squad depth, but considering the amount of injuries atm its kind of misleading. It does though show why we couldn't handle Europa and prem last season. Need a squad to cope with these injuries. Although it must be said lot of the players isn't exactly true as some...

There is an emergency window already but it is rarely used, mainly as it's hard to prove to the prem why you need it, equally hard to get someone to loan you a player when they themselves can't buy so it's only a reserve usually. The rule is primarily used with goalkeepers. We've actually used...

Possible if we just sent championship players to play all these pointless England games! :) just let QPR or burnley dispatch San Marino and we can knock off a good few weeks!

I'm guessing the original date that was set at 1st September every year is to do with the champions league? I guess for me it was not the fact that it was open beyond the start of the season but the media coverage and manipulation of the whole thing, particularly favours themselves and the...

wanted to gauge people's views on this issue as to whether the transfer window should end a month early before the season gets under way. The question assumes this is possible and that all leagues across Europe would do the same. Roberto has said for the past 3 summers how unfair this is on...

Not since it was taken off terrestrial tv

True but don't forget loan fees are basically like transfer fees now, think we paid 5 mil for rom. Not saying it's likely but in theory they could loan out and use the fee for a replacement

Not unheard of if they're confident of going up anyway without him. Ship out the wages for a year, player doesn't want to leave but wants prem football. If they went back up then Austin just slots back in. I think they've done it in the past, was it mbia? Sorry edit it was said above, did it...

The biggest stumbling block in the transfer seems to be everyone's knowledge of Cyrillic alphabet

Completely wrong! 1. Shevchenko at Chelsea 2. Chernoble

I thought either the sky or Bbc articles claimed they had met in Monaco last week. When reports first surfaced last week they claimed it was a weekend meeting but when mainstream media ran with the story I'm pretty sure it was then corrected to they met last week, ie before the story broke

Haha definition if putting in a shift, haha best highlights reel ever, it's the kind of league were you have to play shirts and skins and the ref is someone's dad.

How bigs this plane we've chartered to sign half of river plate? Hoping for an aguero and a zabaleta (I lieu of a good argentine cb which for the life of me I can't think of right now) but dreading getting an alcaraz and a Rodrigo (remember him? Brazilian,Think he only had one leg?)

Quite like mcnulty, mainly as he's usually right about Everton in terms of what players were actually after.

I know everyone has a yarmalenko craze going on but I saw earlier we were linked with Dante and roccachina (?) from inter as an option of funes mori, which has now been mentioned on bbc article on potential yarmalenko bid. Don't know anything about mori but based on reports it seems he's liable...