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You think all footballers do is play a match or two each week?

Could someone please explain how one of the worst footballers in the world managed 132 matches in a pretty decent Arsenal side? Does he have discriminating photos of the owner?

60 million is a complete fabrication. It is probably much, much less. Reason is, they want to sell part of it to outsiders so they can't just arbitrarily pick up a big number, no-one is investing at that price. But they also can't first tell PL that the team is worth 60 million and then sell...

There is a big difference between how a fellow player and a coach works with the team. As long as Coleman is a player he's one of the lads. He trains with them, sits with them in the dressing room and when traveling. He is naturally the player to greet new arrivals. Once he is no longer a...

Well, lineup could still have, say, Howard instead of Mucha. Or Martyn. Rooney, Ferguson, Cahill perhaps instead of Vaughan, Gibson and Pembridge? Plenty of better players. Is there a cut-off date so someone like Baines is ineligible? Jags? This truly is a bit embarrassing.

Our midfield would be absolutely murdered.

Calling it 21 players is just disingenuous. Still no right wing or decent right back. Midfield is lacking in quality. Pickford, Travers, Branthwaite, Tarkowski, O'Brien, Keane, Coleman, Mykolenko, Patterson, Coleman, Garner, Gueye, Alcaraz, Iroegbunam, Armstrong, McNeil, Ndiaye, Beto, Barry...

Agreed, he is very raw. There are some building blocks there but lots of improvement needed if he ever becomes a PL starter. He is careless in possession and as you say, lacks awareness. Both are major issues in a central midfield player. First should be easier to coach out of him but improving...

Yeah, that list was obviously missing players. Naismith, Donovan, McBride etc. come to mind.

I have no idea. Some clubs do seem to sign players from the Championship but I have no interest in going through them. I just wanted to dispel the myth that Moyes mostly operated in the Championship.

You should check his transfer record back then. You might be surprised how few players he brought from Championship. Championship: Lescott, Jagielka, Cahill, Stones, Kilbane, Bent Premier League: Yakubu, Johnson, Baines, Distin, Neville, Howard, Martyn, Gibson, Saha JPL: Fellaini Super League...

Lindstrom was simply wrong type. Loan market is really difficult because PL level players in that market are few and far between. Lindstrom showed glimpses of what he can do but I'm not sure if he could do it consistently in the PL like he did in Bundesliga. Napoli made the same mistake of...

Yeah yeah. They must have contacted hundreds of players and haven't realised the fax machine isn't working. That's probably why we are still six players short according to Moyes.

"Lesser" players can also be effective if they are correct type for the system. That's how you can differentiate because every of the over 100 top clubs in Europe have the same data tools these days. They all know who Fofana is. One way of finding good value would be to find players that are...

"We probably". You don't know that. You can be more aggressive by placing a bid and contacting the agent and giving deadlines. If for instance these Luiz rumours are true, why wait for weeks if he wants to move? Give a deadline and move on. This risks club being woefully short in numbers &...

They haven't but window has been open for what, 8 weeks and even PSR cut-off point was four weeks ago. So why not be more aggressive earlier?

They paid 100 million for him so doubt anyone is paying that much.

So maybe the solution is to block everyone who responds to him? Or what do you suggest when the thread is chock full of people responding to him? I have him blocked but it doesn't really help.

Those seasons were absolute dogs*e even if we didn't get relegated. I was very much upset it I guess barely surviving is good enough for you.

Erm, we would have been relegated without Doucoure's goal. And before that if we hadn't come back from 0-2 against Palace. But I guess you are happy with that.