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Not to mention that at that time we still had Bent , Ireland , Hutton , Given ...... etc

I read it .. Nothing supports whats Lambert saying anyway !! I think it's just smartness from him .. It might also make other teams thinks we don't have money and could sell us with good prices .. First of all , he only mentioned West Brom out paid us with Lukaku (I read it on hurry though) .. But not out paid us in the whole thing .. Last year we paid more than 16m which I think it's more than what West Brom paid .. But we had to change a whole squad so we've seperated it between players .. Secondly , We had the better deal with Benteke .. No one could say West Brom paid more than 2m for Lukaku wages + loan fee .. While we paid more than 5m + 1m for wages atleast for Benteke .. How on earth we didn't match them ?! It's a case of we didn't match them in the Lukaku deal .. Which was better for us as we have Benteke .. Thirdly .. Even if we consider that West Brom are paying more than us , They didn't pay Lukaku more than 60k a week .. While we paid it to Benteke and improved most our players contracts .. Fourthly .. I don't get the whole "Lack of spending" fear .. Although I'll start to fear it if we took the next step and everything was balanced and we had the chance to go back to top 4 or atleast top 6 ..

Its not a case of dropping Kozak .. its more of changing to a formation suitable to the game ..

I agree with you .. But I don't think they're thinking of selling these players tbh .. They have good money .. And they made two of the best signings in Wanyama and Lovren .. Gave them a good balance in the defensive area .. which gave the attackers and Lallana to play for fun .. and btw Clyne went to them from Palace last year .. but anyway They're the best academy which progress their players .. unlike us we have a good academy but we lack the step up ..

If it's only about top 10 .. West Brom finished comfortably top 8 .. Although this year I think the whole league is much more tight ..

I really agree with this .. I just hope he doesn't shoot unless if there is no other good choice .. He seems to do better that way anyway .. He's a good technical play .. Have good pass and Tackles in him .. good pace .. good crosses .. The only thing that I see him bad in is the decision making which is sometimes terrible .. Other than that I'd start over Weimann depending of the overall performances this season .. He offers much more .. He only lacks the intellegent that Weimann has (Which we don't get the best of him considering his position) ..

Why do you think Celtic want to get rid ? Or just he doesn't have his chance there ?

Not saying that I know their squad very well .. I think they're the fewest team I've watched this year .. Many of their games are the same time of our games .. Or I'm sleeping when they play lol .. Anyway .. Gabby if a different player to Long .. But would defenitely play over Anelka .. While Benteke over Long .. I don't know Billy Jones .. Not that sure about Yacoub and Delph .. I only know Olsen from their defence .. And don't know him very well .. I only remember he gave Herd a red card ..

Bacuna is better than Lowton defensively .. While Lowton is good offensively and one of the few players who have creativity .. Even Bacuna though .. The thing is that we will be attacked most of the game .. And we need to defend good .. I'm not saying that Lowton should be a striker .. you could call it 433 or 451 or whatever .. as Crackpot said .. Gareth Bale was a LB in the beginning after all ..

I'm really nervous of this one .. We need to keep it tight and play on the counters .. For me I'll go with : Guzan .. Bacuna .. Vlaar .. Baker .. Clark .. Sylla .. Westwood .. Delph .. Lowton .. Benteke .. Tonev .. Assuming Gabby isn't fit ..

The other two games will be fine, the only one in danger of selling out is Man Utd. Should be on sale a until at least a couple of days before the game though. Thanks .. But what about the away ones ? Oh sorry, I thought you meant United, Palace and Swansea all at home. So is the Stoke away game you are planning on? Think it is on general sale on Thursday. Thanks mate .. When do you usually think it gets sold out ? Because I'm not sure till now if we're coming or no ..

The other two games will be fine, the only one in danger of selling out is Man Utd. Should be on sale a until at least a couple of days before the game though. Thanks .. But what about the away ones ?

Briny-Ear .. Yeah .. But Take the first 4 games of January .. You'll find 21 points from 14 .. Which is quite impressive ..

Even after his goal against Sunderland .. I don't think he scored any until West Brom game ..

I wouldn't. Weimann has natural talent, Gabby has pace. One of those attributes dimishes with age, the other doesn't. What about this for a solution... Move on both Only if we sign some proper established first 11 players not more 2m potshots. I really don't get this approach to transfers. Why is price and how known a player is more important than ability? We signed Helenius and Tonev for about 4m combined. That would've worked well if we'd sold Gabby and Weimann thinking those two would replace them immediately wouldn't it? Say we go mental in January, have about 30m to spend (already spending the Benteke money early) and sign Loic Remy and Antione Greizmann for 15m each, would you not think those two would be more ready to make a difference in our first 11 straight away than Tonev and Helenius. IMO now we've reached the stage where our squad is pretty good in numbers now but we need players who can quickly come in and improve our first 11, not more long term projects like Tonev and Helenius. Although I'd agree with some of what you're saying .. But tbh .. I think Tonev and Helenius would do Weimann job if not better ! Only position and finishing is what I think he's better than Tonev on .. One of them didn't appear this year (finishing) .. And his positioning is not very benefit in his current position .. So Tonev for Weimann (on the wing) all day .. It's a matter of who's better to be paired with Benteke or Kozak upfront .. Helenius or Weimann ?! Couldn't tell as I only saw clips and couple of minutes for Helenius .. But they need game time as soon as possible !

I'm thinking of coming for couple of games with two or three friends .. I think the boxing day would be a good timing (Although we usually not do that good in it) .. But because there are a lot of games in a small time .. If I would like to buy a ticket for Man Utd games and the two games after that .. When is the last time you think I could decide that ?! Because I may change my passport and might need to put a new Visa too ..

9 goals a year and a few assists isn't worth 10 million in the market today? that's not all Agbonlahor has. he is an outlet when you are defending. he's fast, he holds the ball up well, he wins freekicks. there is no better counter-attack player in the Premier League. he's done it all his career. Con if he's that good why hasn't anyone come in for him and why has he been constantly overlooked by England. Nine goals isn't exactly prolific and he isn't that consistent either. Probably answered my own questions. From how maany game though ? Considering he was on a struggeling side .. His first goal was in the 10th game of season .. He isn't a lone striker btw .. Tbh he's really good .. I really wouldn't like him to go (Especially with the fact that he's a real Villan) ..

Why do we want to make our Away form bad then ?! Don't forget we have 12 fixtures and now 18 (With Newcastle , Southampton and Everton) That we mostly we'd counter attack them .. Maybe you could add Swansea in that bracket too .. That's half of the fixtures ! We're far away from being all over against one these teams apart from Newcastle who are like us very good in counter attacking ! That's the first point .. The other point is about the wages .. I don't think the club has a problem giving more wages for players who deserves that .. It's a case of not getting players from outside the club with huge wages .. It's a case of trying the player .. Then if he's good give him a higher contract (Eg Benteke) .. It's a case of a ratio between the Aims per Money .. How much being 8th costs ?! Does iit worth that ?! Or it's better to build stability until we are ready to compete for Top 7 .. And build on from that ..

I'd either take him Or Chadli .. They all want a move now for the World Cup I'd assume ! It's our time to attract one of them ! Think of it , They have Lennon , Townsend , Lamela (isn't getting much time) .. And I don't know who else ! + many creative midfielders .. It depends on their wages though , Don't think Chadli is on more than 30 of 40k anyway ..

I hope he's ok .. Hopefully it's not too bad !

Playing lowton in Andi's position is pure bonkers???!!? I didnt understand the last word .. anyway it more of 442 or 451 than 433 ..

Tbh I wont give them to Bacuna .. I want his confidence to be high as he is already good in free kicks .. Anyway in hard games I would start Bacuna as rb with Lowton as rw instead of andi .. Our most technical players are Bacuna Benteke Lowton Helenius Tonev and maybe Vlaar and Delph ..

southampton wont finish in the top 8 Err...why not? He might be saying that because of their fixtures .. But anyway they're really good team .. What I'm happy of is that all of them up there are playing each others so with a good run we might find ourselves between them ! Sweet ! lol .. When you think of it .. Soton are playing Arsenal , Everton , City , Chelsea , Spurs + Villa and Newcastle (That's from what I remember) .. But at the same time .. Liverpool still have .. Everton , Chelsea , City , Spurs .. Spurs Have .. Soton , Liverpool , City , Utd .. Arsenal have .. Soton , Everton , Chelsea , City .. Everton have .. Liverpool , Soton , Arsenal , Utd City have .. Liverpool , Spurs , Soton , Arsenal .. Utd have .. Everton , Spurs .. So in the coming 8 matches .. every team is going to playing another top 8 team atleast 4 times (Apart from Utd who are playing 2 of them) .. I find myself familiar with these kind of calculations .. But fortunately , in the right area of the table .. That's why I said in my previous post :

The older one was a lot better .. Now it reminds ne of West Ham or QPR cameras ..

Im hoping Robinson to get his chance soon .. Also I think trying Currethers abd Grealish when they come back would be nice .. Those three I think with donaicon .. Ive seen dribbles from Robinson against Spurs which ee wont ever seen it from Weimann or even Gabby .. Well the Fonz use to have good dribbles too .. so its not a guarantee .. But its encouraging ..