Dr_Pangloss

He is clearly full of shit.

Europa League is a third rate competition, I wouldn't give much of a shit if we qualified for it.

This thread is hilarious.

He's trying to get rid of the bad apples/piss takers, excellent.

He is shite.

No one knows whether there is **** all happening behind the scenes or not. Let's just wait and see. I find it hard to believe that we're doing nothing.

Yeah you can determine a lot from youtube videos. The fact is, unless you happen to watch a lot of Belgian football, there's no way you can form a serious opinion of him.

El Ahmadi looks a better version of Petrov, he's a water-carrier that likes to try and dictate the tempo, he's not a creative player and isn't going to be playing many defence splitting passes, it's not his game.

Does he actually have his coaching badges?

Almost as bad as this classic:

The fact that he's American makes it even more funny.

Did we really have the capacity to be direct on Saturday? Bent up top by himself is hardly a great target for a direct game.

Plus there was really only one point where I felt, given how we were set up, that the ball could have been released quicker and that was in the first half where KEA took far too long to play Bent in, he was offside by the time he received the pass.

Lambert likes full backs that can go forward so this makes complete sense.

People are calling for a wide man even though it's known that Lambert likes a narrow attack? Holman and N'Zogbia weren't really used as out and out wide men on Saturday, so unless Lambert is going to make radical changes already I think it's safe to say he's going to proceed in the same way as the West Ham game. Although by the same token he's known to change his system a lot so who can really second guess what he's going to do?

That said, we definitely need one or two attackers of some description. I don't think we really have the quality there to create chances and make assists.

We also have Gabby to come back. I'm not a particularly big fan of him but he'd of come in handy last Saturday as he'd of done more to ruffle the West Ham defence than Bent.

Given some of the opinions you read you do wonder why a top club hasn't picked him up? I guess the reason is the same reason for why a top club hasn't bothered with N'Zogbia...

Ajose Olusegun has definitely been screwed over, he's a good boxer, but I expect Matthysse to beat him by knock out, Matthysse is pound for pound one of the biggest punchers in boxing. I'm looking forward to the fight though, it will be very competitive. But I'd say that if Olusegun beats Matthysse that it would be an upset as Matthysse has the better record and goes into the fight the betting favourite.

Antonio DeMarco vs John Molina is a tough fight to call, DeMacro is the favourite in that but Molina has been on a very good run and has good power.

Alexander should shut out Randall Bailey but Bailey has immense power and has a punchers chance so could be an upset there. In his fight with Mike Jones, Jones was boxing his ears off until he got caught with a massive upper cut.

Not been fit for two years?! Alarm bells ringing. The guy is a crock.

Plus, we already have a good water-carrier in central midfield in KEA.

oh how i would love to get 40k a week for 3 hour shifts...

Hard life isn't it.

Decent player, would welcome him here.

Johnson is a clear improvement on what we have so on that basis I'd welcome him with open arms.

£6million for adebayor is a steal. If spur can afford him, we can.

Maybe Ba for £6million instead.

Or Kaka on loan.

LOL those signings would just not happen. Let's get back to reality.

Incidentally, September 8th is an incredible day for boxing:

Tony Bellew vs Edison Miranda

Darren Barker vs Simone Rotolo

Andre Ward vs Chad Dawson

Antonio DeMarco vs John Molina

Bowie Tupou vs Malik Scott

Tomasz Adamek vs Travis Walker

Bryant Jennings vs Chris Koval

Steve Cunningham vs Jason Gavern

Devon Alexander vs Randall Bailey

Lucas Martin Matthysse vs Ajose Olusegun

Peter Quillin vs TBA

Vitali Klitschko vs Manuel Charr

Magomed Abdusalamov vs Jameel McCline

Plenty of good action there, I think my entire Sunday will be taken up watching boxing on youtube.

RIP Tony Scott:

Brilliant scene from a brilliant movie.

She spent most of that video slapping it on her face the dirty little whore.

This fight escaped me but 'our' Tony Bellew will be fighting Edison Miranda on the 8th of September.

Big fight for Tony, it's a nice step up for him. Miranda, is of course washed up and past his best. He was once tipped to be a big star but lost all of his big fights including two to Arthur Abraham, and fights with Kelly Pavlik, Andre Ward and Lucian Bute. He also recently loss to Isaac Chilemba.

Miranda has a habit of getting knocked out, Bellew is a good puncher so he can stop Miranda. However, the reason Miranda was widely touted in his early days is because he's a massive puncher, if he catches Bellew Bellew will be sleeping.

Tony needs to box smart, work the jab and not do anything silly, that way he'll cruise to a UD. If he tries to 'go to war' and trade he'll most likely visit the canvas. I'm betting Bellew on points straddled with Miranda via KO.

Banal event who cares.