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No idea, but all I hear from up there is the sound of scratters and scummers. I daren't look behind me out of fear and possible repulsion.

Why do people think he has a workrate? It is because of his performances at this world cup, because he has sleep walked his way through the SPL the last few years, occasionally putting in a shift away in a CL game. It is similar for Bryan Ruiz of Costa Rica, I never saw him once work as hard as he has done in every game this tournament. Nice to know they can put it in for their country, but not the teams that pay their wages.

Can't really blame him for wanting to leave. Not treated the best by lambert. Especially with Benteke injured I thought we would've wanted to have kept a proven premiership goal scorer in the squad Yeah he treated him really badly when he made him captain. Fact is Bent didn't perform for two years for us and was on huge money we could ill afford in wages so Lambert shifted him on and he did the square root of naff all at Fulham last season. Yes he is a proven goal scorer in the PL but he has done very little for 3 years and so there would seem to be very little point paying him huge wages to do the same for another year. He played no worse than anyone else it's easy to cherry pick from the past to prove an argument but Bent's form never went of the rails completely, it's not as if Weimann has been anymore consistent, there is no excuse ever for losing your place in a squad to jordan Bowery Cherry pick? What on earth are you on about, the last three seasons is hardly cherry picking. Bent's form... Take a look at his form last season and try and say it didn't go off completely and find someone to agree with you. And Weimann isn't on the huge wages Bent is on plus he works for the team. Two big big differences. And no Bent shouldn't find himself behind Bowery but neither should he find himself behind teenagers making debuts but that's exactly what happened last season. Weimann works for the team? Which team is that then? Weimann may not be the most talented player but he puts a shift in every time he plays for us. Never stops running something which cannot be said about Darren Bent. He used to.

You off to Miami then? Enjoy your holiday mate.

Samaras A guy who was moved out wide as he couldn't score goals even in the SPL, his record for Greece is crap and his record at Man City was crap. In no way does he have any attributes to play wide, he was simply a striker who couldn't score goals. Heart the size of a pea, control of a rapist, and makes Carew look like a grafter.

"Going into the final year of my deal, shit, better pull my finger out!"

I would settle for letting Bent go on a free providing we don't have to pay up the final year of his deal. Any fee would be a bonus, but I cannot see any truth in this. I would be very surprised if any club would offer us cash for him after the 3 years he has had.

Agreed his is the one article I always look out for as its always an interesting insight into South American football. Luckily he is freelance so you get him on other stations as well He is absolutely top notch, in most situations you could pretty much ask him about any player, be it some Bolivian journeyman or a world class talent and he will reel off his talent and his flaws, his performances in domestic competitions, international competitions, his character traits, even how he played 10 years ago in an under 17 tournament. You are lucky if any of our domestic, former players and 'experienced; pundits even know, or have ever watched play top talents lighting up the tournament, like James Rodriguez for example, You are lucky if they can even pronounce his name.

I also think it's unfair on Liverpool, bloody hilarious though but unfair. Liverpool could justifiably say that they knew Suarez was volatile but after his last incident they had tailored his man management to get the best out of him whilst cutting out the controversy. They send him off to play with Uruguay who don't know how to handle him and he snaps again. If one of our players does something crazy and reckless whilst on international duty we would all be livid on here if the player was banned from Aston Villa matches, it is hypocritical to think it is justified to apply to Liverpool just because we all hate Liverpool. That tribalism is a lazy way of thinking. we did, he was a good player and did a lot less than Suarez, but still Doug Ellis ripped up his contract He had been terrible for us for the best part of two years, we couldn't wait to get rid of him so it kind of worked in our favour. We saw an opportunity to get rid of a player who had no intentions of giving 100% for us again for less than the value remaining on his contract.

Good half season -> signs big(ger) money contract -> goes very average all of a sudden. ...or had a great season, followed it up by moving to a new league, had an even better season. SIgned a new contract, got injured, picked up a lot of niggly injuries and never got a run of games to find any kind of fitness or form.

£16m more than we'll spend. Its worrying to see that a club that we'll be battling against in the relegation zone is able to spend £16m (and will probably spend more) and we have to rely on free transfers. We spent £16m on N'Zogbia and Hutton and I am sure other teams said the same at the time. It is not sustainable for clubs like Hull to be paying out these fees and wages just to sit in midtable, just like it wasn't for ourselves, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Stoke. We will be laughing again at potato head in 3 years when they are slashing their wage bill and signings free transfers themselves. Swings and roundabouts.

I suggest you review his Sunderland career again. Where he promoted, barely stayed up and then got sacked/resigned before Christmas? Yeah, quite the accomplishment. Reminds me of every other manager that couldn't cut it in the Premier League. he promoted a team that was bottom of the table when he took over and had won 1 game the season before and also had worst ever premier league record at the time The calibre of players he was able to bring in that one season in the Championship : Liam Miller. Free. Manchester United Dwight Yorke. Free. Sydney FC Graham Kavanagh. £500,000. Wigan Stanislav Varga. £550,000. Celtic David Connolly. £1.4m. Wigan Ross Wallace. £550,000. Celtic Lewis Nyatanga. Loan. Derby Jonny Evans. Loan. Manchester United Marton Fulop. £500,000. Tottenham Carlos Edwards. £1.4m. Luton Anthony Stokes. £2m. Arsenal Danny Simpson. Loan. Manchester United Stern John. Undisclosed. Coventry He rode the crest of a wave, it has been done before and it will be done again by some truly incompetent managers. Paul Jewell and Phil Brown spring to mind. He then spent £80m to walk away with then looking at relegation. To say his time at Sunderland was a success would be wrong IMO. It was a golden oppurtunity missed and they have been paying for it since with endless relegation battles. I loved Keane as a player but I cannot see him as a successful manager, and really not sure on the training field. Time will tell, but I cannot see this ending well.

Vidal would be a brilliant signing, there is nothing he cannot do, a proper strong character aswell which they are lacking. I would be surprised if he went to a United team still in transition though, he should have his pick of any club.

I watch their Youtube channel quite regularily, it is a good insight into the club. Some of the things they have built there for the club and the city as a whole is fantastic. The facilities and focus on local youth if magnificent. Sure, they have brought a lot of foreign kids over, but it won't surprise me in the next decade or so to see some real home grown talent come out of Manchester again.

All of them will be on £40k plus too. They are average players but they are poor buys. Typical, lazy, unimaginative purchases, they will be lucky if they make their money back on the contracts alone. Typical Bruce, O'Neill, Fat Sam style management. Forget giving British managers more chances, they should be banned

Not one of those players is top class, Lloris is good, Eriksen turns it on once a month, Vertonghen is a defender who doesn't like defending and Paulinho is rubbish. There is a reason top clubs dallied around and they had to settle for Spurs.

Turn your TV off and get some exercise then!

May I ask if your office building has showers? If not, them tops reek.

Good things or bad? I personally think I would go with the PFA, rightly or wrongly out of trust... but I think there is the belief that they wouldn't necessarily get you the best deal?

Yeah, knowing our luck, and then see him leave for Liverpool for **** all.

Yeah, don't speak to Stewart Downing.

I was him break dancing and body popping on the beaches of Miami as far back as April.

I am going to boo him like I booed Alpay when he scored against Charlton. ...and if he dares take a touch when he receives the ball, instead of putting his laces through it and whacking it into row Z, then he is definitely going to get it.

Really??? The chance to live in London and treble your wages, wouldn't be suprised if he left to be honest I didn't know QPR had already offered him a contract worth £75k a week. My bad. Bye Bye Ron.

He supports Spurs so 98% sure he is talking shite. No offence mate. ...more than likely Jack, the fact a talent like he is entering the last year of his contract speaks volumes at how this club is being run at the moment. Let's hope Jack and his family don't feel messed about and start looking at the tons of options he would have available to him in a years time.