OldFart

First man in - Aug 30. Trust me!

You reckon? Who'd put the ball in the back of the net, Bellamy or Carew? Wouldn't Gabby or Luke do it more often? Not saying we don't need an extra striker, by the way.

Alfonso - Spanish Afonso - Portuguese

Some excellent points. 1 Your usual reference to "the moaners." Such a loveable characteristic. 2 Referring back to an earlier argument despite a mod telling people to stop it. 3 It is indeed Afonso in Portuguese - the language they speak in Brazil.

That's Matt Taylor by the way, not Stuart.

Bruno Alves doesn't play in Portugal? Where do Porto play then? What the man said ^^^^, and Alves is Brazilian.

Seen a lot of him, have you? I don't get portuguese football on my TV, do you? That's all right then. Alves isn't Portuguese and doesn't play in Portugal.

Have you seen them play this year? Yes I have.

Oh someone just invent a name. One that'll be good for 3 pages.

All set for another day in which someone or other will wail "Why haven't we signed anybody yet? It's May 28 already!" Ready, steady, go!

Great minds...

Yeah but as someone said yesterday the scary part about it is that just those three would mean an investment of £25M plus and our squad wouldn't look that much different to what it does we would still not have made a single big signing. But I wouldn't be complaining ...they're all English/British players, played in the Premiership and all that! If the budget is £30M then how much else will Randy need to spend? saw this comment much earlier and it is spot on for me. MON for the core of the team wants British players or those who have proved themselves in the PL we have the money and TBH like under Gregory I want the core to be like this Inn this context NFC is exactly the player we need NFC?

Javi Navarro is 33 years old and a filthy clogger.

Concerned about the price? Choice of player? Or both? To me the price is irrelevant. If O'Neill wants him and the board are willing to go out and get him that's good enough for me. IMO he's a good player with a bit of everything and scope to improve. At the very least he's twice the footballer McCann is, so a step in the right direction. a) Bit libelous that. None of us know that for a fact Don't recall. Probably. Although it has since come to light that Pardew had completely lost the confidence of his players. I'm convinved they would of gone down if he'd stayed. Doe that make it right? No, but there were times a year or so ago I wish one of our players had made a stand against the manager. A bit libellous? Do any of us know for a fact that Ellis pisses in his pants or that Delaney is a moron or a certain Pompey defender prefers his Pal to his Lassie? Thanks for your concern though. OK, let's sign people who'll stir the dressing into rebellion against the manager the first time we have a bad season with him. My point is that it would be better if we could avoid signing trouble-makers. Much more than I'm worried about us signing someone who doesn't always say, "No, after you Charles" every time there's a tackle to be made. There are some right hard men about, but they don't all cause trouble in the dressing room and amongst their teammates.

Don't think I actually said I wanted someone nasty OF. I genuinely think that Barton and Bellamy get oppo fans going. They are also both very good players and one's that I wouldn't mind having at Villa, despite the baggage. I wasn't replying ONLY to your post (you said someone the opposition fans would hate) which is why I didn't quote it. Others though have said we needed someone nasty.

Why don't we circulate the other league clubs and say "Mr M O'Neill is the very person to cure the psychiatric ills of your most wayward players. Drop your price a bit because we know all about Joey or Craig, and we'll take all this shit off your hands?" Cos it's about time we had someone nasty. Leave it out.

And why can't we talk about signing model pros who don't stub cigars out in people's eyes, go on nighttime missions looking for team-mates with a golf club, etc?

Wasn't Reo-Coker (a) One of the big gambling boys? ( Slagging off Pardew all the time? * *whatever anyone may think of Pardew

I think the reason was that he had been performing so badly. But, more importantly that I think he is the ring-leader of the little "gang" they have at West Ham, that thinks they own the club. I'd gladly have him at VP though! Ohhh! And what were they up to?

I'll point out the fact that Jlloyd Samuel received dogs abuse for quite a few games because of a couple of fatal errors.... :? And right now is probably getting a free ride up to Bolton, perhaps.

Horrible as West Ham fans may be, why Reo-Coker? They didn't just say, "Ooh, who can we vent our spleen on? Harewood? Noooo. Etherington? Noooo." There's a reason isn't there?

Cannot pass? I saw a fair bit of Sissoko when he was at Valencia, and obviously I've seen him playing for Liverpool too. He can pass. And he can beat men too.

GET SISSOKO!

It is May 26th. You lot do realise you're all bonkers, don't you?

Sorry mate, just thought it was pretty silly, that's all.