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I'd put money on Ramirez having a relegation release clause. Fingers crossed they go straight back down and we can swoop for him for a cut price when the re-buidling continues next summer (if he looks decent). I think we'll still see a few transfers in the next few weeks. West Ham don't have the most dangerous of attacks so I think a back four of Lichaj-Clark-Vlaar-Lowton will be okay for now. I expect to see us buy a LB and a striker, along with Hutton AND Warnock being shipped out for cut prices in the final days of the window (which personally, I don't think will effect our activity before their departures). I don't actually think we'll bring in a winger or an AMC. At the fan meeting, Lambert said he wants to improve the service to Bent, but as we play with attacking fullbacks, I think he'll just bring in a decent fullback to replace Warnock. I think the wide positions will be easily filled by N'Zogbia, Holman, Ireland & Albrighton. -------------------- Given ---------------------- Lowton --- Vlaar --------- Clark --- Cresswell --------- El Ahmadi ------- Bannan ------------ N'Zogbia -------------------------------- Ireland ------------- Bent ---------- NEW ST ------------

I sit next to a sha fan at work, he's just shown Me a picture of it! The season we have a flourescent-green away kit, they chose baby pink! Deflecting the abuse back to them!

I'm slightly concerned about the lack of experience, but I'm also excited by it. We were constantly asking for Lichaj/ Clark to be given a shot last year, and a lot of us were asking for Collins/ Warnock/ Hutton/ Dunne to be dropped when they were playing poorly. Clark will never become the CD we want him to be if he doesn't get a good run of Premier League games under his belt. Regarding Lowton and Lichaj/ Stevens, the way we're playing will send them high up the pitch so their defensive-inexperience wont be too much of an issue. The only time I can really see us suffering is when defending set pieces. I don't have many concerns around Lowton, as he can also play in a central role, therefore you would hope he'd be good at cutting out crossed. I think my only issue could be when Lichaj or Stevens are defending a set piece. I'm looking forward to see how we'll play. I imagine it will be similar to last year, but with a lot more goals scored for us, and it will be a steep learning curve for the back four (which, ultimately, could mean we have a much stronger defence next season).

That anyone would even think the opposite of this regardless of his confirmation makes me feel like Mugato in Zoolander... Saying it twice won't make it funny :winkold:

BJ10, has Ellis recently been quoted on his hatred for foreigners wearing fancy jumpers and becoming cult figures because of it? It's the only explanation I can think of, as to why you won't shut up about him! :winkold:

What money has he been sat on? The vast majority of the 45m we banked from the sales of Young, Downing and other fringe players last summer Leaving a grand total of -£9m when set against the clubs £54m operating loss. So you're telling Me that Randy's been sat on -£9m?!?! The greedy bastard!!

You'd think that if you work for talksport, you'd at least do a bit of research. .... Actually, scrap that.

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I'd rather stick with Gabby, Weimann or Fonz than loan Hernandez or Welbeck. There's no point in giving their players experience just to send them back at the end of the season.

I can't see us spending that much on a winger when we already have N'Zogbia, Albrighton & Holman to play in those positions (and, the way we've been playing, Ireland aswell). LB and ST are a priority, in my opinion.

If I have a Galaxy S2 on contract with O2, but didn't pay for insurance, and now it is playing up all the time, will O2 be able to help Me? Or will I just be wasting my petrol to drive to Merry Hill Tonight? I mentioned a few pages back that my phone occasionally overheats & freezes. I can cope with that, but for months I've had a problem when recieving long text messages from my gf. The first half of the text will be fine, but then it'll cut off and the second half of the text will be part of a text she sent me ages ago. I did a factory reset but it's still doing it! I'm due an upgrade next April, but I might make a trip to Merry Hill Tonight and see what they can do, if anything. Any thoughts?

He'd cost so much though. Is he really worth it? If we've got the funds available, which I think there is a chance we have, then I think £15m-ish spent on Carroll would be well worth it. We know that we'll spend more on young, English players because they'll know the league, they'll fill our home-grown quota and they will have a higher resale value if they do leave under contract. I think, with Lambert in charge, we could easily get 30-35 goals from a Bent/ Carroll partnership. (Re: having funds available. I honestly believe that we do have funds, but I think that Lambert is playing the game at the moment. Getting the small/ cheap transfers out of the way, leaving the big ones until the last few weeks, when teams will lower their prices slightly so they can get rid. Also, by buying the cheap players first, it makes other clubs believe we don't have that much money, so they won't push the price up to a stupid amount).

Good post A.V.F.C, I've never watched Poulsen apart from a few Euro games where I didn't watch him closely. Warnock is currently rubbish defensively, rubbish going forward, low on confidence, prone to errors and poor positionally. If Poulsen is decent attacking but shaky at the back, that's a step forward, and I'd hope that Lambert could drill his positioning into him so that he tightens up defensively too.

He was seriously lacking confidence last year at Liverpool, but at Newcastle, people were scared to play against him because of his ability in the air. If we signed him, I think Lambert could really work towards his strengths. I'd love it if we signed Carroll. Bent and Carroll upfront would terrorise the Premier League!

I think his energy and ability to tackle will make him a decent DM. Just because he can pick out a pass aswell, doesn't mean we shouldn't put him in a role where he can use his more defensive attributes. I think we're actually going to have two CMs that will chip in with defensive and offensive duties.

I'm quite happy that we're so tight-lipped about transfers now. If we keep leaking these deals to the forums/ press, other clubs will hear about them and may join the bidding. The Vlaar and OGS reports probably didn't help either deal. I still think we'll see one, maybe two, transfers in the next few weeks. Hopefully, at least one by Saturday!

Morpheus, our squad might not be up to the level of quality that we want, but it has definately been improved so far. Vlaar > Dunne, Collins or Cuellar IMO Lowton > Hutton El Ahmadi is proving grit in midfield that we've lacked since Milner left. IMO, of course

I don't think so. If he was out of contract then I think we'd have heard more about it. I don't know how I'd feel about getting him on loan. I think we should only be loaning two types of players: a) Players like Berbatov that play for top teams, but are no longer wanted. Players on the up from foreign sides that WE would prefer to loan, before splashing money on, what could be, a flop. Berbatov fits the first criteria, but he's one of those players that could change games for a team, but could also spend 3 weeks moping around on the pitch like a lost puppy. I think I'd say buy him with Man Utd chipping in to compensate a wage drop or look for a different option (all hypothetically assuming we were even interested in him!)

I'd imagine Berbatov's wages are too high for us, but I'd really like it if we signed him.

I have basically the same info as Moorski. I got a text from a well-groomed cashier at Macro that simply said 'We're doing a deal, can't say who, when or how much for & I don't want to jeopardise, I have a customer'.

Jeeeez it's been a slow news day Today. SOMETHING HAPPEN!!!!

Oops, suppose I should have put it in there, apologies.... Nahhhh, I prefer a new thread for each article! Otherwise the article just gets lost under loads of VT comments.

I'd be more happy to rely on Carroll than I would to rely on Gabby, Fonz or Weimann.

I searched on YouTube 'how to cut your own hair', and copied this guy (camp giggling aside)...

I've just cut my own hair. It took about an hour, but I'm happy with the results. £££ saved! (I'm cheap, apparantly)