Dr Gloom

look, we're not going to do a spurs ok? we don't have ambitious owner; we have a fat twat who sells high and buys low and doesn't give a shite whether we tread water or sink like a stone. there is nothing to suggest that he's going to start spending money now given the evidence of previous transfer windows. why sell one of your best players anyway? i tell you why, it's because we're a selling club now. simple. it's not part of any grand plan to help fund a summer spending spree.

yeah, what a great model. let's sell all our best players replace them with cheap tat.

12 angry men is one of the best films ever made

do you honestly think we can afford to let top players like enrique go with mike ashley holding the purse strings?

wrong. he played some poor passes but was still better than barton, ranger, lovenkrands, taylor, collocini, guthrie et al

not particularly, no. at least no more than any of the other senior players - i wouldn't single enrique out. most of them will want off after ashley's actions this season and who could blame them? unless the likes of nolan, barton and enrique are offered new deals i think there will be an exodus. i don't get why people keep singling enrique out for criticism. he's been consistently one of our best players for two years. he's the kind of player we should be giving extensions to, not selling.

Id say sell but we're already light of strikers and can't see us getting enough bodies to let him go without relying on another kuqi type panic buy to make up the numbers.

Agreed Pap Laz, I don't know which game Ant was watching. Ranger was woeful. Enrique one of the few to put in a good shift.

I was thinking really positive thoughts too.

Bollocks. He's been crap. Offered nowt. If you're good enough, you're old enough.

Barton has had a stinker today. Ranger even worse. Only Enrique and jonas have looked up for it. Never been in it since they scored

Classic stevie

with enrique, nolan and tiote all missing, we'll do well to get a point here. a lot will depend on whether the pressure villa are under will get to their players. you look at the available sides on paper and with villa being at home, they're favourites.

he's been a match winner on more than the odd occasion. sad indictment that he's one of our better senior players mind. ideally he'd be 4th choice striker coming off the bench

got to be tiote. he's the glue that allows others to play. our first ever proper modern defensive midfielder that can start attacks, spray balls around and score long range screamers as well as keeping an eye on the back door. we're able to boss the midfield area with his defensive work and that allows the likes of barton and nolan more space. we'd be relegation fodder without him imo. buy of the season and it'll be no surprise if a more ambtious club makes ashley an offer he can't refuse for him.

not sure i agree entirely. bellamy was different class for us and he didn't score many goals for us. agree shola has massively under achieved but he still has the odd good game and he's not a bad squad player to have. to be fair, he's probably the best striker on our books at the moment. thought hat speaks volumes about the quality in the rest of the squad obviously

lebron james is the next michael jordon tbh. and i know next to nowt about basketball

simple - two year deal with an option of a third.

it was a tiddler compared to last time. tsunami warning cancelled

any advances on perch?

look at the quality of that cctv man - it's piss poor. good luck identifying them

what was the context? i can't be bothered to re-read it all. did he say united vs newcastle? that would be irritiating but even then, hardly the crime of the century.

a blatant final pay day. should have doen it ten years ago when they weren't all old and wrinkly. that said, i'd definitely go to see them. went to the blur reunion gig on hyde park a couple of years back and that was qualty. didn't matter that they had all got a bit wrinkly and fat

doesn't look like he's hit puberty yet