Optimistic Nut

Yep I agree there. Sell him for £14m, let Real Madrid give him 2-years rehab, operations, etc. then sign him back on loan when his injury problems have been solved. I remember in the 2003-4 season, it was always Campbell & Ferdinand, with Terry & Woodgate neck and neck behind them.

How about the Costa PECAN international striker, Paulo WanDRUPE.

David CANOLA

They've said £20m because they don't want to sell him. Simple as. Why should they turn around to West Ham and say, "well actually you're right, that is a bit mental. Here, take him for £4m."? I say fair play to Bruce for sticking to his guns on this one.

Good to see footballers doing this. Robert also does a similar thing for disabled & orphaned kids in the Reunion Islands.

The fact that Mendes has cleared a shot from pretty much the exact spot Carroll scooped his shot from the halfway-line away from 2 years ago is f*cking immense.

Again though, it was at a time Blackburn were building something useful. In his first 3 years there, he finished 4th, 2nd, 1st, so it's not like he joined a nothing team, and in 1992 when he joined Blackburn, Man U had won only a few cups in some time, not the force they were soon to become.

Isn't that the point with Shearer? Do you think if we'd been mid-table like we have been the last 3 seasons (sad eh), he'd have turned down Man U to come to us? Like sh*te would he. He signed for us because at the time we were one of the best 2 teams in the country. Obviously the fact he was a Geordie swung it our way in the end.

Is it just me, or does Ron Howard look the spitting double of Schmeichel?

Anyone got the picture of Cort, Dyer & Jenas dressed up in Baja?

Got sent home by Psycho after 3 days of his trial for walking into training with a tab in his mouth. Now given Roeder's view of Luque, he's hardly going to be impressed by that is he.

Nah, 99.

From Swissmagpie on N-O.

This looks like the one after the Man U Cup Final defeat going by the strips and the Ruud Gullit wig.

Michael Ball? One-cap international wonder, not getting a game for his foreign side, well known over here, in an area we need strengthening.

By "over" he just means "over the Tyne Bridge" and by international, he means Steve Caldwell.

Thuram or Ayala would be a bit dreamy for 5 months. Will no doubt be some one-capped Dutch kid.

Incidentally, that reminds me of when Oliver was at his arse-licking best during the Souness era and kept telling us that Chelsea wanted Souness before they got Mourinho! That was actually true. That Zahavi bloke wanted to take him there.

Neill was also saying that the wages being bandied about were ridiculous and he's within their original wage structure.

Neill said in his Press Conference that "the people that mattered" at Liverpool never spoke to him once, and that had Benitez actually spoke in person to him he'd probably have went there, but Curbs told him how important he was going to be for West Ham. Owen said a similar thing last year when we signed him. We laid down the red carpet for him, with Shepherd, Hall, Shearer & Souness all speaking to the player, while Benitez didn't speak to him once. Seems to me they think just because of their name, they'll sign anyone.

Another reason I hate Liverpool is their arrogance. Like they thought just because they were Liverpool, they were automatically going to get Michael Owen back, and looking at the Lucas Neill press conference they've done the same again. Arrogant f*cks.

Mid-table.

This Weren't you one of Andy O'Brien's fiercest critics Mr Kelly.

Joe Murphy?