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What's he worth tho?

Shouldnt Big A and KK already have sat down and decided what and who we need to take the club forward? How can they know what's needed yet? Still don't know if we need to be taken forward from the Endsleigh or the Barclays do we. we will stay up but lets be honest, I think most people on this board realises we pretty much need a new 11 I dunno, we do have players that could quite easily be in a top 6 challenging first team. What we do need is a bigger squad, to get rid of some of the real crap, and most importantly to add some quality players were we really, really need them (a strong forward that is good in the air and can hold up the ball, creatively in midfield - central and maybe on the wings too and central defence). We don't so much have a totally rubbish squad as a pretty small squad with gaping holes in it. That's about the strength of it.

Shouldnt Big A and KK already have sat down and decided what and who we need to take the club forward? How can they know what's needed yet? Still don't know if we need to be taken forward from the Endsleigh or the Barclays do we. we will stay up but lets be honest, I think most people on this board realises we pretty much need a new 11 4/5 good players will be enough and maybe 1 world class midfielder....Eh?

This. Every Man U fan I know is from Manchester, goes to games, never says a word about football unless asked and are generally canny lads. Every scouser I know is a mouthy cock-end who's never been to Anfield yet will take any opportunity to regale me with utter bollocks.

These are a few months out of date. But his is still around a goal every two games which is what top tier strikers are judged by. He's dropped a few places at the end of 2006 he was 9th. 1 Ronaldo 172 239 0.72 36 72 0.50 62 97 0.64 270 408 0.66 2 Van Nistelrooy 120 187 0.64 53 69 0.77 28 54 0.52 201 310 0.65 3 Trezeguet 147 244 0.60 36 65 0.55 34 69 0.49 217 378 0.57 4 Vieri 160 260 0.62 30 69 0.43 23 49 0.47 213 378 0.56 5 Toni 101 177 0.57 0 0 0.00 12 27 0.44 113 204 0.55 6 Shevchenko 131 238 0.55 58 111 0.52 33 73 0.45 222 422 0.53 7 Adriano 74 159 0.47 19 32 0.59 25 37 0.68 118 228 0.52 8 Drogba 80 171 0.47 23 44 0.52 28 40 0.70 131 255 0.51 9 Pauleta 166 331 0.50 19 37 0.51 47 88 0.53 232 456 0.51 10 Crespo 151 294 0.51 36 77 0.47 32 62 0.52 219 433 0.51 11 Frei 63 132 0.48 8 18 0.44 32 56 0.57 103 206 0.50 12 Henry 197 375 0.53 50 109 0.46 39 92 0.42 286 576 0.50 13 Eto'o 115 225 0.51 18 39 0.46 33 73 0.45 166 337 0.49 14 Owen 138 266 0.52 22 54 0.41 37 82 0.45 197 402 0.49 15 Berbatov 81 187 0.43 21 41 0.51 35 58 0.60 137 286 0.48 16 Villa 72 147 0.49 8 21 0.38 10 21 0.48 90 189 0.48 17 F Inzaghi 27 286 0.09 51 87 0.59 24 55 0.44 202 428 0.47 18 S Arveladze 0 0 0.00 33 65 0.51 26 60 0.43 59 125 0.47 19 Raul 188 446 0.42 56 110 0.51 44 102 0.43 266 565 0.47 20 S John 9 62 0.15 0 0 0.00 67 100 0.67 76 162 0.47 21 Koller 67 170 0.39 25 58 0.43 48 78 0.62 140 306 0.46 22 Nonda 99 219 0.45 7 24 0.29 9 12 0.75 115 255 0.45 23 Montella 139 273 0.51 10 46 0.22 3 20 0.15 152 339 0.45 24 Morientes 135 311 0.43 38 91 0.42 27 47 0.57 200 449 0.45 25 Klose 97 209 0.46 11 44 0.25 33 69 0.48 141 322 0.44 26 Chevanton 54 125 0.43 9 16 0.56 7 21 0.33 70 162 0.43 27 Podolski 26 73 0.36 1 7 0.14 22 38 0.58 49 118 0.42 28 D Cisse 91 197 0.46 10 35 0.29 9 35 0.26 110 267 0.41 29 F Torres 75 174 0.43 0 0 0.00 14 42 0.33 89 216 0.41 30 Tristan 97 225 0.43 21 60 0.35 4 15 0.27 122 300 0.41 31 Kuranyi 65 163 0.40 13 36 0.36 18 40 0.45 96 239 0.40 32 Tamudo 113 283 0.40 5 14 0.36 4 9 0.44 122 306 0.40 33 Del Piero 134 331 0.40 43 106 0.41 26 81 0.32 203 518 0.39 34 Pizarro 100 230 0.43 22 65 0.34 13 50 0.26 135 345 0.39 35 Chiesa 137 378 0.36 24 42 0.57 7 17 0.41 168 437 0.38 36 Di Vaio 93 239 0.39 23 54 0.43 2 14 0.14 118 307 0.38 37 Keane 90 244 0.37 9 18 0.50 29 72 0.40 128 334 0.38 38 Martins 39 121 0.32 17 38 0.45 11 17 0.65 67 176 0.38 39 Suazo 44 108 0.41 0 0 0.00 8 29 0.28 52 137 0.38 40 Gilardino 87 216 0.40 6 34 0.18 9 23 0.39 102 273 0.37

10 is doable imo.

Like his first half sitter today? There is no striker in the world who never misses an easy chance. The point is that he scored his next one. He had the added advantage from the set-piece of knowing where the ball was going to be. You boys are overcomplicating it.

He is still missing too many easy chances IMO. Not that I expect him to get them all, but it is important that he takes most of them, particularly as his pace has gone, and he's in a side that is creating little, although this has improved lately. Confidence and practice (considering the dearth of chances and that really he's still not been back that long considering how long he's been out over the last couple of seasons). Plus he's had more than a few saved by some pretty decent goalkeeping. I still think in a "Keegan side" (which this still is not) he'd be scoring pretty freely. Last sentence is key for me.

I only saw a stream but for me Owen was MOM closely followed by Beye.

Loves the old one in two ratio that boy.

Pretty comfortable win we could have had three or four. They rarely threatened and had a couple of 5 min spells when they looked dangerous. I'd keep Harper in goal of the rest of the season, not had much to deal with but just seems more relaxed and better positoned to me. The 433 is pleasing in the sense that one of the top 3 always takes a turn in rotating into the midfield and Owen's link up play is fast becoming a revelation. There just seems more alternatives now in the 2nd phase with Viduka staying central and the other two rolling deep or wide. Most consistant player atm is Beye. Slight niggle was Faye giving away unnecessary free kicks. MOM for me Owen.

Jose Enroquinho.

We may engage cruise control.

I'd take Geremi off in the next 10 or so...

Out of interest if you go a 1 or 2 days without any caffeine do you develop headaches or sleep problems? Send answers to Luckyluke care of the Open University. If I go 1 or 2 hours without coffee I don't feel myself this is true. Caffeine as a bad thing is overrated, this hiatus about coffee started in America probably (the land of cocaine). That can actually be part of the issue, that is you're not actually more awake/focused/whatever, but rather if you don't have your caffeine you have withdrawal systems, you do and they go away and you feel "better" (although not actually "better" than you would be if you got your system free of caffeine dependence). Not that there aren't 10,000 things worse to worry about than caffeine in everyday life, it's just there's some interesting misconceptions about the stuff and its potential effects. Belive me mate coffee is the least of my worries. There was that mescal last weekend for instance....

We do need a second. We don't need a last ten minute scramble just defending one goal.

We've totally dominated apart from a funny five mins.

See they say KK is tactically naive yet Owen is clearly instructed to ghost into the box late.

We'll win this. No worries.

My god!! Pure football from us.

Martins a bit greedy.