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Williamson isn't that bad although we need to upgrade on both, I seem to remember reading we had conceded less on average with Williamson playing rather than Taylor going into the last 4 games of the season. Not sure how accurate that stat is as I haven't bothered looking myself.

Arsenal are one of the biggest clubs in the country and they've lost their better players for a few years now, Spurs also look like losing VDV and Modric. The fact is we've got some quality players that could get into a better team than ours so keeping them is a positive, especially as people have predicted mass sales for the last few windows.

Needs to play this weekend according to some Dutch guy on N-O.

It's a shame Obertan doesn't run like that at fullbacks all of the time.

Great ball from Obertan and the keeper done well to take it off Cisse's toe.

They said he had a slight hamstring strain.

Chelsea have a bid accepted for Moses.

We've played some good stuff without creating much, nice to see we are trying to keep it down and play short passes and Anita and Bigi have both kept it well, the problem is further up field where Marveaux is hogging the touchline too much when he should be further in field, Gosling isn't providing the link between Cisse and the midfield and Obertan has been bad. Tavernier has been unlucky rather than poor as I don't think he's done much wrong, the balls dropping in behind him have just been that good that he can't do much about them and his positioning and pace to recover have both been good.

They've been great balls to be fair, especially for the goal.

I agree completely with this, if you want young lads to improve then they need games rather than wasting their career here until being moved on at 22 with a handful of games played.

9 changes from Saturday and it still looks a reasonably strong team. Hopefully we can pick up the win but a draw with an away goal or 2 will do.

One of the articles I was reading past night said Liverpool now need to sell if they want to buy anyone else this window, if they sell us Carroll for £12 million they can afford to buy Dempsey then.

Van Der Vaart off to Hamburg according to the Dutch press.

Rodgers sounds rattled and knows we are in the driving seat, if we don't get Carroll now we will be back in in January as long as he holds his nerve.

28th of August is when Douglas can move apparently, he would have got his 5 years in then so can play for Holland.

I was reading an article last night where Liverpool have apparently told him to get his future sorted this week or spend the season on the bench as they won't let him join us on the final day, he's turned down West Ham, Fulham and Villa apparently. Looks like they think we could he dragging it out too.

Bassong signs for Norwich on a 3 year deal.

I don't see either move as linked tbh but I will still be disappointed if Simpson is our first choice right back when the window closes.

Man Utd signing Dutch left back Buttner according to ESPN.

Any news about it being on the telly?

I still think there's a good chance Douglas will end up here.

To be fair to Obertan he came on to see the game out and did just that, when he did have the chance to run at them he preferred to slow the game down and make sure we retained possession.

I didn't see any massive improvement second half tbh, I thought we were very average today but we won't he playing a team that good every week so we can open up more.

I was thinking about the striker situation last night and while I presumed that they would want to replace Best I remembered back to January when the club were prepared to let him go to Celtic on loan for the rest of the season, so perhaps Pardew thinks he's already covered there? Not that he wouldn't take Carroll if the deal was right of course but I do think it could he Carroll or no one up top this summer, with a move for him in January a possibility too.

I think I would he disappointed if only one more player came in. It's putting a lot of pressure on Campbell and Good to step up, I also can't believe Simpson is going to see out his contract.