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Torres is da man

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'Baby you can drive my' Cardozo also scored against the mighty 'team I can't spell'

Dembele has been pretty rubbish the last three months. I'd have Toure in there ahead of him easily, but I'd choose Cazorla ahead of both.

Toure hasn't been good at all this season. Hasn't been a vintage year for deeper players altogether though.

It was good to see Torres maintain his hot Premier League streak against us.

That's one Premier League goal every 1000 minutes now

Vitor Pereira has won more leagues in the last 2 years than hes lost league games.

Sounds like just the guy for the Everton job then

Who do you think your teams will bring in this summer? I'm thinking Albion will keep the same GK and defence (maybe a new RB), keep the same midfield, find a new winger or two, and find a striker to replace Lukaku if Mourinho decides to keep him as his new Drogba.

I'd like to get rid of Myhill, Jones, Reid, Olsson, Tamas, Ridgewell, Popov, Brunt, Fortune, Odemwingie, Thomas, Long and Rosenberg, and get an almost entirely new squad to go around our core of Foster, McAuley, Yacob, Mulumbu, Morrison and Lukaku (please stay baby).

This is what I think we need to do over the summer;

Camp is going, maybe send Rudd/Steer out on loan
New CB to add depth, let go of Ayala, Ward and Barnett
New LB to compete with Garrido, let Tierney go
We need a lot of strengthening in CM, hope to see improvement here. Let go of Fox, Surman
Could do with another winger coming in too add depth
Need a creative midfielder, like a CAM, Hoolahan is getting on now
Strikers could do with one more, and maybe more depending on Holt leaving or not. Jackson can go

Don't think we'll keep Sharp.

Find some wingers (Adomah and Sako plz) sign up Ward and Jara, and find a striker >:|

I think we'll probably sign Carlton Cole. He fits Billys mantra of a big black guy who isn't very good at football.

I think we'll sign Hooper. Be shocked if we don't

I think you blew the kitty on RVW.

So you're happy with your RB then!

We need to make sure we make the right choice of manager first and foremost. Not too similar to Moyes, as they will be on a hiding to nothing, but not too disimilar that it needs a period of rebuilding.

Then we need to keep hold of as many of Jags, Baines and Fellaini as possible. If we lose one, then it has to be Fellaini. Jags and Baines are much more important to us IMO. ANd if Fellaini goes, we need a physical DM as we will become quite lightweight in the CM area, so someone like Capoue or Fer

Then we need an AM or another striker. This can either be someone who will do all the leg work, allowing Jelavic to play more centrally where he was effective last season. Or someone to replace Jelavic completely.

Finally, we need to add a bit more depth to the squad so that injuries/suspensions don't effect us as much, and that we can rotate a little more to avoid the tiredness that hit us around February time.

Oh and the guys like Korey Smith, Adeyemi, Francomb will go I imagine, cos they're not good enough.

Vaughan too

Olly wrote:I think we'll sign Hooper. Be shocked if we don't

Hooper looks to be a done deal going to Cardiff from what I hear

GSC wrote:I think you blew the kitty on RVW.

I'd be very surprised with all the new TV money if our budget was around 10m, of which we blew nearly all of it on one player

BigFellasAfro wrote:

Olly wrote:I think we'll sign Hooper. Be shocked if we don't

Hooper looks to be a done deal going to Cardiff from what I hear

Interesting!

I hear that Hooper is coming here, with Holt going the other way.

There does seem to be a consensus that Holt is going, but I'm not so sure

BigFellasAfro wrote:

Olly wrote:I think we'll sign Hooper. Be shocked if we don't

Hooper looks to be a done deal going to Cardiff from what I hear

I don't think Norwich will realistically be spending 20m plus wages on strikers when Hughton prefers 1 up top iirc.

The rumours in South Wales is that he has agreed to join them, dependant on a) potential interest from QPR or b) he may go to Leicester if Lennon moves there.

Seems to be following the money

GSC wrote:

BigFellasAfro wrote:

Olly wrote:I think we'll sign Hooper. Be shocked if we don't

Hooper looks to be a done deal going to Cardiff from what I hear

I don't think Norwich will realistically be spending 20m plus wages on strikers when Hughton prefers 1 up top iirc.

Since when would buying Hooper cost 10m+?

BigFellasAfro wrote:The rumours in South Wales is that he has agreed to join them, dependant on a) potential interest from QPR or b) he may go to Leicester if Lennon moves there.

Seems to be following the money

Well you couldn't blame him if he did really!

Abuahmedseem Shohid ‏@Saem5645
My underated #teamoftheseason Jaaskelainen, Coleman, Ried, McAuley, Shaw, Snodgrass, Schneiderlin, Diame, Adam Johnson, Lukaku and Lambert

Interesting idea.

Although Adam Johnson in there is a total #headgone

How much did Celtic reject in January again?

Can we really call Lukaku underrated at this point?

GSC wrote:How much did Celtic reject in January again?

Situation's changed since Jan tho.

Now he only has 12 months left on his contract, and he's hardly set the world alight post Jan.

No way they'll get the 7m odd they rejected from us in Jan

Olly wrote:

GSC wrote:How much did Celtic reject in January again?

Situation's changed since Jan tho.

Now he only has 12 months left on his contract, and he's hardly set the world alight post Jan.

No way they'll get the 7m odd they rejected from us in Jan

I bet the likes of QPR and Leicester would easily overspend and offer £7m+

They won't be truly desperate to sell until late August and likely Jan. And even then, heavier hitters will be around with wages.

BigFellasAfro wrote:

Olly wrote:

GSC wrote:How much did Celtic reject in January again?

Situation's changed since Jan tho.

Now he only has 12 months left on his contract, and he's hardly set the world alight post Jan.

No way they'll get the 7m odd they rejected from us in Jan

I bet the likes of QPR and Leicester would easily overspend and offer £7m+

Well probably, but we wouldn't dammit

Anyways I'm off to get chips

Enjoy!

Plenty of Salt & Vinegar, tommy k and some bread and butter to make butties for me please

Olly wrote:New LB to compete with Garrido, let Tierney go

Just seen Tierney probably off to Bolton, so that one to tick off

What on earth is "tommy k"?

Have like 3 chip butties in front of me lol

Yeah I saw that too Afro, be a good signing for a Championship team will Tierney. He never really recovered from his injury halfway into last season.

And the new England kit is sweet

The 1st thing i thought when i saw it was - Why are we copying the Germans kit

Anythings better than Umbros last kit. I like simple but that was just a white shirt.

Olly wrote:What on earth is "tommy k"?

Tomato ketchup

BigFellasAfro wrote:

Olly wrote:What on earth is "tommy k"?

Tomato ketchup

Well I never!

We play Ireland in a friendly don't we?

Yeah the team that turned up to the Euros out of their depth and stuck 10 men behind the ball vs Ireland.

Quality! We might get to witness the genius that is Wes at Wembley!!

The ball he played to Snodgrass for our 2nd yesterday was amazing

Monday's #QSTeaser from @QofS_Official is: Name the seven footballers with a Z in their surname who have five or more assists in the Premier League this season?

All ive got is Cazorla/Hazard so far

Hernandez?

Suarez?

N'Zogbia.

Ruiz?

Fernando wrote:Monday's #QSTeaser from @QofS_Official is: Name the seven footballers with a Z in their surname who have five or more assists in the Premier League this season?

All ive got is Cazorla/Hazard so far

Tevez

Fernando wrote:Monday's #QSTeaser from @QofS_Official is: Name the seven footballers with a Z in their surname who have five or more assists in the Premier League this season?

All ive got is Cazorla/Hazard so far

Taking everyone's answers so far;

Cazorla, Hazard, Tevez, Suarez, N'Zogbia, Ruiz.

I'd have guessed Zabaleta and maybe even David Luiz.

Luiz is a shout. Not sure Zabs has that many assists.

Dzeko?

Dzeko wouldn't have played enough IMO but maybe.

Zabaleta because he's a good RB for getting crosses in, might have assisted 5 goals.