Rafa is making his own bed...

[Rehan]

the spines strong reina. agger. carra, alonso, masc and gerrard. my fear is rafa doesn't do flair (excluding garcia). our width and attack needs flair

Its a bit early for this debate, maybe we wont even sign malouda! But if we dooo, i would probably be a lilttle dissappointed. We need to be going for more creative players on the wing.

Malouda doesnt really offer anything, more of a athlete that works hard and gets the odd goal. I would rather we were known for being an exciting side to watch rather than just a team of hard workers.

[El Jefecito]

the spines strong reina. agger. carra, alonso, masc and gerrard. my fear is rafa doesn't do flair (excluding garcia). our width and attack needs flair

Like you say the spine is sorted. This year will be the year of flair, like I say he would have addressed it sooner if he had the money, he didn't so que sera sera.

Come the beginning of the season we should be sorted

[Fiddy]

KT'ers will know that the ultimate deathmatch would include JosemisUncle (what a nutter).

Jesus yeah, that guy was a right ****.

And as for 'modicums of sense'...how does slating Rafa over a player he hasn't even signed yet make any kind of sense?!

[Red Chilli]

We havent signed no one yet, including malouda.

Yes we have mate

Leto, Lucas, Voronin and Insua.

[Mattshark]

Jesus yeah, that guy was a right ****.

And as for 'modicums of sense'...how does slating Rafa over a player he hasn't even signed yet make any kind of sense?!

Sadly a modicum of sense is far to much sense for the majority of people.

[El Jefecito]

Jesus yeah, that guy was a right ****.

And as for 'modicums of sense'...how does slating Rafa over a player he hasn't even signed yet make any kind of sense?!

This is a forum, what has sense got to do with anything?????????

[Red Chilli]

Sadly a modicum of sense is far to much sense for the majority of people.

How much is a "modicum"?

[Mattshark]

How much is a "modicum"?

0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000001 gram of sense per brain

[Fiddy]

How much is a "modicum"?

arguably more than a 'smidgen'

[Red Chilli]

arguably more than a 'smidgen'

Ah, that makes sense


Is it more than a soupcon?

[friedk]

I laughed at the Carrick signing, and I still think he is sh*te.. but then Man U already have a few £30M signings in their squad. This summer was to be our year of getting in top quality, but we end up signing the usual middle of the range players. As I said, Rafa will live and fall by this after the uproar he has caused this past week.

Your attempt to write off our summer signings in May is laughable.

We are not Chelsea so don't expect too many thirty million signings. If you think we are going to buy a superstar for every position you are in for major disappointment.

Voronin was signed in January before G&H were on board.

Malouda is speculation at the moment, but he is also the first choice LM for the French team that reached the World Cup Final and is much better than we have at the moment. As for laughing at the player of the year award, while looking at Cisse you have conveniently overlooked the likes of Essien and Drogba who have done ok in England don't you think? He was also voted ahead of Ribery, a star player?

We have signed the Brazilian player of the year already.

At best this post of yours is premature, at worst it is so ridiculous to write off Rafa's signing a week after the final while he is on holiday that it ranks amongst the most idiotic threads you have ever started. And that really is some achievement

[Nicey]

Not this old chestnut, every manager signs players who don't work out its part and parcel of not just football by working life in general. Rafa has been exceptional since coming here IMO, we are selling players at profit again, we are signing a lot of useful squad players who are doing a job for us. The foriegn youth players seem to be impressive and we have signed some truly classy players, Pepe, Alonso, Momo, Pennant, Kuyt, etc

[Dalglish]

SACK PARRY!

The club should supply people to make Rafa's bed for him. This is just another example if slack blah blah blah

[bigfooty]

Not this old chestnut, every manager signs players who don't work out its part and parcel of not just football by working life in general. Rafa has been exceptional since coming here IMO, we are selling players at profit again, we are signing a lot of useful squad players who are doing a job for us. The foriegn youth players seem to be impressive and we have signed some truly classy players, Pepe, Alonso, Momo, Pennant, Kuyt, etc

I think it's being extremely generous to say Momo, Pennant and Kuyt are truly classy. They have their good points but none of the other Top 4 would have them. Wenger would be tearing his hear out if Momo played in the middle for Arsenal.

[BobTheCharmer]

I'm getting the gist of what rashid is on about. I'm not convinced he'll sign the right players either. But we'll have to wait and see.

I'm still pissed off that Crouch & Bellamy didn't come on against a decidely average Milan back 4.