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Word from Steve Rowley (Arsenal chief scout) is that Arsenal would negotiate for Dempsey at the 10 million quid mark. I have heard like C58 that a bid has been lodged, for Dempsey by Arsenal. We've apparently told Arsenal to wait till season's end.

Kaca was injured towards the end of the Bolton game. Clutching his hamstring in tiredness about a minute before he was subbed. We need fresh legs to cause more mayhem.

My team would be: Schwarzer Kelly Hughes Hangeland Riise Murphy Dembele Duff Dempsey Frei Trotta/Pog

Btw I left out Pog to keep him fresh for Monday. He isn't 100% and I think we'd be better off using him against Chelsea.

Schwarzer Kelly Hughes Hangeland Riise Dembele Murphy Frei Ruiz Dempsey Trotta It's very tough to pick a 3 and leaving out Duff and Kaca is a very tough decision. Any of those 5 would deserve a starting spot imo. Even Kasami deserves a recall.

Aaron is the in form of the 3. I say he is first choice at the moment.

Love the Norwich fans. A great bunch of people. Just hope you're not too happy on Saturday evening :)

Ruiz would be useful in a withdrawn role behind the striker. Against United you need players capable of those magic moments. Frei, Dembele and Dempsey with Pog up top. 4-2-3-1 but with more pace in it and more of an outlet with Frei. That has a lot of potential in it.

GK: Schwarzer RB: Davies CB: Hughes CB: Hangeland LB: Riise CM: Murphy CM: Dembele RM: Frei LM: Dempsey AM: Ruiz CF: Pogrebnyak

The need for a new Right Back is the only thing that can be said about yesterday's game. We didn't want to get drawn in to Villa's physical game, I think that cost us, but Jol has employed that tactic so effectively in the last 3 games.

I will forever remember Poggers scream in my face and jump on me. He is my new hero. Although I still give MOTM to Hangeland. With Poggers a close 2nd.

4-3-3, same as vs Stoke. Senderos in. Gecov or Kasami in for Duff to shore up the midfield alongside Murphy and Dembele.

Frei shouldn't have been brought on vs Blackburn. We took off a CM for a winger. Course we were going to get overrun. I don't think Pog was amazing. He just worked hard and had his heart in it. We brought on the wrong player. Trotta should have come on to have that outlet.

He played for the reserves last night as a trialist. We were impressed by all accounts.

I think we have to drop Ruiz. When Dembele is back then Dembele for Duff (Not because Duff is a bad player, more Dembele is an immense player!) and have Baird play in the middle. AJ and Bobby for a month, if AJ continues his form for that period, reward him with the extra year he wants. 2...

I actually almost left in anger at HT. I was incensed at our first half performance and thinking back to Blackburn that Jol hasn't got the guts to admit he is wrong in time. But Jol showed he learns from his mistakes. Credit to Jol, he reads the game well. So surely at some point all errors...

He took with his right vs Chelsea in the carling cup.

The answer to a Danny replacement comes from right under our noses. Ronnie Minkwitz is a very useful player. Real engine. Highly rated by our coaches as well.

We played like we had a 2 men missing. Because Danny was outnumbered 3 to 1 in the middle. Put simply, Jol isn't good at tactics.

With Ruiz, Dempsey, Duff and Zamora on the pitch you need balance. Dembele does a terrific job acting as that balance in that particular system. Dempsey or Ruiz were never going to offer that back up to Murphy. Sidwell would have been industrious and would have linked play together. Really...