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  1. 55282

    55282 Well-Known Member

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    Check out @SwanseaCityRR’s Tweet:
     
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    55282 Well-Known Member

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    And more good news.......Fabianski wins at 3/1......get in there.....boooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm YJB STID <applause><cheers><party>
     
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    To good for the FA Cup!
    No takers in January, is he following Ki's example?
     
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    We should by now be offering Ki a new contract even though Milan are reported to be after him.....I'm not convinced he wants to join Milan anyway......The Interest in Alfie is another example of the big clubs getting in there very early to unsettle the player. We need to stop this by saying the player is going nowhere and really mean it this time.....We are trying to Build a better team and not letting our best players go to other clubs for their benefit....
     
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  6. Bob the slob

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    Congratulations - another Jonjo?
     
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    So he didn’t even get on the pitch. I would imagine that there’s a bit of “this is what you could have won” to this. Probably plenty of whispers in his ear saying that if he was playing for a bigger club then he’d play. Or maybe I’m just a cynic
     
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    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    I'm afraid we're just a stepping a stone to better things , that's the order of things
     
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    I think most clubs with the exception of the so called top six are in the same boat.
     
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    Matthew Bound Still Lurks Well-Known Member

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    That the problem for a club and others of our respective sizes , we try and compete with wages then fall out of a league the wages are then overinflated and the cycle continues , possibly the best recent example of this is Portsmouth, nice one Arry
     
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    If we allow players to leave that are under Contract and we need these players then we deserve everything coming to us. We have been doing this for many seasons now and look where we have been for the last 3 or 4 seasons struggling at the relegation end. We are there again and and it is far from certain if we will survive this season yet....
     
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  12. Bob the slob

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    Maybe the England setup saw through the hype!
    Unless there are a spate of injuries I'd surprised if he gets another call up this season.
     
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    England are a joke with most of their players just like Alfie's standard. Just like Wales England have mediocre players and that stems from years and years of foreign players taking preference over British players in our clubs....The British international clubs have limited choice when choosing their best players and quite frankly most are mediocre at best and only a fraction would ever be considered for any top team....
     
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    Without foreign players the English pyramid would be poor; overtime it would attract far less finance and interest. Foreign players have been preferred because they are better players. The UEFA tried to restrict foreign players but the clubs with money found ways around it.
    Depending on the how much of a mess Brexit turns out to be, overseas players could well find there's no place for them in the UK and the likes of Carroll, Clucas and Shelvey could find themselves 'star' players.
    Who knows, we could even go back to insistence that only white players should be picked for England.

    Very few third rate players will become superstars just because they wear an England shirt.
     
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    Are you kidding me ? <laugh> Ever since the cap on how many foreign players a club could put out was lifted the standard of British players coming through the system has dropped alarmingly. Having watched the decline for nearly 60 years you cannot fail to see.....All 4 home nations are no more than also rans with not an ounce of a chance of ever winning anything....You only have to watch England play and they are two divisions below the top teams easily.......Germany noticed a few years ago that they were seeing the effects of foreign players effecting their national side and they did something about it and they reaped the rewards.....German sides could only play 2 or 3 foreign players at any one time and the rest must be German players.....We can field a full team of foreigners if we chose too and that is why no British international side will ever win anything again....We need to follow Germany's example....
     
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    Am I correct in thinking that Burnley have the most English players?
     
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