If_You_Wanna_Be_The_Man

Phil Jones is injured, short term but wouldn't get you off to a great start

Nononon Xisco is a player Newcastle is a city I see. And is Xisco still in Newcastle United's books?

Apparently Fabrice Muamba will announce his retirement shortly

He's still a Newcastle isn't he? Man alive.

Get in there Cobblers! Has the R2 draw been done yet? Edit: Nevermind, Wolves at home.

Isco is now being linked to United as well as Spurs and Arsenal

Yeah worked for me, I see the team I picked ages ago when I registered for the season are mainly 'doubtful' for the first game of the season, time for a rethink!

I think Hernandez will get the Solskjaer treatment in as much as every one will always think he's young and then when he retires no one will believe he's in his 30s

Blackmore is a legend. I agree by the way about Rio, he's undoubtedly still first choice to partner Vidic, but with him Scholes and giggs on the pitch that is a lot of old legs for one starting 11.

Last links for Berba I heard was Fenerbahce, it'd be nice if e stayed in England

I hope we don't hear the bolded too often this season

He plays for my local team so, yes. He is a fucking beast, I think he has hreat future ahead as long as he plays first team football. He scores his first goal 3 minutes after he came off bench for the first time. There is a lot of videos of his goals in Youtube Thanks, I will have a look

Just heard about Fletch on Sky sports news, great news hopefully he gets back to full fitness soon.

Did Levante sign him permanently after a loan and then sell him on straight away? I know he was there last season on loan from Sevila

Ben Arfa isn't picked as consistently as Cabaye though is he? Or at least he didn't seem to be last season when I had him.

According to Wikipedia he's scored 11 goals in his 17 starts for his current team (universidad), and has goals at evey level for Chile (except senior). But would be interested to hear if any one has actually seen him play

Any one from Madrid they could ask for as Part of the Modric deal? Realistically I mean...

Haven't heard any rumours of midfield departures for Liverpool, they're pretty well stocked in that department

That's harsh, I think Liverpools a great city.

Is it a new system? Or was it just for the community shield? It seems to me like playing Clichy/kolarov and zabaleta/Richards in a more attacking position is robbing two attacking slots from more attacking players

As an alternative to Modric apparently which is interesting

Id be interested in the league code if someone sets one up for the premierleague.com site as I'm doing that one any way as well as my own league. So are we saying Anita will be a midfielder?

It's tricky when you don't just apply a blanket rule of suspensions count or suspension don't count. There's always going to be problems when someone commits a foul like Ivanovic's and dodges a suspension or conversely if someone picked up a soft red card and did get suspended.

City are apparently tryin to hijack the Henriquez deal

I heard about the Alonso contract earlier, surprising, perhaps the offer wasn't great.