charliebigspuds said:this will be a short thread, I had this discussion when some bloke at work who said we needed to buy English players, my response was which English player could actually make our squad better? Wiltshire and rooney, maybe chamberlain could be worth a punt but thats about it as far as I'm concerned and I'm actually not sure that rooney is as good as his reputation suggest.
Hi Woy.Mad 4 It said:Keep saying this, Kelly from Liverpool he can play RB and CB. Sell Kola and move Zab to LB. we could even do a swap deal using AJ and put the Kola cash towards Martinez
Mad 4 It said:Keep saying this, Kelly from Liverpool he can play RB and CB. Sell Kola and move Zab to LB. we could even do a swap deal using AJ and put the Kola cash towards Martinez
Mad 4 It said:Keep saying this, Kelly from Liverpool he can play RB and CB. Sell Kola and move Zab to LB. we could even do a swap deal using AJ and put the Kola cash towards Martinez
moomba said:Mad 4 It said:Keep saying this, Kelly from Liverpool he can play RB and CB. Sell Kola and move Zab to LB. we could even do a swap deal using AJ and put the Kola cash towards Martinez
If Kelly cant get in the scouse team at 22 ahead of Johnson, Skrtl and/or Carragher we wont have much use for him.
Why Always Ste said:Why do they have to be "English"
Does the home grown rule not apply to Welsh/Scottish/Irish?
Gareth Bale?
The definition of home grown is trained for three years under the age of 21 by somebody in the English and Welsh professional system
kenzie115 said:I'm going to get some stick for this but I'd have Walcott.
He's got one year left on his contract at Arsenal so wouldn't cost too much and he'd be one extra not only for the Premier League home-grown rules but the Champions League ones too (I think these are slightly different?).
His pace is ridiculous and we've seen over the past two years how well Mancini and his team can improve the technical side of a player's game so I think he'd be worth looking at. I think he's wasted out on the wing but if you improved his finishing a bit (wouldn't have to be too much, crossing is his main flaw, he can finish, just doesn't do it consistently enough) then playing on the shoulder of the last defender he'd be lethal.
People will say he's not suited to our style of play but we saw this season how the short-passing, patient build up style can be stopped on occasion (Barca vs Chelsea and a few of our games) and so sometimes you need something a bit different.