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he must be a first - a man utd player on loan at antwerp that hasn't been banned from belgian football

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So Carrick and Kuszczak are both expected to sign for Utd this week. Fergie wants to sign Vieira but faces competition from Inter. Talks are supposed to have begun with Torres and Fergie also has his eye on Trezeguet and Ibrahimovic.

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Apparently Damien Duff is about to sign for Spurs, if I were Fergie I would be hi- jacking that deal.

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United reject Real offer for Ruud......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/5193288.stm

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There was talk of a swop deal for Ronaldo, imagine that two of them in the same team :)

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A nightmare for commentators no doubt

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Shaun Newtown has been banned for 7 Months after testing positive for coke.

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Well, one eats like a horse, and the other one looks like a horse. Match made in heaven really :D

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think you getting Ruud and Ronaldo mixed up there

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Southampton sign Pele ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...on/5186608.stm

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Has he been cloned, or found a time machine?
"The 28-year-old centre-half has joined the Saints for an undisclosed fee from Portuguese club Belenenses."

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One for Nug to ponder over, Good or bad news for the Villa fans ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...la/5196872.stm

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So O'Leary's left Villa - bumnuts :(

Hopefully, that old Bluenose Ellis will be gone soon, and we'll actually get a chairman with a bit of ambition :mad:

EDIT: yesman just beat me to it

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Blimey, that was quick :)

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To be honest, and purely in my opinion, Ellis is possibly the worst thing ever to happen to Villa - it's quite telling that, when Villa won the European Cup back in '82, he wasn't actually on the board. Since he came back the next season, we've finished 2nd in the league (in about '92), won the Coca Cola Cup ('94, I think), and got to the FA Cup final in 2000. Shoddy for a club of its size that we've only won one cup in 25 years :mad:

Also proves its own point that he's only actually sacked one manager since he came back, but all of the rest have left of their own accord...