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Bocanegra. Yeah, he's a Good player.

It's well known to the Rangers fans this summer & hopefully to the management as well, that with another fixture packed season approaching, we could really be doing with a new partner for Madjid Bougherra. David weir has been an excellent signing for us, but in my opinion he now often shows signs of tiredness & thus lack of pace & sharpness. For the most part, he's been extremely solid in his role in central defense & without a doubt for his age, he's admirably played a part in bringing silverware to Ibrox. I'm wondering now though, as are most Gers fans I'd imagine, if we should primarily in the summer transfer window, be looking at bringing in a new central defender. I know that this is no new idea, as it's been discussed for quite some time amongst the online Gers community, but the question remains open as to who the right man would be. The club have apparently had an ongoing interest in the Sporting defender Tonel, but having been watching the Confederations Cup in South Africa, I'm wondering if the USA central defender Onyewu might be a better option. He's been playing for Standard Li�¨ge since they signed him from Metz in 2004 & as well as being in integral & important part of a successful Li�¨ge side, he's also won a fair number of footballing awards in Belgium. He was named in the Belgian league's Best XI after the 04/05 & 07/08 seasons, as well as winning the Foreign Player of the Year award in 2005. In 2006 he won US soccer athlete of the year. He's been a big part in Standard's league winning past couple of seasons & other than an unsuccessful loan spell at Newcastle to consider, I'm only wondering if we could afford him. His performance in last night's USA win over Spain was so good though, that I'd imagine yet again he'll be a player being targeted by clubs from around Europe. I think he's a defender that's on form & possibly approaching his peak, so he'll probably be worth a few million.

He can only benefit from the experience of having made mistakes. Learning the hard way is the best. I think you'll see that in how Bayern play. I bet they'll be a really well balanced side that's hard to break through & deadly on the break.

Collar or no collar, I don't like that strip design. Sadly, the only really nice Scottish club new strip I've seen so far is the AFC one by Nike with it's simple retro pin stripe design.

Not much of a story, but here's what's on the bheeb's business & money section - Setanta goes into administration

19th place still isn't too bad. If we'd done better last year we would probably be sitting somewhere between 10th & 15th, maybe 12th or 13th place, which to be fair would actually be quite flattering.

FPMSL !!! Check this out lads :devil: -

If we were to sell Boyd & Bougie I could see the point in some doom & gloom, but not otherwise.

Yep. You'd have got at least 20-1 odds on the USA going through before tonight's games.

Brazil 3 - 0 Italy USA 3 - 0 Egypt

If they're anything like those Hearts strips with the collars, there's no chance I'll be buying one because those are stinkin'.

Uh well, he'll be on the bin motors before Xmas then. :fish:

How the fuck do you know what a pedo looks like Super_Ally? :fish:

If we're playing a lot of games next season he could actually be useful to have, but I'd only keep him if he took a cut in wages. How much has he been getting paid anyway? Any ideas?

Incredible. Italy dumped out. Uncle Sam go through to play Spain in the semis. You'd have got good odds on that swing of events if you bet on it.

You'd never have thought it, but USA might just go through. They need to gain another 2 in goal difference against Italy, so if they score another 2 in the 2nd half against Egypt or Italy loose another 2 against Brazil, USA can actually get their unthinkable 6 goal swing against Italy & go through with Brazil.

Brazil are giving the greasy talies a right humpin'. 3-0 at half time.

They might keep him in case they get a 7 or 8 million offer for Boydy. Daily would then slot straight in and fill Boydy's boots.

Norris posted a youtube video yesterday about 6pm on a thread in the Footy Chat forum - http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?t=11973

Collars on the home strip.

Well here's the new Jambos strip by Umbrio -

Yep, the England strip is Umbro and it's pretty f'ing nice looking, but apparently the material quality is absolute shite & not even actual football strip material. It may be the case that it isn't the same gear the England team are wearing, but I'm not sure. Man City are Umbro too & their new strip is similar in design to the England one, including material used, but I wouldn't take that as an indicator of our new strip. Have you seen the new Umbro strip for Hearts?

It would possibly only be 2 or 3 hundred thousand lost subscriptions at most, but that would still be a hefty blow for them (about �£30m or so over a year). You've got to wonder what the hell they can do to get out of the shit they're in if they really HAVE been losing as much as the �£100m p/a reported.

At least one Gers player is going to the World Cup then.

Been looking at the new strips around the country & none of the Umbro designs come close to the offerings from Adidas or Nike either in design or manufacturing quality from what I can see. The sooner we get an Adidas or Nike deal the better IMHO. Some of the Nike strips are seriously smart looking. Apologies for going off topic modman.