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by **115-1073096938** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:06 pm

I'm liking the look of these three sides this season. I think they are going to make the premiership an awful lot stronger than last season if you look at there teams.

Birmingham:

Code: Select all: Forssell Heskey Dunn Savage Izzet Gronkjaer ?_?_?_? Upson ?_?_?_? Melchiot Taylor

Alot of quality there especially the strikers and Dunn. I think they could become a good side this season. Alot of those players have the ability to play in a good european side and some have the experience of doing so.

Tottenham:

Code: Select all: Keane Defoe/Kanoute ?_?_?_? Davis ?_?_?_? Davies ?_?_?_? ?_?_?_? King Carr ?_?_?_?

For me the team with the most potential out of the above. I think all of those players could play in any side in the country. The only one i'd have minor doubts over would be King but i think he's a good player.

Boro:

Code: Select all: Hasselbaink Viduka Zenden ?_?_?_? Mendietta Parlour ?_?_?_? Southgate Ehiogu Reizegar ?_?_?_?

With the right improvements in the area's with question marks i think the above sides could become excellent teams in this league. I think Birmingham and Boro have both bought wisely and will do well this season, Spurs for me have the potential to become a championship challenging side with the right additions but i doubt that will happen, still i think they can make he league more interesting this season.

by **JBG** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:11 pm

Boro and Birmingham are improving and their first 11 look good on paper.

Spurs have some very good players but I have a sneaking feeling that Santini will be another mistake as coach and they'll be drifting in mid table again next season.

Boro and Birmingham could make the step up and close the gap between them and Newcastle. It would be interesting if they did.

by **mynameisred** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:22 pm

Boro could be the one to keep an eye on. They are and will remain tight at the back and now have the potential to score the goals they have been lacking. If their big name midfielders have a good season they will be tough opponenets. My mate back home works in and around Spurs and he reckons the club is going through vast fundamental changes in the club so this season may be too soon.
Brum will do well to maintain the progress they have made its one thing having a good season but as we Liverpool fans know the season after is always TOUGH (2002-2003 after all them trophies as well,Boo-Hoo)

by **woof woof !** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:56 pm

The scramble for last seasons 4th place is gonna get a helluva lot tighter. There will be a lot of teams contesting that spot this coming season. I expect the top eight to be significantly closer . Possibly
Arsenal , Liverpool , Chelsea , Man Utd, Aston Villa , Newcastle ,Middlesboro , Birmingham ,
Can't wait, new reputations to be made and old ones to be broken .
C'mon you Reds !!!!

by **115-1073096938** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:10 pm

Exactly.

by **gerrard_steven** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:17 pm

i honestly think birmignham have a really good squad and will challenge newcastle for 5th spot

by **Fowler_E7** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:51 pm

gerrard_steven wrote:i honestly think birmignham have a really good squad and will challenge newcastle for 5th spot

boro's team is far to old and full of big ego's, so i dont see them doing any better than 7th or 8th, as for spurs in my opinion it will be the same old story mid table average season, in the team stu posted the ? marks would be full of awful players.

I think out of the teams mentioned birmingham will have the biggest improvement they have some good players, some with a lot of years left as well (heskey, dunn, forsell).

by **stmichael** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:56 pm

middlesbrough are dads army. apparently captain manarin's their captain this season.

their youngest first team player is 26.

spurs have some great players but have a manager who reminds me so much of houllier it's untrue. mid table is where they belong.

i agree that brum will be in the top 6 this season. they have brought some excxeptional players and have a superb young manager who will no doubt get the best out of heskey.

by **whylongball?** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:27 pm

John Barnes' Granny wrote:Boro and Birmingham are improving and their first 11 look good on paper.

Spurs have some very good players but I have a sneaking feeling that Santini will be another mistake as coach and they'll be drifting in mid table again next season.

Boro and Birmingham could make the step up and close the gap between them and Newcastle. It would be interesting if they did.

agree! don't think Tot can play well looking at the way France played!

by **supersub** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:57 pm

To say spurs could be a championship challenging side is a bit over the top

by **72-1090627431** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:48 pm

yeah! and with the surroungding teams getting stronger + newcastle getting Kluivert, whom we should have snapped up, If we dont make some serious changes before the start of the season to strengthen, this season could be a struggle.

I await the next few weeks' transfers...............

by **Leonmc0708** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:30 pm

Hustlers Revenge wrote:yeah! and with the surroungding teams getting stronger + newcastle getting Kluivert, whom we should have snapped up, If we dont make some serious changes before the start of the season to strengthen, this season could be a struggle.

I await the next few weeks' transfers...............

you are a first class idiot lad.

by **jonnymac1979** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:40 pm

Leonmc0708 wrote:
Hustlers Revenge wrote:yeah! and with the surroungding teams getting stronger + newcastle getting Kluivert, whom we should have snapped up, If we dont make some serious changes before the start of the season to strengthen, this season could be a struggle.

I await the next few weeks' transfers...............

you are a first class idiot lad.

Well said. No forgiveness round these parts.

by **ivor_the_injun** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:59 pm

(My 100th post...)

Although Boro and Birmingham have picked up some eyecatching players, overall their squads still lack the sort of depth and quality that the teams you'd expect to be up there have. If LFC lose Owen for a period of time, we have Baros and Pongolle. If Birmingham lose Heskey, they have Stern John.

Still, hats off to McLaren and Bruce - they've easily done the best work in the transfer market so far this summer. Along with Charlton, they're the kind of competitive Premiership clubs that the league needs, and they're run on the sort of budgets that promoted teams can reasonably aspire to.

by **barnesrush** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:21 am

say what u want about hustler but kluivert would have been a good bit of business. only if one of our strikers was leaving though

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