Using FIFA as a guide to how ex players are perceived.

Was playing FIFA the other day and as I looked through the results of my search for cheap young talent I came accross Kevin Pezzoni.

Looking at his stats its clear to see that he would have been a legend here had BS been in charge at his time at the club. He's 6ft4 and has a personality plus for strength. They dont just give those to anyone in the game and he is a relative nobody in the world of football, so its nice to see his 'talent' recognized.

I also looked for the Keita we had in the ranks but no luck. Both were excellent prospects on FM together with Raffaele DeVita.

Are you kidding me?

Just to add more Barton news -

Preston to demand £5 million from Everton and Stoke.

Makes you sick really. Does anyone know if the person responsible for casting him aside is still at the club? I hope not.

You win some you lose some; I wonder what the Hertha Berlin boards are saying about Samba?

Wasn't he the one that led a dressing room revolt against Roy? If so then we should have sold him earlier than we did.

It depends who you believe.

Unfortunately the net wasn't in full swing back then so you heard something in the pub and then chinese whispers came into play.

Sherwood says not, but then he would. Either way, it was Kidd who sold him.

My last memories of Sutton as a Rovers player were him contributing a measly amount of goals which contributed to our relegation and then squealing to the media until he got his move to Chelsea. So **** him.

......and yes I am a very bitter man.

He missed a monumental portion of that season with injury. In fact, I bet we'd have stayed up had he have been leading the line for the majority of the season as opposed to Ashley Ward, Nathan Blake and Kevin Davies.

However, I still believe selling Sherwood was the main contributing factor to our eventual relegation.

Oops.

Mods, which button do I click to report another member having freaky dreams of me?

I bet he does, he'll be having a whale of a time kicking Aussies up the arse every Saturday.

Close to £20m, seriously?

Even if Chelsea were keen we would have got around 10 max.

I reckon we've got closer to £1.5m for him now, so I think we could have got not far off ten times more. He had just scored 24 goals, which is mightily impressive, and he wasn't to dissimilar to the age they signed Drogba at, and he cost £24m?

Still to think we could have got close to ten times what we have received two years ago is a little depressing.

You must be hurt that you only have me to try and pick on at every single stage - Grow a pair!

No, I'm thankful that you're consistently the boards' sitting duck.

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You must be hurt Benni didn't text you first.

Either will do.

Or when Ince was the most disastrous and incompetent manager since Kiddo.

The whole thing is pathetic. Does McCarthy really think he is control of the situation?

If we fail to agree a fee with West Ham, what odds a week later he's in the press apologising? He's got one last chance to play in a World Cup, one which so happens to be in his home country.

If he refuses to play for five months prior to it he's an absolute moron.

Wham have made a written bid but no idea what it is.

It's when a club writes to another club offering money for one of their players.

Think what you want. It appears that a number of senior first team players want away, even if McCarthy has been the most vocal about it (he has more at stake with the World Cup situation). He hasn't been so unfit as to be left out of the squad has he??

A better man manager would have got the maximum out of this talented player, using the World Cup situation positively to the benefit of Blackburn Rovers, rather than allowing a situation to develop where he might join a rival for whatever pittance they now choose to offer - and no doubt bag a hatful of goals for them to prove a point to his ex-manager.

Tugay, then Warnock, now maybe McCarthy, good players who didn't need to be forced out or sold. Rumblings that Dunn, Pedersen and Hoilett don't like what's happening.

There's a real fear for me that Allardyce's legacy will be a squad stripped of entertaining, talented footballers and it will take years to rebuild a Blackburn Rovers team worth paying to watch.

McCarthy underachieved under Hughes after the first season. MGP the same after perhaps a calendar year at his 'best.' Dunn has underachieved for everyone since Souness. Hoilett has proved nothing.

Your argument is made poorer by the history Allardyce has for getting the best our of players who have lost their 'desire.'

Maybe we were just full of bad eggs, but they were Hughes' bad eggs? That's how it looks to me.

Either way, how you can lay blame on Allardyce for the fact that a fat waster who has done sod all in three years for three different managers is beyond me.

zzzams fault for treating him like hes ######!!!!!!

I love it. You've just crossed the boundary into completely irrational over everything involving Allardyce. Now we can get some real ridiculous stuff thrown around Abs, now let's be 'avin you!!

Wouldn't it be ironic if West Ham decided they'd prefer Beattie over McCarthy?

I can confidently say that if Benni McCarthy is sold, it will not come back to haunt us.

He is fat and completely out of sorts.

Sorry I thought you suggested the midfield had played so well Dunn shouldn't be back in the team.

Could really mix it up and play Dunn in midfield?

As much as I like Dunny, I don't think he warrants a start tonight after the way the lads performed against Fulham.

Eh?

You should have posted those words in the Allardyce thread.

Instead of blindly defending him come what may.

At least we have established you haven't read a vast majority of what I've posted in the Allardyce thread.

I haven't blindly defended him once. I thought most criticism was unfair up until around three weeks ago, at which point I started to let it be known that I felt he wasn't performing as he should be. However, I have always wanted him to succeed, and I hope victory today provides the catalyst for him to do so.

There is such a thing as blindly criticising you know Tris? Allardyce went into todays game under massive pressure, and rightly so, but he's come up trumps with a good victory and a team selection I think most would have liked to see.

The need to sack a manager is never a good thing for the club, so I hope todays result see's him given cash and hopefully build on the victory and see us head into the top half in the not too distant future. If we go on a run anywhere near as bad as the one we've just had then he should go.

I hope it's the first one tris, as I really hope he succeeds. Do you?