I think Raul merits a mention for his form throughout the decade.

I liked Raul but he never struck me as an outstanding player in any department bar consistency and effort. His record speaks for itself but I always preferred Inzaghi, even after he done us in '07

Inzaghi is a machine - like RVN for me.

Raul
1994– Real Madrid 533 (226)
1996–2006 Spain 102 (44)

Pippo
1991–1995 Piacenza 39 (15)
1992–1993 → Leffe (loan) 21 (13)
1993–1994 → Verona (loan) 36 (13)
1995–1996 Parma 15 (2)
1996–1997 Atalanta 33 (24)
1997–2001 Juventus 122 (5icon_cool.gif
2001– Milan 172 (6icon_cool.gif
1997–2007 Italy 56 (24)

Ruud
1994–1997 Den Bosch 69 (17)
1997–1998 Heerenveen 31 (13)
1998–2001 PSV Eindhoven 67 (62)
2001–2006 Manchester United 150 (95)
2006– Real Madrid 68 (46)
1998– Netherlands 64 (33)

In fact, looking at those, if you are going on goals alone - Ruud by a distance, ridiculous from PSV onwards

all the premier league managers will be getting the spanish inquisition this morning

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(not alluding to a spanish link there btw)

Catalonia beat Argentina 4-2 in a great game at the Camp Nou last night.

Catalan XI:
Valdés;
Bruno, Oleguer, Puyol, Capdevila;
Piqué, Xavi, Busquets;
Verdú, Bojan,Sergio García.

I really, really hope it's Arsene Wenger.

[iCreeping privacy laws in the UK, based on the Human Rights Act, mean we are barred from naming him.[/i Which should mean an end to the story as it's a complete waste of time, but it's such a really slow news day that we're really pushed to fill the front page, so we're filling it with this cack.

Apparently on 5 Live this morning they were going to have a discussion with a libel lawyer as to whether the other 19 Premier league managers would be able to sue the Sun for libel. Didnt hear the discussion but I could see their point.

Anyone see the other story in the Sun today about the chance of Brazil being punted from the World Cup next year if FIFA stick to their rules.

I'll go for Big Sam

Damn I was gonna say that I will take Phil Brown instead he looks like the type

All married Premier League managers could sue the paper. The paper tries to keep out of bother by not naming the man, but it generalises too few people so they could have a case.

OMFG. What a joker. Iz e serious? Iz e?

Liverpool were top dogs in the 80s, similar to Utd now. After a 2nd place finish for MUFC in 1988:

[iSupporters believed Utd were ready for an attack on the number one spot but were left with a familiar empty feeling when Utd finished 11th in 89. In the five seasons before Fergie Utd were always in the sunning for the title and he had added the costly purchases of Anderson, Bruce, McClair , Hughes, Leighton and Donaghy, yet we seemed further away then ever from being champions.[/i

[iHis tactics started to baffle many and he was overly cautious whilst persevering with too many ordinary, workmanlike players.[/i

[iI was angry that the team I love had been reduced to a dour, shambolic outfit by a manger who had spent a fortune.[/i

The last quote especially compares well with todays Liverpool situation.

Dont make me cry on christmas

Roy Keane says that Hughes shouldn't have taken the Citeh job because of his association with United, and that he wouldn't have taken it.

What an idiot.

Hes just a bitter old idiot IMO

What he meant was " I would never have been offered it because Im a pis[is[/i poor manager so I will just pretend I would have turned it down anyway"

Not sure whether this has been mentioned already, but Goran Pandev has been released from his contract at Lazio. I'd imagine the like of Spurs, Villa and maybe Liverpool will be taking a look at him.

Great to see Mark Hughes with egg on his face at Christmas.

Sure he'll get a few million but he had that anyway. His smug, arrogant tone and superiority complex can now be reassessed over the festive period while all the other managers he was so rude to can enjoy the football.

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Nailed on for Inter last I heard

Gary Cook...what are City fans thought's on him making your club a laughing stock?

Unfortunately, the first to do it is giving out an entirely different message and subsequent ones are looking like sharing his guilt.

It was a great opportunity for any manager to thrust himself into the limelight even before the takeover and any manager in his position would have taken it.