31/08/2014 MOTD2 Extra

Good afternoon. Welcome to Match of the Day Two extra. With me this

afternoon, we have got Martin Keown, Andy Dunn from the Sunday Mirror and

Steve Bower, Match of the Day commentator. We want to hear from

you too. I'll put your thoughts and questions

to the panel. As ever, there's an awful lot to discuss, including the

game of the season so far, at Goodison, as Chelsea put six past

Everton. We've got plenty of games today, including Spurs with their

unbeaten record who are at home to Liverpool and beg vich will join us

to talk about Stoke's win yesterday and the 4.00pm game is Arsenal and

Leicester. There is only one place to start and that's at Goodison

yesterday tea-time where it finished 3 to lever tonne and 6 to Chelsea.

Here are both managers. Wonderful for everyone at the stadium and for

everyone watching TV around the world. Not for me. We cannot make so

many defensive mistakes. We want to improve as a team by keeping our

defensive quality and strength in balance and by improving in other

areas. Today, we showed that we are improving in other areas, but we are

not keeping our balance and our solidity in defence, so we have to

find that balance and improve. From our point of view, we started the

game too slow. To give up two goals to any team is always difficult, but

to give it to Chelsea is even harder, but I think we showed

incredible character and belief in the way we are as a team and I was

feeling we were getting back, but every time we were getting very

close we got a punch in the other end, where Chelsea kept finding the

back of the net with ease. I know Roberto Martinez says they started

too slowly, but I mean to be fair to Everton, they didn't touch the ball

before Chelsea's first goal inside 35 seconds? And 30-odd passes. There

was a slight quay flection from Azarenka. -- Azpilicueta. I think

Jose Mourinho accused them of being lazy in the first half and it was

typical Muramatsu, a short a-- Jose Mourinho, a shot across the bows,

but he got that in the head, start quickly and fast. Costa great run

and Fabregas, once he's on the ball, straightaway he's in the zone,

looking for the killer ball and they're outstanding. I think that's

the thing with them, they slipped up. They didn't win this last

season. Jose Mourinho wants to get into their head how focussed are

they and do they want it? The way they reacted to the goals they were

conceding, because it was a real roller Koster -- rollercoaster

match. I think they've got the strength to go. You know it's a

massive game with Everton and they were powerful. I think they've seen

last week when every started -- Everton started so well against

Arsenal and Jose Mourinho will have said about the atmosphere at

Goodison and the place will be rocking and he knows himself,

because he's had trouble there in the past and he's said not to get

caught. So much power in the team when you look and the introduction

of Fabregas when you compare teams and the Drogba team that he was

successful with, this one has more finesse, but still has steel and

character. More of a Muramatsu look -- Jose Mourinho look about it. We

thought perhaps some were not ideally set up to Jose Mourinho. He

stamped his authority on that team. A little bit in the January

transfer, but now with Costa and Fabregas, the two stand-out players

and bringing players on like Luis and Obi Miquel -- mikel and they've

done well. They've done what most clubs would have loved to have done

and what some clubs are struggling to, "These are the players who we

are getting out and these are the ones we want to bring in, because

we're weak here and we'll get it done." They got it done early and

they've got Torres out the door and we expect Remy to come in to replace

him, so they've got the business done. He has bedded Costa and

Fabregas down quickly. Costa scored and already, as Martin said, last

season he struggled in that. Focus on Costa then. I he's he's the

bargain of the season. I said this before. Even at 30 million or

whatever it was? An absolute snip. You've bought a 70 million striker

for 32 million. He doesn't turn 26 until next month. Well, until

October. He was a star in Spain and he's got all the physical attributes

required for the Premier League. He's a proven goal scorer. At 25, he

is operating at that level, he'll cost you 66. Chelsea got him for 32

and it's a snip. A couple of points, Costa has been excellent so far, but

there is Fabregas and Matic, two of the best, but this is the other bit

I want to get on because Danny Murphy thought Diego Costa was good

and Gully as tweeted saying there were nudges in the back so Costa

gave it back. What is wrong with that? Strectly to you, Martin. We

are all looking at Martin. Danny was looking at it from Costa's point of

view, but I'm not sure he should be waving a flag, because there's no

need for that. It's an own goal scored by Koeman and he has gone

into the face to remind him. Is it wrong to get into a position like

that? Yes, I think it's wrong. It's unnecessary. It's rubbing it in, of

course. People would say I did it myself. Would they? No, they

wouldn't. We can't remember any incident. Fair play to Tim Howard,

because he was going there to support him. If you look at that,

then next week you think about it. When he was involved with Ramos and

Pepe then there's a lot of chat going on and he needs to button it

and play football. He's outstanding. He's far better than I ever

realised. Don't you think there's a limit and he might learn the limit.

He didn't react when Howard confronted him. He might well have

got himself a card. Jose Mourinho will be delighted because Ba and

Torres weren't doing that. Already there's more of an edge. Far be it

for me, but I'm in your face, but we need to go to Steve Wilson. Over now

to White Hart Lane, otherwise we'll lose Steve as he has got preparation

to do. Spurs and Liverpool. Spurs fans say to me, Steve, they've had a

great start to the season obviously, unbeaten, but this is a true test

for them? Yes, of course, it is. They've played four matches and won

them all, but they haven't played anyone as strong as Liverpool yet. I

was hugely impressed with Tottenham last weekend, when he destroyed QPR,

who weren't very good to be fair. But particularly, I was impressed

with the midfield, which I think is very strong among the most creative

in the Premier League. Tottenham are stronger and better and Ericsson is

good. And Lemela. And I think that midfield is going to be an area

where Tottenham are very strong, even for the very best this season.

And from a Liverpool point of view, even from a Match of the Day

commentator, you may watch a lot of football and go to the games, but

there must be a bit that wants to see Balotelli back? Of course,

everybody is talking about it. It's the big question, will Brendan

Rogers start with him or not? It's about formation. If he plays two

upfront with Sterling behind, which worked well last season, then he

risked getting overrun, but they looked a little weak at Manchester

City. If you are going to buy another centre forward, surely you

are going to play him. If you're going to ask me to commit at this

stage, I would say he plays in the front two. Thank you very much,

Steve. We'll bring you the team news as soon as we get it. You would

start him today, wouldn't you? Without doubt. This is a player when

he's focussed and tuned in, you can be very successful with him. Power

and pace. He's got a manager also that is really up for the challenge

and enjoys talking about a key individual every week, which has

fielded lots of questions on Balotelli. Today, he is going to

have to come up with the eanTSs. -- answers. I feel it's going to

energise Liverpool. I think last season, the fans, and the emotion

around Anfield, saw the reaction from the fans when he was coming in

and it keeps the club going in the right streion. I -- right

discretion? I don't think he's a good signing. Why? It's interesting

that Brendan Rogers said Liverpool, there's only one star and that's the

team, but the team and Balotelli don't go together. Of all the sort

of corroborative and uncorroborated antics of ball teTy, the disturbing

thing was when Manchester City were 3-1 down against Sunderland and he

grappled with his own team-mate because he wanted to take it and

then sulked. He actually scored twice in the end, but it suggested

he's not a team player, but I think everything about Liverpool -- But,

if I was to talk that example that you just said, if I was a supporter

and I saw him arguing over a free kick, but then scored two goals, the

fighting over the free kick would be irrelevant. I think they booed him

off, because it was the final straw, this guy, it sends the single that

the guy is more interested than himself than the team. Martin, now

they've got him, I agree that use him early, because his career shows

that he makes an impact early on. In every team you're in there is a star

player and you accept that. They give you a chance. You hope he'll be

mature and they won't fight to take a penalty. It looks poor. I think

he's made that step, but to energise the club I think he's been

outstanding. You have to ask is Steven Gerrard still taking

penalties. You were sitting there think Luis Suarez has gone and if

anything happens to Sturridge then Liverpool are in trouble and they've

got domestic cups, so whether it was ball tellic or not, Liverpool needed

a body of quality in that area in and in the restrictive area you look

at what he has paid and you think about 32 million for Costa and I

think there's a chance it could turn out as a positive. As I keep saying,

with ball tellic -- Balotelli, Shay Given said last week among the

players at Manchester City he was popular. And it seems, you know, we

have got lovely pictures from Liverpool's training ground and they

are smiling and laughing. I'm sure it will last, but he gets bored. The

other side, I watch two Italy games in the World Cup and the one against

Costa Rica, he was booked early on and they had to take him off. You

could tell with the body language, when it mattered that day, he was

hauled off. They were delighted. There are some players that need the

relationship with the manager and I don't think Roberto Mancini got it

right. I'm not going to blame him. The new Italian manager, who has

just won three leagues in a row has left him out. He scores early in the

career. Milan he scored 14 in 14 and then five in the sexT 16. I think at

Manchester City he scored ten in the first and then none in 12. He's a

player that makes it and it's true in games, early on he's good. When

you do the programme tonight, what will you look at from a Spurs' point

of view? Lemela is an interesting player. Written off by the last

management. It can only have been the case they didn't see any real

quality in him. Les Ferdinand last week made the point he was injured a

lot. I know. I knew he was saying that, but I didn't feel it was

genuine what he was saying. You can't blame him if he's injured. It

shows you, if people don't believe in you and people are talking about

belief and this fella is taken off, he's overplayed at times and he

needs to get that right, but the manager has made it simple, the way

they play and press high and the full-backs push on and Spurs this

they play and press high and the full-backs push on and Spurs season

will be a team that will really push people all the way. The new manager

was bound to have hopefully a positive effect, but I think what is

interesting about this Spurs team is posh posh's effect on this team and

the encouraging sign is he will struS the players. We -- trust the

players. We know he can get the best out of the young players. Danny Rose

too, but he's been outstanding. That's Andy Dunn and Martin Keown

and Steve Bower with me. Gordon has texted us. "Nobody is giving Stoke

any credit and they played outside Manchester City." Give us a chance,

we haven't spoken about the game now. We'll start by hearing from

Mark Hughes. game plan and we had to executed as

well as we could because we were up against an outstanding team. The

goal that we scored to win the game was worthy of winning any game and I

was delighted for the players, because we gave them a framework in

terms of giving them a plan to go up against a top side. They really

committed to its. They got their reward. Mark Hughes talking

committed to its. They got their Lineker last night. And we are

joined by the Stoke goalkeeper, Asmir Begovic. Good afternoon. How

are you? We are very well. Mark Hughes said you'd worked on a plan

to take on Manchester City. Was that most of this week in training,

despite the League Cup game? After the League Cup game we focused on

the weekend. We worked on the tactical side of things a lot. We

did work on this and the management team got is ready for the task

ahead. The most important thing yesterday was sticking together and

being disciplined and buying into the game plan. The team did and we

got our reward. Do the players like the tactical side of training and

saving their legs, or is it something you accept you have to buy

into for the bigger games? It is part and parcel of it. Training

balances itself out. As you get closer to the game, the tactical

side is important. Earlier in the week, you do different training.

Especially in England, with midweek games, those things that come into

it, you have to focus on different things. We knew the task at the

weekend and you have to be tactically spot-on when you go to

the big teams. I was at Hull last Sunday and I spoke to your manager,

and he Sunday and I spoke to your manager,

and was not too happy after. I sensed you would get a reaction. Is

that how the week went? The first couple of games did not go to plan.

That is the way the Premier League goes sometimes. We believed in the

quality we had in the dressing room and as long as we stuck together and

bought into it, we would get good results. It was a fantastic day for

everyone. It is nice when things come together like that. Andy Dunn

here, how important is it for you to be playing behind a centre-half in

outstanding form, like Ryan Shawcross? It is a huge help. He has

been a consistent performer over many years. I have had the fortune

of being able to play behind him the last five years and really enjoyed

it. How he is not in the England squad is a life mystery, really. He

has been great for us. He is captain and a fine example. We are

fortunate. Something has been discussed, the fact he is not in the

England squad. Do you as players think about that? Absolutely. The

announcement came on Friday and you are baffled. It is fair enough when

you go into friendly matches and try to introduce younger players and

experiment for the future, when you are resting key players, but when

you are going into tough qualifying matches you need people you can

count on. He has performed consistently at a high level for

many years and has been a captain. It is disappointing. It is great to

see that it does not put him down. He does not get disheartened, he

does his job every week. We appreciate you taking time out to

join us. Enjoy your Sunday. Asmir Begovic, the Stoke goalkeeper. If

Ryan Shawcross had signed for... I was going to say Arsenal, which

would not happen, but Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester city,

Liverpool, do you think he would be in the England squad? It would help.

If you play for a top club... I found myself when I move to Aston

Villa. When I came back to Arsenal, I could hardly get out of the

England squad. It does have a bearing. He has had his chance for

England. He might feel, Roy Hodgson, that he is not quite equipped. He is

a strong player, perhaps he does not have the pace of international

football. Ryan Shawcross can focus, he can enjoy himself, so it is an

advantage for Stoke. Barely 20 minutes against Sweden. He scored

three of his goals when Shawcross was on and he was directly

responsible for one of them, but it is 80 minutes. He is 25 and he has

played something like 220 league games. I like the Acacia 's talent

of someone like Chambers, playing three games for Arsenal. And he is

in the England squad. It is the feel-good factor. You play for a top

club. It does not matter how long you play, you are almost accelerated

into the squad. I can only assume he saw something in him when he had him

with the squad. Maybe in training, how he was around the squad. Roy

Hodgson said on Thursday, he bemoan the fact he did not have leaders.

Tony Adams has written about this. And he is a leader. You cannot wave

a magic wand. You do not have too, he plays at the Britannia and he is

in great form. He could come again into the picture because we are

desperately short of players. Now that Steven Gerrard and Frank

Lampard have gone, almost a generation of players are missing.

We rely on youngsters. There are others around, Nathan Dyer,

yesterday. Somebody said that Shawcross and Nathan Dyer should be

picked and if they were at Manchester United, they would be.

You can get in touch with us. The team uses in from White Hart Lane.

Mario Balotelli starts? He does indeed. Mario Balotelli, wearing

number 45. He makes his debut at White Hart Lane. Coutinho, he makes

way. Adam Lallana is not named among the substitutes, he is not ready for

action. Tottenham name the same team from last week...

The other thing about selection when it comes to Spurs, Michael Dawson,

in the Spurs programme is asked to pick his best Spurs team.

in the Spurs programme is asked to He has put 12 players in it. They

are playing a 4-4-3 formation. That is doing the rounds on social media.

We can go back to gain yesterday. Newcastle against Crystal Palace. It

came out of the blue. I was seventh choice, but it does not bother me.

It is a great club and it is great to push something back into it. They

are great will stop I am chuffed with the attitude. Tony must have

done such a good job because they have so much character and

determination and they can play a bit. Sometimes they probably do not

believe in themselves enough. It promises to be an exciting time. Is

one reason why this might work is because it does not bother him he

was seventh choice? He is determined to enjoy every second. He was

smiling from getting off the coach until I interviewed him. When you

look at Neil Warnock, I spent time with him during his so-called

retirement. You never believed he would not be a manager again and

when he spoke about Crystal Palace, you sensed he did not like the way

it ended. The way it has come about, he thinks it is Christmas. He

thought after the game yesterday that he thought he had a better

squad he was looking at from afar after a couple of training session.

The enthusiasm rubbed off on the players yesterday and they deserved

at least a point. If any team would win yesterday it would have been

Palace. There was so much pace, Newcastle could not handle it. It is

lazy to suggest he is a like-for-like replacement for Tony

Pulis. They are different. I agree he will give them a short-term lift.

That was illustrated yesterday. Long-term, I am not sure. His record

is not great when he has managed in the top division. Going back to

Wilfried Zaha, he knows him for a long time. He was outstanding

yesterday. He is an interesting player who went to Manchester

united. They tell us he does not have a big club mentality. What does

that mean? It is a cruel world the football game, you can be written

off in a moment. The club feeling was he was not the right player. He

is a real talent. I spoke to him and he said, I feel at home. When I walk

into this club I feel different. You could tell that when he came onto

the pitch. He had a goal ruled out. Is that the fault of Manchester

United, for not making him feel at home? You have to respond to the

environment you go into. You cannot carry anyone. There are exceptions.

Maybe they have not done enough for him. What I see on the pitch...

There is a homely feel to Crystal Palace. I think that is what Neil

Warnock liked in his first time there. You go to Manchester United,

go to the training ground, and it is like a small town. The complex is

enormous and the amount of people around. Maybe he is not getting the

individual care. He was bought right at the end, by Sir Alex Ferguson. He

had his third manager effectively. He is on a roller-coaster. The

expectations of Manchester United now get more enormous that the next

group. I told him he needs to smile more. He has not enjoyed his

football in the past 12 months but came on yesterday and revelled in

it. If we look at the atmosphere created around a club, looking at

Swansea and what Garry Monk is done, I listen to the radio this morning,

talking about the chairman. How clever he can be with his

appointments. He does not necessarily go for the obvious

person. Swansea and Garry Monk, we spoke to him last week, they have

somebody who knows the club in Garry Monk. You cannot underestimate that.

That has shown at Swansea in the way they have responded to Garry Monk.

You speak to anyone and they cannot speak highly enough. He is a young

man but making good decisions. Sigurdsson, an outstanding player.

Another player who has gone to a bigger club and come back. The

shackles are off. You have to show character. Just because somebody

closes the door in your face, you have to go on and show it. You need

somebody who believes in you. Garry Monk spoke about the 40 points after

the match. He wins this week. At the time, they were top, because this

was before Chelsea played. What would be realistic for them as he

has rebuilt the squad? He has got Boney. If he can keep him. If you

ask me a few weeks ago he would still be there, and I hope the fans

he will be. He is their focal point. We were talking about Stoke earlier,

magnificent to get ten. Crystal Palace, if Swansea can get in those

reaches. 's Steve mentioned it before in relation to Crystal

Palace, they have pace. With Routledge and others. The 40 points,

it is amusing. I am not saying he will come out and say they are

aiming for top half, whatever, but saying that, I saw them against

Manchester United. I thought they had more potential. The top half of

the tables should be within their reach. It gives you a feeling as a

player that you are looking over the shoulder. You play to win, not to

not get beaten. You would not want to hear your manager saying that. We

are on an upward path, let's keep going. He needs to set fresh goals

for the team. Let's move on to the Arsenal and Leicester game. Arsene

Wenger was asked about whether he was bringing ni chi fan le ma extras

or a striker. -- in a new striker,. R. All the opinions doesn't

necessarily mean that people are right. We have Sanogo and we have

Sanchez and we have Walcott and Podolski and we have Giro d'Italia,

who will come -- Olivier Giroud, who will come back in the season. When

money needs to be spent we do it, but we want to do it in the right

way. I will be on alert and people will ask me nearer the transfer

deadline. The last few days are poker game. There is a lot of lies

there. Everybody is interested in the same player, even if you're the

only one who wants the player. Well, there were in some of the morning

papers talking about Loic Remy and it will be Chelsea for Loic Remy.

Over to Simon. They have different options, Arsenal, but all very

different types of players, aren't they? I think they are. They don't

have a like-for-like replacement for Olivier Giroud. Sanogo would be the

nearest to it. I know they've tried to bulk him up over the year, but

it's a big ask to put him in the situation and expect him to carry

the team upfront. I feel that a new striker would be handy for Arsenal

if they want to turn a top-four finish into a genuine title

challenge. I'm not sure and that clip bears it out, that Arsene

Wenger feels the same way. I don't really understand why they weren't

in for Remy more strongly than they were. Remy had already indicated a

long time ago he was interested in Arsenal. Chelsea were far more

proactive and decisive about the whole thing yesterday. Arsenal's

interest somehow seemed a little lukewarm, but whatever it is going

to be, ?8 million or ?10 million, why not go for Loic Remy? The player

of that quality is a steal. Leicester now have Arsenal at home

and it's a tough welcome to the Premier League. Absolutely. I think

they've equipped themselves so far. 2-2 against Everton is credible.

They struggled, Arsenal, against Everton. They'll not be the only

team to lose at Stamford Bridge. It was a game in which he had an

opportunity to take the lead and that might have made life more

interesting. I think they've had a good week already so far, with the

signing of Campagnaro. -- Zoumana Camara. -- Cambiasso. He's got a

Champions League crown and he could add a lot to the midfield and the

news is his clearance has come through and he's available to play

this afternoon. Simon, thank you. You can listen to that in full on

the radio. We'll come on to Cambiasso and Leicester in one

moment, but do you think that they should buy a striker before the

deadline drops tomorrow night, Martin? I think he probably should.

I think it might just be - you talk about belief and that signing that

makes people feel they can take off - but I feel it wouldn't be good

news for Podolski, and Campbell, who are sitting in the wings and it's

the message. He did something with Ian Wright. He was allowed to leave

and Anelka came through and look what he did. That's what he has to

marry up. We all want young players to play, but the Arsenal fans want

Arsenal to be competitive now and don't want to wait longer for

somebody else to be ready. Even from the Anelka and Wright era, Steve,

times have changed and maybe if they went with Remy or Falcao, but it

doesn't look like him, but if they brought him in it would stop a

Campbell coming through? The players listed there, Arsenal fans want

that, Olivier Giroud will score goals and we had this last season.

What will they go if anything happens to Olivier Giroud. You can

lift Walcott and Podolski or Sanchez, bur they're not that

genuine to go forward to get 15 or 20 goals and Walcott wants to play

there, Martin. And Arsene Wenger was reluctant to play him through the

middle. Permly, I think they're desperate. Sanchez was taken off and

Olivier Giroud came on. You realise how good someone is when you lose

them. Someone say Olivier Giroud is not the finished article, but now

he's a massive loss and if he's not available then the gut instinct must

be to replace him, because the others haven't been given the

opportunity. Everyone has known about the Loic Remy sip. Newcastle

are still talking about -- Loic Remy situation. Newcastle are still

talking about him. They got many goals. What could he do at Arsenal

with the players? The thing is, it shouldn't have taken Olivier

Giroud's injury to actually press Arsene Wenger into getting another

striker. He should have been in for one in the window. He wanted to play

and he didn't want to block him. There are other options, but there

is some. How many teams are playing with two strikers? You are playing

with one and if you look at the guys, Campbell is there because he's

a striker and Podolski. If you look at Manchester City they'll play with

two. They did yesterday. If smBs happens to Edin Dzeko then they

bring in Alvaro Negredo. He will sit on the bench at Chelsea and he'll

not get in ahead of Costa. For three or four weeks they could have got

Loic Remy. He has been available and you could go and get him. Quickly,

are Chelsea the exception to the rule as they go, "Bang, we'll get

rid of him and this is who we will bring in." Lots dither and Chelsea

do it? They do and they offer the right money. The business is

brilliant. They're making money on sales and money coming in and going

out, so they've got the extra ?10 million. Manchester City have done

it too. They've got rid of players and 10 million for Rodwell and then

Garcia went out the door, so the two teams who everybody thinks will be

title contenders have the symmetry. How canny is Cambiasso to Leicester?

Depends - I saw him last year in the Italian league, it depends what his

legs are like in England. If you have legs and pace around him, as

Simon said, he has been there and done it and he's won everything

there is to win. His experience in the dressingroom, if I was a young

Leicester player, if I walked in, I would be like, "Wow." As long as

he's got enough energy around him, I think he could be canny. You can't

underestimate having players around you with the experience. It isn't

when you come up from the Championship you ask are you a

Premier League player? It's like Burnley, ahead of yesterday, they've

got to believe that they are Premier League players. Without doubt and

Nigel Pearson after 16 years, it's the same. That self-doubt is there

and you are almost auditioning in the first matches, wondering should

you be there. When you bring people in with top-level experience to get

through the early period, because it's ten years now since Leicester

have played at the top. You could argue if you are going to be in a

team who will be under pressure and you have to press and chase, whether

or not Cambiasso it is he's up to that in terms of physical kaleT. We

expect plenty of movement tomorrow because it's transfer deadline day.

The BBC will have it covered across all of the outlets.

Danny Murphy and Phil Neville part of our cast. Five live will leave us

now and we'll continue here on BBC One. We'll talk about the transfer

deadline day. Do you expect it, Andy, given your contacts and how

the immediate why are, do you expect it to be very, very busy? I do. I

don't think there will be a late blockbuster. We might have expected

or hoped for or anticipated something, like Falcao coming in,

but that won't happen now. I think you'll get a lot of business and

there's already a record transfer window. Over ?750 million. It won't

reach the billion. I think it will be interesting. Schneiderlin, and

that situation, that might develop. Are you suggesting that post-match

interview was a man not convincing? He almost looked as if he was sort

of thinking, "I might be saying, but I'm sure people tomorrow will be

trying to make that happen." That's what happens on the day.

Other clubs will come in and try to weaken. Martin's kind of sort of

stuffed my papers, by reading them every now and then, but if you look

at the back of the Daily Star this morning, their headline is, "Manic

United." 11 players in and out. Steve, 11 in and out in one day? I

would be amazed. There is probably some movement out of Manchester

United tomorrow. They've got to cull it. When you look at the list, he

wants to bring some players in and something's got to give. Even a club

that size has got to look. It's the wages. Danny Welbeck in a situation

and smeple will want to take him -- people will want to take him. I

think Anderson maybe too. And Hernanes too. -- hernandez. As the

manager, you have to show you are making a fist of what you've got and

I know the great man has won across Europe and dare be it for me to

question him, but at the moment he's definitely there to be questioned,

because he doesn't seem to work out what he's got. Look at David Moyes,

the biggest mistake was arriving on 1st July and it didn't give him

enough time. This man is back from a World Cup semifinal and got on

preseason in America and started the Premier League. He's still finding

out all the time about the players. We talked about clubs doing their

business early, Manchester City have been linked with bringing in another

striker. I don't know whether that is Alvaro Negredo going out?

Possibly. He has been linked with a move back to Spain. I would be

surprised if they brought in another striker. I would be surprised if

Alvaro Negredo went. They've got two top players for every position. They

could do with a strike and need that freshness at the top. They might

have got steal. I feel sometimes you make a change and bring one in,

because how long does it stay healthy for when you've got four

there trying to keep everyone happy one in and out, it might be better.

Manchester City losing to Stoke yesterday. Bob in Norwich,

"Shawcross won't get a chance. He's a top-quality defender." Thank you

to marta, "England had a goalen team but it made little difference in the

end from 2002-2010." Thank you all. Five live for Arsenal at Leicester

and Match of the Day Two 10. 25pm on BBC One. We'll see you for that.

MUSIC: "Changing" by Sigma Featuring Paloma Faith

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