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I personally think he should be in the squad. If not as a player take him as a coach, he's perfect for any player, one of the very few England players who shows pride in wearing the shirt IMO, and he has the experience that can only benefit the younger players.

Plus, look at how important Giggs has been to United lately.

I'd rather have Gordon Brown at right back than Micah Richards!

Does he have an English Grandparent?

I guess Jose Baxter is a scouser (?)

Beckham is obviously a better crosser than them, but, at the moment, with the world cup just around the corner and Beckham playing in the MLS, I believe his call up is completely unjustified. I believe Capello should be giving the others their chances whilst they perform every week in England.

I don't believe Beckham is a valuable member of the squad, he barely even plays for crying out loud. Valuable is Rooney, CAshley, Lampard etc., not Beckham, I honestly can't remember him doing a thing for England over the past year or so.

If Beckham gets picked, he has to be playing in at least a semi-respectable competition, I believe he's going to Milan in January, if he plays regularly and plays well, then take him, no problemo, but calling him up now for pointless matches whilst he's not playing at a level where he should be considered for international football, is farcical to be honest.

Even though he's playing in the MLS, he's still the best English player at what he does.

The likes of Rooney and Lampard are valuable members of the team in my eyes, whereas Beckham is a valuable member of the squad.

Michael Owen is the best English finisher around, he plays at twice the level of Becks and is younger, but I don't see him getting called up.

My point is, Ash, everybody knows what Beckham brings, everybody knows what he does and these games are now of little importance to us. He isn't playing at a high enough level to warrant a call up to the national side, he isn't needed by the national side at the moment and, despite Capello saying he wouldn't call Beckham up if he wasn't in Europe, he is still getting in the side.

I believe we have a wealth of talent waiting in the wings, players who could well prove themselves to be important players at the world cup, but they probably won't get their chance as Beckham gets another 10 minutes for the sake of earning a cap.

Until Beckham is playing in Europe, playing well and proving himself better than the others, then he should be called up, but he isn't playing at that level, he is getting in there on reputation and purely reputation.

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www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 09,00.html The penny finally drops?

Yeah, he is from Bootle.

Turning that corner again.

Gillett also added that the £30million fee recouped from Xabi Alonso's move to Real Madrid "went straight back" into the club's transfer budget, which was already set at "£22-23m as part of our budgets".

Gillett added: "The club is in extraordinarily good financial condition. Far better than Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal.

"We have invested massively, we have put more money in than anyone other than Manchester City, with the craziness they have got."

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I am with Ash on this one, Beckham for me is a very valuable squad player and is definately a strong candidate for the world cup. Of course he needs to sort his move to Milan and play well there like he did last season and I believe he will again.

The point about ther younger players getting a chance I don't really understand. Walcott, SWP and Lennon have all been getting their chances recently and Becks has been on the bench so he has not been stopping their progress.

What they all have is great pace and what they all lack is a final ball. Thei is where in very tight games Beckham could be very useful and could create that one chance that we need to win a game.

If he was on 70 caps I don't think this discussion would go on everytime England are due to play.

It shouldn't be the smaller nations who fight against this. It should be every nation involved in the competition who fights this*.

*Obviously there will be one or two exceptions - the bent 8astards who pushed FIFA for this in the first place.

I think FIFA are genuniely scared that too many of the big boys won't make it to the Finals this time and will move heaven and earth to make sure they all get there.

France, Portugal, Germany, Czech Republic are just four teams that could well be in the play-off mix-up. Argentina could miss out from South America too, although the comfort factor of a nice cosy play off against a Central American nation is the more likely outcome.

None of the bigger names in the game will ever vote against this because they know, one day, it could be them finishing second.

Which is disgusting.

They've set out the rules of qualification. They should stick with them. If they wanted all the *big countries* to qualify anyway, they should give automatic qualification for these countries and not go through the charade of qualification.



All of the bigger names in the game should vote against this because it's corrupt. If FIFA are willing to do this openly then what are they prepared to do behind closed doors?

We have invested £128m on top of what has come in

Load of fucccking crap you yank liar

In the past 18 months, transfers (discounting free transfers) include:

Players bought:

Robbie Keane - £19m
Andrea Dossena - £7m
Alberto Aquilani - £20m
Glen Johnson - £18m
Albert Riera - £8m
Diego Cavalieri - £4m
David N'Gog - £1.5m
Sotirios Kyrgiakos - £1.5m

Total = £79m

Players sold:

Robbie Keane - £15m
Xabi Alonso - £30m
Peter Crouch - £11m
Alvaro Arbeloa - £3.5m
John Arne Riise - £4m
Scott Carson - £4m
Danny Guthrie - £2.25m
Paul Anderson - £0.25m

Total = £70m

That's a total of £9m spent on new players over the past 18 months. Where has that £128m gone George?

he is correct that Rafa hasn't got a clue though, any other club he'd be long gone.

Yanks lie?

We both knew that.

Bolllocks Mark 2nd last season WITH all the crap that was going on around the club? and he doesnt have a clue?

Only 5 points more than you've had before, he's a joke. Alot of luck last year, as proved this season, he was to blame for your falloff last year for "trying" to take Sir Alex on.

Large parts of the rant were spot on

Luck? you make your own luck you know that being a Man U fan.

What did Benitez do in his first 4 years of his reign at Liverpool? What did Fergie do in his first 4 years of his reign at United?

Fergie took over a club 2nd from bottom in the league, Rafa took over a top 4 club.