Scout Scribbles- Barton Slams Taarabt Attitude

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Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Semenyo	BOU	7.5m	98.6%	Likely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	100.8%	Very Likely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	101.5%	Very Likely
Palmer	CHE	10.3m	101.3%	Very Likely
Wilson	FUL	5.6m	93.2%	Maybe
Bowen	WHU	7.5m	91.9%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.9m	89.2%	Unlikely
Marc Guiu	CHE	4.2m	88.3%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	84.5%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	80.5%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	8.6m	73.7%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.8m	72.1%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.6m	74.5%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	70.5%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	69.8%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	68.3%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	67.4%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	66.3%	Unlikely
Haaland	MCI	15.0m	65.3%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	62.9%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	61.9%	Unlikely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	62.0%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	61.1%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	58.2%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	56.4%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	56.0%	Unlikely
B.Fernandes	MUN	9.3m	49.8%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	50.0%	Unlikely
Cash	AVL	4.9m	51.2%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	50.1%	Unlikely
Romero	TOT	5.0m	50.4%	Unlikely
James	CHE	5.6m	48.5%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	48.0%	Unlikely
Flemming	BUR	5.3m	47.7%	Unlikely
L.Miley	NEW	4.4m	39.8%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	40.2%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	39.6%	Unlikely
Wilson	WHU	5.8m	39.4%	Unlikely
Cherki	MCI	6.5m	36.0%	Unlikely
Leno	FUL	4.9m	38.4%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Enzo	CHE	6.6m	115.8%	Very Likely
Lammens	MUN	5.1m	103.0%	Very Likely
Nallo	LIV	3.8m	101.5%	Very Likely
Woltemade	NEW	7.4m	98.8%	Likely
João Pedro	CHE	7.3m	100.3%	Very Likely
Elanga	NEW	6.6m	100.9%	Very Likely
Rodon	LEE	4.1m	100.6%	Very Likely
Muniz	FUL	5.4m	100.5%	Very Likely
Mayenda	SUN	5.3m	100.7%	Very Likely
Gudmundsson	LEE	3.9m	100.3%	Very Likely
Jordan	BUR	4.0m	99.5%	Maybe
Neave	NEW	4.4m	98.8%	Maybe
Irving	WHU	4.4m	95.7%	Maybe
McKenna	BOU	4.0m	94.8%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.5%	Unlikely
Balcombe	BRE	4.0m	93.4%	Unlikely
Piroe	LEE	5.0m	93.0%	Unlikely
Sels	NFO	4.7m	92.4%	Unlikely
Bentley	WOL	4.0m	92.9%	Unlikely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	93.0%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	92.3%	Unlikely
Morgan	BRE	4.4m	92.9%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	91.9%	Unlikely
Kulusevski	TOT	6.4m	91.2%	Unlikely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	89.5%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.3m	87.0%	Unlikely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	88.9%	Unlikely
Worrall	BUR	3.9m	88.7%	Unlikely
Munetsi	WOL	5.4m	86.0%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	86.3%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	86.2%	Unlikely
Danso	TOT	4.3m	86.3%	Unlikely
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	86.2%	Unlikely
Coleman	EVE	4.3m	85.7%	Unlikely
Yarmoliuk	BRE	5.0m	87.5%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.4m	83.6%	Unlikely
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	84.1%	Unlikely
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	84.4%	Unlikely
Aina	NFO	4.7m	83.6%	Unlikely
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	83.3%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Sus
Up	Kelleher	BRE	C, Vs
Down	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:16am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C, Inj
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	C
Up	Andersen	FUL	C
Up	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
Up	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:28am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	B
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
Up	Szoboszlai	LIV	C
No Change	Minteh	BHA	B
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	A
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs, Sus
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:34am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	C
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	B
Down	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
Down	Woltemade	NEW	B

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:43am

A Monday afternoon Scribbles brings reports of a return to training for Sergio Aguero. Joey Barton has harsh words for new team mate Adel Taarabt, Harry Redknapp admits he maybe should have started Jermaine Defoe at Newcastle and the PFA offer to intervene in the Luis Suarez-Patrice Evra row:

While the FA are set to investigate Patrice Evra’s claims of racist remarks allegedly made by Luis Suarez on Saturday afternoon, Suarez took to twitter last night to vehemently deny abusing the Frenchman during the 1-1 draw at Anfield. Today saw the PFA offer to mediate between the two, with chief executive Gordon Taylor keen to sort out the ongoing row:

It’s very disappointing to have two of our players from different countries at odds over a very serious issue. Only by having a full inquiry on such matters can we get to the bottom of it and try to make sure that such problems don’t arise again in the future. We need to try to cool down and reflect on what happened and to contact the FA and see what form their inquiry will take. It’s good to get this put behind us as quickly as possible instead of letting these things fester and become blown up again.

Arsene Wenger’s injury problems show no sign of letting up. Aaron Ramsey was ruled out of yesterday’s match against Sunderland due to a hamstring strain, while Kieron Gibbs was subbed off just minutes into the second half. Ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League clash with Marseille, the Gunners boss admitted:

Gibbs has an inflammation of his stomach muscles. He has a small chance of playing on Wednesday. Ramsey has a small chance of being in the squad. He had fatigue of his hamstring. I wanted to give him a breather – it would have been a gamble to play him.

With his first start for seven months marked by a goal in the draw against Man United, Steven Gerrard announced his return in typical style. The Liverpool skipper spoke of his satisfaction at being back amongst the starters and looks back to his old self ahead of the weekend home clash with Norwich:

It’s been a frustrating six months watching from the stands. I didn’t realise what I had until it was taken away from me for so long. I’m just delighted to be back, experiencing the emotions of big games again.

Man United have named their squad for this week’s Champions League clash with Romanian side Otelul Galati. Sir Alex Ferguson has left out Rio Ferdinand, Tom Cleverley and Rafael, with Nemanja Vidic back in the reckoning for the first time since the opening day of the season win at West Brom.

Reports today suggest Sergio Aguero trained ahead of the Champions League clash with Villarreal tomorrow evening. Micah Richards is also said to have returned to training- the right-back was subbed off in Saturday’s 4-1 over Aston Villa with a head knock but is expected to make the match, with City desperate for all three points.

Joey Barton has been more than a little candid when discussing Adel Taarabt over the weekend. Though Neil Warnock admitted he sometimes gives the Moroccan preferential treatment, Taarabt was benched on Saturday following his Craven Cottage walkout in Gameweek seven, and Barton didn’t mince his words when discussing the player’s contribution to the QPR team cause and subsequent disappearing act at Fulham:

I came here and was told he was a genius. But I’m yet to see it and I don’t know whether it is because he does not work hard enough, or whether he tends to sulk. This is the top level of world football and if you’re not prepared to work hard you will come up massively short. If I had Adel’s ability, I would not want to be coming up short having not worked hard enough….I don’t know if he got a lot of stick. He deserved some if he didn’t. It would have been nice if he had come in and apologised to the group for doing that, but he didn’t think he needed to. As one of the senior players, maybe he should have.

Harry Redknapp admitted he may have erred when announcing his starting XI for the game at Newcastle yesterday. The Spurs boss fielded Rafael Van der Vaart but despite the Dutchman’s goal, it was his replacement Jermain Defoe who caught his manager’s eye, with a brilliantly taken goal outside the Newcastle box:

It was a great finish. They’ll say I’m a clever manager- if I had been that clever maybe I should have started him. It is difficult, I have him and Rafa. Rafa didn’t look sharp today and looked a bit tired having been away with his country. I decided Jermain might give us a bit of sharpness.

Still on the subject of Spurs, Ledley King is set to be sidelined for “a while“ according to Redknapp, after picking up an abductor strain at Newcastle yesterday. The centre half departed the proceedings just before the half-hour mark and Spurs looked defensively shaky with replacement Sebastien Bassong alongside Younes Kaboul. With Michael Dawson and William Gallas still recovering from Achilles and calf problems respectively, Spurs options in central defence are thin on the ground right now.

Alex McLeish is hoping James Collins will overcome a groin problem ahead of next weekend’s home game with West Brom. The centre-half was an ever-present in the Villa starting XI up until last weekend’s trip to Man City and was sorely missed, with his side’s unbeaten record crumbling in the 4-1 Etihad loss.

After five straight losses, Mick McCarthy hardly has his troubles to seek but this afternoon brought bad news on the injury front for the Wolves boss. Steven Fletcher could be out for a month with a torn calf and McCarthy, having reverted to a 4-5-1 in his absence at West Brom yesterday, admitted his side lack a cutting edge without the Scotsman in the ranks. With Sylvan Ebanks-Blake also currently unavailable, Wolves’ striking options are thin on the ground right now.

wozza

14 years, 2 months ago

Why on earth are Liverpool having a friendly against Rangers? I hope Enrique and Suarez don't play. It will be time to give Big Dog Carroll a run out

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ninjacowboy

I think this is a strong team for the upcomming gameweek, what do you think??
Perhaps the midfield is a little conflicted, would it be worth to think good things to come of nani and silva against eachother? or gamble with petrov and dyer?

Krul (Voorm)
Warnock, JoseEnrqiue, Jones, RTaylor (Shawcross)
Ramsey,Nani,Silva (Petrov, Dyer)
Suarez, RVP(C), Adebayor

ROBERTO MANKINI

The whole Suarez-Evra saga is getting blown way out of proportion. By no small part because of Evra's stupidity, and personal vendetta (for being schooled the whole game by Suarez).

The facts:

1. Suarez doesn't speak English yet, the few words he can muster are barely intelligible (recalling a postmatch Sky interview)
2. In South America nad Uruguay everyone calls each other 'negro', 'negrito', 'negra', 'negrita' and it has no racist context. It's slang and you call people of all colours this, my wife is Uruguayan, and white and was always called negrita by .
3. Evra has a history of being overly sensitive on the racial subject, and he speaks some Spanish so would understand Suarez, but Spanish is not his first or best language

So the most likely series of eventrs, was that Suarez and Evra were winding each other up in Spanish, with Suarez using Uruguayan slang. Evra obviously took this completely out of context because he's ignorant of S. American culture or is purposefully trying to milk the situation for all he can because he's being vindictive and looked the fool on the pitch.

If there's anyone sensible in the FA looking at this case, it will get thrown out immediately once the facts are shown

Its obviously a cultural misunderstanding by a non-native Spanish speaker getting some banter in Uruguayan Spanish slang. Evra obviously chooses the path of maximum attention, but we all know he's not too bright

I've got Suarez on my team and I'm extremely confident Evra's allegations are going to be dismissed, so I don't think there's any need to panic sell due to that reason at least.