Real deal for Woody?
From what I can gather, it's looking like Jonathan Woodgate will be sold to Real Madrid for somewhere in the region of £15 million. I'm not exactly thrilled at the thought, on the grounds that he is our best defender by miles, however he's also our most injured player, and that's a lot of money for someone better known to the physios than the fans.

Two points that this raises though are, firstly, who are we going to replace him with?

Secondly, can we suggest to Madrid that it's £23 million for Woodgate and Dyer, or no deal?

That'd certainly be worthwhile.

As it stands, I'll be sad to see him leave as I firmly believe that with him fit we can challenge for honours, but unless we find a replacement of equal ability we'll be as error prone as we ever are at the back, and have another season ruined by incompetent defending.

- posted by Paul @ 2:09 pm