We need a British spine in our team

[Özim]

What we need is quality, they don't necessarily have to be English.

Problem is we've been spending what money we've chosen to spend on shite for years....very few decent players bought in the last 6 years and this is the result.....you can't keep buying cheap nobodies and bargain basement buys and expect to be any good.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

What we need is quality, they don't necessarily have to be English.Problem is we've been spending what money we've chosen to spend on shite for years....very few decent players bought in the last 6 years and this is the result.....you can't keep buying cheap nobodies and bargain basement buys and expect to be any good.

Not really we need a manager who recognises the problems of the team, you can have all the quality you want but you don't sort out the problems they will still be there.

We could buy Hazard and Mvilla and Benzema/Falco or Klass jan, yes we'd have quality but our problems would still be there Mentally.

[Coney]

Today, we didn't have a single Englishman out there. I'm absolutely not a nationalist, but given that we're playing in the English Premier League, I think we desperately need at least a couple of British players in the central positions of the team, to cope with the unique style that we face in this country. That's why I was calling for the signings of Cahill, Jagielka, Baines and someone like Parker. These players have grown up playing football in this league, and know what it's about and how to cope. Instead, Wenger has this strange bias against signing established British players (he's got no problem signing young ones though) and that's negatively impacted upon our squad over the last few years IMO.

British or English - you seem to use them interchangably which, given the PL is an English league and British includes Scots, Welsh and N-Irish does not match up.

If you are implying that only British players can make up a spine, then I think you are following a gross stereotype and also need to explain how teams in Europe without British or English players have a spine.

If you mean we need a better and more solid defence, then maybe you could just be onto something, but I'd start by looking at what players can and cannot do, rather than their nationality.

[Gubby Allen]

this english spine is myth and total bollocks, the english team have an english spine and fuck up on the big stage. sign good payers and dont give a fuck where they come from.

Traditionally English players are less likely to **** off back home or off to Spain, given they're already at home. That's the benefit, more often than not, you'll get. But it needs to be proven PL quality that is top on th list.

[Power n Glory]

We need more English players. Since Campbell and Cole left, we haven't been the same.