Capello's management of players is shown to be suspect when it comes to incidents that have come to light. John Terry clearly makes a racist comment to Anton - it is caught on video and you don't have to be a lip reader to see what he says. In my mind, the manager should have withdrawn him from the England team from the word go. Professional players have a role to perform that is - at times - very public. Some cope very well with this, others find it hard and need managing. Terry was the England captain and this role has great responsibility attached to it. But, I would think that the FA should have said to Capello - either sort it out - ie remove him from the England squad until the situation is resolved, or we will. The other thing is that why do we have to wait so long for the hearing? If the date was moved then this could have been resolved a lot earlier.

Who does want him right now? I think Tevez coming to us works on so many levels, not so far fetched as others would make it out to be as no one else seems to be wanting to take Tevez.

Why on earth would City want Carroll? Cant see that happening at all!

Football is, as we know, a results business and it is important that players are at the top of their game. One element to that is a competition for places, which having someone like Tevez in the team, would create. Our last few goals have come from penalties and we need strikers scoring goals to make sure we win our games and stay clear at the top. Players should be able to deal with the pressure that competition for places creates, otherwise their shouldn't be in competitive sports.

I agree with you about Kia - he represents some of what is bad about football at the moment!

Welcome back SJ - looking forward to your 'long-winded' posts - there is always plenty of points to discuss from them. As for your comments above, spot on and well timed! As for the vitriol and personal insults from the minority of posters - go somewhere else - no one deserves it, why should we grow thicker skins so that others can just spurt their abuse via the keyboard? Now, lets put all things West Ham and football related back onto the menu, eh?

My thought is that if we are promoted into the Premiership, we will be re-building the team anyway and will be more attractive to potential new buys. If we do not return to the prem, then we will find it hard to attract the kind of players who can see us back into the top flight and we may lose those quality players we have already. Therefore, seems to be a good move in terms of our long term future and development. Besides, I think other players will have the chance to learn something from a world class player.

I think Tevez's problem is Kia

Surely, they will be paying his wages anyway if, as seems likely, he is going nowhere. It could improve or retain his stock with regular playing time. Just a thought.

Well said! I can't understand the vitriol of some people!