Concrete Ron

[not3bad]

I'd say let him go as long as Okore starts playing and fulfilling his promise.

[UK Redsox]

More importantly, where is Okore?

Why didn't Barry take the penalty?
What was the attendance at the Parma game?
Where is Okore?

[adrenachrome]

Okore played 90 mins for Denmark Under 21s in Iceland earlier this week. Booked in the 80th minute, I believe.

Result 1-1 meaning Denmark qualify for the finals.

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Confirmed as fit for Saturday but Senderos doubtful.

[Gregorys Boy]

Its good he is fit, but sometimes it can be dangerous to throw someone only just back straight back into the team.  Also, Everton away isn't the best fixture to try and different partnership.  I am keen to see Okore get a run in the team however.

[silhillvilla]

Ron back is good news and he does seem to hit the ground running after these lay offs.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I wanna keep Ron too Louzie, but if he wants to go to eg ManU, then I think we should take the dosh...as long as we use it to provide a solid replacement...but they ain't falling off the shelves! Esp in Jan...or at any other time!

Do you think he really wants to go, though?
I think he'd like to stay.
Appreciate the difficulty in replacing him, anyway.

It's a nice idea to think he really wants to stay with us....
I suppose it depends on his sense of ambition and securing a future for himself and his loved ones...
I'm sure he wants to win trophies etc and play to the highest level he possibly can...if he's happy to continue to try to do that with us I'd be delighted...
But If ManU, say, are happy to pay a good price for him, double his wages and he wants to go, then, as pauliewalnuts says, he'll be off!

Okore is our perfect partner for Ron - or replacement - and I think Lambert needs to start giving him game time - he's obviously been fit enough for a while now.

[Louzie0]

I wanna keep Ron too Louzie, but if he wants to go to eg ManU, then I think we should take the dosh...as long as we use it to provide a solid replacement...but they ain't falling off the shelves! Esp in Jan...or at any other time!

Do you think he really wants to go, though?
I think he'd like to stay.
Appreciate the difficulty in replacing him, anyway.

It's a nice idea to think he really wants to stay with us....
I suppose it depends on his sense of ambition and securing a future for himself and his loved ones...
I'm sure he wants to win trophies etc and play to the highest level he possibly can...if he's happy to continue to try to do that with us I'd be delighted...
But If ManU, say, are happy to pay a good price for him, double his wages and he wants to go, then, as pauliewalnuts says, he'll be off!

Okore is our perfect partner for Ron - or replacement - and I think Lambert needs to start giving him game time - he's obviously been fit enough for a while now.

Yes it was very good news about him playing in the U21 internationals.
Hopefully he has got past that rotten injury and will be back tougher and longer lasting!
Glad that Ron will be available for this weekend again, as well.  Lambert has options.

[Le Lapin]

Lots of chat on the interweb about terms agreed for Man Ure switch in Jan. Hopefully it's poop.

[curiousorange]

Lots of chat on the interweb about terms agreed for Man Ure switch in Jan. Hopefully it's poop.

It's never a great idea to lose your better players. However, I find it odd that Man Yoo choose not to buy him after an excellent World Cup but are champing at the bit to snap him up after another injury. That suggests to me that if there was an enquiry in the close season, we quoted them a ludicrous price.

[Ian.]

Lots of chat on the interweb about terms agreed for Man Ure switch in Jan. Hopefully it's poop.

It's never a great idea to lose your better players. However, I find it odd that Man Yoo choose not to buy him after an excellent World Cup but are champing at the bit to snap him up after another injury. That suggests to me that if there was an enquiry in the close season, we quoted them a ludicrous price.

Or it suggests the media have no stories as yet and the next window is looming so an injured Ron will solve Uniteds defensive problem.

[supertom]

If we adequately replaced him and got good money from Utd (who we should rightly charge Utd are twats tax on top of the fee) then I'd not have a problem. I like Ron but he's not irreplacable. Certainly not at his age and with his injury record. We've generally had some good center-halves over the years. We've had better players than Concrete. I don't think it should be beyond us to pull off another Mellberg or Laursen (not that I'm advocating buying another injury prone player).

[dekko]

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/356643.html

Yeah, so ESPN reckon he's already agreed provisional terms with yanited but we want 12m for him.

I imagine that means he'll be off - probably not for 12 million but we'll certainly get a decent fee for an injury prone defender pushing 30  with only 6 months left on his contract.

I'm not very happy because I like Vlaar a lot and I'm not totally convinced by our other CBs, but given the circumstances things could be a lot worse.

[phantom limb]

I'd like Vlaar to stay but if we did get £12m for him considering his contract is running down that would be something that we couldn't refuse. I'm sure we could get another decent defender in, or it would give Okore a chance to step up. Basically I'm down for anything that doesn't involve the unholy union of Clark and Baker again.

[peter w]

12m would be crazy and definitely something we should be looking at seriously. but, again, that said wed have to look at the general shape of our season come January before we decide to go down that route. promising start yes but we have still only scored 4 goals so far and our defensive solidity has seen us with a -5 goal difference. We've been involved with looking over our shoulders, and nearly much worse, over the past 4 seasons so to think we should just take good money for our current best defender is still a bit too risky for my liking.

So, unless we have either a healthy gap between us and the bottom 3 come January or a proven replacement lined up I'd be very reluctant to sell.