Jores Okore

[Legion]

Mellberg? Laursen?

[gervilla]

Mellberg & Laursen were both superb for us, no doubt but there was definitely something I saw in Okores few appearances that reminded me of McGrath.

[eamonn]

Was Alpay cultured?

[Louzie0]

Mellberg & Laursen were both superb for us, no doubt but there was definitely something I saw in Okores few appearances that reminded me of McGrath.

Maybe the Irish/Ivorian connection rather than the Vikings.
Perhaps Jores' knee was knackered by an over enthusiastic rendition of 'Riverdance' in the canteen during lunchtime at Bodymoor Heath. Exacerbated by a huge helping of spuds.

[KevinGage]

Are you on craic?

[eamonn]

Mellberg & Laursen were both superb for us, no doubt but there was definitely something I saw in Okores few appearances that reminded me of McGrath.

Maybe the Irish/Ivorian connection rather than the Vikings.
Perhaps Jores' knee was knackered by an over enthusiastic rendition of 'Riverdance' in the canteen during lunchtime at Bodymoor Heath. Exacerbated by a huge helping of spuds.

Excellent 

[Louzie0]

He held out till Saturday but then the extra pressure in defence took its toll.

There's a gap in the chorus line for a CB with nifty footwork in the West End or Broadway whenever he's ready.

[Louzie0]

Are you on craic?

Excellent!

[Villa in Denmark]

Further bad news for Jores, that puts even his injury into perspective.

Famous footballers friend killed in stabbing

The 18 year old man killed in a stabbing incident on Monday afternoon was a friend of international footballer Jores Okore.

The footballer wrote on Twitter,
" Just got the sad news about a friend of mine... R.I.P. My brother! U in a better place now..."

19 year old arrested

Køres Okore's 18 year old friend was stabbed in the chest with a knife by Forum Metro Station I. Copenhagen. A friend drove the victim to the national hospital, where he was immediately transferred to an operating theatre, but a few hours later, doctors were forced to give up.

According to murder detective Jens Møller, a 19 year old man rang to police om Monday evening saying that he had done something stupid.

"He rang to us shortly before 7 o'clock and said he had been involved with the stabbing," the murder detective said.

The 19 year old year old appeared before magistrates on Thursday afternoon, where he was charged with manslaughter.

According to Ritzau, (Danish news agency - equivalent of Reuters) he pleaded not guilty.

[tom jennings III]

Sooooooo he has played 30 mins for Denmark and 90 mins for Denmark U21 in the last few days. Excellent news that he came through unscathed and we now have 3 decent CB's to choose from going forward. Plus with Vlaar/Senderos in good form we don't need to panic and rush him back in.

Big thumbs up from me!

[Tony Erdington]

im wondering , who will play more games for us, J O or JOE cole.

and to liken him to Paul Mcgrath, and his hardly kicked a ball for us, is high praise indeed.

I reserve judgement.

[themossman]

I hope he sticks with those 2 for now. Let's be honest Okore is likely to have to come in for vlaar at some stage so it would be good to help senderos carry on his form and get Okore eased back in slowly.

[PaulWinch again]

Good news, hopefully we won't have Baker on the bench soon.

[Matt Collins]

Vlaar is an injury doubt so we could see him sooner rather than later

If rather vlaar were fit for the next run of games though

[Damo70]

It would be nice to have him on the bench in preference to Baker or Clark, but the Vlaar/Senderos partnership needs to be kept together if Vlaar is fit as they have looked a good combination.