Ex Lion Tamer

But if we're having a firesale, he wouldn't need to agitate to leave, we'd just let him go.

I'm very disappointed at the apparent decision to sell chambers. However, if our policy is that we will only sell players who want to leave and get the chance to go to a champions league club, then this would fit with that. My main question though is, if we're having a firesale, why did we release such a snide statement when Lallana left? Wouldn't we be fine with him leaving?

I do actually agree that the public will probably turn against Ed if he becomes PM, just as they did with Major and Brown. However, if the public wasn't so shallow then I think he'd be very good for the country. Cameron, on the other hand, is just a glorified PR man with no real esteem in world affairs or even among colleagues

What does that even mean? All very vague. The key to be being a good leader is seeming like one? I'd rather have Pm who knows about policy , stands up to power and is a good negotiator. It's people like you who ensure politics is all spin and no substance

No they didn't, they said that austerity would choke off the recovery (the economy was growing when Labour left office), and lo and behold we had three years of stagnation. Also bear in mind that Osborne has slyly changed policy since then, delaying his targets for deficit reduction and investing more in infrastructure

Still only 21, I'd say he has the potential to be better than Pelle

Bargain at £6m

Enner's goal record is better than Javier Hernandez's was in his last season in Mexico and he has looked good in this World Cup. He's 25 though so perhaps not as much room for improvement.

He signed a new contract earlier this month http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2014/Jun/antonio-valencia-signs-new-deal.aspx Unless he means Enner Valencia who looks decent to be fair

He probably won't make it but I do always remember how Kenwyn Jones looked useless before he suddenly became one of our most important players

Can you please tell me what is good about him?

Ok so I haven't read this whole thread. But based on his Wikipedia page, I just do not get the love for Koeman. It seems like he underachieved at almost all his clubs, and is living off his reputation as a player. A bit like Laudrup. Would much prefer someone like Yakin who is on the way up

Chambers to Ipswich on loan. Loan fee - £68m

They got smashed by the big clubs, he looked tactically naive

OK so it's not as black and white as being all out pro EU, but Labour's approach seems pretty sensible to me. Far from ' all over the place' anyway http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/05/labour-has-changed-immigration-we-recognise-public-was-right

Any strong UKIP performance will (rightly or wrongly) be put down as a protest vote against the government + Labour (as a hangover from the last govt) and things will carry on as normal

I thought i read on here that he was a Reed signing, or at least that Reed was bigging up his potential

UKIP’s Magnus: ‘People who fought to extend the vote were probably doing the wrong thing’ http://richardosley.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/ukips-magnus-people-who-fought-to-extend-the-vote-were-probably-doing-the-wrong-thing/ Are there now more bad apples than good ones?

Life's much easier when things are black and white, isn't it.

83% Green 82% Labour 28% BNP 24% Tory 16% UKIP

Great post.

I don't have any money! Eastern Europe needs economic growth, not some charitable dependency

Yes, clearly there is a point at which immigration would becoming unsustainable, but I'm not convinced we've reached that point. And the more UKIP do their ridiculous scaremongering the less likely I am to believe that there is a problem. I wouldn't care if they got rid of freedom of movement, and it is a problem that Euro elections have such low turnouts. But ultimately we need to be in the EU in order to have a say in world affairs, and we need to try to share our wealth with Eastern Europe so that we don't have any more wars. So reform is the answer rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater and leaving the EU.

It is a bit though because it means hoarding our wealth all to ourselves rather than sharing it with people from poorer countries who didn't have all the advantages we did, e.g. education, historical predominance, dominant language etc

Forgive me if I'm missing something but aren't UKIP the ones who want to pull us out of Europe? Surely they are exactly the people framing it as a simplistic in/out rather than calling for reform?