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I'd have Richardson down as a Adkins/Reid signing myself.

he's fallen down the pecking order a little at Forest now that they are playing a big man small man combination.

One things for sure is if Adkins didn't rate them to play them in the championship (de Ridder, Butterfield, Martin) then he won't buy them for Reading.

not unless Bath has moved since the last time I visited.

another David in Sweden gem. very few players get second contracts these days, so the term settled is hard to define, but many players from London have settled fine and stayed with us so long as they are wanted and they don't get a better offer elsewhere - as Tommy Forecast proves. Londoners Jack Cork, Puncheon, Chris Perry, BWP, the Wallace Brothers, Reuben Agboola, Chicken George, Mark Dennis, Steve Williams, Steve Moran, Kevin Bond, Dave Beasant, and Neil Ruddock have all stayed a fair few years and left their mark if that is any indication.

suspect he knows Cork pretty well too. No that that means he'll sign for us of course.

as is "he is a luxury player we did not need when we knew we were going to have a relegation battle, an ego signing by Cortese nothing more nothing less."

left midfielder would be high on my list, just behind a striker if Mayuka does not fit into our plans. Seeing as Richardson is no longer trusted to ever play at right back it looks like that is another position we might try and fill. Not sure I agree with that though. What position is Reeves going to play and is he going to make it in the Prem? Would it be cost effective to buy and pay ****tu (and bring Radhi out of retirement) to just play in the two Stoke games?

dunno, but if you want to attract the top players the only way to do it these days is to offer them massive wages. Is he worth £70k a week to us? I double checked and I was wrong about Sinclair not getting into the side towards the end of last season. He started the last 6 games and most of the others as well. Not sure where I got that idea from. Personally I'd be happy to see some pace added to the side and wide left is a position we have been particularly weak when Lallana has been injured.

is there some correlation between then between weight, stupidity, scruffiness and drunkeness?

I'm amazed at some of the responses on here. The answer you are all looking for is no.

Competition out wide is certainly something we've not really had for a couple of seasons. A good place to strengthen. My concern about Sinclair is that he couldn't get in Swansea's side in the second half of last season. Mind you most players have dips in form, so perhaps I should focus on the first half as ManCity did.

Chamberlain went for more like £1om with add ons. Be worried. He left Palace for Prem football, why not leave Saints for CL football? The down side to all this interest is that we are going to have to pay bigger and bigger wages to keep our best players. Hopefully none will become millstones round our necks.

To paraphrase one of the comments from a Chelsea fan, Azpilicueta is only 23, the phrase 'long-term successor' therefore makes little sense. Also Chelsea has a great propsect coming through in Todd Kane. They also bought Wallace recently from Fluminense. That said, £7m is bobbins for Chelsea so if it will strengthen their squad next season there is no reason why they won't make an offer. Premiership survival is a must for us to keep these young talents.

er, NC hasn't put a penny of his own money into the cub, so he won't get any return on `his' investment. The Liebherrs might though.

love the fact the skates are represented by such a fool. Shame most of the football population will associate him with Arsenal and Villa.

anyone other than van wolfwhistle worth stealing from cash strapped Sporting Lisbon? What is Eric Dier like?

Perhaps if they had a few more obsessives of their own the stadium wouldn't be half empty. Plastics.

if someone called him a "useless Polish ****" would that be regarded as a racist comment? I suspect that's what might have happened.

Taxes used to prop up a football club. It would never happen in Portsmyth.

What's the record transfer for a fullback?

Sounds like you were right all along Turkish about the conflict between Cortese and Adkins over transfers. Looks like Cortese thought Adkins wasn't thinking big enough. he wants superstars and Adkins wanted solid team players. I guess you knew that already. If he felt he was racially abused you'd think he'd be out of here come the end of the contract. Hope that is not the case and the line about agent negotiating a contract suggests he might stay. Without a change of manager he would have been off by the sounds of things.

I wouldn't spend it before they die though as the cost of care and inheritance tax will see much of that value disappear. Personally, if I inherited all of my Dad's civil service pension I'd be much happier.

something tells me sky blue fans won't be taking the **** out of the skates for their lack of funds

witnessing first hand the skates being relegated to the bottom tier sounds like fun.