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if you found the right fan, with the right experience, credentials and ideas you never know they might turn out to be as good as Hew Jenkins has been for Swansea. It's finding the right one that is the problem

Cleverely and Milner are exactly why England will do nothing. They are both decent enough players at club level, but they are no where near good enough at International level. Milner at his best, playing for Villa in the centre I could live with, but Milner tracking up and down the line played wide right just does not do anything for me. I don;t see a left sided player there either. Happy Ricky is not selected. He'll just get injured and we'll all be gutted.

the huge wages we are paying them might have a little something to do with it.

Hew Jenkins was a lifelong Swansea fan before helping to save them before steering them through the leagues. Not bad for a man earning £200,000 a year.

I'm amazed you've not flagged up the issue of work permit and how long this might take and how the player might not be here in time for the first training session... Your standards are slipping.

Chelsea did.

Kone and McManaman ahead of Maloney for me. If I had seen more of them perhaps McCarthy and McArthur would be on that short list too. Can't see us signing any of them.

Nat Chalobah looks a good prospect to me. Chelsea won't let him go, but Callum McMannaman and Tom Lees are certainly worth looking at. Anyone seen much of Jason Lowe?

It's the Liebherrs club and if they want to pay him £1.5m a year that is entirely up to them and by the looks of it that amount is comparable with some other Chairman. Will they pay the next guy less?

Assuming Cortese's wage started at £1.2m and increased by £100,000 a year to the £1.5m it is now, then £5.3m of it did. No idea how accurate that is though.

Not all roles will be the same, but here is few I found on the web: Paul Faulkner, chief executive at Villa £256,000 Ron Gourlay, chief executive at Chelsea £911,000 Alistair Mackintosh, chief executive at Fulham £704,000 Ian Ayre, managing director Liverpool £657,000 David Gill, chief executive Manure £2,593,000 Derek Llambias is managing director, Newcastle £266,000 David McNally, chief executive Norwich, £1,533,000 Daniel Levy, Spurs Director £2.2m Jeremy Peace, executive chairman WBA £1,133,000

Hew Jenkins' wage at Swansea is £200,000 a year (althought he recived an extra £250,000 as part of the £2m pay out sareholders received because Swansea made £16m profit) which is just a fraction less than the £1.5m Cortese earned.

I've not voted either. It's not an easy decision to make without all the facts and understanding of the current situation. I have no information whatsoever about the trust or who will select the next CEO. There is no track record to go on. If I could be sure the people making that decision are competent and that the next guy was likely to be competent then I wouldn't give two hoots if he was pushed out the door. The way he treated a certain season ticket holder for posting views on a web site was disgraceful. That is no way for a CEO of a football club to act. That said, I don't actively promote his demise on here because under his leadership things have gone well and I totally understand and appreciate the significant part he has played in our rise. Successful businessmen tend to be ****s and no one gets everything right. But just as he ousted Adkins because he thought he could find better, I'm happy for the Liebherrs to oust him too if they think they can do better. One things for sure this situation has brought to mind who exactly owns the club and who is the paid employee.

Why has Cortese gone to the press? I assume it was him that leaked the story. But what does he hope to achieve by doing so? The only answer I can come up with is that he has already been told that he won't have his contract renewed, so he has gone to the press to portray himself in the best light to help attract a new employer. Anyone got a better conclusion?

has he had a bad game this season? In most I have given him 9 out of 10. I actually had doubts over the summer whether his touch was good enough for this level. I was so wrong. He was good last season, but he's been better this.

anyone who has any doubts about Cork just needs to rewatch MOTD from Sunday and see him crawling on the floor and then quite literally throwing his head at the ball to prevent Johnson crossing it in. Unbelievable will to win. His return to the side (with Shaw) changed our season. Without them we'd be relegated.

I was going to suggest we try to buy Zaha outright, forgetting he cost £15m, but a loan is a great idea.

I can't understand some of the hostility and negativity on here. Why is Jos being singled out for example? Both central defenders had rock solid games and hardly put a foot wrong all day. Clearing when required and controlling things when they could. That is their job. Jos slightly deflected Bardsley's shot so that must mean he had a terrrible game. Some of you need to have agood long look at yourselves. No idea why Lambert is also getting abuse. He led the line well again against two huge centre backs he made life difficult for them and wo so many flick ons as well as holding it and bringing others into play. That's his job. But he missed a chance. Jesus that must mean he had a terrible game. For a team playing away from home with 40k roaring on Sunderland I thought we coped well and dare I say it controlled the game, playing by far and a way the better football. Coming from behind showed character and having players to come off the bench and change things is also encouraging. I think back to the Monday night at WBA and boy have we come a long way. At that point I seriousy couldn't see us surviving and saw no way back. Credit to both sets of staff and players for turning our season round and giving us plenty of enjoyment along the way.

he's been great since the Huddersfield game. Pace, tricks and dribbles for fun. Like him a lot.

I struggle to understand why a sport that has lasted well over 125 years and has always been so popular needs anything other protecting the traditions and elements that have enabled it to last this long. If they gave me the job of promoting football I'd follow a "keep the game the same" philisophy.

if I had foam hand, my face would be in the palm of it

Abide with me brought tears to my eyes too. The FA are absolutely clueless. The FA Cup should follow great sporting tournements like Wimbledon and The Maters by doing absolutely everything in their powers to keep things the same as it always has been. A trophy that has been fantastic for 100 years doesn't need `jazzing up', it needs to be kept `classic'. The more fireworks, dancing girls, adverts and pampering to TV the more americanised/same as every other tournement/cup final it becomes. Let's get it back on the BBC, have semi finals back at neutral grounds, replays throughout and have the cup final after the season has ended whereupon we are desperate for one more TV game before we hit the beach. When will football organisors learn that us 30, 40, 50 and 60 year olds all went to the football when they were young and despite their not being goal celebration music, mascots and all the other tripe aimed at improving the `match day experience', we kept coming back? Why? Because the game is ****ing brilliant and the atmosphere, noise and buzz you experience at games when you are a nipper is enough to make you want to come back forever more.

I could not agree with you more Turkish (and for-heaven's saint earlier in this thread). I've mentioned hi before a few times, but McManaman seems to get better every time I see him. Running rings round Cliche in the cupfinal

I'd take an ageing Bridge over Fox every day of the week