CB Fry

We're already at level 4 SaintRichmond. One more draw at home and we could hit peak swivel-eyes.

Yeah, I know. Was kinda entirely the point of my post.

Yeah, okay then. We have a great start to the season, let's say we're in sixth again and still in Europa and then we sell Mane on January 31st. The general forum reaction would be "oh well, fair enough, he gave our season an early boost", or, possibly, a meltdown the same as when we sold him. Which do you think? If we do end up selling Fonte is he currently giving us an early season boost or is the whole thing just bloody annoyance dragging on and poisoning our season?

We need to give Puelis time.

Hockey girls absolutely superb tonight.

Alex Ferguson three years etc etc etc.

One kick away from putting the hockey on.

Propaganda football.

Classic Shane.

Who needs Pogba when you've got the Dutch Xavi.

I'm with you brother. Brilliant. Single handedly destroying capitalism one match at a time.

We will make a good game tonight.

He could have inspired us to victory like Bolasie did with Palace the other day.

I'm not sensing a huge amount of "well at least we're holding on to Fonte for as long as possible" comments on the Jose thread. Because that's a good thing right?

Don't really see the point on holding on to Mane and Pelle, apart to stop a bit of moaning on this forum. If we'd held on to them and sold them on deadline day there'd be effing hell to pay on here.

Not really. I think this thread is making it complicated by The9 beautifully digging into every permutation imaginable. On the day we finished sixth it was pretty much nailed for us to be a pot three seed in the EL, but some still want to go on the convoluted three month journey to establish that yes we are going to be a pot three seed.

This. Every day I think "please don't reassure us Les, please don't". No interest in statements apart from a) smiley picture with big watch on, signing new contract or b) transfer window shuts and he's still here. Everything else is worthless.

Hang on, I'm taking the michael out of you whinging about "the mods" need to "do something" about "this sort of thing". I've never reported anything to the moderators and never ever will. You seem to be making a habit of getting upset when someone else does something that you have just done yourself. My tip would be to try and remember what you have just typed.

I think we might end up with a nice surprise CB signing this window, for the reasons you say - not convinced Gardos is ever going to make it and poor old Yoshi needs to be relegated to League Cup bit-partness. Toby was a bit of a rabbit out of the hat two years ago so maybe we might have another one to go with our mystery attacker.

Awfully sorry if I've upset you but I do get slightly wound up when people start demanding "evidence" for predictions, especially for very easy prediction of something that will obviously happen. But your over the top reaction that something so obvious requires blind faith to believe will happen probably does need addressing by the moderators of this forum.

Let's just remember this started with you saying people who think we might just sign one fu cking player before 1st September of having "blind faith". We will sign a fu cking player before the end of the window. Get used to it. You can say it's because I said so if you like. I do say so. We will sign a player before September 1st is out. You get to accuse people of having blind faith, I get to type that. It's a forum, that's how it works.

Is Clasie going to be the first player to go from bargain-basement-cheapo-crappy-replacement to I-can't-believe-we've-flogged-off-another--key-player without actually being any cop in between?

It's obvious because it is obvious. Why don't you take your evidence hunting sword of truth to the people saying we aren't going to sign anyone? Off you go.

Why would I have evidence? Nutcase.

Because we're a Premier League club competing in Europa and we need at least one more player. And we will sign at least that one player, just like we signed players in summer 2015. And summer 2014. And summer 2013. 2012. 2011. 2010. Obviously we will. Effing obviously.