CB Fry

So you bought four then. Well done on sticking it to the man.

Well, personally I think your plan is simply brilliant.

How many, in your fury of disgust, did you manage to cart over to the checkout?

How on earth could West Ham know Austin's wage demands? Why was Redmond chosing between Stoke and us then? Leicester definitely bid for Pelle at the time. Sorry, as usual you're full of it. Any chance you can come up with someone we've lost out to to Palace or Stoke then? Anyone?

WHU spent some time moaning about Charlie Austin's wage demands. He then signed for us. Leicester were in for Pelle, he signed for us. Cedric. Redmond. So that's four players off the bat. For something that "has been pointed out many times" who are all these players that we've lost out to to the likes of Stoke and Palace?

Well we've sold a heck of a lot of players in the last three summers and it's not been mentioned once. Maybe we don't have them. The Juanmi one is a red herring - they've all got stupid ones over there, think it might be standard practice.

Not sure where that rant has come from, but personally I have given the Italian plenty of praise in the past and have said repeatedly that Cortese was a truly excellent chairman in the lower divisions.

Did they have release clauses imposed on them then? Poor Leicester, I hope that never happens to us.

In other news, the Easter Bunny isn't real.

I apologise. I'll rephrase. You're not much more than a pri ck.

You said it was "Not much more than a form letter" which is basically calling it a form letter, so not sure what you're umming about. It doesn't read like that at all anyway, just a nice couple of lines you've decided to be a pri ck about.

That doesn't read like a "form letter" at all, unless you're stupid enough to really believe that Manchester United Football Club have a template for "letter for parents who suffered a terrible loss and then subsequently had another child". (Most of) This thread is pathetic. Fair play Luke Shaw.

The plain red ones with the gold on where you couldn't read the sponsors name (their money down the toilet, cheers) or see the badge? Nothing "bad" about that design? Okay then. And the pin stripe Nottingham Forest 1992 throwback shirts where our genius chairman gave us an away kit we couldn't actually wear for any away matches and we ended up wearing it once? Nothing "bad" about that design oh no. And, of course, both kits were utter dogsh it.

This is the Franz Ferdinand moment that kicks off World War Three. Take me out.

I've heard they're planning a protest. Maybe you could advise them on what face you need to pull when you hotfoot it down to the club shop to definitely buy one anyway.

Quite a nice shirt. For Ipswich Town.

You say "all it does is.." dismissively and then list out all precisely the reasons people put "credence" in a five or six year contract. It doesn't mean "SFA" , it means the things you have listed in your post and that's all it needs to mean. More wages for the player, yep, agents get a bit, yep and builds in a better fee for any future sale, yep. That's not "SFA", it's significant and the entire point of contracts. Not sure what there is that you don't understand. If we didn't bother giving extensions to Bertrand, VVD, Forster and just let them run down to nothing because they mean "SFA" you'd be blubbering like a baby about lack of ambition.

Did Aston Villa play really all well last season but just couldn't score, then?

I really miss the "why don't we take Wayne Bridge back" posts.

He will not go this summer.

With Chelsea bidding for Kante and Pogba edging toward Old Trafford, the race for the title of having the second best midfield options in the Premier League is really hotting up.

The sound of ceiling glass being smashed was audible as far away as Crewe.

I'm into my fourth day of camping outside Steve Grant's porch door. Passers-by have been very generous. Had a long chat with one man who really wants David Armstrong up there. We shall overcome.

Just walk away from what?

Just forum hysteria. VVD has just signed a massive extension after one bloody season and people still convinced he's leaving. Mentalists.