CB Fry

Are you sure he didn't actually say something more like "we signed Soares once it became clear Clyne was not going to sign his new contract". Same words, different order. Being that Les's words are picked apart on here I can't believe if he had said that then it wouldn't already be covered on here numerous times.

Sunderland are out. That's our name on the cup, boys.

You have no idea what the word rookie means, have you?

We had Puncheon on loan at Palace a year before Tadic signed, and he was a permanent Palace player more than six months before Koeman and Tadic even knew where Southampton was.

Don't forget to do exactly the same joke another ten times this week. Hey, a league cup tie is always a great time to do it several times, like you have done for every round of every cup for more than a decade. Win or lose it's a comedy goldmine for someone doing the same joke over and over again. Fill your boots. And next weekend you can start all over again, doing exactly the same joke again and again. And again and again. Have a great time now.

So you agree with me. All signings are bought by the club. Cheers.

Did he explain some signings are "bought by Koeman" and some are "bought by the club"? No, he didn't.

He genuinely thinks he is hilarious.

As opposed to what? All signings are bought by the club.

A signing from the Portuguese League where Koeman managed for a couple of years and would clearly have contacts. Nah, nothing to do with him, guv.

LOL. Okay then.

What rookies have we signed to replace those that have left?

When players sign new contracts, they do know what the future holds. Two, three, four or five years of sixty to eighty odd grand a bleedin' week.

I have no idea why I would ever want to do that. However, would be interested to see how the weeks are described in, say, mid April when FA Cup ties and League matches are played on the same day meaning games in hand start racking up and when the weather starts moving matches around the schedule. Then what day is it? Matchday 3/23/31/etc is a load of sh it.

Indeed. We've already ballsed up the thing this season was supposed to be about - the group stages of Europa. We're stuck with players we probably wouldn't have signed if we thought we weren't going to make it. So we've got a squad to utilise, so they better get on with winning the League Cup. Beating Man U tomorrow will do to start with, though.

Slight rewrite of history there - plenty on here were swooning over Palace and others transfer business, and plenty didn't stop going on about Stoke's "strengthening" in particular. A handful of games in. We will all be much of a muchness. None of these fu cking clubs are getting in the Champions League so who cares.

No one in this country uses "match day X" for the Premier League.

Big Sam to Sunderland couldn't be more inevitable.

This. For gawds sake someone change the thread title.

In fairness the most ridiculous line of questioning this week was about avoiding a repeat of the pitch invasion last time Villa played West Brom, with Pulis and Sherwood being all earnest and issuing calm advice. Effing retarded. Last years pitch invasion was because Villa had got to Wembley for the FA Cup semi, not because they happened to beat flippin' West Bromwich Albion. There will be no invasion this weekend. If either of them get to Wembley this year, them fans are on the pitch. Again.

He wasn't talking about sell on fees. He was talking about us getting a fee from Liverpool for player A which we then give some of to Burnley for a player B from them (ie Jay Rod) and then Burnley give some of that to Club C for player C and so on. In fairness it doesn't work quite that neatly as fewer players are being bought from English lower leagues. But that was the point.

This. We're a bit lumbered with a few Europa makeweight squad-meat signings. Might still help us in the old League Cup though.

True. He's going to Burley us.

Do you think that players signing four or five year contracts are expecting to play for the same manager the whole time? Who the manager happens to be will be a little way down the list for most players. We've got probably one more full season of Koeman after this. Three full seasons is pretty phenomenal stability these days. He goes, we move on to the next one.

In fairness that's kind of thing that useless, lazy, incompetent, complacent Les Reed would do what him being all complacent and lazy and incompetent and everything.