CB Fry

You don't say.

Completely agree.

His name was Cuco Cuco Martina He's got a name like a drag queen-a He came from Twente Where he played plenty Football and passion were always in fashion for the Cuuuuu-coo Third choice right back (Clap clap clap clap clap)

Exceptional stuff. Well done boys.

Too many people hear Champions League and miss what Les, Ronald and Ralph say over and over and over again. We can't and won't be competing with the bigger clubs on fees and wages. The Champions League thing is just a little dream that if we all pull together we might just do it, like we kind of nearly did in the season just gone.

Why on earth would that even exist? Wait for the interview on the THFC website. I think he'll be really impressed with facilities and the manager and of course I know some of the lads already and I am joining a big club with a proud history and passionate fans and once the gaffer had spoken to me I knew and I can't wait to get started and

That's annoying. I need his meltdowns to start about 6 am on a weekday so I can get him all dealt with before I get to the office.

Seriously? All he says is a very vague "no concrete agreement yet" - classic politician's answer. I wouldn't expect him to say anything else.

Nah, well behind it. Cant keep up on a work day. FWIW, I'm less convinced by the Dad/agent thing vs every media outlet saying he's had a medical. I'm resigned now.

If (if) he has had a medical at Spurs then that feels to me like it's over. You can't force someone to have a medical at a club they don't want to join. Even if, at best, he is ambivalent about joining Spurs then still no real pressing need to have a medical. I think I am now firmly in the "he's gawn" camp.

That Guardian piece seems pretty unequivocal to me. Very difficult to see how he is going to end up anywhere else other than Spurs now. Balls.

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Well, maybe. But the general theme about FFP and unfairness and how awful it is that those other clubs have more money than us only ever flows in one direction. Us looking upwards at the top 4. Maybe our incredible good fortune of being owned by a billionaire and raking in Premier League mega-dollars is a trifle unfair to, I don't know, Barnsley or Yeovil (or Newport). The system is a crock of sh it, I agree, but let's remember we are beneficiaries of it, not victims. We're effing well loaded.

Yes, but not quite - the FFP thresholds are defined by the turnover of the clubs, not by any hidden force/discrimination. As well as the misinterpretation of glass ceiling I also don't accept that financial fair play is somehow unfair to us. I don't want us to be spending stupid money we don't have, and if there is a mechanism to stop us and other clubs doing it, then good. Tottenham has a bigger threshold because they are financially bigger than we are in ways that can be quantified, perfectly fairly. Everything - our strategy, and football legislation- points to us building the club sustainably, which thankfully is what we're doing.

You've generously rephrased the question, and then answered it with the same response 99% of normal people on here would give and is essentially what Les Reed has been saying for years - it is exactly what Cortese used to say as well. Cortese always said we would never compete financially with the bigger clubs. That's partly why Alpine gets short shrift, because this has been done to death and everyone should really understand our strategy by now. Calling our best finish for 25 years "an intolerable situation" and other such emotional garbage does help him. There's most people that can understand our strategy and then there's a handful of dins forever refusing to accept that we haven't got the "ambition" to p iss millions and millions of pounds away on players and wages like they do when they play their computer games. We're the best run club in the land and still they grizzle.

We've discussed your perception of "ambition" before, which essentially boils down to "that woman has got loads of money so why doesn't she keep spending and spending it until my football club gets into the Champions League". So don't make out you have "ambition". It's just toddler foot stamping. No idea what FFP is or what you were right about. Many, many congratulations though.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/25752833 Ninth. About as upper mid table as you can get.

Upper mid table is eighth isn't it?

I object to the terminology which is incorrectly used. There is not glass ceiling, or hidden or secret force or level of discrimination that stops us finishing fourth in a football league table. Slightly arcane point but fundamentally the phrase leads to too many to thinking we are hard-done-by victims when we are in fact hugely blessed as a fanbase right now.

Mainly because you've ignored the rubbish he's written and have made up your own question. Are we in an "intolerable situation"? Of course not, total nonsense. Do we get "looted"? Nope. Nonsense. Is there a glass ceiling? Nope. Either way, the answer to your question is easy. Keep doing precisely what we're doing now. Listen to Les, listen to Ronald, listen to Ralph, listen to whoever you like connected with the club. We know what we're doing, and will keep doing it. We are not going "to put ourselves in a similar position to become a big club". Not going to happen. Question answered.

I offer a more accurate analysis of where we are and where we can conceivably go than you, who despite everything is still, eighteen months on, grizzling about Cortese leaving and expecting us to pi ss money away to chase the Champions League. I have given up wasting my time trying to educate you so a simple "Waaaaaaaaah" is all you deserve. Waaaaaaaaah.

Also, to everyone here, the phrase "glass ceiling" really does not apply to our circumstances. There is no glass ceiling.

As usual, this post can be effectively summarised as "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh".

A lecture from Alpine about cliché and stereotypes. Seriously, you couldn't make it up.