CB Fry

Hard not to mate. Still, for me, they've got the whole window. I am happy to slate people as you know and I will say what I think come September.

Someone probably reminded them that they are on obscene wages and should be grateful. That would have resolved any disappointment, right?

Sometimes, like now, I realise I am a bit cruel to you. I know you can't help who you are.

But we will structure those incoming deals in exactly the same manner, so pointless maths there.

Nothing says team spirit like forcing want-away players to stay against their will.

Yeah, possibly. Hopefully. Unfortunately that reasoning also explains why the likes of Claisie and De Vrijs haven't signed for Dortmund/Man Utd either. The Celtic players I am less worried about - Forster is about our level, ditto Van Dyk - so that could well be a CL qualification thing, which is fine. Let's see what the next week or so brings. I have some hope but it has taken a severe knock.

Happy to try and believe this but we really need to see some players in the door now. Slightly worried we are targeting players slightly above our station who, when they do sign for, say, Dortmund or Man Utd the club can say how they tried really hard but couldn't compete. And by the way, we've signed a Norwegian left back for 1.75m instead. Now, aim high, that's fine but we really need some headcount in now. And the "transfers take time" bit is a nice line of course but maybe we should have made our sales out feel a little less rapid, then.

It's nonsense anyway. Saints forum expertise has told us that Luke Shaw left Saints only because he didn't believe in the vision and ambition of the club anymore. If he did still believe in the vision and ambition of the club then he'd still be a super Saint now and the idea of earning 120k a week at the world's biggest football club would not have made him even flinch.

Make up a scenario and then get annoyed about it. Your speciality. That, and being a swivel eyed ranting idiot.

We are going to need a very good second half of the season, because it is difficult to see from now to Christmas being anything other than a car crash, and I am still dumb enough to believe we will spend some reasonable money on new recruits. I think we have the manager, and the money (ie I think we will panic buy in January if needed) to do enough for 14-16th. All planets in alignment we could make 12th.

Luckily, any players we do sign will be on similarly structured deals, unless you think we've paid some eleven million for Tadic in cash in one lump sum payment, no questions asked.

meh. That's up there with the if only they'd returned his phone calls, Lallana would never have even wanted to join Liverpool type stuff.

If anyone PMs it to me I will put it up on here, and that's a promise.

LOL. Basically Les Reed is a paedo, then. Or Cortese. Or both.

Pretty sure you said nothing of the sort. Sorry son, to get the credit you need to have had the balls to have actually stated what you knew. Which with an anonymous handle on a web forum doesn't really require any balls at all. Still beyond you though.

We don't become a bigger club over time with that. We stay in the mid area of the top league, at absolute best. Which is fine. What seem to be doing right now is not going to keep us mid table, it's a short cut to relegation.

Pretty sure the two options aren't sell all the best players for huge sums or be the next Portsmouth.

No, of course not. Not on our exchange about Waynyama the other day, or your pis s weak psycho - analysis of me being bullied at school or some nonsense or you desperately trawling for posts on this forum where you think I've been precious. No, no evidence whatsoever.

You mainly took stick for putting up sh it about "if only you knew what I knew" and how you would reveal everything but were a bit busy at the moment. Well, you never did, so you can't actually claim any foresight.

If Dave Hockaday's mighty Leeds take the league by storm next season, Elland Road will be packed by the end of the season and they'd sell a shed load of STs in the Prem. Ditto Forest. Ditto Wednesday.

Indeed. There is absolutely no parallel between the situations involving Puncheon and Lovren. If someone had offered Cortese, say, four million quid for him at that time he'd have ripped their hands off. JP was far more like Joey Barton/Balotelli/Osvaldo like situation - a potential liability to the club, a pain in the backside but impossible to shift easily as they are on a fat comfortable contract.

Who bid twenty odd million pounds for Jason Puncheon, then?

We could have said no but frankly I'm delighted we didn't, and it would have retarded to say no. Absolutely no point in keeping a player who has no desire to be here whatsoever. Glad he's gone.

Hark at him. Okay, you've never whined about bullies in response to me. Or grizzled about stuff I may have said to you on here. Or weeped about me attacking your opinions. Fair enough.

It's in the ether between some dinlow on twitter and Alpine's warped little mind.