CB Fry

It's very rare to have a Bale/Suarez level transfer where the player is sold against his will, so it's a bit of a false argument. In fact, if we were skint it would be more likely we would have to sell, say, Shaw to somewhere he didn't want to go, who happened to offer more and we were obliged to take it.

If we had no Alpine we wouldn't have this.

Spoken like a true "Gashton apologist" whatever the eff that is.

I think the point of having someone like Veho I'd they will support us wherever we are in the table. If we are scrapping at the bottom end of the table then we would still have that local firm proud to be involved. For as long as we have the current owners I think we can say no to the Wongas of this world.

This. I'd like to think we did turn down any loan sharks/web casino/betting brands.

Also, kid gloves treatment is effing fantastic when he's been given the pre -agreed time off in relation to how his country performed in the tournament. No kid gloves, no special treatment. I imagine Alps will be back to say that he never ever said kid gloves and I've resorted to making stuff up.

Disagree. He's a swivel eyed nutcase.

LOL. Forgot about that. What a lunatic.

The Daily Telegram is a nothing Twitter account. So a lovely fantastical "OUR CLUB IS SH IT" conspiracy rant from you my swivel eyed chum but based on absolutely nothing. Not that has never stopped you before, of course. Keep ranting.

That's better.

I think we said before, it's The Kat Pack.

He did say he was busy and he would do it later. I think that meant sometime after the Tokyo Olympics.

Got to say I can't remember a single thing Samuels ever said about Cortese. Until I read those last two posts I probably would have lumped him in with the fawning acolytes the short legged one managed to smarm up to.

This. They both feel like decent replacements, rather than obvious down grades - these ain't Kerry Dixons. Let's hope one of them becomes a genuine Saints star like the other two.

Not said either of those things or anything remotely like it. Not even a wisp of anything like that. It's laser sharp interpretation skills like that that leads you to accuse the poor mare who tried to help Lee Rigby of being a paid up crisis actor. You can try and up the stalking on me if you like, and continue to flailingly fail to ever land on one me, but none of that is ever going to stop you being a 100% conspiro-autistic f uck wit.

So staying because it's a comfortable option rather than because it shows bottle and determination to fight for his place. Yep, I agree with you. He might well stay for that reason.

Look at the words in bold, sweetheart. He's picked people up on poor wording before, which is all part of the frolics of the forum. Jolly good fun. If you want a justification of why one might fail it is based on nothing more than transfers-in hit rate. Okay with you?

Or sit around collecting his money. Why would wanting to be No 1 choice at another club show a lack of bottle? I'd call that ambition and drive myself.

If we sign a keeper for 8 million odd, why would Boruc stay? We don't have the games to hold two front line keepers. It would be new keeper plus Gazza.

Delighted you agree with me now that our last five years were not our best ever. Must have been your son online that day. And delighted you are now supporting the "Billy Davies standard manager" you said we were going to appoint - or did your son type that one too? And any views on the "Rudi Skacel level" signings we've made? Or are you pretending you didn't say that either? I think I speak for the whole forum when I say we are all thoroughly looking forward to the hate filled spiteful little nicknames you come up with for our manager and new signings come the end of August. Get your thinking cap on.

You could be right - if Lovren goes I'd like to see two decent CBs in - one Lovren style (some level of high level experience) one younger/more raw - say Van Dyck from Celtic. And then ship out one of Jos/Maya.

Sounds about right, although not that fussed about us chasing a keeper.

Great contribution.

Maybe, just maybe the standing of a League competition has no huge bearing on world cup performance. How about that?

He's not saying they're irreplaceable. I'm happily confident about next season but Pelle and Tadic could go either way. As Lord D says, you've decided they're better because they've signed for us. If they'd both signed for Hull I doubt you'd be on here proclaiming their top 8 credentials. Where Holland finished in the WC is totally irrelevant, unless you think we should be plundering the Costa Rican leagues now. Let's see how they go: they've got big shoes to fill and it is highly likely one of the two might be a failure.