CB Fry

Waaaaaahh. I fort we were going to be in ver Champions League I did.

Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.

I could live with it.

Far too early as we haven't built the team yet. I'm expecting solid mid table, because I can't see Koeman being worse than Steve Bruce or Mark Hughes.

Do your stuff about Hoddle. It's so funny, it really is.

Do your stuff about finishing 17th. It's so funny, it really is.

Indeed. Dortmund have only won the League title eight times. And loads of other trophies including the, err, Champions League. So yeah, the fans of that tiny plucky little club with the largest fanbase in Germany must be amazed how they've "hit the heights" all of a sudden. And as you say, lets not dwell on the oh so similar to Saints record of Atletico. Just the standard winning of the league ten times, just like us.

If we refuse to pay over the odds for, say, Tadic, and ends up at a different club, you will greet that as good news and evidence of the club doing the right thing, yes?

I don't really get the need to be "inventive". We wear stripes, other teams wear stripes. It's fine.

Stop nicking my act.

Who has flatly rejected him? I think people are allowed to have reservations at a high price for a player that old. Making an utterly irrelevant comparison doesn't make the case for signing Pelle stronger.

What?

That thirty year old was already playing for us. Comparing a potential transfer in with a player starting his fourth season at the same club is an irrelevant comparison. Go figure that.

Laughable.

You're the one who brought up a completely irrelevant comparison.

You really do think you're hilarious, don't you?

It worked out that we paid a million quid for him three years before, not nine million.

Good point Bear. Teams in stripes winning stuff was only really acceptable in the seventies, like bell bottoms, platform shoes, Frey Bentos pies and child abuse.

He's probably rifling through the fridge. Or cracking open another six pack of Snickers bars.

Laughable. If that was Morgan, the exact same story, the exact same quotes, the exact same everything you would take that as "he's putting himself in the shop window, he's off". The forum would be in its usual meltdown.

Does it? We beat the 14th place we achieved in year one of revolutionary plain red plenty of times in stripes. And we matched 8th place in stripes.

Isn't dropping all those points absolute proof of the opposite?

Fine. Only ever buy players who will definitely be good. It's a great policy, I grant you.

The usual rambling rag bag of half thought through ideas and desperate yoking together of completely unconnected points. Typical Drunko drivel. Not sure anyone, anywhere, at any point is stopping football fans having aspirations or dreams. No one is saying that having a positive attitude, spirit and belief is a bad thing. No one has ever said this. So who is any of that aimed at? And if having "a positive, spirit and belief that we can better" is so jolly important then why don't you put that into practice right now instead of grizzling about everything you tedious moaning c×+t?

I'm saying the resources required to turn us into a CL team was not there and never there.