CB Fry

I like it but I think the club have made a massive misjudgement. We have now completely alienated the millions of SFC followers in China and across the far east who only became Saints fans because we had a plain red kit. How are we going to make up the shortfall in revenue now we have walked away from this? Clearly commercial suicide from our current leadership who lack the vision what the previous bloke had and stuff.

We were nowhere near it. We finished eighth, miles behind seventh let alone anything higher. It was never, ever going to happen. Cortese's vision was so utterly sight sighted that he couldn't even foresee a need to align his key stakeholder. Pie in the sky.

Can you tell us the names of all these CL level players that have attracted £20m plus bids this summer that their parent clubs have turned down? Obviously, there's loads ain't there?

But we do know it was unrealistic.

Has Alpine made some "well we've got our precious stripes back" sarky remark yet?

Shaw and Lallana were on long contracts, one of the reasons we secured such significant fees. Liverpool don't see us as rivals. Just a fantasy in your little head.

What a performance that was. Actually thought we were going to be the surprise package of the division that weekend.

If that picture had a kit with the sponsor on it, then I'd be really worried. At worst, possibly a training kit. Definitely a thing about yellow this season, though.

Looks to me like the kind of kit a modern forward thinking revolutionary football team would wear. And yellow on sleeves is lucky in China or something.

Not really hindsight to say we were never going to finish top four last season, we obviously weren't going to. And we are financially constrained (in a top four sense). Otherwise we would be signing players for £20m odd and giving Shaw and Lallana six figure weekly wages, not selling them. Not really "guessing" is it?

100% right. He was clever to get himself out when he did. I doubt he truly believed he would get the backing to truly crack the top four, so he scarpered before the going got really tough. And yes, let's never forget his 100% record on big club player bids. Sold to the professorial Frenchman at the back.

Just nonsense. The idea that Shaw and Lallana would turn their backs on MUFC and Liverpool and six figure weekly salaries just for the joy of spending more time in the company of a short arsed Italian chairman is beyond credibility. There might have been a bit more Lowe style "North West Yobbos" verbals through the media but the net result - Shaw sold, and Lallana sold - would be the same. The only one that I think would be different would be Lambert as I would think Cortese would try and bring other clubs into play like WHU that RL wouldn't want to sign for. Meaning Lambo might still be here seeing out his contract but massively effed off. Or, of course, he'd already be at West Ham from January.

The Champions League.

OUT. OF. CONTEXT.

In a few days he'll deny he ever started this thread and accuse people who say he did of "twisting things out of context".

Yes you did, you said it all, and you know it. There were long discussions about what Wolves were doing, and various other random clubs annoucing expansions - even L1 and 2 clubs you used in your pointless propaganda about how we needed to expand. There was plenty of stuff about "in the eighties Chelsea had xx attendance, look at them now" you know you said all of that shi t. Plenty of stuff comparing us to Everton. Frankly I am going to stop because we all know you said all of it, but you are so soul destroyingly pedantic it isn't worth the energy.

You seriously saying you never posted up pictures and news stories about Wolves stadium expansion? Alright then. Never once mentioned Chelsea in 1984? Alright then. Never started a thread that lasted forever about our stadium expansion with all the images from that CD rom thing that was sent out. And the theme of that thread was the need to get the expansion started? Alright then. Never once compared us to Everton in attendance threads? Alright then. You said all of that stuff you pointless bore.

I found MLG's random positive musing threads (we are bigger than Everton, we need a 50,000 stadium, just look at Chelsea in 1984, Wolves might one day maybe expand to 50,000 so we need to do it now, look at the size of our catchment area, we're off to the champions league because we got promoted from L1 to the prem and if we can do that then anything is possible, man on the moon etc etc) far more annoying to be honest. And I am finding the "we're doomed" stuff pretty darn annoying.

Do we know this?

That, to me, doesn't suggest a man looking to angle for a transfer. Unless he is a bit dim.

Don't remember them funding their league and cup successes through the revenues of players they'd sold.

....apparently the whole idea of a football club. Please god can we sign Chris Samba.

Oh well, we won't be doing it and that's absolutely fine by me.

Because that would be retarded. Lallana was the second highest ever fee paid by a club as big as Liverpool, why on earth would we want to spend that kind of money? We won't and I for one am delighted by that fact.