CB Fry

So journalists writing up some comments from our FD is the reason Liverpool want to buy Adam Lallana? Right-o. And our FD has not said anything about needing to sell to balance the books. As a keen scholar of official club statements you could dig one out to prove otherwise. Or are you, gosh, believing journalists when it suits you, yet again? Funny, ain't it.

It's only different clubs because of, well, promotion and relegation. The principle is exactly the same. We bankrolled our way out of two divisions, we snatch Jay Rod and Clyne and now other clubs could be doing the same to us.

a) It's jack sh it to do with the FD's statement and everything to do with the fact that Liverpool and Man U want Shaw and Lallana. b) What "ridiculously low amounts" are these then? Funny how Captain "I believe nothing in the papers, me" seems so happy to swallow whole whatever finger in the air monopoly money a newspaper prints. You have no idea whatsoever on who has bid what.

I love Alp's failsafe "hindsight" defence.

This. Nothing more than a comparison of what might be happening now versus what might be happening if something slightly different was happening. I have no doubt selected forum dins will describe it as "a good read".

We're playing our first league game of next season on July 17th? Who's it against?

Don't blame them. Massive gamble for them - Poch has no Champions League pedigree at all. He's been a solid mid table manager in two countries, excluding the blip half season at the bottom of La Liga. Not quite the golden ticket to the top four appointment yer average Spurs fan is looking for.

Pretty sure it's zero. All the games called off due to snow/ice have been called off because of road/pedestrian safety.

This makes the comments RK was supposed to have said to the awards do even more strange. If we were starting from zero in Feb/March with a new manufacturer, then we are 't tied in to having a Cortese - abortion plain red special after all. A real pity for the dinlows on here that think plain Swindon style red kit is somehow futuristic and exciting but there you go.

Thanks for correcting me, but my post was a reference to the belief of many on here that if Cortese was still here no one or no thing would ever leave and everything would be lovely forever.

If Cortese was still here Adidas would never have left.

Awww. That is quite sweet really.

WE CAN AFFORD to pay Lallana and Shaw £100k a week on five year contracts can we? And WE CAN AFFORD to then peg other players salaries to that benchmark, including the inevitable request from a new £15m centre forward to be paid as much as the 19 year old left back. I'm glad you put WE CAN AFFORD it in capitals, otherwise I'd think you were talking utter s hi t.

Stupid suggestions. We have a duty to be blooding young English managerial talent, like Joe Royle.

I wonder where the Cortese - worshipping Daily Mail are getting their info from?

I remember being absolutely disgusted when one of the money bags Premier league teams greedily snatched away Burnley ' s best player a couple of seasons back. I mean what is the point of clubs developing young talent when they are powerless against the Premier league bully boys? IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY!

Very funny.

Equally supposition that our miracle man former chairman would have magically prevented our best players from wanting to play for the biggest clubs in the world, right? Because our miracle man ex chairman so believed in the "project" and how no one vital to it should ever leave...that he promptly left, after one whole season in the Prem.

That's him rated about 12 mil if he is nothing but a bit part squad player. Shame really because I think he's somewhat better than that.

Absolutely this. We bankrolled our way to the Prem but plenty now think we have a holier-than-thou monopoly on "doing things the right way". If we plunder a NPC club for their best player, like, say, Jay - Rod, how much hand wringing will we see on this forum? This too. One phrase I despise on here is "glass ceiling". There is no glass ceiling. Glass ceilings generally refer to a cultural/traditional/discriminatory block to fair progress. There is no glass ceiling for Saints, or any club. If KL wanted to spend £200m this window, we'd more than likely be top 4, in a bad year top 6. The current Champions are proof positive no glass ceiling exists.

Any multi billionaire with half a brain would be better off buying one of avout half a dozen clubs with more potential than Saints. It's quite beautiful that we are owned by a gazillionaire but the impatient and ungrateful few are still grizzling.

Don't see you "enjoying" anything, Franko. Just the repetitive low grizzling whine of a toddler who has just realised his favourite fairy story isn't real. If your five month moan - a - thon is what you call "optimism" then I think you can keep it. Keep sobbing, Franko.

Why haven't we signed anyone yet FFS.

God knows what points you are making here, but well done on the word count.

This might be why the Guardian ran with that story about how "convinced" Man U were that they had him a few weeks ago. Of course the mighty brains of the forum wrote that off as completely made up rubbish from lying scumbag journos.