CB Fry

So are you saying you think we can finish 14th, or our aim is 14th, or our realistic target is 14th, or we should aim to target a hope to aim realistically for 14th, or the club is aiming for a target of 14th but you think we can do better or worse, realistically or otherwise?

I guess he was expecting, at least, to have the Tadier signing to fall back on if he agreed to do this interview this morning or yesterday. I just worry that he has mastered the patter to rationalise the "process" of our multiple sales, and soon we enter the phase of rationalising the "process" that we couldn't secure our top targets and hey, it's a difficult process and, sure, we're a little disappointed but Les Reed has been outstanding and we go with what we have created together in our rebuild process and anyway, Georgio Samaras has won the league, like, loads of times. Some effing signings will make your job a heck of a lot easier, Ralph.

He's been chatting to King Ralph today too, I see. On PA at 10pm, so probably will be online soon after.

Les Reed wouldn't fly to Portugal to sell Fonte. He might he going to sell SFC to Rojo.

Rojo, obviously. £15m.

Exactly. Just tiresome that people make these jolly clever "well, what about installments/it'll be lower than the figure in the headlines etc etc" but somehow suggesting that all the players we sign we pay the exact reported amount all up front in cash on day one. Top tip, forum geniuses: let's assume it's all about the same for everyone, shall we?

I bet Everton have had a fans forum and everything.

This thread is a fairly typical one on this forum that you have just chosen to pay to subscribe to. Did you think becoming a paying member grants you access to "premium content" or something?

If you bothered to actually read what I wrote you will see that first I am not "hot and bothered" about anything. And secondly I am making a point a wee bit wider than simply the day of the week "a new signing" is made on.

It's starting to, yes. It is starting to look, more and more, that the club are stringing fans along. If they're not (and I count myself as someone that still, just, thinks they're not) then someone might want to teach Les, Ron, Ralph and Co about the practice of "under promise and over deliver". For our friend from the World Economic Forum it might be worth a chapter in a future book. In German/French only, of course.

Tuesday counts as the weekend, right?

Pretty much all football clubs deal in the medium term future with every decision they make, TDD.

Think that was Les Reed, and he most recently said it in an interview post-Cortese. As someone else pointed out, Cortese sanctioned plenty of loan deals. Maybe he just pretended to rip them up and throw them in the bin, but agreed to loaning Papa Waigo anyway.

Really don't think we need to be signing other club's 17 year old promising wingers on loan. We've got the "promise" department sewn up. Let's have some players with some working experience of actual professional football, please.

Guan doesn't confirm signings. The club does. And thanks for spluttering opinions you have decided I have and getting annoyed about. I haven't discredited him or called "the rest of his information trash". And, thanks for the lesson about other perspectives, but I think it was me who mentioned the world of other sources out there. And I'm not the one that thinks a forum contributor "confirms signings". This time, not even a nice try.

I said his stuff is "just noise" - another voice to go along with the press, TV and Radio and social media. Of no greater value. There's nothing in anything I wrote that carries any expectation that Guan or anyone on this forum is, or needs to be, omniscient. So nice try, but a pointless come back.

Compketely unnecessary attack on a long standing and excellent member of this forum.

What the eff is the wessex dragon?

No, it's not really a plan. It's a joke. There isn't a Celtic plan. There is a jokey three line post on a Celtic fan site, though.

I guess there are a few three month old babies gutted they weren't around for last season's eighth place finish. They all make more sense than you do, though.

Us refusing to be crap in pre season really has ruined a lot of people's fun on here, but at least the "meaningless" line gets wheeled out anyway.

Would be mental for us to spend nine or ten mil on a substitute goalkeeper. I think Boruc could walk if and when we sign Forster.

Aren't they taking one of our cast offs? Don't really understand why you think we're bring done over here - it's not like Ossie was much cop in Italy last season.

Isn't getting shot of Osvaldo precisely what we want?