CB Fry

Chelsea don't have to sign Clyne for The Mirror to be right. Hell, they don't even need to bid for him for The Mirror to be right. On the story as printed, I would say the Mirror are more than likely correct. Mainly because the story came out of Chelsea or someone close.

I think you'll find that isn't "the project". Top half? That kind of lame-ass sh it is what pathetic clubs like West Brom go for. We're top six minimum, top four ideally. The project.

Clyne and Cork don't support Saints.

We'll have "no choice" when these players want to leave to better themselves. Funnily enough no one here wept any tears for Palace when we took Clyne from them, or when we outmuscled Burnley to land Cork. It's the football food chain.

Sorry. The forum has spoken. This story is, like, sooooo all completely made up by, like, lazy journalists and stuff. Excuse me while I now go into a hilarious routine on how journalists randomly link clubs and players off the top of their head. Oh yes, it's top drawer observational comedy.

The only lazy thing here is the traditional lazy forum response to newspaper story people don't want to read. Its fair to say you know nothing about what Chelsea want to do and this journalist knows far more than you will ever know.

So was Sir Stanley Matthews. Rickie is lucky to be a footballer now, and to live in a culture that massively over values the contribution a footballer makes vs other professions. He's hit the sweet spot of talent and demand. Nice work.

Lee Hoos has just been on BBC Breakfast News. True story.

Caborn is having a pop at the Olympics organising committee, in contrast to the divs on here grizzling about West Ham.

How about "These people were nothing more than employees of the club and they were paid for their work at the time"

You do get some breathtaking horsesh it on this forum. But this is spectacular. Merson the mind game puppet master. Luke Shaw the whey faced helpless lamb scared of leaving home. Keep em coming.

What differentiated the two was the simple fact that Le Tiss in his prime had a clear role for Saints where he was the focal point and the entire team was built around him. A role that he was never, ever going to get for England. And rightly so because Le Tiss simply not good enough to fo that role internationally. Frank Lampard, on the other hand, is a midfielder.

Boo hoo. Life's so unfair.

If he's anything, he's a "forward". Not a midfielder. So no "major error" there.

this bone...? Not sure why one club deserves a "massive bonus" but another doesn't.

The point being this forum is deranged in its obsession with West Ham.

So West Ham have overpaid to the tune of £2m quid a year then. Blimey. That's going to put them at a disadvantage the like of which other clubs have nightmares about.

So they could both pay £2m a year? To be fair, that is a good idea.

Are you saying give it to LOFC? Or at a lower rent than WHU? Just wondering because that would sound awfully like an advantage "the like of which other clubs would never etc etc..." Say what you like about the WHU gang but they are actually coughing up £2m a year.

What is your point about LOFC then? They can't afford to rent it, they can't have it. What's your point? And the comparison with Saints is valid. We now play in a stadium debt free, WHU will be paying £2m a year for ever. So where you get them being the beneficiaries of something "the like of which other clubs would never see" is fairyland stuff. If anything, it applies to us more than them. I'd love to be mortgage free myself. The £600m cost is utterly irrelevent and jack sh it to do with West Ham.

It won't take West Ham long to pay more for their stadium than the Leibherrs paid for ours - just a few seasons in fact. Hardly something "the like of which other clubs would never see". And it sounds like a going rate to me, its just looks low because the stadium massively overran its budget. Which is not WHU's fault and they are bailing LOCOG/Legacy/Whoever out quite frankly. And spare the crocodile tears for Leyton Orient. Total joke club that would never fill a stadium like that. Complete non starter and Hearn just feeding his own ego.

Micky seems to be under the illusion that the stadium was built specifically for West Ham United. Was he in a cave last August?

It didn't, though, so what is your point? And er, you only posted this about five minutes ago: It could have easily gone "the other way" with the Olympic Stadium which would have been a rotting white elephant without WHU.

99 year lease.

What is this particular argument then? We were an attractive proposition, which is why the Leibherrs bought us. We didn't become one after they bought us. Glad you agree with me. SMS was a stadium looking for the right occupants and the Leibherrs got it on the cheap. Remarkably similar to what West Ham have done here. Remarkably similar except they are renting not buying.