Patrick Bateman

Incorrect - as accounting rules state that assets depreciate. I was just doing some reading and found this which backs it up; "it certainly appears that the conditions for football players to be classified as intangible fixed assets.Intangible assets are generally capitalised on the balance sheet at their historic cost - i.e. at the amount it cost the entity to acquire the asset - and are then depreciated over the asset's useful economic life, if they can be purchased or sold separately from buying or selling the business as a whole. Therefore soccer players should be capitalised in the balance sheet and amortised over their useful economic life. This leaves the problem of how to deal with players who are not acquired but are, instead, developed internally by a club. An intangible asset arising from internal development shall be recognised if, and only if, an entity can demonstrate whether the identifiable asset (soccer player) will generate future economic benefits and the cost of the asset can be measured reliably. This suggests soccer players developed internally by a club cannot be capitalised until their estimated replacement cost can be determined when they become successful."

Players are not "assets" they are staff. Assets are tangible and include; the ground, the training ground, Jackon's Farm, equipment etc., and then guaranteed income. Our market value will be the value of the land + equipment on the asset register and future income. Players are staff and do not count; staff have no tangible value in business terms. Any decent Accountant on here will hopefully be able to explain this more concisely than I.

That, he did - looked full of confidence too and you can almost bet in another world, that had he hit it before being crippled, it would have been a screamer of a goal.

I swear some of you have no idea about football and just watch/support because you're trying to fit in or be fashionable. Rickie was excellent in the first half with clever little passes, lovely bits of vision and helping to pull people out of position to create openings for others. In the second half granted, he was quieter, but I actually think Sunderland upped their game, closed down and our players generally started to look more tired. He therefore had less time and space to make the nice passes and quickly tired. But first half he was very good again with his movement, closing and link up play. Additionally, remember what Pochettino said about playing "FROM" a position. Rickie plays FROM the front line, but actually he is really an advanced midfielder in his play. Jay plays FROM his position to often become the main striker.

I don't think many would disagree with you. That's what I love about football fans; the fickleness. "One Jerry Edwards"

Of course not. Not a bad thing if he comes back with someone with even more money, but of course, if he doesn't, then I'd rather be backed by someone who "isn't interested in football but is worth $3bn"? All hypothetical of course. You can well imagine he had in Pochettino's ear to tell him to hang on longer while he gets his sh*t together.

"NC vs Katharina Liebherr for dummies" But it sounds exactly right. I can well believe that he was left to it when we were in the lower leagues, but suddenly with Premiership income potential and players costing a significant amount, there may well have been a sudden burst of interest. Maybe she genuinely didn't have time to pay much attention to Saints, what with all the other companies in her portfolio and having left him to it, finally got round to "that football club" and gained interest. All perfectly feasible. And then gaining the interest would obviously upset someone who really wants to be the number 1 and accountable to himself. I am still sure he'll be back in all honesty - there will probably be a meeting of minds halfway once she realises that it's an enormous overhead and she's more in the public eye (which the Liebherrs don't appear to like) and also once he realises he's come across as a bit of a kid having some of his toy taken anyway, but he enjoys it. Just my opinion of the last couple of days with what I've read.

Why? We have a very wealthy owner, from a family of very wealthy people. Unless Cortese returns with someone even more ridiculously wealthy, then it's a silly thing to wish for in my opinion.

Jesus Christ. Calm down. If he wants to go, he goes and we get £30m according to the other thread, which according to many people will buy us a lot of talent and a decent replacement. Our fans are hilarious. We still have a club - if one or two players are so easily swayed and want to leave, we'll get [good] money for them to buy players who want to be here.

Who are these utter helmets at the training ground asking Pochettino whether he's still the manager? 1. Yes he is 2. They'll have been told to say nothing 3. They probably know no more than we do in reality 4. FFS

Seems to me like Cortese will walk, Katrina will sell and the new owner would be Cortese + new backer. It all smacks of a game of cat and mouse. As far as I'm aware, Cortese was instructed to find a buyer for the club - obviously he wants to buy the club (with a.n.other backer) but she didn't want to sell to him, probably because it's Cortese and he's trying to buy it "on the cheap" and now it's blown up to such a state that he will have to walk away in order to assist re-buying the club. That would make sense to me.

Ah well, thanks and see ya. Was never going to be top class and took up a valuable squad number ...

Told you to leave your woman at home didn't I? Dinlo.

No.

14 points I think. Sunderland are now on form just in time for us to play them. Arsenal are simply too good. Hull are a good side at home and we'll struggle against Liverpool I think. So I'll go; Sunderland - L Arsenal - L Fulham - W Stoke - W Hull - D West Ham - D Liverpool - L Palace - W Norwich - W

Wow. I completely agree with you and I really hope he is - nothing against the others, but Lovren wants to lead, you can see that on the pitch, by his tweets, but his conduct.

Yeah must have been that one - we stayed up (god knows how) and I hugged the bloke. Odd.

I had a weird "wonder what he did next?" moment about Jermaine Wright. I remember running on the pitch, hugging him (I was f**king smashed) and telling him "you're a f**king legend" ... His reply with a fair element of surprise; "Really??" Had nothing against the guy, but I think it was more of a cult hero kind of thing as he was the scapegoat of the day. Although I never actually thought he was the worst on the pitch. Anyway, that's it.

Urgh, seriously?? I'd rather not wash my hands and/or use my jeans to dry than use those grim towels ... oh, you said paper towels, sorry, I first read that as "towels" thinking you meant the cloth pull towel thing. I've no idea why I'm still typing, but I am going to keep typing and press "post reply" anyway. Go me.

Sorry fella, but having met Viking Warrior numerous times at the football back in the Dell days, I would go with his judgement more than many others on here. Peace out.

Is he any good anyway?? Has he managed a club long enough to prove himself? Other than having a group of "managers" in Drogba, Terry and Lampard help him win the Champions League!? Am I being too harsh on him?

Maybe they noticed that Jesus Perez has been doing more of the videos and interviews recently

That list is written by someone trying to be different. Portland? I've been there, it's not good and certainly not a patch on Seattle. I hated Marseille and Rotterdam. Liverpool still does absolutely nothing for me either.

That would explain why he a) has so much time to post bullsh*t all the time and b) is such a bitter, weird, prat.

Out of all of them; Martin is the one player I though would have been able to learn and kick on. We're not exactly blessed with young centre backs, so I was surprised by his "exclusion". The others not so. Although saying that, I just checked and he's the same age as Dejan . . . . . .