Nolan

Echo States personal reasons and he has gone back to Aus...

And this is why Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet....

who's this in the Picture with Koeman?

We found Lovren who played well for us. We found alderweireld who played we for us. The mysterious black box will have chosen someone else for us. (back in for Van Dijk?)

NewsNow is almost as fun as twitter at the moment

we found Lovren two years ago. we found Alderweireld last year. we'll have someone waiting in the wings this year.

To be fair his stats for last season are similar to Bertrand

Well we've been led to believe that the fabled black box judges how a player will fit in amongst our current players. Given the reaction to the Dutch fans, we can only assume that as a complement to Targett, Bertrand, gardos, Yoshida, fonte and Cedric he works.

just re-listened to the press conference and Koeman says "we had an option for the player, and Atletico are trying to pay back the option"... have we actually paid Atletico the £6.8 million for Alderweireld?

I included them in the points with. But I take your point it could easily argued that 40 in 36 games with takes it down to 1.53 pppg 20 in 12 games without takes it to 1.66 ppg

43 points in 26 games with = 1.65 ppg 17 points in 12 games without = 1.41 ppg

just a reminder of Toby's words in the Echo on May 14th "I don't feel it is my last game, or my last home game, I don't feel like this, because I'm happy here and there is an opportunity that I would stay here, so I don't feel it's the last game".

if he's easily worth 11 mill plus then 1 the fee at the end of the season should have been more 2 Atletico should have cancelled the agreement in time. simple

Because subsidizing some of a wage is better than paying full unemployment benefit.

No profits, no reserves for bad years, no company left, no money for pension or taxes.

you do realize there are other uses for profits other than wages, right? The profit is probably needed to counter the reduction in value of the company due to losses in share value.

The Guardian writer is an idiot. It's difficult enough for high street shops to make money as it is.

You also told us Schneiderlin to Man U was a done deal a few days before Koeman said no serious bids had been recieved.

Tennis elbow isn't it doctor?

13 goals in his last 12 games looking at the stats. he was on fire after he picked up the African cup of Nations winners medal.

You know that was 07/08 right?

Counts as home grown

So what was out in the official website then... Good ole express

I think the 1.3 update was for pc today. Mobile platforms tend to be on a different development cycle.

Yep, but in that case I wouldn't expect any payment until after the transfer window closes.