Nolan

Van Dijk got sent off in the Celtics last Euro match against Inter. He's got a suspension to serve.

intern have to think up a filler story for this morning?

Bound to be Vlaar and Elia then. Vlaar would be a good addition. Knows Koeman from feyenoord 11/12. As Iong as there are no issues with the persistant calf injuries would arguably be the easiest to slot into a Koeman defence. Last season he was arguably effected by his injury punctuated season. Sent from my HTC Desire 310 using Tapatalk

We're underestimating their standard here. Half are actually bundesliga players nabbed from RB Salzburg for example their first half 11 Coltorti - First Choice Keeper. 6 clean Sheets / Conceded 17 Goals 21 games in 2014/15 Gipson - Free Transfer in from Stuttgart u19 Orban - €2 mill purchase this close season from Kaiserslatern Nukan - €5 mil purchase this close season from Besiktas Jung - First Choice left back for 2014/15 season Hierländer - Benchwarmer for 2014/15 Season - averaged 30 mins per game in 21 matches. Khedira - First choice CM/DM for 2014/15 Season Ilsanker - Free Transfer in from Red Bull Salzburg Bruno - Just Returned from Season Long Loan at Red Bull Salzburg having scored 6 in 24 Quaschner - Free Transfer in From Red Bull Salzburg Sabitzer - Just returned from Season Long Loan at Red Bull Salzburg having scored 19 in 33.

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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.