Ken Tone

Team news?

thanks for the link. Smashing bloke, and good to hear him saying the saints supporters are magnificent. It actually means something form a man who has left us and has nothing to gain from ingratiating himself .

Still think he is as good as, or maybe better than, Wanyama. It would be shockingly bad management to lose him for peanuts just because we haven't sorted out a reasonable contract for him...... especially if we then have to pay through the nose to replace him.

ha ha. Wouldn't he rather play for Sean Dyche?

What I don't see explained in the regs that I've read, is ....... year 1: club exceeds the £4million pay increase by say £20million, raising its wage bill form say the £52 bear point to £72 million. It is punished. year 2 : is the club's base wage bill now £72million? So it could continue to pay £72 million, or indeed raise it by another £4 million, with no further punishment? if so, it may even be a sensible tactic for a club (with a rich backer) to deliberately break the rules and take even a points deduction one year, to allow it to compete with the big boys in future years.

Look at QPR. Drove a cart and horses through the regulations last season, with Redknapp doing his usual. They risked a points deduction, but are currently 'expecting' only a big fine. Though there doesn't seem much sign of them actually paying it.

try http://www.footballgroundguide.com/brighton_and_hove_albion/ which mentions several park & rides. It is a terrible stadium for parking

re-signing Cork and Fonte tomorrow would be a start.

The big question is how big a cake did we get him?

Look on the bright side. With all this income, we're not likely to go into administration again this season!

Normally I'd not welcome any loan, but this season there may be some sense on having someone in to cover for Jay Rod until he regains fitness.

I've stopped buying any of this stuff. I pay enough for the season ticket, without being ripped off for shirts etc.

Is there any possibility of posters using this thread to pass on transfer rumours, as per its title, rather than as a ****-waving contest?

You're almost certainly right, but it would still be wonderful for this rumour to spread and give the Spurs fans something to worry about

Checked this out with a Dutch acquaintance a couple of weeks ago. He said Koo- man, but with the emphasis on the second syllable, so it's more Koo-MAN, than our usual English KOO-man. Also the 'man' sounds almost more 'marn' than 'man'.

Agreed. Plus if Morgan wants to move for CL football, he ain't going to get it at Spurs.

So do they ask the same questions all over again in the broadcast bit?

Srrange idea.... What's the point of a private interview, when it is to the press? They might as well let us see/hear that too

Blimey. Have QPR really only signed one player ? Poor old 'Arry will be down to the bare bones!

The battery life on most smartphones is ****e. The iPhone has the added annoyance of giving you no way to change the battery for a full one. If you really want battery life you'll have to get a phone with a physical keyboard like the blackberry q10, which has a touch screen as well. Don't know about you but I hate typing on a small touchscreen anyway ... My fingers are too big. But there are very few apps for Blackberry, so if you want much more than a browser, email and phone, you're tied into 'battery anxiety' until some firm cracks the technology.

Really?! You'd never know from most of the posts on this thread.

Define bigger club !

As well as the transfer fee itself, there is the issue of which club will pay more in wages. We don't want anyone to poach him.

if you look at it objectively, why would the club care about p.r. at the moment? We've bought our season tickets, and no one is buyng tickets for single matches for weeks yet. So they don't *need* good p.r. for a while yet. As long as they can announce some good news before the pre season games, they don't need to wory about p.r. They do need to sign players early enough for Koeman to have a good pre season training period, but that could wait a week or two yet.

Thick and ill-advised IMO. I doubt he could be arsed enough to bother to rub our noses in it. He doesn't care that much.