Ken Tone

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.

He was my favourite player. Now I feel betrayed. All that guff only a short while ago when he signed a highly lucrative 5 year contract about how he'd be happy to spend all of his career playing for Saints in the PL, and then he tells the Liverpool interviewer that he's wanted to play for them since we played them this last season. As to any claim that he stayed with us when we went down the leagues, that's bull. As far as we know he had no other offers. And at that stage he wasn't actually rated that highly. Personally ly id have called his bluff over the 'never play' threat. He had 4 years left on his contract. What was he going to do - sulk for 4 years ? How would that have helped his career? He's behaved like a ****. Sod him.

For christ's sake. Just say no!

This will be why Liverpool were so keen to biuy players so quickly -- before any news about Suarez going got out.

Don't forget that that would only be £15 million cash for saints with £5 mill for Bournemouth. It's not enough to replace him with someone as good.

this. If he does stay , he'll have a lot of bridges to mend.

That's the one for me

It's weird isn't ? In just about any other area of work, apart from a family firm of course, to employ a relative would be seen as close to corrupt. In football, anything goes.

I'd go for a double.

Because as we all know , nobody in football signs a new long contract then expects to leave with a year.

IMO he was just using the word paperwork to mean the bureaucratic process of getting from deciding who we want to actually signing them publicly, with all the contractual issues to sort out, for the bloke himself and his team too. Imagine just the complications of merely sorting out where he is goug to live, a relatively minor part of the process, but one we can all understand. Will he rent or buy something himself, or wil the club provide somewhere, in which case how flash a place will we give him..... All stuff his agent will be negotiating over. Now imagine that process over all the many oher issues.

Harsh on Adkins. He actually was very reluctant to leave S****horpe and the deal stalled for a while when Cortese tried to play hardball. IMO he would have stayed for years at Saints if Cortese hadn't forced him out. Ok, of course he would have gone if say Man United had come in for him, but not an 'also ran' club like Spurs.

Whats your source for that ?

I had much the same thought... With Yoshida as an alternative CB, at least until Chambers really grows into the role. Btw, I think Chambers played at CB before he got into to the first team at RB?

We actually have no idea how that process went . It seems that Nc has decided to sack Adkins well before he did so. Presumably he started his search for a replacement as soon as he made his private decision , but since he hadn't yet publicly sacked Adkins , there wasn't the intense scrutiny of every visitor to the UK, or trip to Spain ,or detailed analysis of earlobes that we are getting now. For all we know Cortese might have secretly interviewed several candidates over a period of weeks before Adkins left.

This. But I also reckon Chambers will end up as a top class centre back.

Yes and no. If he misses out financially by requesting a transfer officially, then chances are he'll expect liverpool to pay him more to compensate him.

Er no, Bournemouth didn't allow him to speak to us. Their **** of a chairman made huge fuss about it, and supposedly Howe didn't want to come to us anyway. Were you a saints fan then? I very much doubt Magath will end up talking to us ... Though admittedly absolutely anything can happen in the mad world of football. To have been linked with us is a good thing for him.

you really do live in a strange world.