Colinjb

Just been announced that Patrice Evra is remaining at Manchester United next summer. One left back staying, they still have Alex Buttner.... Just saying.

Indeed, if the heart rules the head you will never do your best.

Hope there is some fire to back up this smoke.

Or, go for a 'kill two birds with one stone' approach and appoint Adam as Player-manager.

The only 'proof' is a marginal observed effect on judges/referees, not the competitors.

The quotes that RK is aware of a desire to return to stripes leave me feeling a bit more ambivalent, change should be afoot for 15/16 at least.

How much did it cost in lost merchandise sales? That all sizes of the home kit went to discounted sale, under the recent powers that be that is unprecedented.

Taking Italy, Spain, Scotland and France in isolation, how's that worked out for them? Having Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool here in red shirts will skew that statistic horribly. Barcelona play in stripes, Bayern Munich have often altered away from strictly red. A.C. Milan are in stripes. So, who else are we talking about? Benfica? Lille? Aberdeen? Playing in colours other then pure red has clearly been a burden to Juventus, Real Madrid, Porto, Chelsea, Paris St Germain, Dortmund, Celtic, Rangers, Sporting Lisbon, Atletico Madrid, Lyon, Ajax, Feyenoord, Panathinaikos, Wolfsburg, FC Santos, River Plate, Inter Milan, Lazio, Napoli, Palmeiras, Roma, Sampdoria, Boca Juniors, Sao Paolo, Flamengo, L.A. Galaxy, Once Caldas and all the many other sides who have triumphed in various competitions despite that terrible disadvantage.

Yet we are far, far more expensive. We cost £12m in 2009. Right now we would be worth, what? Conservatively at least ten times that?

I quite agree with jasonb too. Most people I socialise with also take that viewpoint.

You have a PM mate.

I still need the following if anyone can help: Initial page shinies: 2 5 7 Stadia: 9 11 12 13 14 15 17 19 22 28 30 Brasil: Marcelo, Luis Gustavo, Hernanes, Bernard, Willian, Fred Croatia: Strinic, Modric, Rakitic, Kovacic, Olic, Jelavic Mexico: Badge, Team, Aguilar, Dos Santos, Hernandez Cameroon: Badge, Team, Itandje, Nkoulou, Nounkeu, Bedimo, Matip, Mbia, Song, Makoun, Nguemo, Webo, Eto'o Spain: Team, Ramos, Hernandez, Iniesta, David Silva, Navas, Mata, Villa Holland: Cillisen, De Jong, Robben, Lens Chile: Gonzalo Jara Australia: Ryan, Milligan, Franjic, Rogic Columbia: Team, Yepes, Ramirez, Torres, Gutierrez Greece: Badge, Team, Papastathopoulos, Monolas Ivory Coast: Bamba, Boke, Angoua, Tiote, Gosso, Kalou Japan: Badge, Kawashima, Morishige, Honda, Osako Uruguay: Muslera, Pereira, Caceres, Gargano, Gonzalez Costa Rica: Badge, Gamboa, Rodriguez, Cubero, Borges, Ruiz England: Walker, Baines, Carrick, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain Italy: Badge, Abate, Pirlo, Rossi Switzerland: Lichtsteiner, Von Bergen, Djourou, Dzemaili, Xhaka, Stocker, Shaqiri Ecuador: Badge, Dominguez, Walter Ayovi, Mendez, Noboa, Rojas, Ibarra, Montero France: Badge, Evra, Benzema Honduras: Badge, Valladares, Bernardez, Garcia, Beckeles, Claros, Espinoza, Garrido, Palacios, Chavez Argentina: Badge, Zabaleta, Garay, Gago Bosnia: Badge, Begovic, Vrsajevic, Kolasinac, Lulic, Mujdza, Medunjanin, Misimovic, Pjanic Iran: Sadeghi, Teymourian, Ghoochannejhad, Ansarifard, Khalatbari Nigeria: Badge, Oboabona, Echiejile, Egwuekwe, Ogu, John Obi Mikel, Onazi, Mba, Moses, Oduamadi, Musa, Brown, Ameobi Germany: Team, Boateng, Schmelzer, Kroos, Draxler, Muller, Klose Portugal: Patricio, Alves, Coentrao, Costa, Nani, Varela, Postiga Ghana: Mensah, Afful, Essien, Muntari, Boateng, Majeed, Atsu, Gyan USA: Badge, Evans, Diskerud, Dempsey, Johnson. Belgium: Badge, Team, Kompany, Alderweireld, Defour, Chadli, Lukaku Algeria, Bougherra, Medjani, Slimani Russia: Ignashevich, Berezutski, Kombarov, Anyukov, Kozlov, Denisov, Fayzulin, Buystrov, Glushakov, Samedov, Dzagoev, Smolov Korea: Badge, Sung-Ryong, Jeong-Ho, Joo-Ho, Kwang-Hoon, Yong, Kook-Young, Chung-Yong, Sung-Yueng, Heung-Min, Shin-Wook. I have a healthy pile of swops to trade.

You will have a PM soon Monk.

No hesitation at all. I will want to be at the games regardless (If there is a Southampton FC I will support it) so why waste the early bird discount?

I'll post a list of swops in due course mate. I would be happy to pay 10p per sticker (pack value) for some of yours if willing? Where is your locality?

Would anyone here be willing to trade swops? I'm about 65% in and without anyone to trade with i'm really starting to build up my spares pile!

Only if he had Katharina Leibherr's full backing, otherwise no point.

Easy to say what needs to be done when you are no longer in charge. When push came to shove Cortese couldn't keep Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in League 1, even with him there was always a time when he knew the fight couldn't be won. It's impossible for him to be certain of exactly how things would play out now under his juristiction, he is not in charge of Adam Lallana, Luke Shaw and Morgan Schneiderlin at this stage in their careers. Words only mean so much, regardless of who they are from and what they have achieved. That article could have been vindictive but instead it just seems common sense, yes we need to keep our better players to progress and yes I have no doubt Cortese would have worked to tie them down.... nothing revolutionary here.

Am I alone in wanting any moves to just be done already so we can get on with the job of rebuilding the first team?

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I wouldn't read it as that, just if a team who are higher up then us right now come in he would be interested, no context about our future plans has been given.

In other words, if a CL club wanted him he would want to go. Can't blame him but it's a shame for it to be so plain. In a funny way that kind of honesty is rather refreshing!

Jose Fonte's wife? Walder Frey has to be Alan Pardew.

And obviously: Dani Osvaldo - Khal Drogo.