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Nobody thought that for christ sake.

Lambert will never, ever be forgotten. This generations legend.

This is hilarious, and slightly embarrassing, but nothing to get genuinely upset/annoyed over. By the way, why is this not a sticky? #bignews

Due to a "personal tragedy" apparently, probably should keep that in mind before any jibes start...

Seems like things have just conspired against them. If true, pretty poor from West Brom - i'm sure he'd pay back any signing on fee if this were true.

I agree with the bike thing, does my head in.

Was this the one other Monk was on about?

I assumed it had without checking tbh.

I'm sure a lot of footballers are passionate about something, Osvaldo just makes it a bit more obvious.

I'm sure he is, but if he were to repeat his league one antics (refusing to travel to away games when not picked etc) then that would definitely be disruptive.

A million a year sounds like a hell of a lot for a company like aap3...

The reason things kicked off with him before is because he wasn't getting in the team, he probably asked for a move knowing how many players were ahead of him. Shame, but the alternative is disrupting the great team spirit we've built.

The football league is probably less anal about squad numbers and because Puncheon already had 42 the PL just accepted it.

Playing on the pitch for Southampton, You know he's gonna get us a goal Seventeen on his back, and he's gonna attack ya The one and only Osvaldo *repeat* Can even clap along for those unable to stop themselves as it's quite fast paced.

Love it!

"You'd probably be the burglar". Gained so much respect for Gary Neville since he retired.

Our atmosphere is one of the best in the league already, no need to change anything.

Shouldn't be too hard to figure out come the end of the season.

Considering how solid we were defensively V West Brom, I really hope we don't go for this.

Snap, although Mayuka on the bench for Puncheon IMO. Need to have a striker on the bench.

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Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We have no idea how good we really are until we get a decent way into the season. Right now all I would say is we're better than Hull, Cardiff, Palace, Stoke, Hammers, Sunderland, Villa and Newcastle. Everyone else (yes, including Swansea and Fulham) are either on par or ahead for the time being.

I really doubt we're paying over a million a week for our players. That would be around £40k a week on average for our entire squad (not counting the youth promoted this season). I reckon we're around £40million a year.

He said weakest, not weak. In the same vein that Dani Alves is probably the weakest link in the Barca team despite the fact he's a brazilian international.

All except the two keepers, although it's worth noting that they're all out on loan with the exception of Bosingwa. So chances are QPR are still paying some of their wages. However they are all older players with little resale value, completely different to the younger signings we've made.