Crouchie's Lawyer

Just a really random thought and by no way my opinion just a wild assumption but run with it a second... Maybe we don't have any money any more? We are run very well financially so do not believe we are making a loss so to speak but maybe since ML passed the club hasn't got new money to spend? All this talk about youth coming through and 50% of our team coming from our future kids could point to this. Could be the most paranoid way of looking at this but: What if we are concerned about losing our best players? Case point being Poopey... Everyone knows they have no money so can pillage their team of the better players at a low price. Imagine if others knew we had no money. Whilst we may not have to sell, it would be a lot harder to turn down serious realistic offers? What's the best way of keeping serious, realistic offers at bay? Make out you are minted and it would only take ludicrous offers to part with your best players! Teams will not even bother making an offer if they think we will ask double or even treble what they are willing to pay as we have so much money. How can we do this? Simples, we make massive offers for players we know we don't have a chance in getting like Rodrigues and Hooper etc. It keeps us fans happy too believing we have ambition as well as keeping the bigger teams away from our star players. Only backlash to deal with us come the end of the window when we do not sign the big name we were initially led to think we would but throw us a bone like Tadanari Lee and SDR and it keeps us happy for the time being albeit at a fraction of the cost. Just a random thought so don't slate me. I dont know anything about our finances it's just a bit bizarre we are not investing a little more at a time when we are so close to the big prize and I wonder if there are other reasons for it?!

Will remain the same I guess. Very poor performance and not what we need with the games we have coming up. Other than beating two very poor teams recently (one in the cup which I don't give a feck about) we have been poor for a while now. I appreciate teams go off the boil but it highlights we need a battling midfielder in the absence of Chappers as our poor form has coincided with his absence. We desperately need another reliable forward as well. Guly and Connolly are fine as secondary strikers to the main man but don't seem to be able to cut the mustard when Rickie is out against decent oppo and Martin has done ok in Fonte's absence but we need another class CB too. We will never panic buy, it's not in Cortese's nature but we do need to do something... Soon in my opinion. If we have Cardiff, Birmingham and West Ham coming up we could soon find ourselves out of contention of automatic promotion if we don't get out of this funk

We're gonna get rinsed. Can't see us scoring at all but every time Leicester go forward they look like bagging one. Had to be that pr!ck Nugent too which scored first

Official club'ber' I'll get paid to test out all the local clubs. Grading each one based solely on the looks of the female frequenters and how easy they are. It will be a tough job but I'll take one for the team and step up

After last nights anticlimax I think the whole open training session backfired a little. I'm sure they would have got a hell of a lot more turnout had we signed some exciting players. Dont get me wrong, Im sure the few that went enjoyed themselves but Im guessing the main aim of it was to get the feel good factor up with the new stiker that never was....

"him off" boomtish

I know a few people have been slated for critisizing NA/NC for our transfers but if the J Rod debacle is true then we have seriously messed up. We have 'apparently' been tracking him for weeks and wait to the last minute to make an offer only to find out that he doesnt even want to come to us?! I hope NC wasnt thinking he would be shrewd in making a last minute offer they wouldnt be able to refuse and therefore we would get our man... SURELY we would have sussed out if he was prepared to come to use before using this approach?! I am now starting to question whether we have messed up things in this window losing out on players etc. I know we have got Fox, De Ridder & Cork but we have seemingly lost out on far more than we have got in and if you buy enough lottery tickets you will eventually win... I'll reserve final judgement for tomorrow am when all has been finalised but we have tried and failed a hell of a lot it seems recently and that to me is not good enough.

Ties in with the SSN news rumour... Has your mate blagged you on the fact that he has signed or has your mate just read the SSN page and passed this on? I'll reword that... Have we signed him and it's just waiting to be officially announced or it is still a rumour?

Other than the little tantrum which he had whilst at Leeds when we played them (and later apologised for) does anyone know where the 'bad attitude' tag comes from with him? I've seen it a million times before when players come off and throw a mini hissy fit. Tevez has done it before but would people say he has a bad attitude?! It just shows passion and willingness to succeed. Chanelled correctly it can lead to great players and IMO NA gets the best out of players. As players grow up and get older the majority of them settle down and learn to control their attitudes, look at Anelka... He is hardly what he used to be. I trust NA and NC with this one and know a player of his skill would tear up this division alongside RL. I think our only stumbling blocks would be if he is prepared to drop a division (he has played quite a few at Prem level) and his wage which is no doubt a lot higher than we would offer. Those two reasons lead me to think it won't happen but it would be one hell of a coup if we pulled it off!

FFS with our spondooleys I would have expected us to have gone out and got the two players we obviously should have signed by now, you know the two, the defender and striker... Benson & Hedges, they would complete our team

Hmmmm, unsure about this one... something smells a bit fishy. I presumed there was an issue with him not wanting to drop down a division which is fair enough but then to see he has signed for Reading is a bit upsetting?! He stated that he joined Reading because he thinks he has a good chance of returning to the Prem with them, does he not think this is possible with us? Now, considering we are top of the league and unbeaten I find this hard to believe. Im sure if we were in for him we would have sold him 'the vision' of the club. So, that to me smacks of 2 things: 1) We were simply never in for him (which would be an oversight on our part if the case as he looks like the kind of defender we need!) or 2) Reading have exceeded what we were willing to pay for him. In NA & NC I trust but come on guys, you want quality, you have to pay for it sometimes and we are not going to attract the kind of player we need to get that final push to the Premiership if we are offering peanuts. I'm wondering if the excellent start has hindered our transfer activity in anyway. I hope to hell someone hasnt seen the 4 games we have won and thought "I dont need to invest any money in this, it will be fine as it is..." I echo what a few others have said in regards to the Fontaine deal falling through. To hear some of their fans say they would drive him down here themselves for £400k and then to offer double this was a little worrying. I am not saying I would have got on the players back had he signed, but to me it seemed like a desperation signing. I would rather we played Seabourne or Martin there than spend money willy nilly for the sake of it. I sure hope that NA & NC have a few surprises to pull out of their sleeves before deadline day which will put a smile on our faces because I still think we are 2 or 3 quality players away from really competiting for the whole season. A striker and a CB as everyone knows is what we need.

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Mods can the title of this thread now be changes to simply 'Maynard'? Annoys me everytime I look at it and think he is coming...

Wahay!!

Yup Mister Neil got the better of me too, I thought I knew how he did it (possible copy and paste of 'll' or alternatively using the || but that just doesnt look right ********. Even if I copy and paste his bоllocks (which sounds very wrong) it doesnt work! I'll be very impressed if you can name the club Adkins used to manage though...

I also think it is ********. Has Skacel signed yet? ********

Ok, if you ITK'ers are right, the general impression is that you 'believe' it to be Danny Fox! Thanks guys, hadn't seen a picture of him and knowing that Fourth_Official seems to have a bit of inside knowledge on us, I was wondering if he managed to pick up a scoop before we had released it!

Thanks guys. Havent seen a picture of Fox yet and it slipped my mind! Thought we had signed someone new!

http://twitter.com/#!/fourth_official Who is the guy in the profile picture Fourth_Official has? I may be having a blonde moment, but I do not recognise him and I am sure he has only changed to this picture within the last day or so? Does he know something we dont??

Especially if it is a bloke!

It's 'Sloth' from the Goonies in a blonde wig. HTH

Emailed him also, expect some b0110x excuse though... I have asked for a refund for this month

Cant even send a complain email as it wont let me do that FFS!

Finally *****ing in with safari, didnt work with IE. Complaint email being written now...

Still not facking working!! Tried resetting computer and I have finally been able to get into Saints Player but it is saying it is not on air!!! Any ideas?!