The Kraken

Any news on Cork too, Ess? Both of those back would be a bonus.

Damn straight; I'd love to leave my job and become Nik Nak's errand boy. Who wouldn't FFS?

I bet he fixes it so that he gets Nik Nak every year. And puts a little "xx" on the present label.

Shurlock already likes the rumour so much he eliminated doubt its a rumour.

I think he takes the minutes and provides the tea and biscuits, bless him.

Maybe Jords was down the dry cleaners with Nik Nak's suits at the time and didn't have time to leak the news. More pressing (arf) duties to attend to.

OK, this time your sarcasm lost me.

But do you think your explanation is feasible? Given how so many people say what a great businessman Cortese is; would a man of such acclaim take out a massive loan at huge interest rates just to not spend it? I'd suggest not.

Its not sarcasm. I enjoy hearing things like this that I haven't heard before. Just trying to put it into context, and see how accurate it is. Does it really sound feasible to you?

The loan hit the accounts on 18th September; I think there was plenty of time to cancel it if the deal didn't come off. I'm assuming the deal didn't fall through on 31st August? Before that, so even more time. But no you're probably right, better to have the money months before we need it and pay the interest repayments on it until we maybe can spend it in future.

What a shame. Simon Peach also needs to up his game; he got pretty much every other transfer spot on in advance but clearly missed this massive news.

The loan wasn't approved until September; after the transfer window had shut. How does that fit in?

Really? More than £12M? For who?

I don't know, but as long you keep counteracting them with threads of this quality I'm sure we'll be just fine.

Apparently you can't say that with any certainty on here; we didn't prioritise Ramirez and signing him for as much money as we did, didn't mean by any stretch whatsoever we couldn't bring in other better defenders. Simon Peach said so (except when he clearly didn't, that doesn't count).

At least games are getting advertised somewhere.

Who swore that? Whoever it was, they were wrong years before we signed Ramirez.

Internet. Serious business.

I've heard he's put in a transfer request for January.

What was best about that was the lads who got slapped were all angry about it on TV; Cloughie invited them in for a meet up and clear the water and they all melted! To the extent that he literally kissed them and made up. Legend of a man, and so sad to see his slow but predictable demise.

Cloughie was so before his time its untrue. Genius.

To be fair; there's only one man that can get the boys geed up enough. Big John Sitton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg_lPJ8hHP0

Which one? Racist Ron or Keggy Keegle?