Whitey Grandad

No need, I took you at your word

Maybe they are the only people who can afford it?

You have assumed that the headline figures for transfers are the amounts that the club receives. Agents' fees might come out of the figure paid (or collected) but not show up as such separately in the accounts. From The Telegraph in 2002: (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/3039091/Gregory-Ive-done-no-wrong.html) "In May last year, Adam Crozier, then chief executive of the FA, told a private dinner that "agents and hangers-on" had pocketed £7 million of the £9.5 million Angel transfer fee. By then the FA were already looking at this transfer but, according to one insider: "The wall came down and we could find nothing."

Clueless. Why do you keep on about net spend? It's not relevant. We sold Lallana for far more than we paid for Mané but that wasn't a net spend. Do you really believe when it says 'a deal worth £30 million (say) that the selling club receives all that money and suddenly has it all sitting in the bank? Please, you've made your view enough times, how about giving it a rest now?

That's what we need. Even then, this is a new team and it's asking a lot to have a watertight defence and a fluid attacking threat in the first couple of games.

If so that will be some time yet and if we get to that stage we shall be deep in the doggy-dos by then. That is not something that I would wish for.

A relegation scrap after three games?

No, I can't agree with that. Round pegs, square holes.

Never in doubt once they got their second. We're not tight enough defensively and toothless up front. Nevertheless we should be ok against any other than the top teams. We need a couple of quality players and time for them to bed in.

Charlie Austin hat trick. Works for me

His right foot catches the back of his left calf.

Højbjerg looks bloody good.

I'd call that a result:)

Shaw's right leg was caught. Right under the referee's nose too. Clasie knew it and so did all the other players.

That happens more to Targett than to others. Players tackle other players and win the ball, that happens too.

Are you serious? He gets dummies inside and just waves his left leg at the ball as it goes past him on the outside. He fell for exactly the same move earlier in the game and Davis rescued him at a stretch.

Good. He obviously doesn't want a transfer there

Targett again! Don't just wave your little toe at him, take him out!!!

Some of ours have brown stains on them

That's anybody on this forum.

Fair point, but that was exceptional. In general league results are related to spending but that includes wages as much as contract purchases and whether we would want to or are able to go down the route of excessive spending is debatable. FFP comes into play somewhere in this.

You could sell £110m of players and buy one for £120m. That would be a net spend of £10 by the simplistic accounting method yet would still leave only one player in the squad.

Er... Haven't you just demonstrated that net spend is not relevant?

And we get paper towels at half time.

Nobody knows what was in the minds of the voters. You yourself are not able to tell us what you personally want to see as the outcome despite repeated requests.