Whitey Grandad

You can never have enough of Stargate. I only watch it for Amanda Tapping

Unless they say that it is?

Not according to Rafa Benitez: 'What you first need to establish when you go to a new club are the aims of the club and the resources available to achieve them.' http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/in/blog/football-clubs-structure-rafa-benitezs-view/57/

It's not for us to decide his 'worth'. That's what we have a board for.

A £1m loyalty bonus if he stays long enough to play two games in a row.

That's good to hear and makes me feel a bit better.

Ok, I'm hooked, when's the next instalment?

He looks a bit snappy.

I read it as 17 enquiries for players to come in and 7 received for players to go out.

Do they get given a charm as well as a watch? Respect

Every time I feel depressed about it I think of his miss at Sunderland.

Yeah, looked what happened with Glen Johnson.

Thanks for taking the time to post this.

He's a very good player and we need every one of those that we can keep our hands on.

His wife and family might be an important factor. If she loved the area then he wouldn't have been so keen to go.

Is it just Fonte who's the problem? If so, a heard-headed business person might conclude that he should be the one to leave.

Well said Wes. People will believe what they want to believe.

What does 'ignored' mean. If they accepted calls from others but not him then that's 'being ignored' but if he just couldn't get an answer then that could mean anything.

Wouldn't that contract have included provision for an increase upon promotion?

I've had a couple of sailing cruisers, a Westerly Warwick and a Hunter 232 which I built from a kit and I did quite well in the around the Island race in 1995 but my wife was never interested in anything more than a couple of hours in a flat calm on a sunny day so once the kids had left home I swallowed the anchor. I've still got my Mirror dinghy which I built in 1974 and which gave me a lot of fun in Christchurch harbour and took me over to the Isle of Wight a couple of times but it's hanging up in the roof of the garage. I'm hoping that the grandchildren will take up an interest one day.

They've both been the same for a long while now.

I started watching that but I soon had to stop. Please don't twist the knife, it hurts.

That's the least we could hope for.

And the manager...

We are 5 or 6 players short of a squad as it stands at the moment, and we are short of a manager. There won't be much of a pre-season either. Of course I'm worried.