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Now there is a point. What happened to the myriad of other wealthy people Cortese said he had queuing up to invest if the liehberrs ambition didn't match his own?

Went to sharm a few years back and watched the 1-1 draw with reading in our promotion season in a bar there. I think the bloke who ran it used to live in hedge end. Anyway it was decent and met another saints fan who also posts on here.

I do pal. Idiots. Internet football fans barring a handful are idiots No doubt the ones whinging about signing long now were the same ones begging Osvaldo and Ramirez to sign this time the last two years, despite probably having never seen them play or have heard of them. Probably the same ones whinging when we came up that Clyne & Rodriguez didn't have premier league experience Probably the same ones whinging all summer we're being asset stripped and have no ambition Probably the same ones who have been whinging all summer we're making derisory offers for players who don't want to come here. Now we're about to make a decent if unspectacular signing and they're out in force again whinging that we're paying too much, he isn't a foreigner with a fancy name who we simply have to sign and would be a real statement of intent, despite having never heard of them until the links appeared in the paper. Idiots pal, at least 80% of 'em.

Quite. When Rodriguez is back long will probably be third choice striker, that's decent depth.

We are building a squad here rather than a team. Long will give us the option to play two up top, he can play up front on his own or potentially as a wide striker in 3 with Rodriguez when he comes back, although not his best role. It's a huge fee but he's a decent player and gives us options and is something different to what we don't have. It'll give Koeman the ability to switch tactics and formations rather than playing the same system week in week and and like for like subs like Pochetino.

I don't know about you Brett, but I long for the L1 days when we were the most attractive team for a player outside of the top 4 clubs in England.

Well on the plus side that's the nippy, hard working little 'en sorted to pick up the big mans flick ons. All we need are a couple of pacy widemen and nasty bast*rd in midfield to get stuck in and we're all set.

I thought it would be obvious pal. If we want a player and the selling club don't want to sell, then we pay a premium for it. Just like other clubs did with us.

Maybe we do really want him and that's what we have to pay to get him because hull don't want to sell.

There were better options than Lallana for £25m, yet I didn't hear too many people complaining when we held out for it.

If clubs want to buy players and the selling club doesn't want to sell then they pay over the odds. Isn't that right everyone.

What happened to all the talk a few weeks ago that if clubs want to buy players and the selling club doesn't want to sell then they have to pay over the odds? Does it only apply when we're the selling club?

To coin a phrase from a much loved ex manager Pelle and long will score more goals than Rickie lambert this season.

Bit if a come down from the Huntelaar rumour of yesterday.

She didn't say she knows a lot about kittens and ironing though?

Thats a coincidence I've got a Romanian Steaua Bucharest fan in my office. Just asked him what he thinks of gardos. He reckons he's great. Excellent positional play so doesn't need to use his pace to get him out of trouble, great with the ball at his feet despite his size and rarely makes a mistake.

This cant be true, he's rubbish and not good enough for the premier league, we know this from seeing him in a friendly.

A Liverpool fan in the office tried engaging with me about football yesterday, he was swatted away like a fly. Thick tw*t.

Many of them are, yes.

Because football fans in the main are idiots pal. Whinging, moaning, complaining dinlows. From the clown that stands behind you thinking he's funny, like the bloke in the Northam who used to shout "Go on Hoover" in his broadest 'ampshire accent then look round laughing every time Hoolveld got near the ball, to the ones who scream "f*ck off Guly" everytime Guly gets near the pitch. The ones who shout "stop f*cking about with it, get it fooooooorwarrrrrrrd" and then moan that Lambert was a lazy c*nt because he didn't chase a long punt down field while it ran out for a throw in by the corner flag. Fat, dopey, thick, scruffy idiots.

Can i ask why almost every post you've ever made on this forum has been about Boruc?

We've got one, Mayuka. We also just let go one that was lighting quick, Jonno quick. Or did you mean a decent striker?

First you agree with 'small fry' now I agree with you. Something odd going on here.

'Your new gaffer' who do you support Irene?