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The wrist band sellers of Nottingham will be wet with excitement.

Whilst its good for Saints can't help but feel a lot of smaller clubs are going to be screwed by this. Players like Nick Powell will be poached younger and for much less than the £4m Man U payed for him. For a lot of these clubs this is what keeps them going.

Shevchenko was £30m well spent. As was the £11m on Rebrov.

Well it all seems very positive especially our role model status for Europe.

Do you know if clubs can apply for cat 1 at any time or do they have to wait until the end of the 3 year reassessment period?

I remember Cortese saying that. I can only imagine it must be on what is already in place. Otherwise teams like QPR would have got it with their plans.

Surely the audit would have taken place some time ago before the flattening took place.

How could we forget Kevin Davies!! £7.5m to Blackburn, completely sh*t, always injured or ill and came back to us a shadow of the player for next to nothing 2 years later.

There is no place for that on here.

I make no apology for taking on board what people have said about sarcastic comments and p*ss taking and am stopping doing this on this board from now on. I expect everyone else to as well. Just accept what we are told and celebrate it. That is all.Thanks.

Does anyone know if is this based on the facilities we currently have or what they will be like once Staplewood is finished?

Can you stop the trolling please. This is a serious thread.

Talking of Newcastle Jean-Alain Boumsong has to be up there. Signed for £8m, months after he'd joined Ragners for nothing, was sh*t and ended up being sold a year or so later for £3m. They also signed a Spanish centre back in the late nineties call Marcelino who cost about £6m, was absolutely sh*t and only played a few times in about 4 seasons. Always injured and i'm sure he missed about 3 months with a damaged finger at one point.

Good idea and very good news then. Also impressed by this bit... The standards of coaching set within the Football Development Support Centre (FDSC) at Staplewood are being applied at national level too. Saints will be one of three clubs in Europe used to demonstrate the techniques put into practice at the club's training ground, with these set to be implemented at the new National Football Centre in Burton. As others have mentioned.

Is it only teams with Cat 1 status that qualify for this tournement?

For foreign clubs signings, Denilson. Cost a world record in the late 90's, 20 odd million to Real Betis, he was sh*t, they got relegated and he got loaned back to a Brazilian club. Think he ended up playing in America in the end.

Tomas Brolin to Leeds. £5m, great player who suddenly became sh*t, got fat and last i heard was a hoover salesman back in Sweden.

I don't know if you're like me but I've had zero interest in the premier league since 2005 so won't know half the players we come up against next season.

Are these the ones that play in the Angel after every home game? Very good if so.

In all seriousness I suggest he mods/poster remove this post ASAP.

So it seems most people are in agreement Martin Olsen would be a great signing despite many people on the HCDAJFU thread claiming no way should we sign a player who has been relegated.

Apologies, I thought it was because you wanted to engage in sensible discussion.

It's a strange one. Pardew obviously signed Dickson as he must have thought he was better than Harding, it couldn't have been for cover as Joseph Mills was there at the time and more than adequate in L1. Whenever I've seen Dickson play always thought he was on a par with Harding defensively and better going forward. Strange how he's been unable to get near the team for most of his time here.

I do engage in sensible discussion when people aren't being helmets fella.

Turner is being sold, Bramble isn't. Bramble is preffered to him so he's keeping him out of the side, no? So it was just pure luck that you happened to be looking at my posts at the same time as I disagreed with you about Michael Turner, who'd have thought it. Anyway, you say I'm a liar, please continue.