Crazy Diamond

Yes I have to say that occurred to me as well...

Take note, Skates. Piacenza, an Italian club, had a deadline for a buyer which expired overnight. They no longer exist as a professional football club and all players will be released later today. To quote the old National Lottery slogan "It could be you..."

Indeed, however they don't look like someone did it in Microsoft Paint. I wonder - and this is purely me wondering - have we already hired people to draw some stuff up?

Brown thing next to the stadium looks to be where the car park is. Multi-storey? Wonder how these two would like it...

And yet, Dyer by name, Dyer by nature, has signed a new deal!

Communications Officer is part of the media department, not anything commercial. It's basically the same as a Press Officer. Writing stuff for the OS, doing SaintsPlayer etc.

Adkins is going to make a comeback.

Well a woman on a vox pop the other day said we're as big as Liverpool, so it must be true. How will the club's new commercial opportunities effect the sale of your sponge hands?

You're saying... There are other clubs?

I would debate that. There are still an awful lot of them about.

Adam Blackmore has asked Ryan about it on Twitter. I imagine if Ryan is smart then he'll probably keep quiet, but I imagine there's more to come, be it from him or the club.

Can you turn them down? You can, but I can't imagine many people would, hence why I said in brackets 'who wouldn't?'. It's equally a bad business decision to spend what we did on him and keep paying him not to play, so something will have to give. I imagine he'll leave sooner rather than later, loan or permanently.

We were talking about the actual figure, not if the bids had gone in or not. Did Adkins or Lennon say how much these bids were for? No.

Possibly - Birmingham bid £8 million for him and he wasn't against going there, so you never know.

I imagine they are a profile category. In the media you class people according to how much they earn and what jobs they do, A1 being the high earners, C1 being blue collar (could be wrong, it's been five years since I studied it). It's a similar thing I would think.

Just because we've got money in the bank it shouldn't mean that we don't go for the best on deals. Bearsy has a point actually, he was more than willing to accept bigger wages (who wouldn't?) and now he's got to live with it.

Yes but did we? And other than a Scottish newspaper saying we might, was there any proof that we were going to spend that level of money? No and no. Hoffenheim are little more than a village team - population of around 3000. What's happened to them is incredible.

Just read that myself. Was in the news the other week because he was unlikely to go back to Yeovil owing to his new wages. Wonder if a club has come in for him on loan, he wanted to go, but they can't afford him and we won't budge. Either way it sounds as if he's not wanted.

TeamTalk is good for goal updates... If you like them about ten minutes after they've been scored.

To be fair, he's only a target man. Target men don't get many goals. Well, apart from Alan Shearer. Rickie. Hang on...

Madman Mitchell made his name in the building game, you'd think they could do better for that amazing man Steve Fletcher, who has scored an incredible 103 goals in 20 years with Bournemouth. Prolific.

Hoffenheim's recent history - the very fact they are where they are and how they've got there. Like spending £7 million on a player whilst in the second tier.

Oh really? [sarcasm]That's a shame. That's proper good that. I'd be proud if I was a Bournemouth fan.[/sarcasm]

He was on £60k a week at Liverpool and Hoffenheim can afford a lot, lot more.

We also need to rename one of the stands 'the Nicola Cortese stand', can't be outdone by Bompey who have done this. Magnificent isn't it. So classy. The picture used on the Leeds United programme will do.