hypochondriac

How could he possibly find out who it is? Cortese doesn't know me and I didn't name them!

I guess we will see and at the back of my mind I'm still unnerved by what MLT says and what that ITK poster said on here (my memory is going.) I suppose when some of this infrastructure stuff is put into place, I will feel more at ease that this project is long term.

I think he means in terms of the huge investment needed for top five and he is right. It's pretty difficult for Cortese to make it more than just words though until we actually get into the prem. If we invest hugely into the infrastructure instead of paying say thirty million for a player, then possibly we could attract the thirty million players as youngsters and keep hold of them as long as possible.

You get the impression that Adkins is really into that whole geeky side, and especially being a physio. Seems Cortese is too and I think he wants Adkins to be part of a whole team, with a big behind the scenes setup. In my mind I had a team of scientists in the bowels of SMS crunching all the numbers whilst the game was in play. Made me smile!

Don't think he did back Micky though. My understanding of it was that he backed anyone coming in to save the club, though in the light of baxter's info that could be incorrect.

It's from a source who has given me negative info in the past, which I have passed on and been laughed at on here by you. Neither this info or that has been made up. Anyway, it's decent news and I found it interesting. Nothing earth shattering but I hope others find it good too. It's always nice to get a pointer about what sort of thing we are working towards. The other bit of info is that he wants the best of everything facilities wise, thus not surprised he has considered moving the ground. If we don't have the history and status of Barcelona and united, what we will have are the best facilities to attract the best young players and hopefully keep hold of them for longer. At least that is the plan.

In fairness do not know how it was presented to him or what the situation was. Seems very odd that MLT would refuse if they were billionaires. If that is so then seems like a huge error on Matt's part.

And also I presume you won't be deriding my info as b*llocks because it's something you actually want to hear...

It isn't hype, just what Cortese himself is working towards.

I have my doubts about Cortese but equally I think he has some good points. Bet you rushed onto this thread poised to begin the slagging...

That seems like a silly thing to do on Matt's part.

As far as I'm aware, he wasn't opposing ML's takeover.

I have a source at SFC (have posted about him before) and had some lunch with him yesterday where he filled me in on some positive stuff. Cortese has ****ed off a few this year but the players love him because he is a big believer in player power. He is very into sports science and that sort of thing and will be employing a number of staff to analyse things like training and individual performance in games. It is why Adkins and him gets on so well apparently. In the words of my source we 'have too much money' (lol) but haven't spent too much on players because Cortese prepares to focus on the infrastructure because in the long term this is more beneficial. He apparently encouraged his staff to 'come to him with projects' and that if he liked them he would approve it regardless of cost (an example given was 20 million.) Cortese has a new five year plan which involves us being top five in the premiership. Now as you all know I have my reservations about Cortese, but I thought most of that was pretty positive and put me in a good mood.

Yeah that annoyed me too lol.

I have been defending Nick from some of the unwarranted abuse on here, but I have to say that it's clear recently that he is knocking the club for the most stupid things. He is clearly still annoyed about the season ticket thing (which he has a point with.) but there isn't a lot he can do. His comments about crowds are just bizarre.

Lol. Everyone understands what you are saying. You think that white players are given more of a chance at our club than black players. 99% on this board have understood that but are of the opinion that it is utter horsesh*t.

What an utterly pathetic thread which really deserves little discussion. Puncheon has acted like a bit of an idiot and so people dislike him. The sane thing would happen if he was white brown or slightly yellow. Do you honestly think that if puncheon was white that this would not have occurred? Some people on here strike me as slightly insane.

Not they won't use next season as one of consolidation. That will certainly not be the aim anyway, where did u get that from?

No update on getting him over?

The reason he was visiting Ireland was to secure the Irish vote. Not much wrong with it IMO and for many thick Americans that will be probably be enough to win votes. I like Obama but if someone votes for him because of his then they are really dumb.

Not a shame if we get good money and maybe a player in exchange

In fairness, that is an accusation you could make on both sides, though reading this thread you would be forgiven for thinking that this was solely the atheist viewpoint...

TBF nothing can definitively be 'proved' but I see what you are trying to say.

I don't think those with a belief have any desire to defend their belief system. Faith for many can come from feelings they have experienced (speaking in tongues for example), experiencing how religion has changed people's lives or any other number of things including I suspect as you say it makes you feel good. My father for example, an extremely intelligent individual is also religious. He believes he has felt God through feelings he has personally experienced over a number of years and also what he has seen in other people, including things which have happened which cannot be explained by medical science. Now I'm not saying I believe him, but I have no doubt that he sincerely believes this to be true. Religion improves his life, improves the lives of his friends and relations by extension (not overtly, he isn't a preacher of any kind) and when people call him intellectually stunted, I find that pretty offensive when I know that is not the case.

I suspect you are wrong. Nutters are nutters and would find an outlet with or without religion.