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I don't think it was his decision to go, I understand he might not have gone but understood the situation, fair play to him.

I think Paul and Tony were there as well.

I think the club indicated they needed him to move so that they could keep going.

Interestingly John, Mike told me about halfway through the exclusivity, that he had heard that they were looking to get out and that they were trying to arrange for the Swiss to buy it after they completed.

There are obviously a lot of free transfers available but most of them could be disregarded on the 'no better' criteria. A lot more on the grounds of required position, more still on unrealistic demands. Once we get to the season start several things occurr. Unrealistic demands drop, players already with clubs can see whether they are wanted by their clubs and are now willing to move. Clubs have finalised their squads and now know those players they would be happy to release, or better still from our point of view loan. Whilst the Bosman players may be attractive we are right to wait for what we really need. It may well be that fees will have to be paid to solve our problems, however we have brought in approximately £3m in fees without selling Raziak and Saganowski. They may well go and if they do, it will see another £1m in salaries available. 99% of the transfers in this division have been free to date. We are in a marvelous position now in terms of resources to exploit the situation. Alan Pardew is right not to rush in and just sign available bodies, we need quality and strength and that may become available this week.

What is retarded, is the impolite, rude and aggressive responses to a poster making what he thought was a valid point. If you don't agree with it just point out why, or if it evokes any emotion, ignore it. There are too many on here reverting to immature name calling when there is absolutely no necessity. The administrators are part of the problem by ignoring it.

There aren't that many that were geniuses. MLT for his all round ball skill. Terry Paine one of the best crossers there has ever been. Ron Davies the best attacking header of a ball I've ever seen. These players stand out but the best thing for me was the latter played in the same team in their prime. I haven't seen their like since.

Yes we still had a mortgage, apprx £23m.

Black, White, Page, Flood, Hill Walker, Clifton Bridge,

Are you waiting for the result of a ballot, haven't you got a strike to organise?

Leon Crouch told me the mortgage payment was £2.4m annually.

I'm at 8:40 see you at breakfast.

Are you playing on Saturday? if you are we can have a chat, I don't suppose Mike is playing in this one.

Now keep Raziak.

The mortgage repayment was £2.4m p.a.

Fans at Reading and West Ham might agree with you but it wouldn't be wise to air that view at Charlton. He has had a promising start, I personally am delighted with what I saw on Saturday, but in the longer term it would be as well if judgement is reserved until half way through the season. Often with a new manager there is a performance bounce, which we need, but often it fizzles out, his true worth will come after that.

Maybe if the loan had to be endorsed by the authorities for specific purposes it would still cover the Chelsea/Man City case.

I just don't see why when posters disagree with posts they have to be aggressive and rude. More often than not there is no logical counter argument or explanation just aggression. Does this mean that the aggression is an attempt to mask the lack of ability to build a logical riposte? It would be a better and more intelligent debate if basic manners and politeness was the norm.

I think Pardew is going to have to completely rebuild the coaching and scouting side as well as the playing side.

Only the sort I watched on Saturday.

Did I hear you right?

I wouldn't want them to go out of business because they have been financially screwed and allowed to spend more than they earn. We were lucky, however I would be happy to see them below us from a competition perspective, but bust no, we need all the clubs we can get in Hampshire. I would like the Football Authorities to set up a regulation that allows money to be gifted to clubs but not loaned which would stop this sort of thing happening.

I saw one of our major defensive problems as being an empty right wing as this forced the right back to fill in. That made us vulnerable to the counter attack up our left behind the full back leading to the centre backs having to move across and leaving us undefended on the far post. Whoever plays right side has to do two things firstly be the first defender if the opponents break out on the left and secondly if overlapped cover the right back position. Defensively we have to occupy the right side from front to back.

Thanks for that, it doesn't look good.

Harding put the free kick in from the right for the second goal and Murty crossed for the third.