stevegrant

Sorry, I'll just close the site then, if you're making the rules now and telling us we're not allowed to discuss anything Believe it or not, there are many people who aren't "a ****ing moron" or an employee of the Daily Echo who are able to come to their own conclusions based around the information they have available to them (which may or may not be more than the majority on here are privy to), rather than just listening to those who like to metaphorically stamp their feet shouting "I'm right, I'm right" at the top of their voices. Also, it's rather ironic that you should say the Echo "did wrong and must pay for it", given that you took the time to visit the Echo site (and thus providing them with advertising revenue) in order to retrieve Dan Kerins' byline photograph...

And then have everyone whinging that they were reporting on old news? Why haven't Radio Solent been banned? They broke the news before the Echo did, and they also broke the "Cortese to Milan" nonsense as well... Essentially, Cortese knows that he wouldn't stand a chance against the BBC, but with the amount of goodwill he is being afforded right now (and rightly so), he believed he'd be able to get the Echo right where he wanted them. I suspect he underestimated the stubbornness of Ian Murray in that respect. Rather ironically, despite the indignant outrage from some on here, I've been reliably informed that the Echo website recorded its second-highest ever number of monthly hits in January.

Why would they? It's irrelevant to the incident they're talking about.

Not really - it's pretty common knowledge, it's been mentioned on here countless times over the past month or so.

Isn't it a bit late, given the game is less than two weeks away?

No, I'm Dan Kerins!

They've clearly not heard of emergency tax codes then That said, given Peter Storrie's apparent ignorance of all things tax-related, that doesn't necessarily surprise me...

I had one for a couple of years - it does make it much easier if you know you're going to most (if not all) of the away games that season, but it can be a bit of a pain when it's allocated seating. I couldn't be arsed to try to sort out with the club to swap my ticket around so I could sit/stand with whoever I was travelling with.

Surely they've either been signed already or the deals won't be happening, or is this another selective use of deadlines by the FA? :confused:

Arses.

Woot

It's Marc Wilson changing his name by deed-poll...

Why would any Pompey player take advantage of the "handing your notice in" clause at the moment? While they're being paid late, they are still actually getting paid, and there's no way they'd get anywhere near the same sort of wages elsewhere.

There seems to be a bit of a grey area here because Begovic went to Ipswich on an "emergency loan" deal. As such, his appearances for them may not count for the "played for two or more clubs" rule. It's also entirely possible that the Premier League/FA are able to give special dispensation to bypass the rule under exceptional circumstances, e.g. the selling club desperately needs the money...

He's got 10% IIRC, and as part of the deal he signed with Al-Mirage, he's also responsible for servicing 10% of the debt. He would be an absolute genius if he was able to flog that responsibility to the fans...

Essentially, Begovic is the one player they're desperate to hold onto as he'll have a bigger resale value in the future, and Storrie and Jacob are ****-scared of the fan reaction if they sell him. Whether they'll have a choice in the next 3 hours or so is another matter...

I would have thought that's the most unlikely signing of them all, to be honest. Valencia are absolutely skint (perhaps more so than you!), so if they're going to loan players out, they'll be wanting the wages paid by the loaning club - something I suspect you'll struggle with.

Sheffield United, tbf.

From the Guardian's minute-by-minute coverage of transfer deadline day:

No great surprise, the players hated him from day one because he wasn't Darren Ferguson, and they seemed to think they were better and more important than they actually are. Must be something in the water in Peterborough - I seem to remember that Sky One documentary a few years ago, Big Ron Manager, when Sean St Ledger pretty much single-handedly managed to get their then-manager sacked by acting Billy Big-********...

Where's this come from?

Imagine if Spurs were to suddenly back out of the transfer...

Well this is a surprising development that nobody saw coming...

Already signed, and played for them against Palace on Wednesday.

Christ almighty. How the hell Peter Storrie is still in a job, I've no idea. What a Grade A C**t.