stevegrant

It strikes me that a player and agent who don't want to sign a new contract having negotiations for said contract cancelled by the club have won.

Precisely £0.00

Jed Wallace to Wolves. Done deal. Shame for them

I think the original quotes are from the Evening Standard. Seems as though the agent is backtracking somewhat on the bit where he called Carragher a knob, but suspect that's more a case of him saying something that he thought would be obviously assumed to be off-the-record.

Whatever they've done, it will definitely be "outstanding", according to Brenda.

Absolutely extraordinary quotes from the agent there

This is the Liverpool fanbase you're talking about. Surely THE most deluded of the lot, and I include the blue few down the road in that. Apparently because they were quite good before Sterling was born, he should stay put. They've qualified for the Champions League once in the past six years, off the back of a season where everything came together for them but has since disintegrated. Why would he stay when he could actually win something somewhere else?

Sturridge is relatively meaningless as he's made of biscuits. Last season was the exception for him in that he remained fit for most of the season. Every other season in his career has been blighted with fitness problems.

Glorious

That Fabregas red card was amazing Quite how Terry hasn't followed him down the tunnel for giving that penalty away, I've no idea.

Thought they might have waited until after the Arsenal v Sunderland game midweek before making the decision - if Sunderland somehow win that, there's no point showing their game at Chelsea as they'll be safe, and the last relegation spot will be between Newcastle and Hull.

413 all out in the end. The first time we've hit 400 in a First Division first innings since an innings victory at Somerset in September 2011

I don't think Demin will be mental enough to let him anywhere near any sort of position of power. He'll let him come to games and sit in the padded seats, but that'll be it.

Take a seat at the dining room table, then. With the income they'll be getting from the PL next season (plus parachute payments even if they go straight back down), they'd do well to spend more than they receive.

We're stuck regardless of which way any argument about FFP goes. If they stick with FFP, we're stuck because it's nigh-on impossible for us to grow our revenue as fast as the bigger clubs can - our commercial operation is light years behind Spurs and West Ham, let alone the likes of Man United and Chelsea. If they ditch FFP (which I can't see happening), then while it allows us to spend more, it also allows other clubs to spend more as well. We've got resources, but nobody knows whether KL would be willing to throw any more money at the club on short-term things like transfer fees. Her dedication to long-term investment isn't in any doubt, but more immediate spending is less clear-cut, I think.

Invision Power Boards. Much more powerful, more secure and infinitely better technical support.

The problem I've got with such a system is that it'll clearly get abused by a select few. There's a relatively new plugin available for vBulletin that does it, but we're going to be moving away from vBulletin in the not-too-distant future anyway (the newest version is all kinds of ****), so it's not really worth the effort at this stage.

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I'm guessing the average house price in Portsmouth is significantly higher than that in Chesterfield, for example. I think his point is that while their wage bill is ****ing massive, they have to pay more because the players would have to pay more to live in the area. While that may be true, is that really the difference between a £1.5m wage bill and a £3.8m one? I'm not convinced. Essentially, Pompey's wage bill is massive because they have made a correlation between paying big wages and getting good players. While that largely rings true in the top flight (put the PL clubs in order of wage bill and, barring a few obvious examples, that's generally the order they finish in), it becomes less true the further down the pyramid you go. There are loads of clubs who manage to squeeze out more than the sum of the team's parts in Leagues One and Two - just look at Wycombe, stayed in the Football League on goal difference last season, going to Wembley for the playoff final this season having spent very little. Older players looking for a last big payday skew things, they're generally not as motivated or as fit as they once were, and there are certain clubs in each division of the FL who everybody knows they'll get an extra wedge of money from (Nottingham Forest in the Championship, Bristol City in League One - assuming Wigan will take that one on next season - Pompey in League Two) so those clubs get lumbered with a whole host of overpaid mercenaries who couldn't give a ****. It worked for Bristol City this season, most clubs don't get that reward at the end of it.

I find it difficult to believe there is a club in Romania that could afford that sort of transfer fee. Steaua Bucharest's record transfer fee paid is around £1.7m.

The one weekend in July when I'm not around

Really weird commentary on there, seems completely non-plussed at Mané scoring three in three minutes or Long scoring from 40 yards, but goes absolutely mental at Benteke scoring a header to make it 5-1

"New manager Paul Cook expects Jed Wallace to leave the club." Not a great start, you'd imagine...

That was a small but contributing factor.

*shrugs*