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No, I was thinking of our Pele - do you remember him.....midfield/CB; ended up going to WBA.

Pele was from Portugal wasn't he?

True, but Shaw and Clyne were so good for us last season, I'd hate to see too much tinkering just to accommodate a lad like Chambers who doesn't look ready yet to genuinely challenge Clyne for his spot. Yet again I would have said that about JWP up until a week ago.

I do too. Although Chambers has looked full of promise....Clyne had a wonderful 12/13 at RB and surely would have started the season but for the injury.

Barry, have they not covered irony in your writing diploma course yet?

Anything wrong with his vision or are they a pair of fancy pants sunnies?

I thought VW did show the ability to thread creative passes several times in the game - very impressive. Conversely, JWP, although tidy and with good set piece delivery, seems to lack the creative pass at this stage.

No Punch in the 17 and Ward-Prowse starting the surprises for me.

Coutinho looks the mutts nuts......one that got away, sadly!

There's a whiff of David Brent about Barry.

Top man that SRL. Not only a good footballer but a good human being. I often wonder just how far he could have progressed if he had pace in his bag of tricks as well.

Sow sow signing

I'll give you this much BS - few have accumulated a faster 3600 posts. Too much time on your unmarked hands.

To be fair to ART, I think he's saying that AL and the team would be better off if he wasn't Captain.

I think Adam deserves another season before judgement on him is passed. I keep monitoring Nathan Dyer's progress at Swansea given they both came through the Saints system together, and at this stage Dyer has made more of an impact at Prem level than Adam. I hope the Captaincy goes to someone else too.

Anyone know where Artur got his golf shoes from?

I can't believe how bad the golf games of Morgan and N. Clyne are. Jack Cork can obviously play though.

When do they fly out? If there's a downpour on the way over, will the rain in Spain fall mainly on the plain?

Richard Chaplow was a good value pick up from memory - 50k comes to mind in his move from Preston?

When is the eagerly awaited auto-biography coming out?

I remember the debate about Fox and Harding......many argued Harding was the better LB; I could never see it; DF's positioning is loose to say the least, but his first touch is good and his dead ball left foot and crossing aren't too shabby either - almost certain to stay as cover.

In Wanyama's agents case it seems 10% was the demand. With real estate agents (not that I am one) there is a set % range which the seller and agent can then negotiate on, (usually down). As others have said, with the revenue from TV rights being so generous it does make holding out on an extra few hundred thousand for the right player seem thrifty for the wrong reasons - principled or not.

Any one know why there isn't, or couldn't be a fixed percentage fee paid to agents for player sales/transfers etc?

Don't laugh, but Jhon Viafara was a favourite of mine.

The words stereotyping and generalizing come to mind here.