S-Clarke

50% of 15k = 7.5k 15k + 7.5k = 23k. (there or there abouts)

It's still a hell of alot of money for a player who hasn't made a professional start. Jordi Alba is only costing Barca £8m.

True, but he's not a small lad, not massively tall either. Pretty much in the middle.

I've seen him, a very technical player, good pace and good energy to get up and down the left side. Very much in the mold of Gareth Bale, but less of a physical presence if you get what I mean.

Yep, this is true. Can't see them wanting to move though, what future would he have there? Cashley Cole is there for the next few years at least, and they rate Ryan Bertrand very highly. Can't see him progressing, he's best off sticking here where he'll play games during the next year.

17, he's locked into a pro contract. Jack Cork should have a few words about progression for their young players.

I've just fired an email to the club for clarification on this one, will post up the reply when I get it.

You've just confirmed your complete lack of football knoweldge right there, and the fact that nothing will ever please you. He's the greatest midfielder (along with Xavi) that I've seen in my lifetime.

You can pay for it as well if you like....

I think some of the personal abuse MLG has got recently has been shocking, why knock a guy who is as passionate about this club as anyone? Fair enough, he winds the heck out of me with his pedantic and correcting ways, but he's still a decent contributor to this forum.

30min lunch break give or take, getting shed loads of overtime though so can't complain. Will have to see what I can do though, there will be a way!

We do play alot of long ball, and who wouldn't when you have someone as effective as Lambert up front, and you'd have to say we were more effective in the 2nd half of the season playing the long ball game, rather than building it up by playing football. Mainly due to teams developing ways to stop us. What made us stand out at the start of the season was our movement off the ball, so a player would pass the ball and then make a move forward, everyone was always moving and we were incredibly fluid in our play. Once teams sussed that and stuck men on players like Lallana and marked us a bit tighter, we couldn't play that way.

Is anyone being offered the opportunity to pay in installments online? All I'm being directed to is a page to pay the entire sum up front, which I'm not doing as I'd be bankrupt within 24 hours.

I think Rodriguez will be over 23 by the time the Olympics start, may be wrong on that. My initial thoughts were ''where is Llallana, or Rodriguez'' etc - but they don't meet the u23 criteria.

All the options to login, manage your account etc, aren't there. Therefore it's a pretty splash page which you cannot do anything with.

Well, this hasn't gone very well has it. Expected the new ticketing system to eliminate all past issue, in fact this actually seems worse.

How do you know? As far as I know, the club put him up in a posh hotel, where the club officials and Rodriguez's party met to discuss terms, before sealing it in a discrete location.

For anyone wanting a bit more information on him, this should answer most questions, and is very, very positive. http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2010/alexander-buttner-vitesses-confident-left-back.html

If true, I imagine they're referring to the conference room in the hotel, and that would point more to agents/club official discussions on a deal rather than any sort of media press announcement

I'd say we were short on CB cover even when Martin was still here.

Good, powerful centre back. Exactly the sort of CB we need. Young as well, only 24/25.

Sounds versatile in that sense, he could play as a wing back or an attacking left mid. Not sure he's massively defense minded though. I hope he's better than our last attacking import from Holland...

I think it all looks quite classy, including the promotional stuff.

No idea, sounds like an attack minded player who has been scouted by some decent level clubs, so there's obviously talent there. I would imagine he's to add competition to Fox, he seems like a naturally attacking full back and attacking full backs were a massive part of our game last year, so it makes sense to upgrade them.