S-Clarke

Why do you always reply to a sensible post with such utter drivel? All this fuss about losing papa and antonio...they were good players for us, antonio more so. Papa was a sub/bit part player AT MOST - he was at his best in the JPT and didn't ever really set the league alight. Antonio came to his fore in the 2nd half of the season, but was still very raw and you could get some utter rubbish games from him at times. They're not irreplaceable, which is why we will replace them with players as good, or better. Pardrw has alluded to the fact twice already. But that's all we need, a bit of pace and an extra presence in midfield - that will finish us off nicley. But we would still get promotion with this squad if we weren't allowed to strengthen IMO. This is L1, not La Liga.

They do sound in a bit of dodgy ground tbf, not sure what their GK situation is like since Grant has gone either...and grant went for under £1m. I still reckon we could tempt them with an offer for someone like Jermaine Johnson or Tudgay imo...

I'm still somewhat bemused by the general impression that we need all these new players and ''big signings'' in order to hit the ground running. The squad we have is easily good enough to start the season, and it will be added to before - or during the august window.

primarily left footed, but then if we shifted Punch over we'd still need a pacey right-man - which we will get in time im sure.

All we need now is PompeyScot to reassure us all.

Young holder-spooner (great name) is lightening quick too. ..and ps. alpine, I'm not basing our promotion hopes in a young kid.

That's fair, but the time to moan will be when we don't have the points on the board. Not now - we haven't kicked a ball yet.

I'd love us to do a league and cup double....

No chance on Koren, his wages seem to be the stumbling block for most clubs, he was probably on upwards of 10k at WBA and i understand that he didn't sign a new deal there because they weren't prepared to match his increased demands...

what have the results got to do with it? You have stated that we are going about half-arsed to sign players and not putting much effort in. To know that you would need access to Pardews and Cortese's diary and scouting list, the fact you don't have access to either suggests it's a great big over-hyped assumption.

Garvan is a good shout, but i'd be worried about his motivation as it was only 18 months ago he was thinking about quitting football because it bored him.... for a player of that age to have thoughts like that is quite worrying....but he has talent.

I really haven't seen much transfer activity at all yet this summer. You can go on about ''well Huddersfield and Wednesday signed, him, him and him'' - but they were either Free's, or players that wouldn't really improve us. Hudds are a team trying to get to our level, so their additions wouldn't have improved us really. Generally though it has so far been a very very quiet window, in all the leagues. Alot of clubs keeping cards close to their chests and even decent bosmans are finding it hard to get locked down into contracts (look at Koren for e.g.) There is very little money out there at the moment, only city are splashing the mega bucks. I think that's what this window needs - a couple of massive transfers in the top flight, which should hopefully see the money trickle down and get the ball rolling, as i feels like a pretty big stalemate so far.

exactly....take it with a pinch of salt

i trust what weston saint has said many times before.

he hasn't and will not go anywhere.

..and mills...and even young Reeves who has had a great pre-season apparentley! LB is one of the area's we could afford to lose one player.

TBF that is a very good deal, but i'd miss harding. One of my favourite players last year, i can only really remember him having 1 or 2 poor games. A complete steady eady.

Where has this greogry vignal rumour popped up from? i've seen it come up on some other forums now as well. Why would we want another LB?

It originated on the football-rumours.com website, so you can take this with a pinch of salt. good wind up though

The only thing we really know is that Pard's hopes to get 2 players in before the plymouth game.

I can't ever see them going higher than they are now, they will need to spend money to do so, which they don't have. We will (should) excelorate past them now and leave them well behind.

It sounds as if a couple of deals could be close '' "Fair play to him, he put himself in the shop window and he did himself a favour really. I'll talk to him and discuss what our plans are and whether they fit in with what Darren can do but we're still hoping to bring one or two players in before we start. "We might not secure them but we'll be pretty close - I'm pretty confident we can start the season with the squad we've got but we do want a couple more additions - maybe three."''

Potentially 3 more players before the start of the season then, exciting.

half of this crap thrown around about Cortese is unsubstantiated rumour, nothing else. All we ever hear is the other side of the story, not the clubs - if there even is a story. Cortese isn't the most approachable of guys, but he's a proven successful guy and is trusted to manage billionaires investments (not just markus, but it was his previous job with the bank in Switzerland). All this talk just screams of certain people trying to rock the boat because they are not able to come across as ''important'' any more.

lambo was a bargain! 800k initial fee.