S-Clarke

What is it with this year? so many big name players are getting injured prior to the tournament. So far we've lost Rio, Drogba, Mikel, Essien, Ballack, Pirlo is a ''major'' doubt, Robben is now a major doubt and there are still questions over the fitness of Cesc and Torres. it's a shame as you want to see all the best players at the world cup...

tbf after this season i'm not sure Rio is full of pace either, very slow whenever i've seen him in the last year or so. i'm don't think Rio missing out will be a massive disaster.

apparently (heard this today) the club explored the possibility of instalments, but the club is in effect still ''blacklisted'' in terms of bankruptcy, due to the administration last year. So finance companies don't want to touch us. It does kind of add up with Nicola's comments last year, as they were struggling to get sponsorship deals because companies still thought we were ''skint''.

he was at loan at Wycombe last season i think? well part of it anyway. was highly-rated when he was there and popped up with a few goals. we seem to like our loans from reading. Hope we still try to get antonio.

nice. show's the level of players we'll be looking at this summer.

sounds like it could be a bad knee ligament injury, so he is out of the world cup if the scan proves conclusive. Gerrard to be the captain then. who comes in a CB? King is a good bet but we'd keep having to shuffle the team which isn't what we need. Upson isn't very good and Carra has had a **** season. We do get a chance to call up someone else if he is out though...not sure when the cut off is.

Good player, from reading alot of the reviews from Brentford fans it sounds like he's L1's version of Gareth Bale. he'll probably end up playing in front of harding, it would give us fantastic ballance. it's good to have competition..

why not go the whole way? 3 new signings - 1 in home kit, 1 in the away and 1 in the new training gear. sorted

Joe Cole it is then, Harry did say he'd agreed a contract with another club

RIP - They can be reunited now.

hmm, not sure after reading that..sounds like one of those ''footballrumours.com'' postings. the english isn't great for a start.

where's that come from?

Good signing. but you wait till we get started

slightly OTT imo

he's all but signed for QPR and would never drop down a level.

If it was a choice between taking Theo or Joe Cole, it's a no brainer - and Capello has made the right choice. Theo 'should' improve in time, but he needs to realise that the pro game demands more than just pace - you need something at the end of it.

it is if you look at it in a way that we have a bank account with 50m in it. i'm not saying that's true, but didn't Nicola say in the last fan's forum that we were debt free and will now run within our means? i see no reason for him to lie about that.

i'm not ITK or anything, just a couple of people i talk to have refered to this - which i think seems quite a logical way of working it. I guessed the amount - i have no idea what he could have put into an account, but it does seem a sensible way of doing it.

I'm not suprised you've jumped onto his angle of thought. which is totally and utterly wrong by the way. We are in no debt and are currently running within our means. Markus doesn't have to prop us up every week, what i believe happend is he has dumped a wad of his cash into an account (say 50m) which is what the club will use to buy players, improve the club etc. he's not topping us up every week.

We are currently no longer accepting applications for Barclaycard Football Credit Card oh well

i wouldn't be surprised to see sales drop. Not dramatically...but they will drop slightly imo.

i worried this would happen, simply because they've left it way too late. With the installment plan i think every application is subject to a credit check etc prior to approval, they have probably seen that they will not be able to process all of the installment plans in the 2 month period the tickets are on sale for. The question still remains as to why it's been delayed? Release them in April/March and they should be able to work the installment plan. I'm a bit miffed, but not too fussed - I'll just buy my tickets for next season, unfort there is no way atm i can fork out that much cash at once

+1

initially looking at it, it didn't look too bad at all - but you're right, there have been slight rises all over the board. inc. the matchday prices slightly i think? - and the inclusion of a booking fee - which i think was only used for the webmley/pompey game last year?

you never know, but this line seemed pretty conclusive to me ''Half season tickets will not be available this season"