S-Clarke

Leeds 1 - 1 Wycombe the title is still ours

completely echoed. Couldn't be happier.

must be, he's been frozen out at Cov for almost 12 months - not a bad player, but as Pards said...sometimes they need a change. pretty sure it must be him.

we won't be far off by the end of the month though...

who's mccormack?

they're taking the players to train in spain

15mins, he's on the M27 and cannot pull over atm

they can't get hold of pards..... prob trying to tie up the other deals

Ward hasn't been included in the Cov. squad today. He's been included on the bench most of the season...

if i was a pompey fan, other than stinking of fish, I'd be fearing the worst after hearing that.

''We're not going to have a fire sale'' ''every player has their price'' ''we don't need to sell any players'' ''i think it's inevitable some players will leave, we have a big squad'' ok, what do you believe....spin of the highest order.

lol @ this guy, brilliant

but then, what do we do with brian stock (if/when he comes)??? great problem for pards to have

yeah - well according to the palace forums. I was reading through their match reports/motm reports etc - he features in them a fair bit and he always seems to be on the right hand side. He's scored a few goals this year too.

he's been playing on the right for Palace this season.

saw that on TUI the other day, wasn't sure if to believe it or not though.

Well the majority of palace fans seem to think he could hack it in the premiership, they're probably better placed than most of us to judge his ability. They're even saying he's in their top 3 ''best ever'' centre backs.. he's not just an average championship player.

Fonte has played 2 seasons regular in the chamionship and has been one of the top players at that level - Zak has been good at L1 level (never played in the champ) but very injury prone. I think (from what all the palace fans are saying) that Fonte is a very cultured centre half, he started his career as a striker/attacker - so has very nice ability on the ball and can set attacks going from the back.

oh yeh def, he also said he was ''very happy with the contract''

Just watched his video on Saints Player, he does seem happy to have joined - is sad to have left palace, but believes he can get to the premiership at Saints quicker than any other club that were interested. (even though we're in L1) He also said ''i've seen the ambition, i've seen the project, it's a massive project and i want to be part of it.''

oh yeh, we're still in admin (acording to one of the rags a few weeks ago anyway)

Brilliant. If we were a top championship team i'd be chuffed with this signing, but the fact we are in the bottom half of L1 and we've signed him is amazing! It's not like he was out of favour at Palace or anything, he's been their stand out performer this season. It is a HUGE statement of intent, make no doubts about that. I'm so excited, because i don't think it stops here. More top championship players on their way.

Not going to happen, he has just (well in the last 2 months) secured his new house down here with his partner - why on earh 5 months later would anyone want to up sticks and move to the other end of the country? + you have the fact he cannot play for another club this season. He'd probably cost Newcastle in the region of £3-4m, he's already more than doubled his value by moving here - they wouldn't get him in the £1m region anyway....and i don't think Newcastle are flush with cash to be spending that on a player. Don't panic - let's just enjoy us spending lots of money

is that based on any info? fwiw i have just random actually signed a french RB for saints on my Football manager game....Jean Calve from Nancy. I think that makes me ITK

nope - that was an article from 11am today, which was superseded by an article at 6pm on the same website that said it was ''back on'' after we'd improved his contract offer. done deal imo.