S-Clarke

http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/tn/Sport.cfm?id=30544&headline=Stern%20John%20hits%20back%20at%20Saints%20boss%20Pardew Sounds fairly agreed from last years ''push out'' and you can kind of understand it. Not so sure about his comments about us ''never sorting a deal out properly'' though - maybe he was just being pushed by his greedy agent to demand more?

Agree, he does look too good...but you never know? Looks exactly the type of striker we need - and Pards does have a nack of being able to get some v highly rated young players. He signed Yasin Moutawakil for Charlton a couple of seasons ago, right from under the noses of Villa and Everton. Nothing wrong with a bit of idle speculation anyway!

An interesting bit of speculation, no idea if it will turn out to be true or not...was posted on 606 (not by RocketSwannie either...) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A55306334 He currently plays for Brann in Norway and is 24 years old - can play down the flanks or as a front man. Check out this youtube vid of him... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U9tcnhpvkE&feature=related

Don't think so. They've mentioned that on the twitter just below, i guess both deals have been finalised tonight and will be formally announced tomorrow AM. Same happened with Pardew iirc.

not much, mentioned us in passing for about 5 seconds. Was mainly focused on MK Dons and Tranmere as they had Paul Ince and John Barnes on the line.

A lucky escape then.

Torres is injury prone tbh - i'd rather have Lambert.

I'm not sure why people keep writing Perry off, just because he's 36. He was one of our main players last year and he's very fit. As someone said above, playing Perry (the calm/composed centre half, who can play it out) alongside Jhadi (the tough tackling, big beast of a centre back) will be the makings of a rock solid defense at L1 level IMO.

morgan schneiderlin was played as a CB in one of JP's games too - also (quite amazingly), they were also planning on playing Jake Thompson there as we had a few injuries (that's not a joke either, as they were trying him out at CB in reserve games) Thank god that regime is over.

Sounds like it's progressing well!! AP looks like he wants to fill the team with vocal experienced leaders - we'll be fine if he does this. (Murty and Jhadi is an awesome start)

Well, we could spend £2m on a LB and CB.....or you can use a bit of nouse to get similar/better quality on Free's. (however you put it, Harding and Jhadi are top top class free transfers for us) Why are people wanting us to spend money for the sake of it? Do you want us to reverse straight back into debt again?

Tony Lynam said in one of his posts.... ''Make no doubt about it, We WILL be buying this club'' It's Pinnacle MK II. oh and corp....how is Kalinic getting on?

We won a game!!

Bailey is an excellent player, kind of similar to Gillett though in many aspects. I'd say one to look out for is Jordan Rhodes at Huddersfield...

No idea! I think it was only a 1 year deal and will probably be based more on appearances and achievements rather than a flat rate.

Not sure what you expect tbh. He's as good as we can attract now - and he's still v good imo.

He's not coming from the prem - was released by Birmingham last season, but actually played in 32 games of their promotion season (they had one of the best defenses in the league)

Good signing if true - for this level a v big coup IMO. I'd imagine Charlton are no longer interested, seeing as they got Dailly instead.

I'm sure some of our fans would even moan if we signed Berbatov. (He's lazy, he's not fast enough...etc)

Interesting read - thanks for posting. As soon as the ''Friday'' announcement was delayed on the last day of exclusivity i just knew it was a sham. How they managed to drag it out a further week is beyond me. Believe me - we have had an enormous escape here. Can you clarify this Duncan...i heard that the reason Pinnacle were blaming the FL, was because the FL wanted to hit us with more points deductions - because Pinnacle hadn't correctly signed off the debts with the creditors?

Brilliant post, 10/10. No one can argue with anything you have put there. We should make it a sticky and force all the '''the world is ending!!111'' posters to read it over and over again until it actually sinks in.

totally. I've been reading around on some other forums, Stockport only have 16 professionals at the moment and Carlisle are playing Graham Kavanagh as a striker. Let's get some perspective and realise that we're in a better place than over 80% of league 1 clubs.

Skacel, Euell, BWP = left on free transfers (no sale..) Surman and DMG were sold during administration to help pay the staff. Since the takeover we have sold no one and signed 1 + Kelvins contract... with more to follow Yep, we're still a selling club. ML out!

lol. that's all there is to say to that

Blame Pinnacle, not this lot.