S-Clarke

Jesus, can you imagine! Angle for clubs to sue...?

Blimey, given themselves a big chance here! What a final day...! Weird shit can happen.....

I think it was around £12m

HUGE goal for Villa. Long way to go, but blimey.

To be fair, I'm not surprised if he was feeling a bit stiff. No time in between the games really and he's played them all, even Brighton when we rested loads. Only JWP looks untroubled, but that's because he's not human!

Best thing for Cantwell is to drop back with Norwich, stick with them in the Champ to try and get promoted. Then he'll be back in the PL as a much better player. He's not bad, but still raw and I think that will stop clubs going for him.

I think as a club we wanted this done ASAP, as it did certainly have the potential to drag on. Let's see what Spurs can muster up. Going to Everton makes a mockery of PEH's claim that he needs to leave to win the league and the champions league though. $$$$. He's going to his level though, mid-table PL is pretty much him. I hope Everton don't expect much more. This isn't a bitter 'oh he's leaving, now he's shit' post either. I've never rated him, been a huge part of our problems and I'm glad to get rid.

Are people confusing Tim Klose with someone else?? He's absolutely terrible!! We should have seen that first hand when we ran rings around him in our first game back. He's old and returning from a season-long injury.

Because it's Daniel Levy.

So close to a top 8 push though. Like, 4 points potentially! I think it highlights how utterly false our 8th position was under Puel - 46 points wasn't it? 8th may be around the 56-58 point mark this year, which is pretty much the norm. Puels' 8th place was nothing to celebrate, it was the start of a big regression.

I reckon it could be something like £8-10m guaranteed, with a further 4-5m on specific clauses over the period of the contract (5 years for example). That would be a deal.

They love wasting money. Flexing their muscles to build an unbalanced team.

He'd posted a smiley face before he edited it!

Hopefully someone who knows what that is can unpick that! I do hope Gao is going. I'm very, very, very nervous about us being owned by Chinese entities at this moment in time. Wolves should be too. China is expected to introduce more restrictions on its companies and citizens investing in UK businesses. That could be bad news for Chinese-owned clubs in the UK such as Wolves, Southampton, West Bromwich Albion, Birmingham and Reading. But given that he doesn't invest, I guess it'll make little difference! Still, very worrying though.

Technically, he came in during the pre-season in which he was sold. But if I remember right, he was announced as the replacement for Pep a good 6 months prior - so he'd have been studying that squad quite a lot in the interim I'd have thought.

1) Ings, easy. But I've also got to agree with JWP running him close too. 2) Tricky one, we've not really had any breakthrough that I'd class as 'young' 3) Not too many have broken through, so I'd go with Obafemi - although I like Smallbone too. 4) Armstrong. He was a bit in and out last year, but has become a pivotal player now. 5) Can only be KWP really. 6) Valery for me in the Leicester game, and then other games. Helplessly out of his depth. 7) Stephens v City 8 ) Man City home, Skates away. 9 ) Can't disagree with the Leicester one, although performance wise the Everton home game was right up there. 10 ) Man City home

New signing alert....?

Doesn't look like it's happening. Bit of a nothing game to end the season for both of us now, nothing hanging on it apart from either finishing 8th for them or 11th for us.

Interesting, quite cheap too? And I think I remember Chelsea having first dibs on any transfer as well....given their need for CB's, they may become interested.

Palace haven't really been spoken about since the restart, given they were already safe. But christ, they have been disgustingly bad since the return. Worst side along with Norwich. 6 defeats in a row, probably another today.

12th is ours...

Sheff U look shocking, lacking in any real ability or quality. Not entirely sure how they are where they are! I like Sander Berge, but that's about all they've got.

I think any manager would be mental to go there. It really isn't any way to run a football club. Maybe they need to be clear in their head what they want to achieve with Watford, what football philosophy and identity they want? They don't seem to have a clue, they just move players around between Granada and Udinese and have no real transfer strategy. Oddball club and they really do need to get relegated so their owners can feel the financial pinch of their absurd club management.

Gareth Bale's situation is a strange one. He's clearly never going to play at Real Madrid as himself and Zidanne are always at loggerheads, doesn't even get in the match day squads. Yet his agent is now saying that he isn't leaving Real Madrid because no one will be able to pay what he earns, and how he's 'happy' and settled at Madrid - even if he doesn't play any games? Has Gareth completely fallen out of love with football and is just going to enjoy the mega money and not do anything until his contract runs out? He should just admit defeat in his Zidanne showdown, leave the club and take a pay cut to join another top club. There would be countless takers if he was willing to take a pay cut, but as I said, maybe playing football isn't important to him anymore.

Personally, I'd have kept Yoshida for the final 6 months of his contract and sold off Vestergaard for the up to £26m.