S-Clarke

Thank **** for that.

Ah the victims strike again.

Carrillo, surely?

Bear in mind I believe Sturridge is injured at the moment (well, he was at the end of Dec. according to Klopp). He'd be a risk signing anyway, but signing him when he currently has an injury is just a tad insane. Hence why he's not moved so far I think.

I think Sessengon will become a winger anyway, don't see him as a full back as he progresses. Reminds me a bit of Bale in the sense that he started out as a full back, but he has all the qualities to be an attacking left sided winger to be honest.

Staged payments is how it works. We weren't going to get a cheque for £70m on our doorstep. Anyone who thought that is a little bit dim. I always take the 'up front sum' to mean guaranteed fee, so it's guaranteed we will receive £70m for example. It's not dependent on appearances or international honours etc. As a buying club we would also not buy a player outright, I don't know who does in world football. Even Coutinho's transfer will be staged - possibly over the duration of his contract - in order to balance the large fee over a longer period of time. Even in the 'glory days' of Cortese, the signings of Osvaldo and Gaston for e.g were staged over a period of years, hence why we still had outstanding owing to Roma even once he had left on loan for the 10510th time. Cortese is talked up here as a god and that it was all good when he was here, but he cost us a fortune. The Dani Osvaldo mess cost this club millions, we're not just talking the transfer fee, we're talking wages, contract cancellations, agent fees with all his loans etc. So as much as Cortese has been lauded up, he left us with an absolute mess to sort out right there. Anyway, going off tangent a bit. Basically no football club receives a full transfer fee and neither do they spend the full transfer fee straight up.

There was a link in an article from a week or so back, 'confirming' our interest in Sessengon and it mentioned that Fulham have an interest in Targett and he would be used in any deal. Still not sure we'll see Sessengon here to be honest. He'd cost too much money and he's probably holding out for Spurs, which is nailed on in the summer once they sell Rose.

He was trying to be clever, but failed. Sessengon is a left full back etc.

There's more chance of me manging this team than there is Nabil Fekir lining up for us.

Yeah, there were unfortunatley a lot of jeers directed directly towards him whenever he touched the ball - where i was in the kingsland anyway.

Yeah his first goal was against Millwall, he did everything in the game bar score until the final 10 mins. Then he went on and got another at WHU and that was that.

Pelle was booed on his first home game for us, which is still shamefull to this day. Our fans can be right dicks.

*L2 side!

They knew about this weeks ago, hence Nike publishing what they did on their website, and hence the reason they were able to offer us 75m for VVD.

We won this game through the experience of the players rather than the competence of the manager. It's not giving me much confidence that he keeps breaking the flow of a game though his substitutions.

They're not really struck on him.

It's how transfers are done. We'd structure our incoming deals in exactly the same way.

Hoedt needs an equal top level partner. Now we've lost VVD we are without certain attributes at CB - namely height, strength, pace and ability in the air. It'll continue to snooker us if we rely on Yoshida and Stephens. I like Yoshida, he's a decent player and has been more than decent for us, but that doesn't excuse the fact that we need to fill the VVD hole.

What smaller clubs? Assume you are referring to Burnley. They'll end up falling back to their natrual postion before long, this is just their overachieving season - which is what we had when we finished 6th. A club of our size is not in a position to turn down £75m for a single player, not in any situation. This is the way of the land and is even more so the case now with the extra money on hand. It's not so much a fault of the club, it's a fault of the TV Deals/big clubs racing away into the sunset. We're just here to make up the numbers. The sooner there is a European break away league the better for the likes of ourselves.

Within 18 months or so he'll end up at a mid-ranking PL team I reckon.

He's a proper thunder****

Since when has a club got £5m for getting into the 4th round of the FA Cup?

Out comes the predictable '**** waving' i'm a better fan than you nonsense.

£25m is the new £10m

fwiw, Leicester were on 21 points and in 17th on the 12th Feb last year - after 25 games. They finished on 44. Although the key caveat there is that they changed their manager after the 12th Feb. But they did just keep the 'caretaker' on rather than appoint new.