S-Clarke

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.

And if you have the right players to play it. We did when we had Pelle up top, with Mane and co close to him.

Didn't we give that up for some extra dosh back in our admin days? I'm sure we did the same with Bale....

Amazingly good post.

Absolutley prolific. Around 30 goals a season for the 2 seasons prior to joining us.

Who is Diego Sanchez?

Didn't see the issue with McQueen dropping out on Tuesday. If Bertrand is fit, first name there - no questions. With their attack of Zaha and Townsend we needed to make sure we had pace at full back, which McQueen doesn't have. I was surprised to not even see him on the bench though.

I think he cost about 35-36m. He's this years 'Steve Sidwell' or 'Scott Parker' signing for them. He'll be out of there in another year or so I'd have thought.

Liverpool midfielder Emre Can has reached an agreement in principle to join Juventus in the summer

Chelsea have agreed to sign Barkley for £15m from Everton.

No idea to be honest, not seen anything of Carillo. I wouldn't be against bringing Gallagher back though as an option, although it does seem as if he's found his feet. He's certainly a leading player in that league, so will be great for us next year.

Well, at least we're looking at players with the attributes we need. He's a big pressence this lad. About 6.3 going by his transfer market page, similar stature to that of Pelle.