S-Clarke

Stinking season....? Do you mean storming season..???

And that's why there should have been serious governance when they were spending stupid money and wages on the likes of Tevez, Hulk etc.. It was never going to last. Novelty seems to have worn off now.

Play Gabbi off of Austin in one of the wide area's, he's played there and thrived there for Napoli - he's got good movement, so could be very much like Jay was for us in the season he had with Lambert etc.

Maybe we could sell VVD to Chelsea for £75m, then go and knock on Liverpool's door with a £85m bid for Coutinho. That's obviously after Les Reed has taken him down to Mayflower park for an ice cream.

I'd agree with that. With the likes of Mane/Morgan etc...we got those out of the way in June I think, left it to the manager to then go out and replace them within pre-season. I think all we're seeing here is a situation where we're allowing VVD to get his head straight and come back into the team at home to Swansea in a couple of weeks - as per Morgan did v Liverpool in the pre-season he lost his head a few times. I know people like to mock Les (Saint Charlie in particular) by taking the **** out of his quiet summer remark, but to be honest it will probably end up being just that....

Even winning the league and playing in the champions league isn't enough for Monaco to keep their best players. They've lost the spine of their team in this window, although they're a hell of a lot better off for it.... They had an awesome young team that would have got better, but as per football it's not fair and the richer teams just poach them and the normal pecking order is returned....getting a bit bored with football to be honest.

Hernandez was pretty naff last year, not sure he's worth the 160k they're spending. I think he went 15 or so games without a goal, compared with the 30 odd goals he got the season before, I don't think he got more than 15 goals last year in all comps.

I really, really wish the club wouldn't push injuries under the carpet. We seem to be experts at that. Hiding the bad news etc.

The correlation between showing ambition and spending lots and lots and lots of money is flawed. Ambition can be shown in many other ways. I'd say the works done at Staplewood show an enormous amount of ambition, more so than a £30m signing would show me. Seems like fans these days need to be appeased by ££££, and it's just wrong. It shouldn't be what it's about.The fact you've suggested Defoe says it all for me.

What's he done wrong? Care to explain that rather brash statement? Should he have just given in and sold him, or would that have been wrong as well?

Fair enough coming on here with snippets, you obviously have some sort of contact. But I cannot help but get incredibly suspicious when someone starts going into the level of detail you just did. Don't get carried away.

They are such a cesspit of a club.

Morgan, ,Wanyama, Mane If we don't want to sell, we won't.

How will he be worth ''coppers'' in a year? I'd expect us to ask for even more next summer, he'll still have 4 years to run.

Wouldn't really agree Wanyama ever settled down to be honest, he was in a right sulk most of that season. Morgan to his credit, did.

Dramatic turn of events. Makes you wonder why on earth he committed so strongly just a year ago? I don't get his stance, he agreed a 6 year contract, so it's his bed to lay in. This is another Morgan situation for me. He'll settle down eventually.

I quite like Ryan, I think he's a proper goal scorer. Unlucky with his injury, but now has an opportunity to nail down some games and get scoring goals again.

Not quite up to date on this, is there anymore on the Sigurdson stuff other than what egg mentioned yesterday? Is this chat just based on someone saying they may have seen him drive into staplewood??? He's got quite a common face i'd say....

This is what annoys me, you'll hear Man City now saying ''woe be me, everyone wants too much for their players'' - But they're the bloody reason people are asking for the fee's they're asking for. Monaco are absolutely fair, if Kyle Walker is 55m, then Mendy is that and probably more. City have put themselves into this boat by splurging stupid fees on the likes of Stones, Mangala etc. Now they'll have to pay through the roof for decent players.

Davinson Sanchez, Joel Veltman are the two from Ajax who I remember being linked to in the past. But initially i thought this thread was a bump from last year, odd to give him yet another contract.

They can have him. There was probably a decent player in there a few years ago, but he's shot to bits now. He couldn't even get a game for Bournemouth.

A 3 year contract is a little bit ridiculous to be honest.

He's not crap, and we're not going to get better. As i said, it won't even be on the clubs radar - so don't expect it.

Surprised at people still having the expectation that we should replace our GK or upgrade on him, that won't happen. It would have never been on the clubs radar. I personally haven't given up on Fraser as some have seemingly done. Glad to see the club haven't either.

BREAKING NEWS Loic Remy will leave Chelsea this summer with Marseille, Southampton and Everton interested in signing the French forward.