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That's why everything will be undisclosed.

Butland has been a very long-term target for us - maybe him...? A year as an understudy to Boruc before becoming our first choice?

Liverpool. We signed him today, but they've now put a bid in and lured him away. p.s - cheers for the info Steve. I believe your source is a good one, so this is almost done I'd say!

http://www.footballnewsuk.co.uk/news/west-ham-shock-bid-steven-gerrard.html Umm, not sure if this is a parody site or not. I think we should put a bid in for Gerrard, Sterling and Agger and tap their players up.

Other way round for me - Marshall would be brilliant. Good age, proven at this level to be a tremendous shot stopper. Why do you fancy Forster instead, out of interest?

Here is the link - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2682598/David-Marshall-leave-Cardiff-City-Southampton-Ronald-Koeman-prepares-8m-bid-goalkeeper.html

Both very good options, TBH. Marshall was one of the best GK's in the league last year, statistically. TBH he did have to make the most saves! I think we're all crying out for some decent substantial links to players.

Cannot interpret any of that.

Liverpool should man up.

Hmmm.

Or we sneak a 1-0 win with an 80th min own goal off of Adam Lallana's head. It's so big, you can't miss it.

Yeah, total utter idiot for saying that. That did kind of open the door wide open. I wonder if the clear and structured plans in place were to sell everyone? There are obviously subtle digs at NC in that statement, but he was a naive idiot for going to the media with it. Totally set the tone. The new board do not fill me with any confidence what so ever. Ralf is a mumbling moron, Gareth - I'm not quite sure what he does, get the feeling he's out of his depth. Hans - statement says it all. I still think we're lucky Les stayed around, only person with any footballing sense around the place. That's why he still has my trust and I still feel we may salvage something from this unreal situation.

2 months ago:

Swansea went in for him back in March. Fee for him is around £10m that Feyernord request.

A dig at the fans and the club, who pay his wages. Utterly despise him now, tbh. And to think, this was from a few months ago. He never really had an affinity with the club or the fans, just the chairman, and slimy Argentine and some sort of mysterious project.

Lol.

We won't compete if we don't sign any players.

Is she fit?

What we're seeing is unprecedented though, and a lot of it is out of the clubs hands, in that we have seemingly managed to sign a bunch of ****s. I think we need to give the club time to see who they bring in before going in full scale meltdown mode. As I said, if in 2 weeks time we still have no new signings, Morgan and Lovern have gone, and the club are spouting spiel about how we have a good team, then we can have a full scale panic.

It does annoy me tbh. Where were these bids from clubs last year? We didn't see a queue of clubs wanting to get him last year, did we? Exactly. We took somewhat of a gamble on a player in the fringes of the Lyon squad, allowed him to totally resurrect his career club wise and internationally yet he has treated us with serious disrespect. If we stopped paying him his wages, then he has every right to moan, but we've not. We're still paying him his very respectable wages I imagine, and nothing will change in that respect. Morgans and Rickie have showed how it is to be done. Morgan will most likely be off, but at least he has the decency to acknowledge the club that paid his wages before mouthing off.

This is very true. As WBA and Swansea found last season, you can go from the 50+ point mark and looking pretty comfortable, to be dragged into a relegation battle the next season. And those teams didn't have their teams stripped apart either. There is a very fine line and we could well cross it, heck, jump right over it and straight into the quick sand, if we don't have a good pre-season. Still a way to go though, time for it to improve.

He's probably still on the charlie.

Failed at WHU all being told.

I think if we sit here in 2 weeks time, on the back of RK's first couple of press calls as manager and with no new players, Lovren and Morgan gone, and OS statements such as ''We have a good bunch here already'' ''They have trained really well'' ''We will only buy if it will improve the squad'', then I think we have reason to start wondering WTF is going on, and where that £80m has vanished to. Until then, let's wait and see.

It is happening, but things take time. Not entirely sure what you expected, but we're 6 days into the transfer window and 1 week into Koemans tenure. And that hash thing you do is predictably dull.