S-Clarke

It's been reported by what forest fans understand to be a ''joke tweeter''. Kind of justified in being a joke when the same guy says he ''Understands'' that Billy Davies drew up a list of potential CEO's to ''Sign'' Brilliant.

I would imagine a return to a fans forum style. The last few days have kind of heralded a new way of communication I feel, we'd have been kept in the dark regarding the injuries and the ''bust up'' before, and what with KL saying she wants 'open' communication, then it's pretty clear we'll look to introduce that sort of thing. I'm not bothered either way, but there's no harm in having a fans forum. Interesting to a degree, but can get a bit micky mouse.

Alex Crook.

If we're honest, even if Cortese had stayed with us, we're a 8-10 side at best. We're in a funny situation, our start to the season excited a lot of people but it was pretty evident that we were in a very false position. Where we are now is where we are realistically and we've probably hit a bit of a glass ceeling. If we wanted to ever achieve that far fetched CL dream, then we'd have needed a new takeover as KL would not have funded to that extreme. But I still think there's plenty to look forward to, but you've got to realise that we were always going to have a bit of a downturn. In football...you cannot have 5 years of non-stop success and expect it to carry on, you need to expect a bit of a dip at some point. We're probably having that at the mo and it may well go on for another 12 months or so, but I think the foundations at the club are strong enough to ensure we're OK. People are crying about Cortese leaving, and saying the club will now implode. Surely that doesn't speak a great deal of NC's abilities? Built on sand and all that? He was better than that and we are on a very strong footing.

Utter b****** apparently, will have to wait and see. Source that it's coming from is always wrong according to Forest fans, they're actually laughing at it. He's known as their comedy ''tweeter''.

Seriously man up. So this is a lower point than being relegated to league 1, in administration? This is a lower point than having Ryan Smith and Forecast in our team? This is a lower point than Lowe's second coming? Seriously, man up fella. We're in the top 10 of the premier league with one of the best young english sides around. We lost a CEO and a player who has been crap for us is on his way out, big deal. We're still owned by the same people, which some seem to be ignoring.

Why on earth would we want another DM?

Pablo Osvaldo made the news, not for scoring against Udinese last Friday, but instead for punching his team-mate Erik Lamela in the face after the Giallorossi's 2-0 setback at the Stadio Friuli. The 25-year-old is no stranger to committing such pugilistic acts as he previously floored colleague Nicola Mingazzini in pre-season training when he played for Bologna in 2009. Osvaldo has received the maximum fine allowable by the Lega Calcio and will not travel with the team to Florence for the encounter against the Viola at the weekend. So, this is the third so-called incident of his career. Horrible piece of work.

TV Deal has changed the landscape. A few years ago Swansea spending £13m on someone like Bony would have been seen as bizarre, similarly on Norwich for spending over £25m in one window. Would say that based on the PL money and our general income, that's now our sort of level fee and wage wise.

I can't imagine our bench will include the likes of Lee Molyenux, Ryan Smith, Paul Wotton, Tommy Forecast, Gasmi or Lancashire - so no, this won't be the worst bench we've put out for a professional game.

Is that before, or after we implode?

That's a big vote of no-confidence! He's a nutter and the club should look to get rid in the next few days. Come back Inter.....

I don't think they've ever been the sort to flash the money around, I believe that ML left a pot of money for the club - which he entrusted Cortese to use. His untimely death lead to that being transferred into a trust fund as such, but it wasn't a bottomless pit and you'd have to say that over £70m spent in the last 2 seasons has probably eaten away at a good deal (and that's not including wages, the staplewood redevelopment etc). At the end of the day the pot of money was to be used to progress the club in the short term and to enable us to stand on our own 2 feet, it did that and we're now at a level which I think is a true reflection of the club. I remember ML's comments when he first arrived, his seemed to believe that we should be a Top 10 PL club - which we are. The CL stuff was always a pipe dream and would never have been achieved with the backing of the family, if we wanted to move to that level then we'd need a Man City style takeover. Overall we need to look at it as we're not in trouble, we're secure, stable and have a fantastic infrastructure which wasn't here 3 or 4 years ago. Our upward curve was always going to take a slope down at some point, and it looks like the next 12-18 months will be that down point, but the practices and infrastructure put in place over the last 5 years should ensure that it's not too huge a slope.

Doubt he'd be risked this weekend whatever happened. But it is a worry for Arsenal, as he was genuinely limping a bit at the end.

I'd say as a player, if anything, you'd be more worried about the ownership of the club. The same people own us at the end of the day, so in that sense not a great deal should change. The figurehead may have gone, but the people defining the stability and financial security of the club are still there. And KL hasn't done anything wrong thus far, business as usual in the most part.

Really disappointing news. He'd be my runner up for player of the season, just behind Lallana. We're going to feel it with him not playing for that period of time, and if we don't strengthen slightly in this window, then I can't see us finishing too far away from where we finished last year, which after the start we had is a damn wasted season you'd have to say. Let's just hope we can have a cup run to bring a bit of excitement back!

Quick replacement for Mata. But I'd agree, don't see him getting a great deal of game time. He's a class player, always hoped we had an eye on him - quite a decent fee too. They've had a great window really. circa £50m+ in, £30m odd out.

lol @ the suggestions of a sword anyway! Hopefully Inter rekindle the loan bid.

I said the other day, Glasgow is having a nightmare lately.

The problem is - it's not a one off. He's been known for this at all his previous clubs, and he's now brought that here as well. I was open minded about him, I thought he'd take his chance and be a top PL starter. But he's shown nothing since he's been here, and his only impacts have been suspensions and alterations. Can't really be taking his side on any of this.

Slight OTT.

Rumour popped up on twitter suggesting that Fonte had been injured from this, but it has now oddly vanished...

Gordon Simpson ‏@gordonsimpson Osvaldo suspended 2 weeks by #saintsfc. Incident at training ground, understood to involve Jose Fonte. No action to be taken against Fonte.

Was actually said in jest!

I do get the feeling that this is a new level of openness at the club. The club would have probably just covered this up before.