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Let's hope he's not injured this time We're not exactly going to have anyone in the build up to the West Brom game...

I remember watching that the evening it broke. A rovers fan came on here to say he'd heard, and it spiraled from there. I remember coming home for lunch on the Monday and i think Tik-Taks was breaking it? Went back to work buzzing....I think he just felt the right signing at the right time for so many reasons, and boy did it pay off.

Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC2m We are delighted to announce that Rickie Lambert has been named in the England squad for next Wednesday's game against Scotland. #saintsfc Expand

Holy jesus.

True, but there have never been many positive stories about this fella. He's either falling out with the fans due to his poor form, getting remmoved from the squad for a period of time, or beating up his team mates...

Yep, he's a nutter. Also, he's only scored 14 goals in 70 games for Werder Bremen . Great. Worth every penny of £13m...

Good stuff Bear, hope you can keep this up for all the games this season! A nice refreshing read!

tbf it would have been easier to just setup a free account. Doubt you'll get any decent responses to this now.

Think it's Dune.

I'll take that as a no then.

I think we're after a top striker and had a decent budget. Damaio and Osvaldo are probably only 2 of the players we've been looking at. Obviously, being higher profile, they were able to leak out.

Ok, so if people are using the argument that scoring goals in the dutch league means nothing, and that you're rubbish, why are people creaming themselves over Bony? Swansea paid £14m for a player who scored goals in the dutch league.

Why would we need McCarthy? Does he replace Morgan, Cork or Wanyama?

Do you know all about him then? Seen all his goals? Watched him for 90 minutes? Have you compared all 3 with him? If not, it's an utterly stupid thing to say as it's an argument based on zilch. People also seem to be forgetting the simple fact that Sunderland didn't have any strikers (Fletcher still injured). Norwich sold Martin, Holt, Jackson. They needed strikers. We could do with a striker, but I wouldn't necessarily say it's a game stopper, because we already have players such as Jay and Rickie who would walk into most of the teams around us in the table. Some people may not take that, but I think both of those guys are better than the players the other clubs have signed.

Lots of hype over McManaman because he's quick, runs at players. Didn't necessarily see a lot of football brain last year in some of the stuff he did, lots of running for the sake of it. He'll learn though I'm sure, clearly a good player, but I think another season of NPC football will be a better bet for him. Ince is a much better player fwiw, and he's not even ''amazingly'' good.

Yeah, absolutely. This is an already cash rich Napoli, who have just had a cash injection of £55m!

I love it how plays such as Remy, Hooper and Altidore have all of a sudden become world beaters, when I know for well that if we'd signed them - they wouldn't have been good enough. Same people would have been moaning. Exactly the same happend last year with Reading. Everyone jizzing their pants at Pavel Pogrebnyak, Guthrie, McCleary, Gunter. ''Look at Reading, they know what they're doing''.. Umm, yep, they did indeed. Flops galore.

I think there's a reason why no one has actually signed him yet, even clubs with lots of history and money (Napoli, Spurs). For e.g., It's been Spurs transfer saga for 3 seasons now. It's only been this summer where they haven't really been involved. I think it's a seriously complex deal due to third partys, %'s to everyone on his contact list. It's not like we're the only club who failed to get this one over the line.

Spoilt brat syndrome is in full flow.

Just been reading through their forums. Lots are impressed with Redmond (who I like a lot, think he was a snip at £3m). Although they seem to attributing ''lazy'' to Lory Fer (after 1 game, quite funny). and RWV didn't do a great deal, other than score a tap in. Their description of Hooper was a more mobile version of Holt.

I assume you're calling this a panic buy because it's someone you've never heard of?

If Jay starts the season well, he'll be in the England squad. The England scouts were heavily watching him at the back end of last season, his tail off in the last 6 games killed his opportunity for one of the friendless at the end of the season. Rickie isn't really being considered, same as why Grant Holt wasn't considered. Not sure why, but that's that. (Still baffles me how utter Dross like Boothroyd can get a cap though)

I've never really liked Wigan, they just annoy me. Spending years surviving in the PL, when no one gave a ****. Empty ground every week, silent stadium, away followings to rival Portsmouth's. I'm glad they're finally gone, because there are much better supported clubs who deserve a place in the PL. MK Dons. Kind of everything that's wrong about football. Moving a club miles and miles away from it's fans, yet trying to retain the old clubs history. Fair play to the AFC Wimbledon lot, would much prefer them to get back to where they once were and pass MK Don's on the way. The last thing you want is MK Don's to be mega successful, as it will give mental chairman the feeling that it's a good idea.

I'm going, couldn't help myself. A summer without football, snapped up the first tickets I could get..

These threads are quite funny though, I remember a similarish one from someone last year who was complaining about our transfer policy (Not signing enough big names). A week later we signed Gaston. Brilliant. The title seriously bugs me re: this thread though, ''Blame?'' ''Inactivity''?. Why are we appointing blame to anyone, what's gone wrong? And who is stupid enough to appoint blame when there are still 28 odd days to go? Exactly.