S-Clarke

Bompey have got themselves a decent little team there, they should score bags of goals with their forwards.

Possibly a little optimistic! What I was really getting at is that there's more chance of him demanding that sort of fee, as opposed to Fletcher and Zamora who will only sell for a loss. They'll never get £15m back, where we'd have a chance of doing so and possibly more as he has a lot of time on his side.

I think it's just the agent and player who have caused the confusion, I reckon we were pretty close until he bloody well blabbed - idiot! I still stand by the belief that there are only minor things to sort as we're not far off money wise.

Phillips will leave.

Basically, there is a transfer committee. NA will have made it clear the positions that he needs to strengthen. He would have provided a list of targets, which would have included Clyne, Davis, Rodriguez - and they have been sorted. But having a transfer committee also gives you the scope to offer alternative options to the manager in the position that he wants to strengthen in. For example, if he said he wanted Matt Jarvis and Wolves said they wanted 11m+, the scouts and NC went away and found out that we had a chance for Gaston at 12m...then that would obviously be presented as the better option. I don't think it's being done behind Nigel's back, I just think we're using all our available resources to make sure we source the best possible players we can.

Contracted to them, signed a long-term deal. Basically he's telling Phillips to pipe down and honour his contract, when to be honest he's got no chance. I expect him to move early next week and I'd expect more moans and hard done by comments from Holloway next week. I don't have a problem fighting for your own player at all, we would do the same. but I hate the way Holloway does it, it's done in a way where he sounds so hard done by and everything is so bad for him. He's a plucky little manager who thrives on being ''hard done by'' and doing things ''against the odds'', he is at a club which suits him down to the ground, he'd fail miserably at any big club - (look at Leicester for e.g)

We seem to be operating at the other end. Good young players, with big resale value for decent prices, let's be honest. This is the day and age when we're talking £15/16m being demanded for Steve Fletcher, 60k p/w on Zamora. Both bog standard average players. Nothing special. Yet £15m could get you one of the best young players around at the moment, with a resale value that will most likely be in the 30-40m's if he performs for us.

That's absolutely cringe worthy. Christ, what an embarrassment that is!

They'll be ok this season, and to be honest they haven't spend a great deal in comparison. They've screwed away more on wages than anything, the likes of SWP, Dyer, Zamora.....I like to think we're aiming for players quite a bit higher up the ladder than them.

Absolutely. We'd be seen totally differently by everyone. Agents, players, opposition. In our current position Ramirez is a player we don't really have any right to go for, let's be honest, but it shows that all this talk by Adkins about Europe and ambition isn't just talk, which is important. Alot of clubs talk the talk but never really invest, because at the end of the day you need good footballers to achieve good things.

He won't, don't worry about it. Adkins said yesterday ''Well we will get 1 CB, for sure, we need 1 at least and hopefully 2 by the close of the window'' On top of commenting on the excitement of being linked with Gaston. I think we'll get ourselves 4 more signings in the next 16 days, totaling around 26-30m quid. Just a feeling, I think we're ready to spend to move onto the next level and the signing of Gaston will be a huge landmark.

Shut up Holloway, clearly just trying to cling on to air. Blackpool can't turn down bids like that, no matter what he thinks. He won't want a sulky player hanging around either. According to his comments last week, he had a good conversation with Phillips who was excited and committed to be playing for Blackpool. Well that turned out to be ******** didn't it? He always plays the hard done by deal, ''feel sorry for plucky little me". Anyone is entitled to bid for your players, so get over it.

They have 1 pt don't they? Pretty sure they've started on even footing

Shocking Norwich.

Jono forte scores

They have clint hill and Anton at the back though. No surprise.

Wonder how long it will be until qprs owners react.

Liverpool look abysmal

Most of the media seem painfully clueless. You'd think they'd research the basics

Petric will be a great signing for Fulham

Well that's wrong, Adkins confirmed that deal is dead yesterday.

He will end up at Liverpool.

Your positing style suggests you are quite an angry little man. Every post you make seems incredibly aggressive. It's only an internet forum.

Something is brewing anyway.

Can I just ask what potential realistic signing would get you excited?