Katalinic

Really good point - we would have been lucky to have got £2 million at the time.

How do you know we haven't? I would imagine a deal has been done elsewhere and is waiting to be confirmed once the Shaw deal has gone through.

A fantastic talent, of that there is no doubt and will be very difficult to replace...but, if the player wants to go and we have secured the fee that has been reported then it is good business for all parties.

The papers are getting desperate - same old regurgitated stories day after day - some with quotes that are weeks old.

We need to keep Fonte as back up, add to Lovren and release Jos and Maya.

At least we agree on something.

That's because you are an idiot.

Gaston on for Uruguay

Does Wilshere ever look up ffs?

Don't get people on here started on speaker systems - the PA system has ruined many a matchday experience...apparently.

True. I'd still prefer something by the Stone Roses personally

Isn't this just William Blake being ironic about England? I remember being taught in school that the whole things was basically a **** take saying that England was actually a **** hole so why on earth would Jesus have bothered visiting (as was rumoured apparently during the period he wrote it), the notion being ridiculous. Maybe I just had an odd English teacher.

This is said every time we screw up at a major tournament and nothing ever changes. English football has stood still for years whilst the so called "lesser" nations have not only improved but overtaken us in respect of technicality with the ball.

Honestly, yes. I know that this might seem like it is with the benefit of hindsight but Johnson is Liverpool's weakest link by a mile, let alone England's and Gerrard's legs went the season before last although I know where you are coming from ref. systems - Pirlo's legs have also gone but he is brilliant in the role he is being asked to do.

Lampard and Gerrard in the same squad, or even in the squad, is not forward thinking - and as for Glenn Johnson.....he is the one player that makes me still optimistic of a call up.

The fact is that the "revolution" and integration of young players should have happened after the Euros. It's a shame the FA didn't have the ******** to say, ok we are going to change the way we play, and we are going to throw in the youngsters and may not qualify for the world cup - stick with it because by the Euros we will have experience and a real sense of how we want to play the game. But no, we go on picking the same old tired players, play the same old disjointed way - why? ££££ - World Cup worth too much commercially. It's a shame - I wish England played like Saints.

The irony

Thanks as always

Great news.

It wasn't the youngsters that let us down.

Better than Mayuka apparently.

Shouldn't have lost that - we might not have done if Hodgson had the balls to take the passenger that was Rooney off. Also, just can't see the point of Wilshere.

I never thought I'd see the day when I'd prefer an Andy Townsend commentary.

I seem to remember Espanyol fans saying the same about Pochettino.

Sounds like stirring by Ashton again - not least because these days presumably transfer requests and such like would be submitted via his agent or management company.