St Marco

Based on the teams as they are 1st - Chelsea 2nd - Arsenal 3rd - Citeh 4th - Man Utd Saints - 14th Down Burnley Swansea West Brom

How can someone firing a bomb into the air be classified as an "accident"? Even if it does turn out to be the Ruskies nobody has the balls to do anything about it.

Yeah I agree. Without doing the whole xfiles conspiracy type thing, I would not be surprised if this was leaked from us to show we want him to stay when really we know he is off. I hope that is of course not true and he stays but you never know.

Rumour seems to be Liverpool....again.

To be fair I don't think you can compare the two due to the fact the dutch league is very weak in comparison to the PL. Nobody has made it beyond the group stage since 2005 of the CL. And that's with some pretty average groups. That isn't saying if you are good in Holland you can't be good in England as that would be false. Look at Hannibal the Cannibal he has done very well. But even his strike rate is lower here then it was in Holland. I think Tadic will do very well but it is a big step up in level of difficulty. Your basically playing world class teams every week.

He plays on the left he plays on the right adam lallana he plays until he goes on strike

I like his openness about player signings. Doesn't do the normal "we will see" line.

Messed up there

yep I thought he was pretty average to be honest.

Er did that doc not realise he is missing a leg?

So does anyone know how much the fee was in the end?

Stop bedwetting....

Hopefully can make the jump up in difficulty in the PL. One down about another 5 minimum to go!

Anyone else think Ince Jr could of done alright here?

What is annoying me is the fact people calling others bedwetters..... Showing concern for the club means you care. Blindly not giving a crap what happens just makes you stupid.

Because you don't believe him?

This is what he said "Players angry at lack of communication to them, some have asked for clarification and not received it - Some irrepairable differences which will lead to quite a few players leaving - Players like Cork and Fonte in the dark over their futures which hasn't gone down well with others - Things have changed a lot since they signed long term contracts and they don't feel they know what is happening, same as fans - Good group of players who are no trouble, so must feel strongly" I take that to mean more then one player

Disagree on both counts really i.e the board and the squad. There has been plenty of rumblings about the players not having faith with the board. Ask Blackmore. On the squad front if this was our team --------------Boruc----------- Chambers-----Jos/Yos---Fonte---Clyne -----------Cork-----Wanyama----- JWP--------------------------Reed -------Gallagher----Jay------------- We would be in deep ****

Getting so many players to gel so quickly will be very hard. I hope we don't do a QPR and just panic buy anyone, as it get's you nowhere. It is going to be a tough season, if we got top 10 I would be delighted. But I feel the momentum the club was on has come to a full stop so can see a relegation fight happening. It all depends on who else we lose and who else we get in to replace them. If Jos is the level we will have as our CB we are fooked.

I completely agree with you. That is what it takes to get those top players. But like I said it is easier to get them the nearer you are to the top then if you are near the bottom. And without quality players in this league you won't get anywhere.

Point is we were that far away this season. That is fact. What isn't fact is to imply we wouldn't have been closer the following season, then closer the following season and so on. The gap probably would of decreased as more quality was added to the team. Now it looks as though the gap will get bigger as the quality has been removed from the team.

Why not? If Osvaldo and Ramirez turned out okay that would of improved our team greatly. It didn't work out. That in itself is what £30m we wasted? If that money had gone on another Lovren CB, a proven striker (say Lukaku before he went to Everton) and a wide man I am sure we could of made up some wins somewhere. Maybe have finished 6th. We would of then been in a far better position to continue to add to the team where it is needed to improve. It is far easier to bring in quality players when you are near the top then you are if you are near the bottom. To get to the CL in a year or two was always never going to happen. But it would be more likely to happen if we kept improving. Right now we are on the decline, I am sure even you can agree with that?

Are you saying the squad we had could not have improved?

Also to add to that didn't KL say our goal is to get to Europe? Didn't Reed say it too only a few weeks ago when Koeman took over? Just a Cortese bashing thread, nothing more.

Do I seriously need to answer that?