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This is a fans forum, you say what you like, Roopert and Mike read it and say nothing, same as the live face to face versions.Then when they're chatting over a prawn sandwich and a pitcher of champagne they say..."did you read what xxx said on TSW last week?"..."Yes what a kynt he is!!".. Business as usual I'm afraid.

trouble is one really big club in trouble will lead to a sharp fall in player values (similar to that in Italy a couple of seasons ago). They won't be able to sell their way out of it unless there is a buyer at current market value.A "big" club will crash one day (hope it's soon) and football will become football again.In any case (from what I've heard) UEFA are determined that the Champion's League with 3 clubs from one nation in the semis will soon be a thing of the past.

That's because the values are careering crazily again today. The Dow is like a yo-yo, down 4.5% ,down 2%,down 3% down 2.5% etc, evidently desperate attempts are being made to shore it up (above 8000) but when the bad news comes in about credit swaps (or whatever) later on it will go down like a lead fish. I mean it's sad for people who are losing money but it justifies the action of certain (like me ) people who, don't have anything, don't owe anything (except for a fully paid up old house) and have had to say "I couldn't get time off this year" (instead of I can't afford flash holidays) when everybody else is talking about their 2 months safari in West Africa or whatever.

Too much demand, people getting all excited about the nosedive "the markets" are taking..again.most of them haven't even got any investments, they're just information junkies. We haven't had masses of trades today (SLH) price is about 26.50 for "big small deals(8200)" and 24p for piddly amounts.

I've just read that Olivier Thomas has been released by Nantes He's getting on a bit but he really is a very good right back. The club should look at him, won't cost a fortune, won't ask for a very long deal either.Give Lloyd James time to catch a breather before getting better.

Takeover?

April next year I think.We'll be able to sell another "first option" for a couple of million.In the meantime if we could do a first option on the first option for £2 it might help.

bof, "the market" is just a collection of silly boys who throw their toys out of the pram whenever they think their "bonus" might not run to a new Aston Martin this year. The banks?....well they shouldn't lend money to people who can't pay it back should they.

Wasted is a strange word to use really. It means that they take up space and use ressources that could be used more productively. They aren't wasted, they're just pointless or useless.

If you say so Weston. Seems a bit dicky to me, but there you go.

I'm not sure that's legal, not on permanent deals.Must be against football league regulations . We'd have had to dob them cash or let him go for less than 600K. Perhaps he just didn't fancy Ipswich, you can make up any excuse you like for not going to a place.

You don't need to be Bobby Fischer to see the gambit.

Perhaps we don't actually need him until January:smt120:smt120

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No doubt, but football isn't like many jobs. If you play someone against his will at a position and he fooks up big time and says "see, told you I wasn't a Left Back", I don't think you'd have any recourse. Players throwing wobblies isn't exactly unknown in football.

I certainly don't think we got the best out of Harry. He has a certain style of football management, he needs to spray money about liberally. At the end of the day you might well come out on the + side of the ledger but it's no good saying to him "you've got 1.5 million, do what you can with it", that's not the way he does things.

That bad huh?

I think NU belongs to the Aviva group.

Anyway according to some of our co-forumistes our best player is always among the ones who aren't playing.Doesn't matter who isn't playing and for what reason, the best player is always amongst them.

Anyway,and you're going to have to take my word for this, 4 million isn't exactly a "shedload" of cash to Barclay's Bank PLC. a very small thimblefuil perhaps, shedload no.There are probably hundreds of trades every day where they would reasonably have expected to make that sum in about 2 nanoseconds.

Yes but that's nothing to do with it is it. A 14 million operating loss means that we cannot pay a single player without selling players. It's basic arithmetic, if you lose 14 million on your operation but your playing + coaching staff salary mass is 12.5 million, you couldn't afford to pay them from normal proceeds. We are in fact a football club that can't afford professional footballers (if you take the operating loss to be 14 million as stated).It means that all your gate and commercial receipts went to pay for things other than football players.

I should like you all to stop and think before bandying such figures around. If we did indeed have an operating loss of 14 million last year that would basically mean that we could not in fact afford to pay a single player. The player and coach salary mass will show up at about 12.5 million I expect. So we are in fact a football club that cannot afford to pay a single player or coach. Think about that. The income will probably show up at around 10.5 million (ex player trading) so we in fact spent 24.5 million £ on operating the club including 12 million or so outside of playing and coaching staff salaries. Whoever let the club get into that state needs shooting

i have never quite understood the situation at Lymington Precision. I thought Mr Crouch sold it in a management buy out but it seems that's not so. I mean you couldn't really sell it to your management and then be CEO and pay yourself over 2 million a year could you??

Kids at the Uni eh?? What a pain at pocket height that is.

Saints have already been taking the medecine since last June, perhaps we'll get over the illness sooner than everybody else,what'smore it's pretty strong medecine, none of your wimpy pink sirop for babies.Probably why so many of them have been screaming and howling because they don't like the taste ot'it.