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the post concerned Rafa Silva, like you I've no idea why it's on the Tadic thread.

Now out of our league, don't get your hopes up.

Ah Lagarde, the lady who's in no end of trouble for letting her acolytes hand over 400 odd million to Bernard Tapie over the Adidas sale. A sum which he now has to pay back and of course hasn't got 2 centimes of it to rub together...well so he says. I'd not take her opinion on anything as gospel really, flawed judgement.

13 million a year for 5 years. So his take on the affair is about 85 million of which the leech Raiola will take about 15-20% I suspect.

20% of the total apparently.

Kind of normal, Scotland would just be another drag on the richer nations of the EU with a no doubt negative contribution and a non EU nation to cross to get there. Krankie just has delusions about the importance of her province.

At that price Real will buy him, that's where he wants to play. The problem comes from the 25 million € cut that Pogba takes from the deal, pushing the price up to around 125 million €. Real won't pay that even though they want the player and he wants to go there.

No doubt some very attractive batting from Ervine and Wheater but when you come down to the nitty gritty we're 199/6 now and still over 400 behind, facing an innings defeat no doubt with absolute minimum points gained. This was a match not to lose. We could have overtaken Surrey with our match in hand in theory but now we've blown that completely due to absolutely dire bowling and rash batting.... Heads must roll.... I just do not get it, when we need to bat out 2 days over our 2 innings why are we hitting 6s and getting bowled 2 balls later? Now I'm old school, I remember the likes of Henry Horton, Chris Smith and more recently Neil McKenzie straight batting it for hours when we needed survive for 3 or 4 sessions. If someone could explain the new master plan to me that would be genial. Good job by McManus though, putting us in a position where we can at least hope to make them bat again at worst. Now some sensible batting from the senior men please.

Well I don't get any of that, then again I pay my 5 quid.

He probably is but there are rules that govern player's holiday time.

At Southend you mean?

No the 4 United players who made the QFs with their respective nations are not yet back from their break. Euro final was less than 10 days ago and a 3 week break minimum is mandatory I think. Player might want to go straight back to his club but it's not on. Did Cedric and José go to the US with Saints, no they didn't, are they back in training? No they aren't. Euro plays havoc with clubs' summer plans.

Great start, McClaren out hit wicket first ball of the day......

They do make up some right crap do Metro. Matic and Kanté aren't even the same type of player.

No thanks.

And it gets worse for Lille. they had agreed to sell a young striker to Cologne for quite a bit but he failed the medical for some reason or other. Cologne might still buy him but for far less money. Don't know all of the details though.

Ah yes, Pereyplotkin or something like that. Then there was the Japanese at Arsenal, spent years on loan in Holland and Germany until he finally qualified for a WP but by the time he had one he was ****ged out, Ended up at Bolton i think.

With whom exactly ?

that bloke we had, Jacinto Ela Whotsit. I think we thought he had a Spanish passport but he didn't and when we eventually applied for a WP it was rejected or so I remember..

Probably. Since the advent of Nuclear Deterents the Yanks have lost 3 or 4 wars, the French 2, the Russians 1 (or 2) and the UK prevailed in a minor skirmish and came up short twice when aiding and abetting the Yanks. No point in having the technology if you can't use it.

No and No....

I only looked briefly at the match report on their official site. Wasn't all that interested really. It's obvious that these lads have little or no future with Saints As I said long ago, they're either in the reckoning for the first team at 19 or 20 or they're future candidates for Yeovil and Swindon.

Well they declared at 637/7 and Smith was out first ball he faced. Just hopeless. NB Adams also gone now, Hants 5/2. You can't even blame the wicket for our inability to get them out for a less than monstrous total. Our bowlers just aren't good enough.

Right I've looked it up. Apparently he had a pre-contract deal to return to Penarol when he was free of Saints. Middlesborough couldn't find a way round that without paying Penarol but Gaston's agent seems to have sorted it in some way and his return to Uruguay's side for the Copa may get him by the Work Permit problem.

Don't see how that can be. If he was owned by Saints he couldn't possibly be owned by anyone else. We had the problem obviously with Bologna and Penarol but once we paid them all off then his registration was owned outright by SFC and no-one else. Third party ownership being illegal in the UK. Once he was out of contract with us I don't see how he wasn't a free agent.