Window Cleaner

Probably a mobile phone salesman.

If you want to sleep you could have stayed at work.

Looks like we're going into cruise mode to prepare for Saturday.

Bolton are a joke ,bet on them for relegation with Hull and Skate.

I don't know then, the BBC preview(for what it's worth) says Cork goes straight into the squad and may make the bench, confusion abounds-as usual,when the info available seems very doubtful.

Doesn't look very likely to me,no substitute defenders? Can only be a false lead from th OS to hide our real game plan. Cork for Bart or Forecast would make it about right, unless Morgan is to drop back if there's an injury or defaillance in defence of course-not wise,not wise.

But then that's the difference between a "manager" and a head coach isn't it. JP does probably not get too invoved in the business side of the club. He coaches what he has, identifies players that he thinks might fit in with his ideas and lets whoever is on transfers get on with it. Expect more input from George Prost on the sgning side;Woudn't mind wagering that at least on of the two is french(or playing in France) and the other may well be dutch.

Don't know whether it's all that ridiculous or not. Something tells me that there is far far more to the "basement price" than meets the eye. Either he isn't a very good bet to stay fit for very long or the amount at which he could leave was written into his contract as well.Perhaps he was just another one of those "homesick northeners" who can't get by without their daily fix of tripe and pickled cabbage.

Well I would think that they might stay actually. Would think we've trimmed the wage bill by about 4.5 million a year so far (with Davies going ) and amassed about 4.5 million for the kitty (Bale add on, Davies,Safri, Crouch sell on and odds and ends). Doubt if we put much up front to get Schneiderlin. Probably not even half of "rising to 1.5 million euros" .We'll see if they have as yet learned the humility and selflessness needed to play in Jan's system,what he called 'getting his head right" when apparently referring to Skacel.

i expect we counted on actually selling, Saga?Rasiak and Skacel amongst others. The fact that they are either still here dragging us down or gone with nothing but a measly loan fee to show for it explains everything.We bought or engaged players we couldn't afford, to please most of the fans and "get our club back". Collectively they didn't deliver and now everybody has to pay for it. That means a lot of novice players, a cheap coach,staff cuts and whatever. If you're looking for someone to blame there is only one direction to look in. The playing staff who took the club for about 12 million quid in salaries last season and just about avoided relegation.That's where the buck stops, all the rest is just sour grapes in various directions. Barnsley stayed up and got to the later stage of the FA Cup, I bet their wage bill was about 3 million quid at most.These players(you all know who they are) have brought our proud club to it's knees, whether they were mismanaged,should or shouldn't have been bought is neither here or there, they were paid top dollar,the job they did was pitiful.So pitiful in fact that we had to get in loan players every five minutes to do the job THEY were being paid millions of pounds to do. I'd clear out every damn one of them and start with the youth team if necessary,trouble is they have contracts so we're stuck with them.

In fact, on gate receipt alone it would take 34090 or so spectators a season to pay an annual salary equating to about 15K a week.So if you have, say three of them ,with a average gate of 17/18K, about a quarter of your gate revenue (assuming that everybody pays 22 £,which they don't) is gobbled up by those 3 salaries.

SF 76 can write whatever he likes on his monologique forum. He believes because he wants to believe, he is so so desperate to see the present management of the club dumped and a workers collective of which supreme executive power comes from a mandate from the masses, that he is now delusional.

Right, bad memory again, they did give us money though?

But I ask again, what certainty have you that Rasiak is actually going to leave? Nothing seems to be happening, we need to offload high earners, everybody knows that and I can't see anybody actually paying money for them now when it 15 days time they might get them on loan with us chipping in a wee bit on the salary make-up.Remember Dan Petrescu, Spurs actually gave us money to take him off their hands, true we did rip them off for Deano as well.

nn Given our last season's managers' ineptitude with both substitutions and tactics it would certainly have been a boon for us if they'd have been banned last season.I quite liked football with just one substitute, evened things up quite a bit.Can you imagine how Man U and Chelsea would get on with just 12 man match squads, there'd certainly be a lot more top players (on reduced pay) to go round.

Saga is out on loan until december as far a I know, think he played in the Champions League qualifiers last Wednesday, his team won 2-0 I believe. Maybe he's doing what HE wanted and not what really suited us.I certainly don't know and I doubt that any of you do.

One handed tit juggling is certainly a good start.

Is this Rasiak to Watford thing actually happening or is it just the result of speculation and assumption? Never know on Fridays do you.

It seems to me that all the high earners are "for sale" but some are more for sale than others. Sort of "fairplay all round but we know who we really want to leave" stunt.

Agreed,but did some-one not tell us that according to a conversation between he (or his cleaning lady or taxi-driver) and Jan and Himself,Jan said he(Skacel) will play for us?

I expect to see Davies and Skacel coming back into the side, possibly at right and left back. Who needs loans ?. If Surman and James make the grade in those positions all well and good, Davies will either play centre back or defensive midfield.Skacel will go forward into midfield. Jan has said he will play when his "head" (I suppose he means attitude) is right.

They will probably amaze you with their knowledge and inform you that our D-Line looks about Little League size.

This is the right way, we've a much vaunted academy that has seemingly some notion of forming home grown players, look at all those who've had a first team chance-all gone for greener pastures for some decent money. Why "borrow" other peoples youngsters-adding to your wage bill-and let your own rot in the reserves or go out on loan to Yeovil and Bournemouth?

Didn't suggest it was risky Alpine, suggested it was a toughish task for the lad particularily due to the change of style in the football. He'll do just great but the first ten games or so might be a bit saw edged.

Two full games in 4 days could be quite a task for an 18 year old adjusting to a different type of football though.