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Well if oldies are what youn need to get some traditional opening batting in a 4 day game then I'm all for it. Nothing like a big opening stand after being put in to set a match up.

probably because Ibra has been given his shirt number at Utd.

And we can't rebuild whilst remaining in the top level? We have younger players but they're injured like Topley and Wheater or are on international duty like Vince. Let's get some points on the board, get over the injury crisis and see what happens. Probably have to write off the one days this season though, not difficult because we're off the pace in the T20 anyway and none too well placed in the Royal London.

Thought that a few players looked as if they've had their dose of football for the 15/16 season actually. They've been at it for a year solid in some cases and they'll be back in action in about 3 weeks.

Good solid start by Smith and Adams though, long may it continue because given the state of Surrey and Notts finishing above them must be considered as possible if we can get a few draws with good bonus points and the odd win before the end of the season.

Don't forget he spent a lot of years in cosmopolitan Monaco.

have we signed a Villa full back then ?

Mandanda wouldn't sign anywhere to be second choice because he's a first choice keeper. Except for France of course and that's different.

And post 24 wasn't enough for you !!!

they're also signing Mandanda from the O.M, far better keeper than either of those that they have just now. Top keeper on an out of contract basis I believe. Quite surprised that Everton didn't go for him myself, then again Ronald does like his dutch and players that he's managed before.

I see that the Austrian presedential election has been voided by their courts on suspicion of some sort of mishandling of postal votes then. Just a symbolic post I believe but must be the first fairly major european election to be cancelled for some sort of electoral misadventure.

After I think, Crosby didn't get on with Puncheon.

I am not knowledgeable in the field of political science but it would seem to me that all of the attributes cited above are just what a top politician needs in his tool bag.

Because he's not a Deschamps type of player, he also has off days when he's pretty crap. He was a regular up until about the start of 2014 but dropped out of the side with the emergence of Morgan, Guilavogui, Kondogbia etc and above all the return of his favourite Diarra.Of these none are real regulars any more except for Diarra who he picked for the original Euro 23 even though he'd been on one leg for months. Deschamps has a current fixation on Kanté, next year it will be someone else. As long as he's got Pogba, Diarra and Matuidi the others stand little chance.

I would think it extremely unlikely, what has Gonalons to gain by leaving Lyon ? He's already amongst the highest paid footballers in France,in fact I might think he's way beyond our salary range, we could have kept Victor for that sort of money. They're back in the Champion's League and will be playing in front of 60,000 or so at home. Then again nothing is impossible I suppose.

I'm sure you can find the details somewhere, it was in the Times a while back. If you want to see the effect, the contract of Memphis Depay is on football leaks or one of those type of thingys.

United players, in the main, are taking a 25% pay cut next season (ie the one starting in August). Failure to qualify for the CL apparently. So anyone on say 100K a week will only get 75K, then again I'm sure it's not quite as straightforward as that, the percentage cut is real though. Makes a fair bit of difference, live in a crappy part of the land, no CL and less money.

Depends on who wins the right wing nomination for next years presidential election I expect. Old man Juppé is favourite just now but that may change in the 6 months or so before the primary starts.

Told you so....

Err I think he was agreeing with you because he knows what you do, most of us do and thus take whatever you might say as fairly reliable.

Good

I certainly hope not.

Hah, I see the Spanish are going to veto any separate Scotland discussions because they don't want the Catalans getting any ideas.

This is his last stab at some real money, he's probably been on a derisory salary at Nice and at pushing 30 he'll want to wring ever last euro out of the bit of attention that he's currently drawing. That's why he'll sign for PSG any day now.

No he's going to Paris St Germain. Same manager though.