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He obviously has very little experience in dealing with unsettled africans.

Well when it's your only midfielder who can tackle there's no real surprise. Saints side is a bit on the small side as PL teams go.

Oh just pîss off won't you.

Was not Romeu out injured today ?

But not going down isn't something that we should really be targetting. The form is poor but then with this manager it's probably as good as can be expected. This is the second time he's dropped Mané over being late, we lost last time as well, Liverpool IIRC. Who suffers from that really, surely not Mané more than any of the others. They all lose their win bonus in the same way. Should have played Mané from the start as planned and just fined him.

Newcastle aren't in better form than us. Really we do not need this relegation stuff just now because it isn't going to happen.

Clubs outside England yes.

Quite, and then there's the vast hike in agent's fees, nigh on doubled to 5.3 million £ or similar. Say an extra 2.5 million or so, that's just the same sort of sum as if we still paid Morgan or Clyne this season. And I even forget Caulker in my calculations.

But Jos and Osvaldo had been out on loan, perhaps we were subsidising those a bit though. The rest are just small beer and probably don't make half of Gaston alone.

Well no, we know that the wage bill went up from 13/14 to 14/15, it's in the accounts. Then if you're suggesting that the sums paid to Cedric, Juanmi, Stekelenburg, VanDijk Clasie, Romeu and Martina+ Gaston coming back are less than those paid to Morgan, Toby and Clyne then I'd suggest that you need to think again.

Not really, the problem is incoming fees tend to get overestimated and outgoing fees underestimated. We have sold players for somewhere around 120 million over the last 2 summers, with the purchases made and the loan fees paid I don't see there being a whole lot left.

I see that Chip has been fired then, much ado about nothing I suppose, expected him to do a lot better than he actually has. Mind you with his revolving door QB and RB policies I guess there's no real surprise. Whatever gave him the idea of trading Foles for Bradford is anyone's guess.

An extremely flawed character, not to be touched with the proverbial barge-pole.

Where is he now then ?

But the "lot of money" we got in over the last 2 summers has all been spent, Ralphie's honour. We do not have massive stockpiles of cash just waiting to be wasted.

I'v not seen all of the match yet but I didn't see much "discussable" about the first goal, well apart from some poor defending by Arsenal that is. Arse were poor, Wenger needs to accept that.

Sunny and mild but a bit parky in the evenings. Best winter we've had for years, mind you I expect we'll have snow on the ground mid-June to make up for it.

That'll be handy for him then, I think he's fallen out with the old one.

Why ? Are there ever U21 regulars on the bench of late ?

Well I'm going to see how it goes, I don't really expect to get anything from this match so I'll not be overly disappointed in any case, unless of course we're just absolutely abysmal. Most have written the game off anyway and sometimes we get a pleasant surprise when we've done that. Like Everton last year, mind you Arsenal...well it's not Everton is it.

Wouldn't count on it if I were you. Hardly played at Boro I believe so he's probably no more apt for the PL than when he went away.

A completely middle of the road 4 points.

No, the total salary mass including directors, cleaners and sales girls went up to 70 million in 2014/15. Whereas FFP refers only to players and coaches salaries and does not include anything else.

Absolutely, unless we're going to pension off Stek or send back Caulker. The Red Tops do not consider PL rules when speculating though.

French bloke, came from Auxerre originally I think, has had a few decent games for the Bleuets so that's good but Utrecht is way way down the ladder and I'm surprised we're looking that far down.