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Against Burnley, Koeman probably had his hand forced over that. Lad got booked after a couple of minutes and then his physique couldn't stand the strain, point proven Mr Reed.

Because he had no choice, doesn't mean he liked doing it although the players he had at his disposition were of a certain quality. He still wandered off at the first opportunity though.

2 possibilities. a) The "raw materiel" isn't of the same quality and the coaches not of the same standard. b) It's getting harder and harder to accede to the PL. Look at the sides from some old games 5 jocks, 4 Englishmen and 2 Irish against 6 english, 3 Welsh a Scot and A Northern Irelander. Now if you get 3 home growns in each side you're lucky; There's less place for home grown players that all.

The Eredivisie isn't the Premier League. There is little room for error in the PL. Couple of bad results and you're relegation fodder (apparently anyway) and with the sums at stake that is unacceptable. You might be able to get away with playing young unexperienced players against Wilhem II and Utrecht but not against West Brom and West Ham.

I see that Vilhena has had a bit of fistcuffs with a fellow Feyenoord player then, sign him up ??

I see that Yeovil Chase hasn't changed then, always was a den of iniquity.

Well yes, I think most of us had worked that out for ourselves, despite the habitual protests from they'll be good one day brigade.

How so ? The accounts are about somewhere for all to see, don't really see what you mean.

Depends on how we planned on funding the purchases of players other than Clasie and Romeu I suppose. Not getting Toby for the knock down price that we thought we were getting from Atletico must have come as a bit of a blow to us, what was it about 7 million compared to the 13 we're said to have paid for VvD ? However what really surprises me is the 5.3 million £ in agents fees. Way way above our usual amount.

Well not having the entire accounts in my head I'd hazard a guess that we as a club have a pretty top heavy administration and that it costs a great deal of money. How much do the Hampshire police take off of us in a season? We know that we paid a record (for us) 5.3 million £ agents fees this year, as we only have about 30 million £ left when the salaries etc have been paid it's not particulary difficult to imagine how it's spent.

City paid far more than he was worth, Bony's trouble is that he's thick as a block of wood. When you're behind Aguero, well you need to be smart and pretty good to take the starters role. He's a typical big lump striker, except that he isn't very tall. Defences are getting better and better and the thick and uninventive will get found out.

We'll see how it pans out shall we.... there are many factions at work in today's Germany.

Are you trying to tell me that there are not reported rapes in any UK city on an average Saturday night?

Of course, but there are some similarities with the cultural behaviour of your average 20 year old in dance emporiums in the UK in the 70s. The difference being that if your chosen dulcinée didn't like it she either removed your hands or smacked your face and you accepted that as a polite refusal.:uhoh:

Young blokes who've had a few beers groping lightly clad girls...yep sounds amazingly like the Top Rank Suite on any Saturday between 1970 and err whenever it closed to me. If the blokes were drunk then surely they're not Muslims ???

Because our transfer policy seems to always involve getting more for less. More players signed than leave and for the same sort of amount, thus the quality is susceptible to decline. Morgan wasn't on a great deal when he left, 35K'ish I believe, so replacing him with Clasie and Romeu probably costs us more on the salary front than Morgan himself.

It was a bit over ours in 2014, probably still is but they're a bit better off on the commercial side I think.

No idea but as a percentage of the PL revenues that they brought about they're probably nigh on negligeable. Take Bournemouth, all they fell foul of was the rule limiting losses to 6 million a season. But they're guaranteed some 150 million in PL funding alone even if they go down this time, add on the ticket revenue hike to boot, so if they catch a fine of a million, it's just a drop in the created ocean.

And is being gotten round all around the continent apart from in the SO postal districts. Owners can accept losses of up to 105 million over 3 years by injecting equity, fictional sponsors can be found to increase commercial revenues etc, but if your owner doesn't want to invest 35 million a season we'll then you're not on the same playing field. As I have said many times before the main Liebherr branch could bung us say 20 million for shirt sponsorship, port town, cranes, straddle carriers etc would make it sort of rentable to most eyes,...see commercial revenues, our owner could then make it up to them for some reason or other...consultancy fees etc, all perfectly above board and passable cos it's what Citeh and PSG are doing, however if they don't want to then what can you do..

It's in here somewhere http://news.arseblog.com/2015/08/wenger-ffp-is-gone/ The main problem is twofold, a) clubs with unique owner/sponsors had their appeals upheld after being sanctioned under the original rulings and b) there were threatened civil court cases because FFP rules in their original form prevented owners from investing in their businesses to develop them, cases that would probably have been upheld in any civil court.

Chickenfeed Championship FFP and that allowed them to get to the eldorado of the PL and it's megamillions. They'll get a bit of a fine but what do they care, they're in the PL with special FFP rules for accessionary clubs giving them a virtual carte blanche. FFP is just a joke anyway, anyone with a bit of savvy can get round it. Even Wenger said it's as dead as a Dodo.

Welcome to Portswood chaps.

Wouldn't think he'd want to go to Newcastle anyway. Way off form this season already so he's probably best to stay at Lyon and ride out the bad patch.

Never mind all that, have you ever seen Michael Owen or Martin O'Neil? Heard they're sharing a flat in Winchester!!!

I think it's a joke name, then again I have a pythonesque sense of humour. Then again he has played for dutch outfits in the past so who knows.