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You need to tell that to the manager, it is he who doesn't pick the player not us.

Probably nowhere near 16 million initially though, perhaps 10 or 11 with the usual add ons. What we do know is that Lallana+Lambert+Lovren+Shaw+Chambers =82 miilion or so, put in the values to make up the sum.

Isn't their owner desperately trying to sell them ? Probably needs to minimise debt to make them an attractive buy. They did buy quite a few players but I think they have some injuries and others that they bought were pretty mediocre. Few frenchmen IIRC, now French players look good in their league but when the fall into the comparison of really decent players they are often severely lacking in any useful attribute.

Well I expect we pay Gaston less when he doesn't play. Koeman has no time for him either so that makes it a handy jobby all round.

Well he's not going to get a whole lot better if he never plays though is he, unless he's like Chaplow..now him, the more he didn't play the better he got...until he actually played that is.

Neither of them are doing a very good job just now. For me the Dutch football manager type philosophy just isn't right for the PL.

Yep, so what's wrong with Clasie then or has his mum sent in a note that he's not allowed to play with the big kids..

I'll have to take your word for that then, we need better creative midfielders and we'll probably be a lot better.

Oh come on, without the 4 or 5 good saves from Gazza their keeper doing well wouldn't have mattered.

Good goalkeeping from both sides, not a bad match for the neutral (or Palace fan who likes a good game).

looks pretty windy..

Gazza wasn't all that bad when he played last season, probably better than Davis anyway. Of course that's not to say he won't make howlers as per usual.

Perhaps there have been sanctions for excesses at the Christmas Party or something.

Free Crack for everyone then :uhoh:

5 at the back to compensate for the shîte keeper then ??

what's up with Clasie again then ?

Norwich are an awful side, shouldn't be allowed to take the PL's money with a side as bad as that. Personally I can see the start of Leicester's inevitable decline starting today, Chelsea will eventually click and someone will get atomised.

Who on earth would be interested in Eastleigh vs Bolton really. Unknown non-leaguers against nearly bankrupt has beens, no interest in that at all.

You've misunderstood. The total players salary mass increase is limited to a certain amount of TV revenues, if you increase commercial revenues you can bung on as much of it as you like I think. So if you get a new shirt sponsor deal for 5 million a year whereas the precedent one was only 1 million a year you can add £8 million to your wage bill and so on. This is why getting a shirt sponsor who'll pay serious money is kinda important. It's not a massive influx really but it changes a lot.

Anyway if comes from Bordeaux and it ain't in a bottle it's probably not worth worrying about.

Wanyama? We'll get a bit more than we paid for him but probably not a lot, unless of course he strops his way through the rest of the season and becomes a distinct liability.. Unless there are more rules changes in the offing clubs are going to be scrambling for the few HG talents available and have very little non-HG space on their rosters.

If that's what we're planning on moving to the next level with in a few years time we need to abandon all hope. It's just pure junk. Saints U18s now 3 down after less than 20 minutes. Birmingham look so much more robust and efficient (except their keeper, he looks about as crap as ours).

Well that'll be another Cup game lost then. Sh*t keeper.

Well yes, provided that they don't peg it 12 months later apparently leaving no clear instructions as to the follow up.

Well it actually says LvG has spent 260 million but the point is the same. We must have spent almost half of that sum since Pochettino left I think so the point isn't particulary valid. At the end of the day what you need to do well in the PL is a couple of prolific strikers and someone to supply them, the rest isn't particularly important because it's about the same throughout the league. Chelsea are the golden example of this, Costa and Hazard aren't scoring and Fabregas isn't setting them up, the rest of their side is roughly identical to that that took the PL by storm last year.