Window Cleaner

Yes, told you all that yesterday. Someone even found some You Tube footage of him getting sent off. He's really not a very good player and I'm surprised that we're even sniffing around players of that quality.

Well as usual we have collapsed to 148-8, another big loss on the horizon. Can't we be relegated now so as to get a bit of decent cricket for the last couple of months of the season. We don't have a first division side and it's embarrasing.

Now there's something I don't quite understand. Toby was supposed to be on about 5 Million euros a year at AM, translates to somewhere between 70 and 80K £ a week depending on rates of exchange. So we must have been paying him that mustn't we? Surely AM weren't subsiding the deal. So he was already on a very high salary which we must have expected to continue paying I suppose. We could have easily afforded the deal and knew the salary situation so going to Spurs culd only be a sporting decision for him really.

Good to see that it's not just UK papers that print absolute crap though. https://www.voetbalkrant.com/nl/nieuws/lees/2015-07-07/akkoord-over-alderweireld-wij-hebben-met-niemand-een-overeenkomst

Doubt if we'd be Top 8 with a defence like that though so it's really nothing to be concerned about. We'll just have to wait and see. Hopefully we'll have at least something strong enough to get us through our EU play-off games at the end of the month.

There's a gif doing the rounds in which Morgan's,LVP's and Woodward's heads have been substituted from the Rachel,Ross and Phoebe airport episode at the end of Friends. Worth a look if you've not yet seen it.

But then you may well find that what we actually do or have done is completely different from what we say we may or may not do. Saints like to appear user friendly and the ultimate good guys but it's best not to take everything that's said by the club officials as gospel. As I said yesterday I'm quite amazed that everybody seems to be desperate to believe all that's said by SFC. It's football, second only to politics in the application of the Machiavellian ideal. "Sometimes words must serve to veil the truith but excuses should be at hand in case the truth is ever discovered" Not the veritable quote of course but that's the gist of it, comes from "The Prince".

Well it's Summer Transfer Window so there's always a certain amount of BS attached to that. Some days I do not follow the debate being gainfully employed esewhere so I was actually quite interested to know the facts, you may well be in the same boat..

Did the club go public on that or was it just a press interpretation of some other comment?

Tbh those who pay any attention to whatever professional footballers may or may not say are usually rapidly disillusioned. They go from being "over the moon" to "sick as a parrot" in nanoseconds.

I am absolutely amazed at the number of people who seem to know the minute details of this famous contract. If it was so watertight then we should own the player by now having paid 8 million euros for him (not even 6.8 million£, it's a bit over about 5 and a half at recent rates). If we had had a contract like that then we should have smply transferred the sum involved to AM's bank and then claimed our right btro the player. It's all smoke and mirrors I expect, we've been strung along once again. Not worried myself, we'll get someone else.

A more assured future perhaps. Not to start any great sillyness here but I am not really impressed with our transfer window so far, we seem to have had some big targets and bought some pretty average looking cheapies. Plenty of time yet but really I doubt that our next season is as assured as Tottenham's so far. On the other hand perhaps Shani just fancied Hertfordshire more.

Once again..exactly why wouldn't we have had 11 million £ available or obtainable ? I keep hearing that we may have no money for transfers before sales but no-one every seems to be willing to have a stab at why that would be.

A club like AM can find 2 million € down the back of a sofa. Not having it is not an option, not wanting to give it to us is.

Well perhaps they didn't overly appreciate all the rumours about "legal action" and shares of the profit eh. We appeared knobbish so they may well have given us a bit of tit for tat. If we wanted the player it was simple, ask for the price and pay it. Just as we seem to expect every other club to do for one of our players. Nemesis at her very best.

Amazing what people down pubs are willing to say, perhaps it's a case of in vino veritas.

Mess up ...probably not, Legal right....We didn't pay them 8 million euros so we didn't have any. You never, ever own anything at all until you've paid for it. We may have "owned" a right to buy though.

Obviously need a new bad boy then

Although at this moment getting any Morgan money is by no means certain. We want a lot and nobody seems to be overly keen on giving it to us

French press are linking us to Mario Lemina from Marseille, DM I think don't watch them so I couldn't tell you much about him. Probably cheap as chips though.

It depends on how much we're prepared to spend. A really good Toby class CB will cost us a fair sum unless there's someone towards the end of his contract that all the "big clubs" don't know about.

Absolutely, Spurs defence was their weak point last season, too many silly goals conceded. It doesn't make any difference if you have 30 CBs on your books if they don't do the job. Toby and Vertonghen will (or should that be would) be a solid pairing for them and I'd expect a lot of the silly goals to be wiped out. For 16 million € Toby is, what is known in popular parlance,a no-brainer.

That is entirely possible but most were clinging on to a soundbite saying that he wanted to stay with us. Footballers are notorious for throw away comments such as that and yet fans cling to them like tablets of fire cast down from some sacred mount or other.

Perhaps not, surely we must have some money for squad improvement without selling all of our better players again. Or did we give it all to Osvaldo ? Anyway we'll be wiser when we see if he goes to Austria or not, don't think Schweinsteiger is interested in MU any more though.