Window Cleaner

For whom ? Us perhaps...Toby..probably less so.

Which is now today, hope it's an easy wicket with short boundaries because our bowling is getting lambasted, Essex 61 without loss from 6 Strewth, we are getting massacred, 112 now from 10 overs and 4 balls, still no wicket down. Mind you when Will Smith opens the bowling you'd kinda expect that.

We had a crop of exceptional players who Pochettino made the most of with his style of play. Soon they'll be all gone and we'll revert to the unleaded as far as summer window exoduses go. Not that we won't still be a decent side but it won't be full of players who can still step up a notch.

at a guess those that were injured for the end of last season and the younger fringe elements.

I have relayed your grievances to the local prefect, no doubt you'll be hearing from them in due course.

Just been himself I expect....

Depends who else they buy really, Milner will certainly help them in terms of ball possession I think and Kovacic is a DM AFIK. They still have to sign him though. Take away Gerrard and you're looking a a completely different side.

But he's probably pretty good, in the Dutch league, on FM15. If he's so great then there'll be plenty of suitors for him of which we may be one..

someone mentioned 20% yesterday....whether that's factual or not I couldn't say.

We'll see, don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen though. RK wants Clasie and Reed will become the same also ran spare wheel that he was last season I expect.

Well perhaps they didn't want to be harbingers of relatively bad news at that time, perhaps Clyne was leading them up the garden path as well. Then again it could be down to how one interpreted whatever it was that they were saying. Neither is particularly direct on most occasions...or so I find.

Especially Fridays in Ramadan.

Excellent summing up, anyway we're what ? 14 days away from our first pre-season game so we'll soon have some sort of idea as to where we are team wise just now.

Well as he said he'd only leave for a CL club and has a preference for the PL how many candidates does that actually leave ? 4 I make it, 2 are interested and two don't seem to be because a DM is not a priority to them. As for bids, well that's old hat and not the way it's done any more. Clubs enquire and get told a figure, after that there are discussions and a figure is settled upon. 22/23 will be the price and Utd are the most likely destination, Koeman wants other players..probably more Dutchmen and isn't particulary adverse to MS leaving.

Probably because there's always a fading star or two to be had at a knock down price or a young Frenchman desperate for far more money than any Ligue 1 club can pay.

Why ever not, that's what the French have done and you see what peaceful, law, abiding, non-troublemaking citizens they all are, why they're so fine that the Army hangs about on street corners to see if there are any good citizenship tips they can pick up.

Not really in Lyon, more towards Grenoble I think. Anyway it's being put down as a terrorist attack for the time being. France is overrun with militant islamists and the government is too weak to do anything about it.

So the gee up rumour may have worked well again then...............Feel sorry for all the mugs who've lost money on it again.

Give it up Eljero, the transfer committee have said no and that's it. Persuade your German club to let you leave for free and they'll reconsider...bye.

Being prepared is one thing but with 6 million signed on at Pole Emploi opportunity is something else. There is no work for a lot of French people in France so paperless migrants have no chance whatsoever. Still I expect they're clued up on the generous benefits which create the no work situation in the first place. A job in France costs the employer twice the amount the worker actually receives, and tax isn't at source here, it's all social charges to give to scroungers, tax on top later. Whereas benefits are tax free. the French just want rid of these people and the chaos they're causing.

Was it not rumoured that Koeman wanted to buy him for whatever the asking price was but the TC turned him down because they didn't think he was worth the price? Left the door open to a move at a far lower (or non-existant) sum though.

Apparently Toby got married last Friday...did we know that ? Wonder if any of our other lads went to the ceremony.

Absolutely, neither Lambert or Chambers are really top 4 club material. Lallana will play a lot next season I think, can't see why he wouldn't, last summer was very tiring for WC players and an awful lot of them had dips in form and on and off injuries, it happens after every WC cup summer even if they're not in the searing heat of Brazil for 6 weeks or so.

Perhaps, I do not much concern myself with Liverpool, they are a giant club with a record of titles, cups and CL wins (well just the one but about 5 European Champion's Cups I think). Any player would feel honoured to be part of that set up I think.