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Well apparently it all depends on the severity of the tear (or rupture), how quickly the surgery to repair it takes place etc. Any more than a few days can inhibit recovery quite a bit apparently.NFL players seem to get quite a few of them and 4-6 months is the estimate to get them back up to scratch.

Wish I hadn't asked now............... I have seized on to the fact that it's a US sports term, probably particularly popular with FM afficionados...and probably also used car salesmen.

Although I believe that partaking of a sort of collective picnic (because I can't spell picnicking like that) in the car park (or should that be parking lot) (think it's called tailgating or something) is part of the event. By the by tailgate is what I think they call the rear door on hatchback cars, no innuendo please:scared:

I see that Van Gaal says very specifically that he needs a number 6, very precise that, not a gung ho box to box like Vidal or Gundogan, a holding midfielder just like Carrick..and Morgan. Doubt if Morgan would narrow it down so much if he didn't have at least some idea of where he stands just now. Pogba will go to Real or Barca, Gundogan may well go to the other one, No idea about Strootman although AS Rome are after Cabaye. PSG are waiting to see where they are with Motta I think and if they lose Cabaye they could be on the look-out for someone. Khedira to Juventus.

Well yes, perhaps not at his best on that occasion though, in fact he was pretty awful but it was a Dutch international side against France and there was no Robben. I'm sure that he's better than that now. On that occasion he just simply did not exist in midfield against the French man mountains.

I really don't think he had much choice in the matter really, he's never got a first team game for us I think and he's been here a while. Young for a keeper perhaps but certainly not a kiddy any more either.

I think we may well eventually sign him actually, depends on whether Atletico get a transfer embargo or not, the price however will be way,way above the pittance agreed last summer.

I think not, every summer it's the same story, a couple that might eventually make something of themselves with the club and 5,6 or 7 castaways, go back through the seasons and you'll see that I'm not wrong. As I say it's a percentage game and 25% is a bloody good percentage. I have no interest in those cast off to other clubs.

Sounds like a pretty standard recovery period (if there is such a thing) for a cruciate ligament injury when you have the best and brightest medical teams at your disposition. JRod took far far too long and I hope we've learnt from that.

There probably is none, just an extrapolation of the JRod situation I expect.

There's obviously some really good players and a lot of chaff, it's the way academies and formation centres work, you cast the net wide and see if you can catch a few big fish along with the tiddlers. Common knowledge, well in football circles anyway. It's a percentage game.

We often tout our young players as the next this and a future that. We are mostly wrong. If they've not made real inroads into the first team by the time they're 19 or 20 they're going to be Yeovil and Stevenage fodder. Can't even palm them off on Bournemouth now, them being a top team and all, still there's always Swindon.

Ah a good investment for the future then, got it now.

And moneyball means exactly? We've been invaded with yank speak again perhaps. Now me I still walk on pavements.

That's what we used to say to the kids when in fact we had no intention of complying with their demands for tree houses, mega Meccano sets and Electric scooters. After a couple of days they usually forgot about it anway. I think your friend is supposed to do the same.

well I hope you didn't get a taxpayer funded research grant for all that making up of bolloax. Psychology studies, along with golf course design and sports studies, should be consigned to the dustbin where they belong.

Ah I don't know, didn't he sell his other house last year? Was still here in September though.

79.55 million would be my estimate of our PL share. Don't know if we made much from the Cup TV funds this season. 20 or so million in match day revenues, total about 100 million. Transfer fund without player sales...a bit limited actually, maybe 20-25 million, owner handouts excepted of course.

Could have changed in these last few years I suppose, last time I heard anything about it the money was shared between the other Championship clubs. Don't see that it would have changed because it's part of the grand plan for filtering Sky money throughout the leagues.

Absolutely right, makes a bit of a windfall for the other 21 clubs. Especially as they shared out QPR's last season as well.

Think we'll definitely offload him this summer, expect to recover absolutely squat for him though, no-one is going to pay anything to sign Gaston from us, they know they're doing us a favour.

Norwich have a side with a lot of top flight experience, not sure that's the case with Boro. Makes a difference on the big occasions I expect.

Well and that yes, there were occasions however when they were onside and they still missed or lobbed the ball softly to Hart. Still I expect Graziano had been reading in the papers how he's going to move to AC Milan or Fiorentina this summer and believed it to be true. Hasn't worked out yet that papers make up crap about all and sundry to fill their columns.

Wasn"t all that spectacular really, side footed home from what about 8 yards, now if Pellè or long could do that we'd probably have won about 4-1.

I would...If they want a RB then they'll go for Trippier, local move and about a third of the price. What Liverpool need is a real DM and a striker, a real one who scores goals, no place for Clynes in their set up just nowl