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Not many groups of DMs have scored more goals than ours this season, 9 PL goals in total I think it is.

Looked to be fit enough in the build up video.

What summer shake up would that be then, have we voted on whether we want another summer shake up or not? They do write some crap do the Mirror.

Pity about the acronym though. Is that done on purpose ?

Is Steven Davis a star player ? Doubtful in the extreme.

Another drubbing then. Any positives that we can take from it ?

Barca junkies I expect, they seem to think that all the world is interested in their type of football..

Elia could be just simply burnt out, he's been playing for a long time even though he's only 28, started as a pro at 17 I think. Don't think he's ever done much outside of Dutch football and he's a player who's never scored shedloads of goals. Depends what we're looking for really I suppose.

Utd were pîss poor last season, Moyes fault or so I'm told.

Stubborn batting from Smith and McManus this morning after Tomlinson and Ervine were out witout overtroubling the scorer. Doubt if we'll make it to the close though, 2 sessions and 70 odd overs are too much to hope for. Top order went too cheaply for that to happen.

But look at last year, they replaced Evra with Shaw, Evra's had a good season at Juve I think, Shaw has has his usual sick note troubled twelvemonth. They were mad to let Evra go really.

There are even 2 of them, as there were yesterday.

Especially one that doesn't defend particularly well, might be alright for a 3-5-2 system I suppose.

Must be too easy to register I'd guess. Make everyone pay and have done with it, no £5 no posting.

So the article on the OS saying that he was back from his successful loan spell with Wednesday was just a throw away Pope is a Catholic line then ?

Is that a Dutch Nun ?

I'm not sure that it sends out a message to other players, anyone nearing the end of their contract will have a new one on offer if they're of interest to the club. A player who's been out for over a year signing a new deal won't mean very much to any of them really. If they're not interested in whatever we're offering they'll either ride out their existing contract and leave or move on if a suitable buyer can be found. The club have done a very correct thing with JRod but it might well have been different if he'd been playing football these past 14 months.

We didn't have a huge surplus last summer at all, about 85 million in and about 70 million out...we were also supposed to spend all of the money on transfers and salaries. Toby will be costing us a fortune because he was on of 80K a week at Madrid. We've bought more players than we sold as well so I'd be surprised enough if the wage bill hasn't gone up a fair bit as Krueger said it has. Koeman will cost more that Mauricio (who was poorly paid by all accounts). It all adds up and we had debts to boot. There is no kitty from last summer. This summer's aquisitions will have to be funded by the difference in revenues over costs (perhaps about 20 million) and sales. We'll be getting 80 million or so from the PL wheras we got 76 million last season so the difference isn't all that great.

But you need to stop confusing PL goals and Cup goals. Jack Cork has scored 3 goals that count this season (ie in the PL) 2 for us (so we got the benefit) and 1 for Swansea. All of the rest just don't matter, if indeed there are any, Victor has scored 3 goals as well, some of them more important, because one of Jack's well it was a tap in when Sunderland were already a lot down. You don't just need to look at goals scored, you need to look at value of goals, a penalty in the 88th minute when you're already 3 up has nowhere near the value of a goal in a 1-0 cliffhanger.

If you say so, it's your money.

Caught in the slips today ? Not sure caught by an opener and they often field in the slips. Disastrous 19/3, down to Dawson and Smith now...or wind and wuthering.

Very laudable if that was the case, still he had a year left and I couldn't really see him going anywhere else this summer.

Personally I've nothing against letting Cork go but not in January where the possibilities of getting good replacement are lessened. To me we sacrificed quality for a measly 3 million £ in the short term. Depends why we need the 3 million I suppose, if it was to pay for Elia and Djuricic (who I think isn't a bad player) then the decision was questionable.

I think we need to be talking PL goals only here, the rest count for nothing much. Tadic has scored 4 league goals I think. Morgan and Victor 7 Tadic,Davis and JWP 5