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I shall do that thanks, hopefully we can ease up a bit on the Dutch and Eredivisie strains a bit, don't rate any of them overmuch.

Can't think that he'll have anything much different to say really. No Toby, still hopeful of CL qualification and that'll be about it.

Strangely enough Busquets is just about to extend his contract at Barca up until 2019, apparently he has a buy out clause of ...wait for it...150 million euros. Still not sure that Barca can recruit anyone before January 2016 so it makes sense to not make it easy for any current regular to leave them.

Gignac is currently on 4.2 million €s a year, these things are less secret squirrel in France, so about 70K£ a week or so, we'd need to pay him far more than 50K a week, won't sign for us anyway and we'd not be the losers in that.

Nevertheless, in the 15 months or so before he got injured in the Utd game he's apparently participated in 57 games without counting club friendlies.

We shall just have to wait and see. Seems to be taking a long time though, trouble with these lads is that over the last 12 months they've played and trained for too much football. Think it's a pretty regular occurence in WC affected seasons.

If Toby is fit..... we shall no doubt find that out tomorrow.

Because basically after taking 1 point from 3 home games one point from this sort of game is of little use to us, we've played our last joker against middling teams now we need to win.

Didn't spot Toby participating in the leap frog this morning. Probably means nothing though.

Barcelona can't sign anyone until when exactly ?

Also sounds like a generous helping of bolloaks. Pogba wants to go to Real anyway.

Well I could certainly do with a bit less of the wellying forward from our keeper/Cbs.

Did we ever see those for the year to June 2013 ? Don't remember them at all, probably just missed the 865 page discussion of them though. Next set of accounts will only be up to June 2014 anyway, before most of last summer's horse trading.

Even then it would depend on how many clubs he'd played for this UEFA season, I mean Ben Arfa is out of contract but he can't play anywhere in Europe because he's played for Newcastle U21s and Hull already.

How come, we still got a big round zero points from the game.

Well he probably didn't, until Sadio was late for lunch that is. Ridiculous decision, there must have been another way. Sadio was down at the shop the other day, signing crap and meeting the folks, he gave up his time for that and yet we couldn't even cut him a bit of slack and play him when we needed to, crazy man thinking.

We certainly can't obtain one on loan, if we could find an out of contract player capable of scoring in the PL (yeah right) then if we have space in our 25 man list it would I think be possible.

WC knows this because the never wrong KBilly told him (and the rest of you) so.

But on the subject of penalties the PL refereeing corps have to get their ducks in a row, Kane got a point saving penalty for a "foul" that Friend would have waved away. Atkinson could have sent off a shedload of Burnley players and didn't, another ref would have had a red card bonanza. In Europe the rules are uniformly applied, an offence is an offence according to the rules of the game and sanction follows, refs do no interpret the rules as they see them. This is why Mourinho et al keep moaning, the rules as they stand are not being applied uniformly.

You just have to get over this 1970s theory that if you get the ball anything goes, he took out everything in his line of motion and it was a penalty according to the rules of the game today.

Perhaps he didn't fancy what was for lunch eh, when it's tripes and stuff in the canteen I give it a miss as well. Thje game was at a strange time, some players just don't want to eat before games, it should be a personal decision as it was before.

Doped by all the fabulous top corner free kicks that are being scored no doubt.

José scythed down Sterling I think it was, didn't give that, think they had a pretty decent handball shout turned down as well. Friend didn't give any penalties, could have though but it wasn't all one way traffic.

We did get what we deserved, when you can't score(because you've not got an alternative striker even though you sold players for 90 odd million last summer) then you can only blame yourselves. Pellè isn't that good, we got what we paid for, an 8 million £ Dutch league goleador and we wasted 12 milion on Long. We had the money we could have got better. Then again it's just my opinion. I too was hacked off by yesterday's showing all huff and puff and no end product.