Window Cleaner

Absolutely. Although more Tadic than Bertrand in my view.

doesn't he know that medicals are done at the Uni ?

in fact decidedly better. Like Reid, really solid. Don't know that he'd be cheap though, how much were Spurs offering, quite a bit I think.

He's about 8ft tall though, unusual for most wingers. Now stats say that for every tackle he attempts he commits a foul. Really don't see that he'd bring us anything whatsoever, except of course no Osvaldo..which has it's merits.

Steve Davis my guess, unless of course Koeman doesn't plan on using him much.

Well yes we should, haven't really thought on comparative out/in salarial mass but I'm sure that it would be heavily weighted in the club's favour at this point in time. I just can't imagine that Pelle and Tadic will be drawing as much as Lambert and Lallana. Lovren is still to be replaced, Chambers..well he wouldn't have been on vast sums and Bertrand might well outweigh what we were paying Shaw. Osvaldo will take a dead weight off of the bill and we won't pay any Inter reservist anywhere near as much. That said i'd be pretty sure that Koeman gets more than Mauricio because he was apparently one of the lowest paid managers in the Pl (on basic anyway). If I had to have a stab at a figure on a numbers basis I'd guess at around 5 million/annum saving just now for the club. But it's a fag packet guess.

Which is probably why they loan him out a lot, not for us really..not in any way. What happened to Taider...didn't fancy it ?

people need to stop imagining that the money will all be spent on new transfer fees, no-one has actually said that now have they. The general terms "transfer fees and salaries" (sorry don't like the word wages, makes me imagine a line of blokes of a friday queuing up at a factory for a small brown envelope) could easily mean those past,present or future.

It is indeed, Bertrand is a decent player, to be honest Targett is just an unknown quality right now. If Koeman had thought that he could take the lion's share of the LB work this season then we wouldn't have signed Bertrand. I suppose some of the apparent deception could be put down to the fact that some really appear to have thought that we could actually sign Rojo...we can't and we won't. However Chelsea..that's another thing. PSG and Valencia favourites though;

So then according to The Times (and nothing more in this instance) Tottenham will make an improved bid of around 22 million soon for Morgan alone. If or when that happens we shall see what we shall see. Still don't see him being part of the Saints set up on 2nd September myself. Of course he'll take a lot of flak, perhaps he doesn't mind though.

Don't Kenya have another game this week-end ?

that was when Scottish football was worth something though.

Young English talent...it's Reed FFS, you all know very well that he's obsessed with the England set-up.

Also orthographically incorrect GLACES (les being used only for plural words)

Not bad, don't mind Bertrand.

Been watching Feyenoord-Besiktas.. strange system the Dutch use, out to the right or left and when they don't progress back to the keeper and start again. No-one good enough for us in the 45 minutes I've seen, early season perhpas who knows. Anyway Besiktas are 1 nil up. Oh and it looks like they might be missing Pelle as well.

Why would they not then. Celtic players playing for Celtic...makes sense really.

Depends if they're any good really PL wise of course. Surely if they were we'd have used them a bit more by now. Who would you rather have Gnabry or Isgrove. One will go far, so will the other but not in the same sense.

even scored in their 5-1 drubbing of Nice it seems.

Gnabry looking promising though, Vlaar not so much, just going by press declarations of course. Still we all know what the counterbalance of getting Gnabry on loan will be don't we.

ah but there's the rub, he wasn't denied a visa, he had to wait 10 days and then it was too late.

Well no, but surely we had a budget for that.

took the safe key with him did he, seems like they can put it in but not take it out. Bit like the old night safe system that banks used to have really. Old metal trap door that traders shoved bags of cash in at the end of trading and after bank closing hours. Ah for the old days, never even got robbed either.

But wouldn't we get financement on that ? It's not something you pay on the nail from one season's income surely.

Kolo was looking round at St Etienne the other day apparently, don't know exactly when.