Window Cleaner

Changing his agent to the ultra knob Barnett got Mauricio out of the door pretty quickly though didn't it. A good agent can persuade the buying club to up their bid, don't know what they offer in exchange but it must be something. Look at the wrangle with Wanyama last season....

I'm not sure that players can't be represented by family members who aren't agents though. Did AOC have an agent other than his dad? I'm not at all sure what the rules are nowadays. Think you've got to be licensed to tout for business but family representation is still allowed for individuals.

Who is his agent then ?

Isn't Lallana represented by his Dad or some other close family member? If he had a high powered, knobbish agent he'd probably be gone by now.

Less those relating to last summer's games in Austria, he was a happy bunny then.

Pahars was finished as a footballer,East European injury treatment in his young days had got the better of him. Whether he went for some paid vacation in Greece or Cyprus or just retired was of little import. Lambert might have a couple of useful seasons as a sub left in him.

Not from last season really. Pre-season confirmed 21st June and the kit can't really be released until the new sponsor's contract becomes active, 1st July. these are non-issues, can't see why anyone would want to make them so.

Indeed, far too much vitriol being poured on players who've done well for us for a considerable time. I must admit that I did warn you all that this was likely to happen if (probably should have been when) we failed to move to the next level as planned. The writing was on the wall when Cortese resigned, we had a plan, it wasn't fulfilled, these are the consequences.

You can tell it's from Liverpool because of the cheap crystal bic pen...only in chav land would they use that.

Ibrahimovitch cost PSG a packet, 20 million euros, think he was only 31 at the time though.

At Lyon the football wasn't bad, got too involved in the CL for their limited ressources though, Puel seemed to have a fixation on the CL, think he got to a couple of semis with them; They had good players signed for not astronomic fees like Lisandro Lopez and Michel Bastos, seemed to like flair players, then again i think they signed them instead of Benzema and Remy after they were sold off, that's Aulas for you he just cannot resist a bit of profit for home-grown players.

unsurprising, they don't need him, they in fact have better players in his role, Erikssen and Lamela (if MP can get something out of the latter that is). Personally I can't see what any top 4 side want with Lallana, there is better for less.

Yes he does, Charlene told my girl that he helped her with her English homework.

No we weren't, we were 14/1, remember mentioning it in some context, 400/1 to win the PL and only 14/1 to go down. 8th favourite to win the league 12th (ie 20- favourite to go down. That's halved now I think.

I like Puel, he was on my short list last week with Poyet and Rosler, plus our daughters are on friendly terms, might even get to be ITK about things at SMS if he were manager, won't be though, we'll probably get the Dutch hack, probably speaks German. NB You're right I hate Lyon, same as every Ligerien and Alti-Ligerien in the cosmos. Aulas is a knob though, you'll have to give me that at least.

So we only got 65 million in TV rights ? They could at least do their homework correctly.

He doesn't lead, he tells other people how to lead. You know like a Uni prof, tells you how it is and then gets hit by a bus crossing the road because he's dreamed up some nobel prize theory.

Not great for what's supposed to be one of the finest minds around on organisation and planning is it. Whereas Cortese, village idiot if you listen to some, he had a new guy lined up the day he wanted to sack the old guy.

Just a motivational speaker on a fairly small committee, has his book been published in English ?, surely if not we're being deprived of the chance to bung him 250 dollars in the same way as francophones and germanophones.

What international reputation would that be then, he's a bloody ice hockey coach and motivational speaker, this is football and he's no reputation as a top executive as far as I'm aware. If anyone wants to track down and put up his CV that wouldn't be such a bad idea. Has he managed a blue chip company, a multimillion £ (or dollar) company as anything other than head coach ? doubt it.

What's happening ? It's fairly straightforward, non-football people have discovered a big bag of lovely sweeties that they can sell to to big kids and replace with less lovely sweeties costing less. Boy scouts jumble sale approach.

Never mind, he'll soon discover girls.

Would be a good call really. His biggest problem is that he doesn't take bullsh*t from anyone, We'd have to give Reed the shove before you'd get Puel in the door.

Perhaps the player is forcing our hand, but we're in control of him doing that right ?

But we were in control of them doing that, right ? And the manager elect said it would be OK, they don't know who it is, but he said it would be Ok, unless of course it's Woy and the players ask him themselves.