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So to sum up then. We risk next season having mediocre players wearing crap kit. Never mind parking is free and Matty gets to spout off at the Annual Awards Evening.

Les Reed was obviously telling what he believed to be the truth. Whether he knows everything that comes to pass at SMS is another question. Can't see him really being in the circle of confidence with the owner and her acolytes, he's just something they inherited with the furniture. I could well be totally misguided though but I see there being an inner circle of KL RK and HH and everyone else is outside of it.

I feel that we could definitely do a wee bit better with a really potent striker to play in tandem with JRod, on occasions our men have been far too wasteful for a really top side. Still think if we had a Suarez or Aguero we'd have made top 6. The number of times Mauricio has remarked on it tends to back up my view. Trouble is we'd need to find one at base level because not being in Europe denies us the possibility of signing such a player at the summit of his art.

End of next season IIRC

What kept us up last season was beating Chelsea,Liverpool and Citeh at home, no-one can say definitely whether Mauricio's pressing football was responsable for that but it's highly likely. Without those 3 wins we were down.

you'll get hate mail for that don'tcha know. Out of his depth totally in elevated spheres but some think he was a cracking bloke and that made up for everything. Couldn't even make the CC play-offs with a relegated PL side. Even Arry managed that and so did Rosler..

No your logic is erroneous, it would just show that you still remember your ex fondly but that if someone new comes along you wouldn't mind ditching the current for her whilst not reconciling with the ex either. On the other hand it might just mean that you've only got 2 ties and the other one was in the wash. I still wear my OT's tie on occasions, doesn't mean I shall be sitting at a desk in Highfield come next monday.

I think we do need the money justly. The cost of the club to the owner must now be approaching it's market value. To plough in more cash for transfers without any significant transfer income might well push us close to negative equity so to speak. As far as I can see the ML family have ploughed in about 60 million £, on top of that the club owe(or are liable in the near future)for about the same. So if KL were to raid her handbag again for another 30 million or so this summer the fulcrum point would be near. It's true were getting a load of cash from the PL this year but I suspect much of that has been earmarked to reduce debt.

According to PL rules they can go through at any time after midnight on the last day of the season.

Why would Cortese be involved ? Really it's getting ridiculous all this speculation about him. The manager may leave because he seems to be concerned about 'the project' (which means expenditure on new players.). It's sod all to do with Cortese who is no doubt chilling out somewhere in Switzerland (or Italy). Seems to me that we're all trying to blame any tardiness or indecision of the present "board" onto someone who probably doesn't give a toss what's going on in SO14.

The first Transfer Window in any year shall commence at midnight on the last day of the Season and shall end on 31st August next if a Working Day or, if not, on the first Working Day thereafter, at a time to be determined by the Board. The PL has it's own rules, don't know how they get on with the FA over registrations though.

pity he didn't get predators right though.

But the club do comment on press speculation to the extent that Reed put in an appearance before a pre-match presser and it would seem to me that Krueger never misses a chance to comment on everything and anything of late. Now Cortese, he didn't comment, unless it was to gather ST holders together for dinners and give them updates from time to time.

And yet when we had even less information last year no-one thought it particularly damaging, that said most of us just assumed that Nicola would tell clubs to f*ck right off anyway or just bin the faxes. Talking of information at what stage did we announce the pre-season tour last year, can't remember at all.

Probably, it is also a party (like our FN) that attracts people who see their lives being diminished in some way by the EU in particular and mass immigration in general. The FN is running at 20%+ in France, several major towns are now controlled by their local branches after the last round of municipal elections. Unemployment is over 4 million, people haven't had pay rises for years, about a third of the population are on minimum wage and receive a meagre 7/9 ths of that due to savage social charges. They blame it, rightly or wrongly on the EEC because in their sometimes uneducated view the EEC has taken all major control from the government who just re-arrange the deckchairs on the resultant Titanic.

It's not particularly surprising, bloke was alwqays wavinbg theaxe over underachievers. Remember commenting it on it at the time, said it was highly probable because the results were bad and we were sinking like a lead fish.

Still when you've a team that's getting paid nigh on a million a week you don't want too many of them dying of pneumonia and hypothermia now do you.:rolleyes:

Title winning ???? The dutch championship is a 2 horse race, the managers of Ajax and PSV have each a 50% chance of winning the title. Crap league peopled by mainly crap players or decent players waiting to get noticed for transfers to real clubs. Do not forget De Ridder was a star in the Eredivisie.

Buttner was playing for Chelsea Reserves....Vitesse Arnhem.

Morgan's agent is Thomas Cooper Sports. Napoli are bidding for Gonalons a far inferior performer from Lyon, less hassle, Aulas can never refuse an offer he sees as rentable.

I really can't say, if the new manager can get something out of Lamela,Soldado etc they could be very well placed....if they can find some defenders..hopefully not ours.

Cabaye or Mavuba, both half crocked already.

Well that will only be if one of the 23 has to drop out, however he does get to go to the first training camp (from about Monday until 28th May) and that's a significant step forward for him from completely being ignored despite some fine performances over 2 seasons. Still there a couple of fragile marys in the 23 so it's possible he could just get a reprieve.

Definitely not in their 30 then, neither is that other red herring that we're always supposed to be signing.

It's all just made up bollax probably. If Mauricio had signed on the club would announce it, if deals have been agreed for players their agents would be trumpeting it to the press. No-one who's saying owt knows anything.