Window Cleaner

Stoke are creeping up though,

Why exactly. His control is awful. I can't believe that were pinning our hopes on skills like that.

wiziwig as usual I expect. I go for the firstevents one.

He's not dead,lost in the jungle or terminally ill, he's suffered the same injury as many footballers and other sportspeople before him. #tott

Not really surprised about Boruc, totally absent from any of the build up imagery.

Gaston in instead of Jay, otherwise same as last week.

With all their new additions...not that they've made a great deal of difference so far.

But why would Begovic, probably one of the best keepers in the PL, sign for a club who are barely above the one he's currently playing for. He'll have his pick of clubs, he'll go to one who are playing European football. Everton I expect, Howard is getting on a bit now.

But it isn't so we needn't worry about it.

Neil..... you know, Harvest, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash and Young etc.

Against basically anything that isn't English.

do you actually have 500 million £ ? If so lend us a tenner .

But that's exactly what he is saying, new contract for MP, new players to take us forward or I'm off.

So you're saying that the US told them where to look then? Now why wouldn't that surprise me, especially as they suddenly moved the search zone about 500 km north. Although I don't like to conpiracise there is nothing those bastards don't know and very little that they'll admit to knowing. Nothing has changed I remember my days as a civilian advisor at S.H.A.P.E, they needed to know everything about everything then and still seem to want to now.

There are a lot of things they (meaning the board) have to do and then we'll see. How is that not controversial from a senior player? It is an ultimatum not a friendly word in the suggestions box.

I think it's a fairly controversial interview for a player to give actually. Perhaps he's been misrepresented by the Echo, who knows. Seems like he knows he has nothng to lose, either he helps his manager get a better deal and a better squad or he's out of here anyway. Do our players usually give interviews to the Echo ?

He wants to move forward, think non-selection for the WC when there are lesser players in his role has dealt him an awful blow. There is no way garbage like Guilavogui or Mavuba should be in the French side ahead of him, if it's down to being in Deschamps line of sight then he's obviously determined to correct that. Also I fear that some of our players might be concerned about our squad depth, to see yourself slipping down the table because you have to play with junk like Jos and Gazza might displease more than one.

Obviously gave himself a bonus for getting a good manager for a poor salary.

Salary is an issue, no-one likes to feel underpaid for the task they're doing and by all accounts MP is one of the least paid managers in the PL.

Once again he's not started all of the games. If you look at the list (which I suspect is false anyway) most of the players have started 31,32,33 games and been subbed very little.Given that these CMs run 12k or so a game minimum just missing one start knocks you back a bit. I'm sure that the individual game figures are available on Statzone or something and there you'll see who actually runs most in games played.

He won't stay with us next season for 20K a week, he's a professional guy though and will do his job whilst he's here and that means preparing for next season.

I suspect that they're hoping to maintain the status quo and milk it for all it's worth for the time being.

No other job for him elsewhere ? Where do you get that from then. There are plenty of other jobs for bright football managers, some that you might not even suspect. I don't buy into the Van Gaal is a done deal thingy, he's 63 this summer and has been off of the club circuit for a while, bit of a dinosaur. When I saw his dutch side against France they were lamentably poor, it certainly wasn't a game plan that would get him anywhere in the PL. Wasn't there an article in the Telegraph this week hhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/10749775/Mauricio-Pochettino-and-Louis-van-Gaal-on-Spurs-wish-list-as-Tim-Sherwood-prepares-to-go.html

Which is quite obvious really. As I've said many times players want to be all they can be and that means playing at the highest standards which they believe reachable to them. When Cortese went I said that it would cause some consternation among the top players because they want European football and Cortese seems to have promised it to them or at least led them to believe that it was our immediate goal. Morgan turned down a move to Sociedad last season because he believed that he would get European football with Saints in the forseeable future. That decision probably cost him a place at the WC. Then in January he almost went to Arsenal but we were supposedly asking for too much and there was neither time or a structure in place to haggle, that was his last chance of a WC place this summer. So now he's come out and said it, with or without the club's consent I suspect that if they're prepared to invest in "the dream" he and other top players will be willing to stay, if not it's sayonara, or in his case àdieu..........

Who cares, Cardiff FC is just a circus.