Window Cleaner

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.

Probably just another happy clap fest. He's probably holding out for some serious squad improvement, certainly if there are outgoings. Managers do do this, Remi Garde has just quit on Lyon because he was just fed up with having to try to make silk purses out of sows ears. That's a club who sell anything that's saleable and try to fill the gaps with their "academy".

I think it's got something to do with the dogs dinner that masquerades as their defence. Lloris has formally complained to the Chairman about it apparently. Other than that he had to make the CL, we all know that if you don't at Tottenham you get sacked.

Mauricio has come in again these last few daysin the betting whilst De Boer has gone out.

Yes he is, won't cost anywhere near 37 million £ though. 7 million perhaps. He's a brick crapper like Wanyama.

This is because I am now conditioned to French football economics where the DCNG has the power to relegate you if you don't get the columns in your in/out ledger balanced correctly. They let clubs go to the wall like Le Mans, plenty have been hit with recruitment bans, fines. If you want great facilities you have to be able to ppay for them and as I don't really believe that our owner is in fact a billionaire then I see problems up ahead.

Band of Shysters.....they should all be locked up now, instead they're all out there doing it all over again. If you or I ran a business and didn't pay our VAT we'd be in sh*t street, PFC not so much, probably because some idiot in a government department considers ongoing football on Portsea Island to be therapeutic for the mentally and socially challenged. We've one in France like that,Justice Minister, doesn't agree with locking up criminals, it's more therapeutic for them to be allowed to roam the streets and start offending all over again.

In fact what they might consider doing is putting Fergie out to grass, he's had his time with his band of players but now they need to turn the page on him and all that went with him. Appointing Giggs and Neville etc to get under the new manager's feet was just a Fergie control mechanism as was appointing a Scot from a very similar background. They need a new broom, a new bucket and new dusters.

Not good enough and an abrasive character. Not really worth a place in a group of 23 blokes living together for 5 or 6 weeks.

Even then you can't compete unless you can get the best raw material in the first place. We produce wing backs, we've still to produce a viable top flight CB or keeper, or striker or CM. In fact of our best XI (I rate Clyne over Chambers) only Lallana and Shaw are academy products, all the rest are bought in. Our academy system works on occasions but we produce more players for Swindon,Brentford and Yeovil than we do for our first team. I'm really sorry but from what I've seen of Gallagher he won't make a PL striker in a thousand years, now the kiddy from Utd the other day, 2 chances 2 goals, that's a top flight youngster.