Window Cleaner

Debt free is relative in football...we should know that

Errr..................... that's it

Need to get this Eckersley fella out sharpish before he takes them into tomorrow and it will probably get rained off.

got the job at Leeds apparently, not sure that he's lost anything much in going from Reading to Leeds. Still be in the NPC next season, better fans too...well more of them and more vocal at least.

It's the same problem as everywhere else. International managers are always afraid that players from smaller clubs won't fit in with the overpaid snouts already in the trough. It's far better to rely on Emile Heskey or Jermaine Defoe cos they've been there and done that in their way of thinking.

an Eterna Kontiki Gentleman's Chronograph ? Only about £1500 I think. Now Mauricio has a far more refined £3000 model.

Buttner was a complex affair apparently, Nicola is a bit particular over to whom he gives money.

Kompany,Touré Aguero at least,probably a few others cos we're a bit chauvinistic.

of course it isn't unachievable, wouldn't the 27 points that we've lost from winning positions so far this season not put us in the top 4 today? bearing in mind that it would not only add points to our total but take points away from others. Obviously it's going to happen to all from time to time but if we'd only dropped say 15 from winning positions we'd be knocking on the door of the top 4 today. So Norwich,Swansea,Arsenal,Wigan and perhaps a cheeky Utd or City wins instead of losses or draws and it's all we need......in theory. :rolleyes:

WTF is this, giving out squad information in advance, you've got to keep the opposition guessing, have you learnt nothing from 2 and a half years of NA's pre-match interviews.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

they're not cheap

Gaston was a 'top flight" signing, perhaps JRod as well; Yoshida looks perfectly comfortable in the top flight now. Trouble is English football in general and the PL in particulier are very different from other leagues. The pace, the physicality and the intensity just don't get mastered in a day. Read the interviews by our foreign lads, they all say the same sort of thing, "you've got to put your foot in otherwise they'll think you're pussy and you'll get bullied" "it's hard to last 90 minutes at this intensity"etc etc etc. No matter who we sign if they're not used to PL football they'll take a while to adapt. If they have the class and maitrise to do just that it won't take too long. Personally I don't think having a manager and coaches without PL experience would have helped much either.

please not lallana, Boruc,Rickie,Morgan,Gaston and JRod

perhaps we could try Forren at LB and if he's that sh*t hoick him off and put Fox on.

4.5 millions € gross in 2011/12 but took a big pay-cut this season because of his injury record. Only on 1.5 millions gross this season apparently, no doubt there are some bonuses though. As per usual for the francophones, look forward to the oft hilarious automatic translations. http://www.foot01.com/foot-europeen/italie/flamini-prolonge-a-milan-mais-baisse-son-salaire,90468

West Ham are the type of bunch of duffers Gaston just might take apart. Hope to see him start for his usual 65 minutes on Saturday.

probably because he had some sort of deluded illusion about keeping them up. Probably didn't count on them losing their first 2 games under his tenancy. Poyet turned them down, others probably did as well, Adkins fancied the job.

they hear what they want to hear I guess. Did you not follow all the bolloaks overheard by Long Shot at the bookies at Doncaster? They make up crap and spread it generously.

still he's right about Adkins and Reading though, shouldn't have given him the job, guess they're preparing for the NPC already.

people who know people, students etc.

who knows, they may need to get a point to stay up and we'll be on the beach already.

so they've bought Pompey on the never never

It's football nowadays, if you have ambition and yer man ain't getting the job done you get someone else. Cortese was apparently concerned about Adkins knowledge (or lack of ) the upper spheres of football. It's all in an interview Morgan gave to L'Equipe or one of it's reporters at the end of last month. Not going to put it up here in case some of the contents don't please but he's pretty straightforward when replying about some things. Morgan has become a bit of a media darling in France since he's become the Number 1 rated Frenchy in the PL (on stats...they like stats) and there are a lot of interviews kicking around. Think he's even got his own programme on tele this coming Sunday...L'Equipe de Dimanche.

exactly; The Liebherrs are way way way in the background nowadays, not sure that they actually own anything anymore. Everything's been consolidated and liquidated and what's left is run by Cortese and a Swiss administration lawyer. Suspect the Liebherrs got all the money and Cortese got everything else.

err I got it from a Flemish newspaper around the time of Adkins sacking.