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I see that Ballack is going to sue Kevin Prince Boateng (they're on opposite sides in an upcoming WC group game) over Saturday's injury because he says Boateng did it on purpose to put him out of the World Cup. I could well believe it tbh.

Nearly 3 months after we went into admin and Lowe departed? Drew was sold by the administrators...to keep the club plugging along whilst Pinnacle tarted about and 99.5% of Saints fans drooled over them. Only the very enlightened saw through it (that would be FF and WC then). But I guess you knew all that and are being what is oft called "ironic" on this forum (although most of the time it's just sarcasm).

And do you think he'd be content with just being "cover" for 2 players younger than he ? Plus he'll be far too expensive for us. I can see him coming back under one circumstance..either Lallana or morgan leaving. Anyway it's up to AP isn't it, whether he likes Surmans style of play who knows.

We should get Morgan to have a word with Marvin Esor who is in his group at Toulon. Really hot prospect although Arles -Avignon have just got promotion to Ligue 1 at the first attempt after coming up from the semi-pros to ligue 2 last season. Must pay peanuts at Arles so he might fancy a bit of "real football'

I'm not, 'bout time someone wielded the heavy axe on dead wood and permanently injured players.

Although I haven't yet had the time to read all 8 pages of this thread I can't see what the fuss is about. Lawrie and MLT thought AP should stay and said so in the press, NC thought the same so he agrees with them. Can't really see that there's much room for a lot of excitement about that so why did he go on about it. In fact if I were to draw any conclusion from the statement it would be that Markus has told them to cut it out and banged their heads together, AP and NC that is

But how much more do we need to spend (and commit)to be able to beat Brentford,Exeter and Tranmere? That is the question, do we need another 2 million thrown at the problem or 100K or 15 million? NC and ML aren't going to throw money at the problem endlessly. I am really astonished that so few of you realise this. We have better players already than every other side in our division.We shouldn't need to sign any more players, what we have should be easily enough, if they aren't then there's a problem with our existing recruitment an tthat comes down to AP. Most said we needed cover in CM other than Wotton,James and Gilett, but we bought another striker and 2 central defenders.

Big Ron wasn't all that big, well not by Crouchian or Kollerian standards that it. Sure he was just 6ft but he could jump and hang there in a sort of suspended state.

Didier Deschamps has taken Marseille to the French Championship this year but he doesn't buy the players. He recommends certainly but the club president and the general manager take it from there. Deschamps coaches what he has, as do the vast majority of continental "entraineurs" .They do not recruit, they make up the overall game plan and then leave it to the others. I bet Guardiola doesn't hire and fire, he works with what the President gives him.

Hence the proviso "unless the manager is detrimental to their collective ability" (or whatever I wrote)

I have gone for indifferent( because I am) If the players are good enough it doesn't matter who the manager is. A football manager used to remain in the shadows (none of us ever discussed the abilities of Ted Bates) Only the players count unless of course the manager is detrimental to their collective ability. AP has done an OK job, others could have done easily as well,I really don't give a rat's arse if he is here next season or no. AP is not the Messiah, he's had a shedload of cash and has produced a reasonable result with it.If we had given the same means to say Danny Wilson or Kenny Jackett we would probably have done better.

In fact the BBC article on the same subject is far more lucid. Brighton made him an offer (which in theory he agreed to) but the player then chose to wait for Saints who Brighton cannot compete with. Apparently he missed their last 3 matches with a hip injury and Poyet is peeved because they took a chance on an injured player who then chose to wait for us.

not according to mehball...why do people bother to bullsh*t all of the time. Is there rehab for the seemingly constant necessity to make stuff up to proove one's own importance?

The expenses include teams travel arrangements (maximum 2 nights hotel etc) plus I suppose the cost of hiring the Stadium (this is a Football League competition so i guess they have to pay) I saw on Carlisle's site that they expected a 500K "windfall" guess we got about the same, except that we won and had to pay win bonuses

No we received 45% of the gate receipts after all expenses had been paid, it's not the same thing at all. Perhaps about 450/500 K£

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so in fact for a meagre 260K£ paid over 2 years we were able to con Stoke out of about 1.3 million £ for a player who everyone knew was a permanent injury crisis. I think Davies has managed about 10 or 15 games since we sold him, most of them on loan oop North. Very smart work by Mr Lowe if you ask me,especially as we saved a lot of money on his wages as well, seeing as how he was never fit to play..

guess they figure that they might as well make a bit of money from mugs. I remember all the betting info when Burley left and then again when Gorman and Dodd got the push, local bookies must have minted it on all the money that got put on Coleman, Davies and Uncle Tom Cobley,why some bloke who eventually got the Iceland National job was about 6/1 favourite. sorry Finland

It was certainly the cause of my 10 days in Martinique.

what better than Barbara Castle, the breathalyser queen?

wasn't it a broken leg and/or ankle last time?

cos the Echo said so...oh wait up; see what you mean.

Although the miracle of turning wine into water can be seen in any pub bog any day of the week.

Ostlund ?? complete rubbish, a lot of huff and puff and kissing the badge (which seems to please many amongst us) but nowhere near good enough for SFC. Always injured so played about 50 games in 3 years.Saw us coming, or his agent did.

So if he's out does than mean that Bridger can get a call up?