shurlock

Sounds like an upgrade on Davis if anything.

Excellent - have signed up. Looking forward to it.

Lets just hope he does all this better than Jos then

In Ramirez's case,he was already jumping the gun blabbing to the itai media before he got to England and said anything on the OS.

Don't deny what he said about money but he also mentioned that we believed in him and were going to build a team around him. Call that fluff or what you will but for a young player, coming to a new country and league, that's a reassuring and powerful message.

The holy goalie in goal, a war criminal at CB - a toast to assembling a nasty, uncompromising back four.

So you're as much of a helmet as the media that loves to trot that line out? What he said was slightly more subtle than that. But heigh ho, don't want to get in front of you and an agenda.

Without opening a jurisprudential can of worms, no rule or procedure covers every possible scenario. That's life and why discretion is unavoidable. The unfortunate thing is that the first port of call in matters like this tends to be the lowest rungs of the organisation, manned by jobsworths who have neither the power nor the incentives nor the intelligence to deal creatively with situations they've never encountered before. But if you're not getting a machine, it's true of most organisations.

Spot on - either way, hope it gets sorted.

Hope you get it sorted out. Hopefully just another case where some jobsworth has blindly applied the letter of the law without understanding it's spirit.

And it didn't feel that way when Jack Cork came back?

Or Tristan even.

No quotes or anything from satisfied fans (customers)?

Is this a rehash of your 'talk the talk, walk the walk' baiting from a few seasons back. Must try harder.

Eh? Didn't stop us signing Jrod for example who was photographed with a saints scarf under some sw anky oak tree. You genuinely think the desire to photograph a new signing in the new shirt would override or delay a complex, multi-million pound transaction?

More of a little c**t than a thug, i guess.

Looks like a gun shot wound - blood seeping through it. Or the taffies are colour-blind.

In net terms, only Chelsea and Man City have spent cumulatively more than £200m since 2006. http://www.talksport.co.uk/magazine/features/130323/premier-league-net-spend-figures-club-revealed-2006-when-arsenal-moved-s-194227?p=18

A slightly negative take -ergo it must be true. Just needed to arry to say it for it to be a cast-iron truth.

Skrtel was garbage against us and is coming off a very poor season. Seems to have lost a yard of pace. Not saying that he won't bounce back but £12m would be an almighty gamble.

Will get a ps4 when it comes out - price drops take too long and are too gradual to justify waiting. For any other technology, I'd wait it out. Look forward to sampling CoD ghosts and BF4 early on in next gen.

We've hardly sold anyone - the majority of the players we bought in L1 are still on the books.

Even if people would prefer to win the FA cup, its difficult to claim its a bigger achievement in terms of difficulty/challenge.

Still, it gave rise to the "Matteo in the San Siro" chant, an all time classic. Know Leeds fans who wouldn't swap that night for anything in football.

Close one but would go for 4th. Couldn't care less about the financial benefits - just think it would be a bigger f**k you to the football establishment. Would love to see it try and spin the plucky underdogs line to downplay our achievement.