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.......will be some consolation for the bed- wetters on here then ...

agree with that one Colin ...I think Jos passes muster but (sadly) althoiugh he has skill.... Fonte's lack of pace is frightening to me.

If one thing has come out of all this - it's that the club isn't afraid to look further afield in order to get good young talent, which can be coached. I don't think we'll ever be in the class to buy established Van Persies and Berbatovs type of player,..but signing a Zambian who was playing in Switzerland, a Japanese who's club was in Holland ....and whilst we are still waiting ....for a Uruguayan from an Italian club - it's shows a genuine worldwide visionary perspective.

it takes time .....and often no-one realises it . A lot of patience is required, and keeping things on the boil. We first bid (as I understand it)... .for Billy Sharp last summer (2011), and we all know about the sad personal circumstances that prevented it, but it took 6 months more to land him. ..and Tadanari Lee was on a visit in the Autumn (apparently) ..a photo with NA was shown somewhere, Of course.. we can't sign most players until the "next window" comes, but expressing interest, agreeing fees / salaries ...and then keeping it quiet so that we aren't gazumped must be quite a job...

I thought they only signed goalkeepers....(same as West Ham who only sign strikers ....)

Thx. Colin... I stand corrected ....so who is their "proper" captain, then?

......and now it'll be sushi and sukiyaki on the half time menu .....

yes, and now we have the captain of the Japanese national side ...what sort of interest ....and shirt sales will that generate?

No silly ..it's Skacel at last.

One interesting question ( I asked myself) - without getting any concrete answer is : WHO has the authority to do the negotiations, agree deals, and literally sign players ? OK ...we know that " Super Nicola " is top man, but he isn't omnipresent .... Of course he could be jetting it between Bologna ....and Geneva to finalise the Mayuka deal......BUT who is taking care of the details in Yoshida deal in Holland ? ....and presumably the one / two CB that we are (hopefully) signing maybe from the UK..and I can't believe that we haven't got a new keeper lined up from " somewhere " - so who does the stuff? Pretty sure that Nigel doesn't get involved in that side of things, but does Les Reed ?.....or do we have a team of nameless / faceless lawyers carrying reams of contracts around going from one deal to another... interesting but ...I still wonder... If NC is literally involved in everything, then he 's certainly clocking up a lot of traveller points on his airline....

quite right Danish, don't bother unless it's something intelligible, or intelligent ...

Any level of international football is better than U21 football or L1. It's only the better international players who are in the Prem. anyway.... ......as for your comparison of KD and Gazza ..we'll have to " agree to disagree " on that one...

I think I could go and live another life....at least for the next 24 hours. ... They will come out late tonight ....announcing a press conference tomorrow afternoon.... so we can see the new player(s) all at the same time ...

Great !.....now there's confidence for you...but .get ready for the abuse coming at you Nick.

I thought the same, SSN says that it will be a stroll in the park for MU. Our entire team cost only slightly more than they paid for Robin van Persie...(!)

..are you sure you want to go on record with that statement Glasgow, or ...?

........the odd match .......that's all it's likely to be, too.....

...you mean they are another side likely to go down ..?

if I was paying out £11 million to employ someone, I'd want a more thorough medical check than just ...." taking his pulse, cough, say Ahhhh.." on second thoughts....If I was spending £11 million, I'd visit a psychiatrist first... to see if I was sane !

plus an X-ray... if they can't find his brain....

if so... is it real pounds , or some of that funny EU stuff that the Greeks burn up so quickly...?

or alternatively......" talk or behaviour that is annoying, or lacking in respect " Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary. (which, in some ways , describes perfectly some of the chat on this site from time to time..) - although perhaps not in this case.

and I'm not a " KD hater ", either..but I've been saying the same thing since BEFORE Bart went to Notts County. I've gotta lotta' flak from some names on this site, because they said (a) it would upset KD.....or .....b) we bought Gazza as a number 2. Firstly ... good talent though he maybe...Gazza is nowhere near a Premiership debut (!).....and whether KD gets upset ..suspended ....or injured....we have no realistic options. We need someone with more experience than keeping goal for an L1 side, or playing in our U21s. Any long-term absence from KD and we're truly in the s***e. ....and ringing around on a Monday trying to organise a loan keeper would be a farce. Anyone worth his beans would already be playing for someone else. In case some people haven't noticed, almost half of the other Prem. sides have at least TWO goalies with some degree of international experience. We have none.

if you check the wording, you'll see that it's the same story going round and round the other sites, newspapers and twitter...ings.

yes, typical " Big Sam " approach...ended up buying everyone we didn't want.....we got the best (and cheapest) deal with Billy Sharp.