Sour Mash

Anyone sticking with this? Think it's excellent personally, albeit a little slow moving. And that Lena is a right sort!

So should be harder for them. He really hasn't played that much football in the last year. It's no excuse.

He had something like a 6 week break between his last game for us and his first this summer for Uruguay. He didn't start playing for us last season til late September and has missed plenty of football for both us and Uruguay. Look at how much football some of the spanish players play? Or people like Ashley Cole or Frank Lampard over the last few years.

Exactly. I rate the bloke, but hate some of the ridiculous over-the-top excuses some make for him.

What are you on about? No he hasn't.

That is a shocking result. Take it JWP didn't run the midfield and keep possession?

No, it must be the fact that the players around him aren't of high enough quality/on the same wavelength.

I'm guessing he means travel and hotel. Tickets will be pay on the day , no-more than £10.

When exactly did Celtic give us a footballing lesson?

Ramirez seemed to agree terms very quickly. The delay was with Penarol/Bologna.

I didn't think NC used the media for transfer dealings?

If I thought I could negotiate another 10% or 20% on my wages I would, as would most normal people. No reason to think footballers would be any different.

To be directly involved in what might be the biggest discussions of his career? Also a modern day football contract is far more complex than just an agreed weekly wage - release clauses, bonus payments, agents fees, there would be loads of stuff to negotiate and agree.

Would expect Ramirez to play as they'll rest a lot of their side that played against Nigeria.

I think you're missing my point. The '£10k a week' was just an.example. Point being his wage demands can't go up indefinitely.

I'm not sure how much of our 'bloated squad' are going to be leaving. My point is at some point Saints would have to draw the line at what we think his correct wage should be - you can't continue to negotiate upwards indefinitely. For what it's worth I still think he'll sign.

The agent may well have known the figures discussed, but that's unlikely to stop him getting every last £ he can in the contract for his client.

Even if we've got £17m to spend on a striker?

We might not have spent ages competing with other teams on fees. If we're already offering him big wages and he's turning it down we'd have to draw the line at some point. An extra 10k a week on a 4 year contract would cost us over £2m.

Not really, as that's not what happened with the Ramirez deal.

He probably will be.

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Good shout.

2nd half definitely been an improvement to be fair.