Lallana's Left Peg

To be honest I'd be inclined to agree with you if I hadn't ensured I listened to his interviews back in May on Sky, BBC, and official club channels - he clearly spouts crap and can't be controlled.

'hoping'. This is the media charm offensive is it I just want to put on record that I am hoping to win EuroMillions this evening.

I believe it is possible she can pay herself a dividend from the profits of the club. However, I also think we wouldn't be aware of that until the Accounts for this season are logged which will be the season after next I think. The other indication will be how much we spend on players in the meantime. But I'm no Accountant

'Can you stop selling all of your players for huge fees please?' Such a request would leave the club lawyers running for the hills I am sure.

No-one knows yet, obviously.

Are we playing games too? What game is it when we sell at least 5, likely 7, first teamers and only manage to replace them with a few signings two and a half weeks before the start of the season? Is it the 'I messed up whoops lol' game? I want to believe we know what we're doing but there is no precedent set that this Board can deliver in a transfer window, much less when we lose 70% of our starting outfield players. I'd dearly love to be proved wrong though.

£7m on a Deeney doesn't put Burnley in a bad financial position whatsoever. They are lining up their targets and seeking to sell / buy as close to deals going the other way. I don't know why we find it so hard.

This could be a fun game - anyone would just be guessing though. Probably worth a new thread?

You know what, I could actually believe this.

Burnley seem to be taking the novel approach of refusing to sell until they have signed a replacement (they have been linked with Troy Deeney). In the meantime their approach to our bid since the start of the summer has seen us sell lots of our players and have (in theory) a massive transfer budget with further strengthens their position with respect to how desperate we are for the player and the money they know we have. A lesson for Les Reed? We can only hope he isn't too old to learn...

What will we do with the ~£80m per season we get from being in the Premier League then?

No-one can know with any uncertainty as it appears a player can wake up one morning and ask for a move and the club will give it to them.

Doubt we'll ever get much service out of these players but it's nice to know we've got money in the bank, I suppose.

Yep - loads of people did - just check out any Les Reed thread started before the sales and / or up to the sale of Luke Shaw.

Would be the best news since the takeover.

He never had any credibility in the first place. The very idea that some people a few months ago thought he was an appropriate candidate to be a DoF is laughable.

It does not bother me that a club holds an interest in Clyne, it does bother me that the club have the attitude that is any player wants to go they can. Who on earth runs a football club like that!?!

Wait, you mean selling players for big fees before you buy replacements leads to paying over the odds for average players who are nowhere near as good as every man and his dog know you are loaded? Wow - this is big news. Never saw this coming. Idiots.

You don't think it could be because our current Board are not fit for purpose? An owner who has no football experience, a hockey guy, a smalltime Austrian agent, and a DoF who's only other DoF role led to him being sacked after 4 months because of the awful job he did at Fulham.

It's possible but unlikely. I suspect the ease at which players are leaving rests a little with the lure of the clubs wanting them and a little with the absolute farce of a state of our football club. You can't do much about the former, but the latter is under our control and is ****ing annoying.

On the contrary, we're about to inevitably overpay for him in transfer fee and wages as we'll be that desperate due to our awesome strategy of selling everyone and buying no-one *slow claps the Board*

Pochettino to Spurs.

Never believed them in the first place. Guan is very helpful relaying what his source tells him but it soon emerged this summer when things didn't go to plan that something was a problem further up the chain and Guan's source may have known what the plans were but actually implementing them has gone to ****.

Was probably a decent attitude when you are one of the biggest clubs in the country. Not so much at Saints.