alpine_saint

Yesterdays evening's butt-f**king by Augsburg, a mediocre Bundesliga team beaten by 'Boro at the weekend, has accellerated VVDs deaprture, imo. No money is being invested, so it 1 star player out, 1 or 2 mediocre players in. Lowe summer 2003 all over again...

down to Manolo, injury-prone Austin, and woeful Long. Reed has really turned into a latter-day Nero...

3 summers of asset stripping look lke they are finally coming home to roost

As everyone has said. If he knuckles down and delivers on the pitch, it will all soon be forgotten.

For me its now clear. Liverpool will meet our valuation and he goes, or he will stay. I guess he will be told he has to make a formal request as well to make it happen. Anything else and the club are a laughing stock.

9th. We are well behind the 2 Manchester, 2 Liverpool and 4 London clubs in the pecking order now. Perhaps 10th. We may not even be the best club on the South Coast any more.

This. Still think we are missing CB and DM depth. Bednarek is (not yet) a replacement for Fonte

Really wonder how much this time-wasting bullshine has f**cked up our on-field performance over the past year..

Shaping up to be our most ineffectual summer and biggest loss of position in the pecking order / food chain of English football since Markus bought the club. Really saddened by the reversal of fortunes. But WTF, we're a well-run club, arent we ?

Glad you wrote it. I dread to think of the reaction if I did. We are back in the deepest darkest days of Lowe. And the result will be the same.

We are SO in the driving seat here, clearly. He apparently only wants to go to Liverpool, and Liverpool cannot approach us. Unless Reed capitulates (in which case he should lose his job), he aint going for anything south of 70m, maybe 65m if another club steps in.

I also think he would have been a better choice.

New 5 year deal, straight back to the f**k ups. Knows we have no decent back-up so doesnt even have to try.

Are we making a genuine effort to improve first team quality at all this summer ? seasoms of standing still ( or goingbackwards) now...

Yep, my feeling too. The FA will have to reopen the file at our behest. With their previous, LFC will be in deep do-do. The only way I see this happening without pain for LFC is if Les is putting on a public act and will let him go if LFC come close to the asking price of 70m.

Anyone know where in Austria the squad are based ?

Cant see he would ever let us down in the effort department.

Well, they will have trouble keeping me away, unless its a closed doors affair

Why do you think Gallagher has signed a new, long contract ? As long as VVD stays, we might already be done....

I'm guessing this will be another Morgan/Wanyama situation. We say in public we wont sell him, but next summer hes gone.

I dont give a shiny one what the other teams are doing. I do give a shiny that we are doing sod all - yet again. We scraped top dog status on the South Coast by a GD 5 better than them last season. I am wondering if we have now abdicated that title.

Bmth : Ake, Defoe Saints : erm.......

My main concern too. He wil leave somewhen, we all know that. It needs to be at a timing of our choosing.

Reckon we dodged a bullet with De Boer. Spoke about spending lots of money. Wont last long.