Lighthouse

I didn't wear my seatbelt driving to work today. I wasn't involved in a car accident which proves I was right not to wear it. My point is, just because something works out for the best eventually it doesn't mean it was the correct decision. There were so many things wrong with that deal which you can't ignore just because the sun is shining and all is rosy today. 1. We paid about £1.2m for him when we were bankrupt. Had things worked out differently the following summer that money could have been the difference between being liquidated and surviving a few more months to be taken over. 2. If we were indeed going to spend that much money a French teenager was completely the wrong choice. Schneiderlin was hopeless in his first season here. Spending that money on a reliable CB or proven goal scorer would probably have kept us up, before the -10 points. We would still have gone down but would have started League 1 on 0 instead of -10, which would have put off a lot of potential buyers planing on an immediate return to the Championship. 3. After we went into admin we were selling any player of any value to try and stay afloat for a few more months. Surman and DMG were pretty much our most valuable assets by then. If Morgan hadn't been so bad that season, we'd have sold him too. Probably for half what we paid. In the end everything worked out fine but there was a lot more luck than judgement involved. It was a ridiculous transfer from Lowe and part of his daft 'total football' experiment.

31 year old Pigclimber, 25 y/o Morgan, 25 y/o Darmian, 20 y/o Sterling. If anything it's comparable to them spending £30m on Shaw but I agree that much for Sterling is just mental.

To answer my own question, JWP.

What a sh*te team that was. Still strange to think of him lining up along side Michael Svensson. Think he also played in a preseason friendly with Jo Tessem. In terms of our longest serving players now, after Davis and Fonte... Yoshida?

Don't want him back. He made his choice to go and sit on the bench at Arsenal, if he doesn't like it he can p*ss off to someone like Norwich or Villa.

Depends how good Juanmi is. If he is decent it could be him, Tadic and Mané in behind J Rod.

Fair enough, I'll just get a kellkeeper shirt with Kevin Gazzinger's name on it.

Going to get Sané printed on the back of my shirt.

Thunderstorm kicking off now in Salzburg.

A poor parry from Stek.

F**king shoot!

Did he just call the goal keeper 'the kell keeper'?

Looks even better in real life IMO. Wasn't sure about the shade of green but when I saw it in the Megastore the other day it looked awesome.

He has said it several times. He seems to call him Sané, Mané and Wanyama in some sort of rotating system.

Athletico Villa This guy is off his nut on something.

Zannigga... seriously?

He can't even pronounce 'Europe'.

How do you know we aren't?

I think solidly around midtable but lower than last season. It's someone else's turn to over perform now, we've been at it for 2 years.

I went with: Courtois - Hennessey Clyne - Jagielka - Fonte - Toby - Ward (I know, 3 reasons I deserve a good slap ) Hazard - Mané - Coutinho - Puncheon - Mulumbu Lukaku - J Rod - Costa Sure there will be about 8 changes before the first match day.

Still at least they reinvested the money well, just like us. (I can't be arsed digging out pictures of Soldado, Lamela, Postiga, Rebrov, etc. etc.)

Who is/was pluto anyway? And Shance for that matter.

I actually think you do have some valid points but that bit in bold... You've clearly not been on here before. After P**tsmouth Liverpool are probably the least popular club on here (and probably a few other message boards). I've not really got anything against Spurs personally. I mean, if Poch and Toby are available you'd be a mug not to take them. You are right though, we have no right being p*ssed at the Bale settlement, as frustrating as it is with hindsight we needed the money up front to stave off administration. Getting Forecast though was inexcusable, a 5 year contract for that waste of space... I still have nightmares. We can't have any complaints about Toby either although again, it's frustrating. Without wanting to sound like Sour grapes though, don't think he's gone there because you are a 'bigger club'. He is there for the money and would p*ss off to Man Utd or Chelsea at the drop of a hat next summer if they came in with an offer. Same as 99% of players out there.

When most of us change job it's so we can move out of a crappy flat on a council estate, replace our knackered 10 year old car, take our kids on a ski trip instead of a caravan in Dorset etc. etc. I get your point but Saints would pay a decent player more money than I could spend in a lifetime. We would probably have offered Toby something like £60kpw, which would add up to something around £20m (after tax) by the time he retires. Wanting more than that does smack a little bit of greed.

Whatever they say, it's all about money and the CL. If history was important then Liverpool would be signing all of Man City's top players. Do you think City are worried about Aguero being snapped up by Forest, Wolves or Leeds?