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V different players. Lamberts link up play with somebody like felliani sat behind him making runs would be interesting.

Just to be pedantic academy grads may not always be British but you'r point still stands, we have set out ambitious goals.

On some time scale of course but I dont exactly see us going mad. Good scouting, long term purchases, charging top money for any player who goes out the door, getting the best out of players with good coaching, bringing in external talent to swell the academy such as our plans for recruitment in Africa ... Im not naive enough to think that buying ready made quality is cheap but I do believe that there are other options to supplement an effective transfer strategy. Of course I could be a pessimist and doubt that we could achieve much of that but where would be the fun? I may as well go and hold alpine's hand and shout out just how doomed we are and how life is essentially pointless

I'd throw in Forren and some of our academy grads, no telling how good they might be yet. A few of these really step up and it's starts looking more realistic.

I sense you're not entirely serious here ... hmmm

Ah but he might hang around if we're prepared to bring in quality through the academy and from elsehwere when necessary. The whole half a squad of class academy grads is optimistic for sure but not desperately unfeasbale that we'd move towards this level while supplementing the squad with the ocassioanal bit of quality from here there and everywhere.

I'd throw in that we could certainly produce some players capable of being in top six squads, how many and if they could be more then squad players is of course anyones guess. Either way I understand why Laudrup would say what he says and without doubt investment in the playing squad is a must for any rapid progression to be seen at Swansea or Soton.

Lambert has never been particularly mobile but his link up play is getting better, imo, even if he's asked to do a lot in our tactical set up. Could he do a job for england? Maybe, if he's fit. Only way anybody will ever know is if he gets a chance. Besides the lack of numbers in the squad if hes fit I cant see any harm in him going to brazil sunday!

Err what have you been watching this year? Ramirez's set pieces have been a nightmare, in fact they got him subbed off once im quite sure! Lallana's have been ok, he's not beckham but has set up a few decent chances and is often the best available option on the pitch.

Can passion coaching not be done alongside playing? I advocate giving him a large stick to motivate those players not showing enough passion!

Nope but i'd take Shawcross instead, think he'd make more difference.

Screw the kit I just want us to be sponsered by bimbo! Makes me smile on the Philadelphia kit

The gospel that is twitter ... in all probablity we will sell him on and accrington cant really afford him ... besides if he did go to there id fancy he'd hit more then easter would in the championship

I'l bet otherwise but entitled to that opinion. Sharp is a more proven player and is likely to go a club creating/scoring more as a team then millwall.

Absolutely shocking stuff! These kind of people should never be allowed near football clubs, best of luck for the future!

He was cracking on football manager From what I understand he was hyped as a future star for Argentina and had the bigger clubs, including Arsenal, circling however this year he's had off the field issues and has been a poor season for him so his mob may want to cash in. Might be a deal to be done but im personally more excited by the prospect of wanayama.

Thats why we're all glad your chief troll around here and not running a football club. But you're right, its chaos. Cortese has started a small fire in the dressing room to prove a point and Poch has accidently been learning Norwegian. I'd take half a pack of hobnobs for Shaw before his value is truly tainted!

We will trade them Stoke and half of either of the merseyside clubs, their pick.

It as staggering the difference in price, cant even be justified by the product half the time, I hear this "Bundesliga" aint half bad y'know I'd glady pay for some extra merch and a £200 season ticket and plenty of others would if they were available, the actual sums of would it be worthwhile are what it comes down to I suppose but, should we expand, I'd like to think we'd be looking at including safe standing and hopefully the football fans groups campaigning for limited prices on tickets will gain some momentum!

Fair point, if he came to us and had a couple of good seasons and a bigger club came in he may not want to stick around. The personality of a player is something our club is big on so I'd hope we'd only go for him if we thought he would want to be involved as a part of the club and would not disrupt team morale.

I actually think his wage demands may not be beyond us. Surely we could have some sort of performance related conditions to boost it up so that, should be be a roaring success, he's reward and, if not, we dont take such a hit? While we may not face massive competition for him. As a rule of thumb english players rarely consider moves abroad so that leaves premiership. I dont see many teams who would/can compete with us with the exception of Liverpool, who I think already have players with similar attributes (Borini, Sturridge), and possibly Spurs though AVB has eyes on the european market if rumours are the be believed. Swansea may make a bid to bring him back, should the fans welcome it, and the new managers at everton or stoke may have some money but I'd fancy the fee would be a significant sum out of eithers kitty. Surely there is a deal to be done should the lad be keen to play football in an attractive side moving in the right direction?

I think most things would mean prices go up, seems inevitable. Even if we went down I would not be surprised to see prices remain at the same level. Though I think significantly more seats would neccesitate, at least in the short term, a drop in prices to attract new fans. Once they're hooked up go the prices, many football fans resent absurd pricing but care about their team too much to stop turning up altogether

Im all for it but not sure how practical it would be in our stadium to make such changes. If, at some point down the line, we are looking at the expansion question and safe standing has been shown to work elsewhere it'd be fantastic to incorporate it. Hopefully it would also offer some sort of reduced pricing though im sceptical

Pulis did a good job, without question. But Stoke did not play attractive football, whether he himself could've changed that or a new man was in fact needed is questionable.

I do think goalkeeping has a lot to do with confidence perhaps more then any other position with a keeper assured of his decisions will have more conviction and inspire trust in the defence. Just for an example Bialkowski has had a pretty decent season at notts county, a good few clean sheets and has been well recieved I believe. Gazzaniga will hopefully go out on loan and progress, looks to have enough potential, and by heck aint he half tall!