sadoldgit

Do you really think that CL level players will not actually move to CL level clubs eventually? Tell you what. Go off and support Everton or Stoke or whichever club you currently have a thing for and see what it is like supporting them for a few seasons. Then report back and tell us all how you got on.

The trouble is though that most clubs are looking for bargains. And how do you know if you have bought a successful bargain at the time? Many players you pick up on the cheap don't make it.

For contributing very little you can read learning and improving your craft. We talk about giving academy players more Premiership game time. Unless you are unusually gifted it takes most players a while to reach their full potential and to do that you need time on the pitch in the 1st team.

Every club buys players that for one reason or another just don't settle at the club but go on to have decent careers elsewhere. You can do all the due diligence you want but until the player starts playing for you that is when you know it will work or not. There used to be a time when the furthest a player had uprooted himself to play for us was Scotland. We have players from all over the world now including Japan!

marmite

In which case that is a good thing isn't it? It means they wont get poached by any of the top 4 clubs What about Vic? Hasn't he been linked to Arsenal though?

Serious question. Do you think any of our players are any good?

Raindrop

Teardrop

Mane is a top class player.

ditto!

We are also on the cusp of European football.

Can we also have a category of live within our means but also spend some dosh?

Good luck with that wish Norm!

As we all know, all clubs are selling clubs when the money is right. Unless we find someone who is prepared to bankroll us totally we need to pay our way. I would rather that than we became another Chelsea or Man City.

Portsmouth midfield trio?

coffindrop

backdoor

Now that is something worth thinking about!

I am not putting my fingers in my ears (would make no difference as I use my eyes to read not my ears). I do not dismiss the use of open intel (although feel free to twist my words). If the authorities knew who was going to carry out the attacks in Paris, where and when, how come they didn't stop it? There is a massive difference between information being picked up and information being broadcast.

I am sure information comes in all forms. That is why if you want to run a successful operation it is not ideal to start yakking about it where the security forces can pick it up. I am not saying it doesn't happen because the recent case shows that it does. Hence a failed plot.

I am sure GCHQ are carrying out sophisticated monitoring and I am sure that there are more sophisticated terrorists out there than the moronic couple from Reading. That has been my point all along.

Flying in the face of popular opinion? So I am wrong in thinking that we are not at risk from the majority of Muslims in this country? What other information do I not understand that the rest of the world does?

Its not the value I am worried about though it is just the concept of betting on your own team to get relegated!

Which is probably a fair reflection given that we did slip down the table after a bright start.