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Considering the level he played and managed at I wouldnt say he was a ****e judge of players. Every manaager hs their own idea of what they want and what they dont want. Lets see what happens shall we?

The "latest" was that "we" were waiting for a new manager to be appointed before any decisions were to be made. He is now so you would imagine that decsions will be made soon. They may hav already been offered new contracts and are busy seeing if their agents can find them better deals for all we know.

I think it is more a question of does Ronald Koeman want to keep them to be fair.

I dont recall them saying that no one would be sold. Just that it had to be right for the club. If they are now saying that Lovren will not be sold (unless we get a massive amount of cash and lets face it, everyone is for sale at the right price) there is no reason to believe it is "smoke and mirrors." I assume you are still in mourning over the departure of Cortese (his choice)? If you have no faith in the new board, what do you think about the myth he put about that he used to tear up offers for players in front of them and put them in the bin. It later transpired (from him) that other Chairmen respected him so much they never made written offers for our players. There was the occasional phone enquiry but that was it. Bit hard to rip up a phone enquiry in fron of a player for effect isnt it? Why not give the new lot a chance? There are still players to come in and we could end up with a stronger squad. You are just making pointless assumptions to fit your agenda at the moment and are in danger of becoming another Alpine

I see they are on the road again on a pension boosting tour. Cant blame them but things haven't really been the same since Moon and Entwhistle passed away. If they want to go out and call themselves Daltrey and Townshend so be it, but The Who it ain't any longer. Hope I retire before I get old doesnt have the same ring though does it?

Did anyone at the club actually say that we would take no less than £40m for Shaw?

If our players were leaving for Newcastle, Aston Villa, Stoke, West Ham etc I could understand the bed wetters' point of view. The fact that they have left for top flight clubs makes it a little easier to swallow.

There are very few clubs who have quality in every position and also as back up. Chelsea were weak up front last season. Man Utd weak all over the park. Liverpool were not strong at the back. Aresenal were short of firepower. Unless they go to Real Madrid or Barcelona they are going to have to tolerate some weaker links.

Have I missed something? Does that mean Davis, Yoshida and others are refusing to play now?

This seems to be some kind of footballing Spinal Tap. I was truly gutted when word first started spreading that Lallana wanted out but if the claims about his behaviour are true (and this ad would certainly indicate that he now sees himself as some kind of footballing God - no doubt fuelled by how he cured the leper children in Brazil just by being with them) then good riddance. No one is bigger than the club and we are better off without him and his over inflated ego.

Matt himself said that he scuffed the shot at the end. Not the cleanish finish but brilliant none the less.

Replacements for Schneiderlen and Lovren? (sorry, should have included the tennis hotties)

The situation was very different under Lowe, not least the lack of cash that we have now. Relax. The Board have known about likely sales for some time now and I am sure they have replacements lined up. I dont think someone like Koeman would be here if there wasnt going to be a decent squad to work with.

We have been linked with a number of left backs. I'll give it a wild shot and say either one of those.

Do you know what is going on behind the scenes? How do you know deals hadnt been set up already? How often do you see a quality player moving to a club before his replacement moves out? We are not doing everything wrong. We are doing business. Is there any sign of the price of our prospective targets being hiked up? If you recal Reed said we have been looking at potential arrivals for some time now and you would expect that to cover what we think they are worth. If the price suddenly jumps up what do you think we would do? Yes, try and negotiate them down or move on. We got a brilliant price for Shaw and a not too shabby price for Lallana - hardly the action of a bunch of muppets.

Not sure about flavour but I do remember a gf with ginger pubes and they use to dislodge very easily. Apart from getting caught in the back of my throat they caused great embarrassment some time later when my mother was sorting out the black faux leather sofa and all of these ginger pubes appeared down the back of the cushions.

I agree. Cant believe that he hasnt been on the phone to Les Reed etc dealing with transfer matters before today.

Only 3 players have left so far. It is not unreasonable to think we might struggle after we know who the replacements are. Beforehand seems to be a little previous wouldnt you say? To continually talk about the negatives and then track down some other clubs fan who shares the same view and post that as well is getting a little wearing when the new manager has barely warmed his seat and we still dont know who is coming in to the club.

You know that as a fact do you given that every post I have read from him has a negative slant? I am not embarrassing myself. I am fed up with certain people assuming (or maybe even hoping) that the word has come to an end justbecause a few people have left. If it all goes t*ts up then he can crow away all he likes. At the moment we dont know how things are going to pan out so why not just wait and see who comes in and how we do before we start burying the club.

So are you saying that if Cortese and Pochettino were still here the players wouldnt look to quadruple their wages with the top clubs and stay here?

Rule 1!!! I must be getting old. I loved heavy rock (now Metal) back in the last 60's and 70's - Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Groundhogs etc - but was bored stiff with it by 1977 and cant believe it is still going strong all these years later. Page, Blackmore, Iommi etc mined the best riffs all those years ago - anything now is just derivitive. Or maybe I am just getting old?

I am with you. Also hated the arrogance of not playing with recognised strikers. Thank God this WC has seen the great strikers scoring great goals.

Liverpool played hard ball with Suarez and that paid off because it was one player. At the point he realised (or was told by his agent) that he was going no where and the best way to get a move in the future was to nuckle down and play it all changed. You can get away with that with one player but when you have several who decide they want out it is very different. The last thing we wont to do is to field a team where 50% dont want to be here any more. The Board are in a difficult place but by getting the kind of money they did for Shaw (which was crazy money) at least means that we have more money to strengthen. If Schneiderlen and Lovren go as well we will still only have lost two academy players though. Still not great I know but it is not as if we are losing all of our babies. What is sickening is the fact that these people clearly do not give a stuff about the club that has made their careers and are happy to jump ship at the same time. This has nothing to do with the incompetence of the Board, it is down to human nature. In the immortal words of Kevin Keegan, I would love it, just love it if we won something next season and Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs dont.

And you posted it here. If it had contained a postive spin on the situation I wonder if you would have bothered?

Some pictures were published of him wearing a ring with a glass eye on it.