OldNick

Providing a fan for Coutinho,it doesn't state male or female

Of course we will sign him, we buy players with girls names, Marian, MArtina and so Valerie is a nailed on certainty

i was desperate that it was not a Muslim.

If we all wish to be negative then I agree that helps turn it to fact. As a retailer, exporter and dealing with trade contacts I can feel the sense of gloom in the business sector. As has been pointed out the PMI report is pretty disturbing, but surely not unexpected. If in my small clique of business friends is anything to go by next month will be worse. I really hope you and the other brexiters are correct, I doubt you are though,that we will pull through quickly. It seems we may have this uncertainty for 2 years and that is going to cause its own harm to the economy. The BOE will have to talk us up as the markets will look at any negatives to pull the plug. There could also be the factor of the Euros , poor weather (up to now), Wimbledon and soon the Olymics to have an effect on consumer spending.

We had the best run for 40 years and then 3 weeks before the referendum and since the tap has been turned right off. The economic news is slowly starting to come in and the effects of the vote will take a few months to really show what a mess we are in, or not, as the Brexiters tell us our glory years will be upon us. The europeans dont seem to be begging us to change our minds, which is surprising I had hoped they may have asked us to think again offer us new terms and we do any vote on that. A German client said to me last week 'Why have you left? You have terms that none of the others have.'

I was talking to a friend who went and watched them against Salisbury and whilst they only drew he said they coud have torn Salaibury apart at any time. TCWTB was there openly smoking and the stewards did nothing. Apparently there was a 1200 crowd and Pompey took about 2/3rds of that. A good turn out as I recall Saints in the bad days only having a couple of hundred fans there.

Personally, retail business is worse than during the financial crisis. Friends in other businesses eg Estate Agency, also are finding it pretty dire.

Yep it must be difficult to keep all those incoming deals quiet. Hopefully we have a few underway. To keep deals quiet means you have to have the selling club abd agent gagged, hardly something in their interests I'd have thought

As much as I really dislike Hilary Clinton and her get power at all costs, we need her to win as Trump is pretty scary. Nostradamous I thouhgt warned of an anti crist taking over, something on those lines and i think Trump is the closest to that. There again his daughter could reign over me anytime

I think you are wrong about the Japanese surrender. They decided to go for peace as they feared Russia were going to get involved. http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/ Not conclusive but perhaps puts a different slant on things

that is a fair comment , although do you think the club would have sold him for 30+m had he been on a 6 year contract? Personally I think they would have

It matters to the clubs coffers not the fans.

Must have taken ages to sort that down to a suspect, 'does he own a bell?' No 'Does he own a drum?' No it must be him then

yep, our universe may be just one atom in the leg of a chair, which in turn is an atom in the leg of a chair infinitum

yes i realise that, what i was trying to allude to was that fans think that if we get a player to sign for 5 years he is staying for decent amount of time, but really he is for sale from the minute he signs if the right offer comes along. It is a mutually convenient situation for all

I cant see why people put any credence in a 5 or 6 year contract. You can make them 20 year contracts if you like but it means SFA. All it does is give the player bigger wages, the agents bigger commission and the club millions more if they sell in the meantime.The agents can still go around touting the player and will know if there is and how much the sell on clause is.

yeah but they started doing the transfer negotiations 6 years ago

Salman Rushdie survived.Of course the world was a much different place whe the fatwa was served on him, Saddam was keeping a lid on it.

Very sad to hear. Get well soon

I do believe it is valid to think that the people in those communities are better served to root out the mad men. I saw earlier it was mentioned about the IRA, well they were well known in their communities and were protected, the same would be for the extremists in France. Until their own people turn on them this will never go away.

Im sorry but i dont agree. Perhaps the burka ban has something to do with France being targeted

why don't we on here

you are in adreamworld if you don't believe this is coming our way soon. Their plan seems obvious to me, pick away at one nation at a time. It doesn't matter how long it takes them to do it. When I was in the US a few weeks back there was a documentary on, and it focuses on a family who had joined ISIs from Kurdistan. When they arrived the children of the family were around about 5. Now the eldest is about 12 and has been filmed beheading prisoners. He showed no remorse and did it coldly.All part of the radicalisation of the young who will cause some terrible atrocities in time. They are beyond help and the intelligence services can do little to stop such events in part of the world. It is a long term project, the kids are being taught to become terrorists, if the authorities know where those camps are do they or are they taking them out? A moral delemna

Using quotes from Alastair Campbell Lol

The Guardian the quality newspaper we are often told on here. Using quotes from Cher to back up their story on politics lol. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/14/maybe-the-brits-are-just-having-us-on-the-world-reacts-to-boris-johnson-as-foreign-minister