Matt

Don't see any point in loaning Lovenkrands, he's only got the rest of the season on his current deal. He might as well join for a nominal fee and not use up one of Wolves' loan allowance.

Well, at least his understanding of commerce matches that of football.

I've heard he's quite a ladies man, it only takes a couple of witty comments to Bolero-ver and within hours he's Pavane his wicked way with her.

I think it would take a bit more than that.

We're not in the business of building a team. We're in the business of profitable transfer churn while maintaining as decent a finish in the Premier League as possible.

I don't know what he's on at Liverpool (press reports are often inflated) but there's no way he's give up 4.5 years of £30k a week- so around £7m gross- without some kind of agreement in place. Liverpool could end up getting nothing back for him once they've settled his contract. We know this, which is why we would push the wages down, knowing the equalising amount would at worse be shares between clubs as a fee to the player, at best covered by the selling club. Another shit year at LFC and they will not be able to shift him at all because of the need to pay out his contract as his stock diminishes.

Stumbling block will be wages, not transfer fees. You get the feeling Liverpool are so desperate to get rid that the 'reported' fee would be more than what actually would change hands. Liverpool are ripe for picking. Fair enough if people don't think he's up to the job but this idea that "Oh, he shunned us for money, may he never return!" is nonsense. He was offered a huge amount of money and clearly put under some pressure to do the deal for the good of the club. Anyone who believes the official account of events as verbatim is an absolute moron. My concerns would be less about him as a footballer but more Tooj's point about his motivation. Maybe Pardew thinks he could get firing again.

We won the cup in the Sugar Puffs advert.

Not the individual player as such but if we end up a few places higher then we will have made more money from that. You're right of course, but we're not aiming to make money from league placings, we're aiming to make money from player sales. They'll just see a loan signing as keeping a potential sale out of the side for 6 months.

For the football they just took actual match highlights and colour corrected it. The blue went purple but this also affected the seat colours and the advertising boards. The Dragon's Lair was Stamford Bridge one week and Goodison the next. BRING IT BACK! IIRC they shot scenes at Millwall's ground for celebrations and other scenes? Those celebrations were fucking cringeworthy. They would score in the evening and celebrate in daylight. Magic.

Find the series with a character called Tank. You will never see worse acting in your life. The first couple of series- when it was mainly about the youth team- were semi-serious. After that, it went into full schizo mode.

Tash Parker made it worth watching. Stephen Clemence is a lucky boy.

Dream Team was immense. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more ludicrous, it did. I think they stopped short of a nuclear apocalypse.

If you can spend £5m less on transfers and wages in the process, that's a result.

There is nothing to say it would have been a massive gamble as surely we have scouted other strikers than Maiga and I find it hard to believe that he is the only player ni Europe who could have improved our squad and was in our price range. Again, no reason to say the fee or wages would be 'high' (however you define that) but may well have been higher than in the summer. Perhaps we should have thought about that last summer, rather than looking forward to the next one. You seem to think people moaning about this are advocating a mad panic buy. The no reason to say the fee or wages would be high comment is just ridiculous. It is a fact that clubs have to pay higher fees for players in January because clubs are reluctant to sell in the middle of a season. Just look at Carroll, there is no way we'd have got £35m in the middle of a summer transfer window. Please read my post again. High. Higher. Not the same thing.

There is nothing to say it would have been a massive gamble as surely we have scouted other strikers than Maiga and I find it hard to believe that he is the only player ni Europe who could have improved our squad and was in our price range. Again, no reason to say the fee or wages would be 'high' (however you define that) but may well have been higher than in the summer. Perhaps we should have thought about that last summer, rather than looking forward to the next one. You seem to think people moaning about this are advocating a mad panic buy.

Enough people will, undoubtebly.

If the club can get 50,000 people sharing your view, Ashley has got himself a nifty business model. Staying up is enough, and a professional footballer is a professional footballer, no matter what their actual level of quality may be. What is there to gain by buying now? We look on course to finish higher than last season, even if things don't go as well in the second half of the season we will be OK. If our plan is Europe in the next three years then it is better to make steady progress in developing the squad than betting the house on a player to get us there in 6 months. No-one said to do that, don't try to prove a point by taking an opposite extreme. No-one is shouting we should sign a mega-money player. Maiga was going to join for £6m, that's a pretty modest amount in the modern game. That's hardly 'the house'. Odd you mention developing the squad as this is something we have shown no interest in doing- which is why we have resorted to dross like Perch and Lovenkrands in times of need. In fact we have done the opposite- focused on our first XI (the ones who are in the shop window each week) and tried to fill the rest of the squad as cheaply as possible.

If the club can get 50,000 people sharing your view, Ashley has got himself a nifty business model. Staying up is enough, and a professional footballer is a professional footballer, no matter what their actual level of quality may be.

Last year they came out 1st April, expect something similar this time around. We already know from Llambias' public utterances that an operating loss of around £4-5m was recorded- although not expressly confirmed this figure is usually pre-player trading. The club should be recording a sizable profit- but I will be far more interested to 'follow the money' and see changes in the club's cash posistion.

Medicine to cure what? "Mike isn't taking a penny out of the club", remember- and the club is broadly operating on an even keel before player trading.

Jesus wept. I think you're suffering from "Battered wife syndrome". The club do it because they love us!

That's the great thing about the long term, it's always in the future so you can never really evaluate it. I'm sure people were making similar noises on deadline day last January.

I don't think the club will see us as in deep trouble even if Ba was injured. Four more wins and we should be safe- they see the January window as a seller's market and would rather wait until the summer and acquire players on frees.

When the possible alternatives are 'slow and always likely to concede a penalty' and 'incapable of winning a header or marking anyone', I'll take two ball-playing centre halves. Anyway, just because he can play the ball doesn't mean he has to- lumping it is still allowed.