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You can never get an accurate list by doing this as they buying club also plays a big part. If Tiote is wanted by City and Chelsea then the price will go through the roof. If Spurs want him and he hands in a transfer request then you can knock the price down by a third. It's an impossible exercise.

Neither are DVD's if we're being picky.

Aye all the people who paid cash never got letters... Don't use fake tenners next time.

given up on tonights football. watching the other nights shameless. Thought the Napoli game would be a cracker but it was poor. Thought the scousers might have a go seeing as they've hit a bit of form recently but alas not...

Oh come on, Carroll went for £35 m man, if people want to pay that kind of over the top fee for all our players go for it. We are hardly having a fire sale though. Who mentioned a fire-sale like? You're also agreeing with me btw.

Got the Hun's game on. Liverpool are just hurting my eyes.

If a good player like Enrique wants to play for a CL team then I wouldn't begrudge them at all. As long as they go about things in the right way and formally ask for a transfer, wait for permission to speak to other clubs and then make the move. He deserves to be playing at the highest level and if he doesn't want to stay then I've honestly not got a problem with that. I don't like it but I understand it. It's the nature of the beast.

Every player is up for sale. Surely the Carroll transfer convinced everyone of that. If Liverpool, or anyone else, whack a £12m bid for him then he'll go. He'll only have a year left on his deal and we'll snap their hands off. It's a cunt of a situation but that's where we are.

He either signs or he goes. Can't risk losing him for nowt so it'll come to a head this summer. Also sounds like his head's been turned so I've got an inkling how it's going to pan out.

Barca will get an early goal in the second leg. Arsenl will have to come out a bit to get an away goal and Barca will pick them off twice more. 3-0 win. Nailed on.

Still need another one to stand a chance tbh.

Only the ones that are good, all the bad ones are rubbish. It's a pretty grim picture overall for them though. They've got some canny player but it's not sustainable at all.

Are the rest of the facts and figures correct in that summary btw?

Go on then. Why?

Anyone think we'd have 5 wins away by the middle of February btw?

Great win that. The little break this weekend will do us no harm at all and we can look at taking 4 from the next 2 games to cement things a bit. Massive opportunity to finish the season really well and there's no reason why we can't finish 7th or 8th. Superb stuff from all concerned.

Fabulous, fabulous player. Would have been one of the legends of the game had he not suffered as much with injury. Literally had everything you'd ever want in a forward. Billytray's list a few posts up in spot on too.

Howay, we'll get more than £20 million for the pair of them. Will be gutted if we sell them though - would be testament to the lack of ambition from the owners. OK then £25m. More money in the bank.

I think Enrique and Tiote will be sold. We'll get about £20m for the pair of them so add that on to the £35m from Carroll means we'll be going some to spend anything (net) this summer. £55m in and perhaps £15m out to replace the three of them. One or two Bosmans, one or two loans in to pad the squad out and everyone's a winner. Especially Ashley.

Doesn't need changing. Don't like the idea of seeding PL teams, they already get a bye until the 3rd round so why make it even easier for them to get through to the later stages? Giving the winners a CL place is too much of a reward too. The problem is the fact too much (financial) emphasis is placed on staying in the Premier League or qualifying/progressing in the Champions League. The competition is very much the 3rd priority for the bigger clubs and yet one of them still invariably win the fucking thing anyway. Money talks.

What's wrong with having them like? (No, I haven't btw)

Won't be long before they're in dire straights. Parachute payments go and they'll surely be fucked. Their saving grace could be the fact they've got a decent academy so when their better players (stop laughing) leave then they'll be able to draft the kids in without having to spend loads on signing a raft of new players. They're still in the shit up to their eyeballs like obviously.

How much harder than a normal nail is a coffin nail? Just an expression Greg.

Looks as hard as a coffin nail. Got to be a good thing imo.

I agree that every player at every club has a price, our club said that Carroll wasn't for sale when they could have said what you've just said. It was said purely for effect in trying to fend off the paltry bids that may have been in the process of being put together by some clubs (Spurs). Have got a real problem with anyone of our lot thinking he wasn't for sale. That's just lunacy and using it as a stick to beat the arseholes who own/run the gaff is unfair. No owner/chairman in the league would have turned it down.