madras

Its pretty basic. I can slag off my club but if a fan of some other club slags off my club I'll get arsey.

It's usually best to just read the last page. You rarely miss anything important.

The best was still Martin Cooper to Albert Arthur Moxey in Cannibals nightclub "I'm not your pal, pal" after turning up late for his girlfriend after being down The Vic.

Confuse 'em with a 38mill bid. A lower bid will be the last thing they'll expect.

Most deals are structured now aren't they, at least I'm lead to believe they are and we've just seen how easy it is to bring forward monies. I don't think it would be the structure like that, more the basic figure and the add ons. For example an extra 5mill if we win the Champs league compared to an extra 5mill if we get in to Europe type thing.

Crafty bastards ! That was the plan all along wasn't it ? Knew there had to be a plan behind it. Massively over pay for Grealish, everyone uses him as the measure.......and nobody can strengthen. "What's that you want to buy Jacob Murphy ? Well if Grealish went for 100mill that makes Jacob worth 40mill" and the whole thing g becomes locked.

Did anyone say 50mill and we'd be getting mugged off ?

Those same reporta have is bidding between 35 and 50mill plus. We haven't met their valuation, we don't know what that is, we also don't know if that valuation is being hiked up because they think they can get more from us than others which could see us walk away.

Clearly ? How so ?

Who values him at 60mill ?

Importance wise aye, influential ? Definitely, best ? Nah. Where do we go next ? Defender gets the ball at right back, dribbles past 9 opposition players, knocks it over the head of the last defender and overheads it past the lkeeper from 30yds.....yeah but it was Southampton against Palace and both teams were safe so didn't count for anything really ?

You could.......you could argue against it as well.

Bit of a silly concept then.

I thought it was performance not it's wider scheme of things ? Could someone from a mid table club have the best game ever but nah, it didn't win you anything or save you from relegation. More style over substance.

Fuck off. Even just GK performance Krul at Spurs was better.

Jamie Vardy is going backwards and will possibly (an age thing) be as injury prone this season and they haven't replaced or look to replace. Ciaran Clarke played 12 games Trippier missed at least a third. I'm not saying we'll finish above them this season, I will say if we don't there won't be much between us.

Injuries to your only CF are a massive factor as well, also years of lack of investment. And yeah European football, but I'm told by someone on here they have a much better squad than us to cope.

But different players, Richarlison is much more adaptable round the front line, can play up front and more withdrawn, through the middle and wide. Raphinha ? Fuck knows, where talking Barca.

How much better would you say given where we both finished and seemingly recent improvements/regressions ?

I understand the thinking behind the thinking of "we need to pay what they value player x at" but is that valuation based on how they value the player or the value based on selling him to us ? Like wanting more for your house because you are selling to a multimillionaire as opposed to some punter who's just like yourself. Now, there's nowt wrong in trying that but you could lose out, you could gain but it does muddy the waters when talking about the value of something.

We have recent history of finishing 3 points behind them after giving them best part of a season head start.

Is that your opinion or are you ITK about him ?

If being interested is St James' Park and them signing is Wembley, we are at Washington services.

Woodshed ?

It's only interesting in that they are having to make a story out of nothing. The rumour mill has been turned off and not before time.