thomas

Yes.

God watching that replay for the 2nd. aaah. aaaaaaah. AAAAHHHHH http://i.imgur.com/Wgmal.jpg

The sting of missing out on Gervinho has so far been lessened week by week

Sounds like a c*** f*** me, I hope his first two weeks of training are nothing but being backhanded by Faye. Still hoping we can maybe re-sign Faye as a life coach for ranger.

still defies reason how he ambles about on those tiny spider legs. suppose it will be one of those "life spitting in the face of physics" things like a bumblebee being able to fly or andy reid not collapsing into a black hole

Eh? Is it incorrect? Not incorrect but it seemed ambiguous because "year" can be legitimately used as both "season" and "calendar year". Thought maybe someone was jumping the gun and assuming the former instead of the latter. Thanks for clarifying.

"ruled out until the new year" surely? Or are we being hilariously pessimistic about it already?

Ok, the unstated reason being the people of varying cultures may kick off like. Seems how blacky is the correct term to use. No racism intended at all. It was a play on words. Simple as that. http://i.imgur.com/jAPPf.gif

So if I've got this straight you were just making a wish for him to get shot and being overly specific on the details of his attacker for some unstated reason?

haha wow I was about to say maybe it was ironically meant though in poor taste, but this nips that notion in the bud. Adios.

Finding myself less and less nervous about this as it approaches.

That sentence makes my eyes bleed. Fixed it.. dry your eyes I think it's that last bit, killed me as well - "... Taylor believes the 24-year-old is in resurgent mode according to the Toon left-back." Of course it's according to him, you just said he believed it.

Be surprised if he broke a sweat tonight. France looked subdued.

Get it sorted, France. Or maybe I'm just underrating Belgium.

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I get the impression that's at least partially accounted for in the plan with regards to the players being targetted and their contract situations - buyout clauses and length of contract left. I also think that's the reason behind those derisory first bids of £2m or whatever for an £8m+ player. Get news of the rejected bid + interest circulating, see if the players head is turned, go back in with real offer. If they (Ashley/Llambias/third guy whose name escapes me/Pardew) can manufacture a situation where the selling club have an unsettled player and another club offering a fair price surely it's an advantage? I dunno. I've also always been skeptical of just how much clubs give a f*** about any article/story in the media anyway. Surely most (every?) chairmen/directors/etc knows that the whole of sports "journalism" is a farce. They conduct their business between themselves and journos get the scraps. "Gee Derek, we'd love to sell him to you for £6m but it says here in this interview in an English tabloid, which I am reading and read daily for some reason, you consider our league good value for money. Frankly, I'm insulted. I guess that makes the price £8m" ? edit: If that sounds like an oversimplification I only make it so because of the strange nature of all of the other required pieces needed to make it work. I was referring more to our position in the table and plaudits given to players like Cabaye, rather than transfer speculation. It can't be ignored. If we're then spouting off (and rightly so) about how much value there is in France, is it really so unlikely that other clubs decide to have a closer look too? We're exceeding expectations at the moment but surely if we continue at the top end of the league, selling clubs will up their asking prices? PS: Charnley. We might just disagree on that point then. I think anything short of a trillionaire owner or sustained(multi-year), profile raising success(relative or trophy bearing) will not affect player prices to an appreciable extent. After three seasons where we were relegated, promoted and finished bottom half, we'll get the same price in 3rd or 4th midway through a season that we would in 10th or 12th. Why wouldn't they treat it as everyone else does - an anomaly? If they're desperate to hold on to a player it might (cheaply) be used as an excuse to put the player completely out of reach, e.g. 7m to 15m, but I don't think it would be used to try and squeeze 8m from 5m. Going back to regularly competing in Europe would have the effect you mention but I don't think until then. Or such a situation might defy blanket analysis altogether and require individual scrutiny of a clubs finances, willigness/need to sell, the players ambition and other factors we can only wildly speculate about. I can't say. Too many "what if"'s to throw about on either side. I think the question is oddly asked whether or not it's likely other clubs around us are looking due to our comment; I think they've always been looking (in addition to the mancs/chelseas) but have passed for any number of reasons. I'd be going off gross stereotypes which I have no way of backing (e.g. relegation battlers prefer domestic over foreign, lack of appeal/french profile, etc) to try and justify it though. We seem to be doing ok with it and, by all accounts, we look to be front runners so long as Arsenal doesn't come sniffing around.

I get the impression that's at least partially accounted for in the plan with regards to the players being targetted and their contract situations - buyout clauses and length of contract left. I also think that's the reason behind those derisory first bids of £2m or whatever for an £8m+ player. Get news of the rejected bid + interest circulating, see if the players head is turned, go back in with real offer. If they (Ashley/Llambias/third guy whose name escapes me/Pardew) can manufacture a situation where the selling club have an unsettled player and another club offering a fair price surely it's an advantage? I dunno. I've also always been skeptical of just how much clubs give a f*** about any article/story in the media anyway. Surely most (every?) chairmen/directors/etc knows that the whole of sports "journalism" is a farce. They conduct their business between themselves and journos get the scraps. "Gee Derek, we'd love to sell him to you for £6m but it says here in this interview in an English tabloid, which I am reading and read daily for some reason, you consider our league good value for money. Frankly, I'm insulted. I guess that makes the price £8m" ? edit: If that sounds like an oversimplification I only make it so because of the strange nature of all of the other required pieces needed to make it work.

A complaint about the complaint box. Delicious.

I have the weirdest boner right now

Why not? Plenty of reasons to want to throw mud. I think they would be on it s*** hot? / pretty sensitive to adverse publicity. Didn't they say something about not responding to rumours and accusations in the press as they didn't want to give weight to the stories? Not advocating it as the best tactic - given the already low opinion of them by the vast majority of supporters - but it's their choice. Think they were on about transfer rumours when they first said that. That's what I recall too.

Wonder how they came up with that? A goblet of nightmare fuel http://i.imgur.com/7oLLm.jpg I want to dry heave just looking at that

The big controversy is Liverpool will be less likely to buy Sammy Ameobi for £18m in the summer after he derided them in such a fashion.

What will you name the other?

Sewelly is a fine ambassador. Marching's taken a shine to him on the 'caf, always a good sign.