You'd get a far better idea of how fecking rapidly the quality of the squad has plummeted by asking who we'd keep - Given, Solano, Taylor, Milner, Emre, Butt, N'Zogbia, Owen and Martins. All the rest can go find employment in the lower leagues.
I'm all for whatever solution keeps us from having our forwards play on the halfway line and picking up the ball in their own half. New forwards, new manager, new fullbacks, I don't give two fucks what it is.
Allardyce really is the point on the graph where the lines "chances of newcastle landing him" and "managerial ability" cross. Mancini or Sven or whomever I think we've got no shot at and alternatives are worse.
"I didn't touch his balls, or if I did it was no more than he touched my balls. We have to compete for all balls.
Please tell me something is lost in translation here
Strange I know but I want to say > £20m, despite all our various debts. One last roll of the dice by Shepherd. The development deal goes through and we'll get some kind of loan based against future returns from it as well as the new Sky money, sales of players and maybe a judge eats a dodgy lasagna and decides to rule in favor of us against the FA. Can't explain it but I have a feeling there'll be a war chest there for Roeder to misspend.
Of course £20m won't be able to buy what £20m once did.