James

Because his fitness will decrease that rapidly if he's just left to train solo in Eindhoven Altitude training innit

Two things we miss about Shearer I see little discussed: 1. The Fear Factor - maybe not in the Premier League, but in Europe you would get players so in awe of him that they would do silly things like back passes. 2. Referee influence - he knew how to get what he wanted off the ref 9 times out of 10

Also regarding talk of being able to offload Williamson, not only is he not good enough for many clubs, Carver accusing him of getting sent off on purpose will have potentially put off a good number of other clubs.

I know that, but it is the club's stated policy on the contrary.

Like I said yesterday we are going to have to sell as according to the rule book we actually have too many players. Of course removing Ferguson and Vuckic, Rob Elliot and Williamson is preferable to losing Sissoko, but are there takers?

I have just had a look at the player count at the club. This is important as it was a states club policy to not employ more than the permitted 25 players. Including Perez (not sure of cut off date) and Sammy we have 26. So we have too many players and the club will not be active in the transfer market (by their stated policy) unless they get rid of players.

I think the immigrants would be perfectly happy living in the countryside free of oppression if allowed. There are worse things than grizzly bears in other parts of the world.

Move on, we are on to Norwegian immigration now.

Too much land in Norway. Should probably send the immigrants there by the boatload.

It's an above average house though...

Would say a house like that would fetch 600k to 1.5m in the UK depending on location so would be worth more than James Perch. UK average price is 170k so in UK terms it is at least three times average. That's not how you do the equation though. Need to look at the average wage in relation to average SQM prices. Value is nothing, perceptions are everything and a straw poll will indicate that this house is a very nice house.

Maybe the minutes will include discussion of Lee Charnley's house.

Would say a house like that would fetch 600k to 1.5m in the UK depending on location so would be worth more than James Perch. UK average price is 170k so in UK terms it is at least three times average. Aye. But he lives in Raleigh, NC. This forum is in the UK however so it is going to be seen by the majority of UK posters as a very nice house far exceeding what they will ever be able to afford.

Would say a house like that would fetch 600k to 1.5m in the UK depending on location so would be worth more than James Perch. UK average price is 170k so in UK terms it is at least three times average.

Always happy to provide real estate advice to our Scandinavian and US counterparts

For the benefit of Kaizero and other Scandos and Yanks, this is what a below average house in the UK looks like: http://www.k-roofing.co.uk/images/re-tiled_council_house_roofs.jpg

Do you live in Beveley Hills or something?

I did notice in the last batch of training pics a load of those stupid phrases on the wall that others had mentioned. Mentality maintains momentum What does that even mean???

Unfortunately for Cabella I don't think he is a winger at all, more an attacking midfielder. However we also signed two other attacking midfielders that summer in De Jong and Perez. So rather than continue to persevere with him out of position a swap with a winger will help.

Given his status on the board you would have to say that if Moncur says that Cathro has joined and Steve Black is set to join that it has to be true - or otherwise he is completely clueless about what his own board are up to.

The only thing I can sensibly think of is that McClaren wanted to spend the first day or few days of the training to exclusively get to know the players and retained training ground staff, before introducing the new coaches to the players today or Monday.

Post season tours are never a good idea like last year when Yaya Toure was made to go to Abu Dhabi whilst his brother was dying in a Manchester hospice and the owner didn't even give him a birthday cake.

He is getting a first team pay apparently.

I'm wondering if Cathro applied for the job or whether he was specifically picked by McClaren. If the former it goes to show that McClaren is building a coaching team based on job aptitude which is encouraging.

Once, with 16 years, driven by the effusive enthusiasm that characterizes premature genius, burst into a neighborhood store demanding the trader a bag of balloons with the carefree disdain who asks a package of snuff in the slums of poor death. Knows Mike Ashley then?