James

Don't forget £20m is the price of Ba. If someone wants to pay that much fair play.

Spurs will offer the clause, find out about the agent fees, dither, Redknapp will kick up a stink, the Spurs board relent. Then discover the insurance bill is in excess of £5m and cancel the deal. Redknapp wanted the Spurs board to ditch the insurance, gets in a right tiff. Sacked 5th September.

I was thinking about all our internationals in the shower, thought I'd mentioned something about lack of internationals last year and found an insane thread from 4 years ago today so had to be updated.

Don't have the time to update this but there is probably clear improvement from us. 3 players at the Euros. 4 others represented their country at the most recent tournament. One fringe international who is U21 captain. And that excludes Coloccini.

I'm happy to see him sign for Swansea TBH. About time football and footballers realised that everyone doesn't need to play for Man City to have a good career. Well done and good luck to him IMO. I don't mean Swansea, I mean us. If we kept all our current team and they played a similar amount of games to this season and we added him to the team we would be in the Champions League.

6.8 million for Siggurdson to Swansea is criminally cheap. He will be amongst the top 10 best attacking midfielders in the world within 5 years. No offence to Swansea but other bigger clubs should be taking advantage of that fee.

IIRC we had Shearer Ferguson Cort, then Ferguson requested a transfer that summer and we bought Bellamy.

A little further back, Beye for Carr was impressive for one season. Further still, Robert for Glass.

Tiote for Butt

Is Cabaye for Nolan really the best replacement of a first team player? Or is there a better one still?

Club policy since Souness to bulk players up to be fair. Lets not use Campbell against him anyway. Glad Pardew ended this policy and made certain players lose that weight.

Rate Hughton but don't think he is a good match for West Brom. West Brom are at their highest ebb in my lifetime, good team spirit, and well guided tactically under Hodgson. Hughton is a very good team motivator and players will want to play for him, but I don't think those assets will benefit West Brom and instead he would represent worse than they had with Hodgson.

Isn't the twitter fake and the "Gary" just the attention whore from the previous few pages?

Posters on here?

All our players are insured to protect their transfer fee and cover wages while injured and also to provide compo to players that get injured if career ending. It is unknown whether West Ham have insured Demba Ba but we have. Ba has a release clause because he needs to be affordable if he wants out. As stated by the club insider, Ba would cost the buyer £20m up front based on the club knowing the percentage premiums they have to pay at the moment and factoring that onto the transfer fee, expected wage increase, contract length, and agent fees.

I would swap Cisse for Torres as part of a loan swap. Either we swap during the ACoN or we arrange to swap for the remainder of Torres Chelsea contract only once Torres signs we sneakily forget to give them Cider.

Wasn't there an article earlier this month about how the rice pudding dish was initially served as a request of sir Bobby?

Happy for Di Matteo, Lampard and Cech, glad Terry played no part tonight. Hoping Di Matteo doesn't get the job as it is only going downhill from hereon.

I can see him signing for Swansea and scoring 12 goals. Alternatively QPR or West Ham and doing Fuck all.

One thing I've noticed is that if you get him wound up he gets properly wound up and plays horrifically, as we saw versus Brighton and Everton. Needs a bit of work with a psychologist to sort him out.

Villa are just a club in bottom half purgatory. Very hard to get out of as the culture just gets stuck in the club. In need of very dramatic change. They might tread water for a couple of seasons with an alright manager but it will go downhill again.

AAAAAAAAARGH MY MUM PHONED :fuuu: :fuuu: :fuuu: :fuuu:

We will pick up in the second half. We've looked better since we changed our system and the change of direction will suit us and not them with the strong winds. 4-2

We could still turn this round. The wind is completely in their favour.

We have the player with the most PL tackles in the heart of our midfield - FACT