James

Byrne was absolute shite considering he won the FA Youth Cup as a goalkeeper for Leeds!

If only someone could invent a device which allowed communictaion between people in different places. Its bollocks isn’t it, didn’t Charley meet with both our last two managers in North Yorkshire to agree their appointments. It’s practically home for him.

Didn't expect us to lowball...So fucking frustrating, just pay the going rate for once. I know it's stupid to start with a high bid, but we always refuse go more than 1p over our first offer. Nothing wrong with starting low it’s just how we progress from there which is the problem.

Fair play to Burnley for bailing out Villa last month, helping Villa to pay their players.

Using Van Dijk as a barge pole here we should probably be holding out for £85m for Lascelles

What a great day player he was, significantly more talented than Ben Arfa

My mate seems sure it'll be Loftus-Cheek. Isn’t he more of an attacking central midfielder?

Lack of Wilshere could indicate a last minute change of heart after all who is there to pass a ball? Southgate really isn’t going to pick Livermore before Shelvey and Wilshere is he?

Car Crash age 37 RIP

Clearly blacklisted by the FA over the cous cous nonce incident

Rafa is my player of the season. He played through 11 vessels really. Although for me Perez was very underrated first half of the season, if you look at the stats you realise we played better with him in the team (same as Lascelles really) but in a he second half of the season he propelled us into the Top 10. Thought most players had good seasons though.

Given that it’s a Marriott I’m sure heads will roll of it was just cancelled due to the fixture

He has played 51 games so indeed seems to me they probably bankrolled a higher salary hoping he would get them promoted and then didn’t deliver

Transfer listed by Peterborough

Conversely when this elite group of English clubs got established, probably about the same time there were at least 6 clubs qualifying for Europe, we were in the elite group I mention. As posted elsewhere even if we had so called bad seasons, in our PL period pre-Ashley we were either top 6, at Wembley, qualifying for Europe or made it into the second half of European competition. I think there were only one or two exceptions. The real catastrophic relegation for us was when Keegan walked second time and it established that we had given up our own elite status within the league. Other relegations were inconsequential compared to that one.

Since the formation of the Premier League you just don’t get the same non linear pattern of promotions, relegations and titles. It is no longer another club’s turn to be successful unless there is a benevolent billionaire behind it all. Leicester winning the league was met with the assumption that the big clubs won’t allow for a repeat. So in days gone past I think narrowly avoiding relegation despite the negative season would have been a cause for optimism that your club is still on the top table and with a few small changes and a stroke of luck have a good campaign the following year. Nowadays that table has shrunk. 12-14 clubs are no longer on that top table any more. It just becomes another hard drag season after season. Seriously the best thing that could happen is that Man Utd get relegated!

Gerrard’s fixer has been murdered

While he has had a few neat cameos and done his small bit to seeing us over the line I am not sure that the investment we would need to make to sign him permanently would be very welcome and he would have some fans in his back from Day One. Also Ashley is known to get pissed if he’s been persuaded to part money and the player doesn’t deserve the business. Expect less transfer funds as a result.

And Gazza for 2.2M, and Waddle for 590K. I think we paid you the Sissoko fee out of guilt. That's really the only reason I can think of. Les Ferdinand was peanuts too especially after what happened to Shearer the next day.

We were still good though.we could beat almost any team but had major consistency problems but not ones which would put off many players from signing for us given that at the time we were one of the richest clubs in the world. Between 93/94 and 2006/07 (so our whole PL history pre-Ashley) other than two occasions we either finished in the top 6, got to Wembley, qualified for Europe or won a certificate. We were consistently a very good side just didn’t win anything. 25 metres? Have we all forgotten about when super captain Scott Parker held aloft the Intertoto Cup (Although really it’s a bit embarrassing that we went to UEFA and asked where the trophy was)

Iirc the team was weakened in pretty much every other position at the same time, Speed wasn't great straight away and at his best still wasn't better than the player he replaced. Him and Hamman would never have surpassed the levels we had in Lee/Batty or Lee/Beardsley as well either imo, but if you'd added the others to the existing team it would have easily improved it, Given in particular. Speed became a lot better than Batty but I think when we signed Speed he hadn’t quite nailed down the central midfield role. Only with Robson as boss and Dyer beside him did he come into his own.

We were still good though.we could beat almost any team but had major consistency problems but not ones which would put off many players from signing for us given that at the time we were one of the richest clubs in the world. Between 93/94 and 2006/07 (so our whole PL history pre-Ashley) other than two occasions we either finished in the top 6, got to Wembley, qualified for Europe or won a certificate. We were consistently a very good side just didn’t win anything.

I’m missing the Intertoto Cup today for some reason.

I’m not fat or a cunt I just talk utter shite

I am so angry! Nah this team has done well lately a bad game was due, let’s look forward to the next game.