Rich

Deary me!

Deary, deary me. "I JUST WANT DEM TO WIN A GAYME!"

Poor bloke's fighting a war on two fronts with this thread and the "board" thread running simultaneously. That's what did for Hitler's Germany, that.

It's all been in the Chronicle today already... usually .co.uk are first with the news. Oliver back in the club's good books?

Completely agree. Dunno how anyone can argue with this insight.

Exactly, not to mention the fact that he probably wasn't ever running at full-pelt last season after his injury. Wasn't my opinion, btw, just Oliver's.

Similar story in today's Chronicle... everyone's favourite journo still doesn't seem convinced:

You smashing big bastard, you!

RONALDO 9!!!

I think you should go to Clinton's and buy Albert an apology card. And write it IN SPANISH without your bilingual friend to help you. THAT'll learn you proper good. Can I use an online translator, please? (I was apologising to LTA, not Albert - just to clear things up :winking:.)

Bloody hell! That's skim-reading for you, sorry about that. Good lad, Albert.

it's nice to see he doesn't need Solano around as much to do the translating for him Apparently Solano was there translating, as usual. (In the Chronicle today.)

Luque's future has never been safe here, I still think he'll be gone before the PL season starts.

I can't see how Roeder's looking at bringing in 5 players if there's no money available, I really can't. Especially when he's talking about bringing in players with Premiership experience, it's just not realistic. There must be some sort of cash floating around, not to mention what still could be incoming from Boumsong/Butt/Faye/Luque should any/all of them leave. In regards to the loan deal, I hope the way that it would be structured would be installments, so talk of it eating our budget up simply doesn't hit the mark for me. A new signing is an investment over a number of years, we could do with taking a leaf out of Spurs' book here. It's another one of those Summers where Shepherd has to gamble on getting it right by putting more money into the transfer kitty, but this could well be the last (it's already going to be scaled-back from last season.) Unless we get relegated/continually miss Europe then the risk isn't as great as Leeds' was, for example (I hope.) The way the talk has gone leads me to think that there is money there still, but we're being exceptionally careful this time around because we know it's our last chance to get it right in the market before a bit of asset-stripping comes in. If you think about it, it makes sense for the club to be playing pauper in an attempt to not get ripped off by selling clubs. I could just be looking for a silver lining here, but I think there's logic in what I'm saying. I agree with NE5, too, we must pursue SWP with everything we've got. He's huge pals with Bramble and Dyer and was apparently close to moving here last season before Chelsea moved for him, so things are in place to make this an attractive proposition to him. I think his season at Chelsea has made people forget how brilliant he was for a shite Man City side, the boy is pure class.

Lee Howey, Garry Bennett, Marco Gabbiadini, Phil Gray, Gary Owers and Martin Scott amongst others.

Just beat 'Boro 3-1, goals from Beardsley (2) and Beresford. Hendrie scored for them.

That team with Souness would have undoubtedly lost, it was a piss-poor team both on paper and in practice, so I suppose Roeder deserves a hell of a lot of credit for even getting a point. Pattison, Faye, Babayaro and Chopra are nowhere near what we should have in our team, and the rest are hardly great shakes either (barring Shay, Nobby and Charles week-in, week-out). I'm not in support of Roeder taking the reigns full time but the way he has run the team, for the most part, has been extremely uplifting and to think we'll be finishing top eight is quite something after the first part of the season. Disappointing day, nevertheless, but it was never going to be a classic. Still an awful long way to go.