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A more competitive higher profile league? In that case so can Swansea. I want it to be true, I really do, but I just can't see it. I can believe we've made the bid but can't see him in black and white. Swansea aren't reportedly bidding for him and neither are Man U, Man city, Liverpool for that matter but we are. If he wants Premier league football then we at the moment offer his only route here. He has the choice to stick with Lyon or accept our offer if he wants it bad enough.

A more competitive higher profile league?

If its true we've placed a bid maybe the large French/French speaking contingent already here will sway his decision.

Ouch!

£1 Million just to talk to other clubs, wtf are Swansea mad? If it's in his contract he can leave for that amount then there's nothing that they can do about it other than be arseholes and see if we will cough up extra (which we rightfully won't) just to get things moving rather than go down the legal route.

Good luck to the man.

Real used a buy back clause for Alvaro Negredo and sold him to Sevilla for a profit.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 29 years old and released by Valencia due to injury problems but then again we just signed Ba and Marveaux.

Hmm, so we're gonna under bid by 100K and not trigger the release clause. Must be a devious plan by Ashley to avoid spending any money whilst making it look like he's trying but failing.

^^^^ They really are delusional.

^^^^^^^^ Read somewhere we were linked with their centre back Michael Ciani on a free.

Liverpool man, they are not in the same league as ManUSA and Chelsea now as well. They have some ambition with their signings at least, they want to progress and become a title challenger. What ambition have we shown lately? We shop at the bargain basement section of the transfer market for loans and players with dodgy reputations elsewhere. Even though I hate the cunt for leaving I can see why he did it.

Double crap.

Crap

His surnames Ben Arfa

Do players jet in for talks, thought all of that would be handled by club officials and agents. If he's coming over it must be to sign surely?

Sweet!

Vuckic's face in the Shola goal celebration just kills me

^^^^^^^^^^^ Chris' expression just suits it so well

As a victim of crime he shouldn't get any less sympathy because he is rich however he should have applied some common sense and not worn a flash watch in a rough area.

Kevin Prince Boateng goal, sign him up.

For what? To beat f***ing Algeria and Slovenia? Rubbish. Both those teams are better on the ball than us. Nonsense, tbh. Have you seen any of these players play for their clubs? The players in the England team lack the technical and tactical diversity to fit into a system together. Their deficiencies in terms of trapping the ball, maintaining possession and controlling the ball are cancelled out when playing for their clubs as they are surrounded by players who have the skillsets do this. When you try to mould all of them into a team they look useless because they can't do any of the simple basics that should be learned from a youngster. Agree

Because power and pace is what is looked for at youth level not technique.

Total and utter shit served up by England. Next game Joe Cole's got to play on the left in a 5 man midfield with Barry Holding and Gerrard and Lampard pushed up behind Rooney.

Disappointing designs, I was hoping the leaked pictures from earlier in the thread were just bollox but sadly not.