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VdV out for Spurs for 6 weeks is a big blow. Adebayor has an okay goalscoring record, but at extremely dominant sides. Be interesting to see how he fares a notch down at Spurs.

http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/77/8d/0,,12306~167287,00.pdf Peter ROSENKRANDS Lovenkrands Wind-up, Shirley?

San Marino's goal difference is -44

Frankly that statement is, more anything else save for perhaps 'expected', insulting to the intelligence of the fans. Almost lolworthy.

This. Every week. I'm not a stage 2 kinda guy, but I'm currently at stage 3. Feeling cocky/smug because I avoided Lithuania and predicted Karlovic would win .

I knew you'd say that. http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/150/i/2011/107/d/d/judge_dredd_face_by_rdricci-d3e8oif.jpg

Big difference is what we say isn't taken as gospel, isn't seen my over a million (easy) people, and isn't spread across the net, newspapers and TV with more hungry journos gagging for more mud to sling. His rants go stella every time. There is a big difference. His tweets only represent himself and his own opinions and thoughts though, mate! If anything, something like NUFC.com is a bigger problem. Though the authors very admirably go to great lengths to ensure to make clear they only speak for themselves, it will often be seen as representative of all fans. There's absolutely no reason why he should be discriminated against because he is willing to be transparent about the evils of the club behind closed doors. I'd rather know than not, personally.

Long may he tweet. Or blog, hopefully. Fantastic entertainment, honest and occasionally gives us insight none of us have into club affairs. Don't believe for a second Ashley believes in true professionalism and as such don't think Joey is obliged to reciprocate. Furthermore, I think most social etiquette is bollocks, personally - so happy for him to speak his mind.

Oh definitely. Not in a tizzy about it, but my eyebrows are raised because this is (afaik) unprecedented.

Love the abuse he's being singled out for because he's been privy to more of the reality of the club than we'll ever know for certain. His tweets could just easily read as the "Last Posts of this Member" for about 95% of people on this board ffs.

This is really concerning tbh. Those two words up there are a bit of the club's soul. It's part of the club's class. Hope the missing letters are returned to their home shortly.

Fair enough You can though, I hope, see that they have actually gambled on our long-term future by essentially cutting our feet from under us (Carroll, Nolan, Barton, Enrique) and then hoping the new legs (Obertan, Santon, Ba, Cabaye) keep us in the division over the course of two transfer windows? And it is hoping, really. It isn't even financially prudent. It's gambling on one of the key components of all our revenue streams - Premiership football. We survived the second half of last season (thank you Leon Best, Jonas and Joey Barton, among others! ), but it's conceivable - at the time Carroll was sold we could have sunk like a stone. He was either getting our goals, or flicking them on for Nolan! (Pre-injury). IMO, building on the core we had with lower staff/player turnover could have yielded better football, higher rankings, more money. Ashley/Llambias must be Conservatives though, because they're cutting public services left, right and centre and they don't really give a shit about the consequences it has as long as it is ostensibly improving the balance sheet (oh look, an exaggerated analogy Apologies for the 'last refuge' gibe. Immature of me to say in retrospect).

Incidentally, none of what I say above^ will at all effect my enjoyment of watching Cabaye play, and I have confident Ba will do reasonably well for us too, but I also think that Ashley and PRdew have gambled with a) lack of strikeforce options b) lack of defensive cover c) letting multiple key components of the team go very quickly in one go and it could very come back and bite us on the bottom. I hope we are lucky and we do well, but I'm fairly disgusted with the owners/manager.

Too true. Aye Joey, about as ambitious as joining Queens Park Rangers. Ambition is relative. Don't buy this argument, it's like dumping Scarlet Johannsen because she has stopped wearing lip stick and going out with Susan Boyle because she has started buying her hand bags from Primark instead of Oxfam. True. I don't even think QPR are any more ambition than us, they just have a bit more money to spend and looser standards about the players they buy. Exaggerated analogies. Last refuge of people who don't want to confront a situation which requires no analogy. One club making maximising their resources = ambitious. One club not maximising their resources = not ambitious. QPR are more ambitious than we are. What are "our resources" though? We almost always make a loss, so unless Ashley is going to continue to subsidise us we will have to spend less and bring in more. So by resources do you mean Ashley's personal wealth? If you view the club under those terms, what would be your problem with Ashley liquidating the club? It's his, right? What obligation does he have to anyone? You seem to be couching the club in terms of some regular IFRS-abiding profit-making entity when it clearly isn't. Substantial revenue is derived from the fans. The entity exists for the fans. There is no entity without it. That's not to say there's no room for financial prudence, or even to achieve financial stability in the long-run, but if you're telling me that you honestly believe that at the end of this year the financial statements don't show a lopsided emphasis on cost-cutting over satisfying the purpose of the entity - then IMO there's no hope for you The disproportionate weight of that lopsidedness is the lack of ambition. The accounts will of course be madly convoluted with all sorts of creative accounting and personal costs charged to the club to reduce taxable profit, but even then, I'm confidently the club will very comfortably be in the black.

Too true. Aye Joey, about as ambitious as joining Queens Park Rangers. Ambition is relative. Don't buy this argument, it's like dumping Scarlet Johannsen because she has stopped wearing lip stick and going out with Susan Boyle because she has started buying her hand bags from Primark instead of Oxfam. True. I don't even think QPR are any more ambition than us, they just have a bit more money to spend and looser standards about the players they buy. Exaggerated analogies. Last refuge of people who don't want to confront a situation which requires no analogy. One club making maximising their resources = ambitious. One club not maximising their resources = not ambitious. QPR are more ambitious than we are.

He's still trying to engineer a move. It's still about the money for him.

Too true. Aye Joey, about as ambitious as joining Queens Park Rangers. Ambition is relative.

Too true.

So, who's signing Ruiz then?

Top post.

Agree with Yorkie's team, with Ben Arfa displacing Marveaux when fit. Edit: Maybe Raylor in for Simpson if Daddy continues to deteriorate and Raylor keeps on-a shinin'

Really good signing that. What they needed along with Mata. Well done AVB.

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