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I'd also like to add: I really don't think you can replace, with however much money, the team spirit Nolan and co. generated. We should've at least kept them as squad players if only to show the rest of the players you do get rewarded at this club for your efforts and loyalty, and not shown the door after your best season in the premiership.

How do you know Pards didn't agree to the sale? That's my point. He probably did, maybe he's been promised what KK and Hughton were promised, "we'll get mad replacements, innit. here's a youtube link, mate." Like Cabaye? Read my previous posts. Track. Record. Cabaye is a new development for Ashley & Co., and I'm willing to hold most of the vitriol back until the end of the transfer window. They've surprisingly done well by Cabaye's signing, but gutting our team of senior leadership and cohesion could be a huge, huge mistake, no matter who we get in as replacements.

How do you know Pards didn't agree to the sale? That's my point. He probably did, maybe he's been promised what KK and Hughton were promised, "we'll get mad replacements, innit. here's a youtube link, mate."

It stands to question whether Kevin Keegan or Chris Hughton would've stood for this. I don't think so. Pardew has to work hard to shed his 'yes-man' cloak. ^ disclaimer to all idiots who're no doubt gonna facepalm: yes, I too am impressed with what he's done on the pitch and off it thus far. Yet, a yes-man is a yes-man, and he still has to prove he has the club's interest at heart.

Nobody's arguing the negative aspects of Nolan's game, or that he has moved on per se, it's the fact that Ashley and his cronies don't have a good record of finding adequate replacements which worries most of us who've been paying attention to the larger picture, and going by historical records. Anyways, let's, as always, hold the swords back until the transfer window closes.

I never thought I'd be emotional, let alone care, about the possibility of Nolan leaving. But I have to say I'm actually pretty p1ssed off, and I'll miss the big man more than I ever cared to admit to myself. Ashley is stripping the core of the team which was the nucleus of our team spirit. With the possibility of Joey, Jose & Jonas following him out, it only highlights what the Fat One has always said, "I never said I knew anything about football." No, Ashley, you don't. So maybe next time don't buy a football club. Anyways, I'm tried of writing the following sentence, as it's never come to fruition, but here goes: "I hope Ashley and co. have a plan to replace these senior players."

The Spurs Semi was incredible, but everything else was just... ridiculous.

Well Fat Fred always said he was the most "honourable man I've met in football." Quite a compliment coming from him. Or not.

Yeah, watch me do the same thing when I'm older as well, lol. All well and good looking at one section of society and be annoyed by them. It never gets tiring until inevitably, you become them.

Hehe, didn't mean it that way. I was talking specifically of the types described by the great Chechen leader, and some of my own friends who do cling on to that same lifestyle they had in their teens. I'm sure the way you boogie down on Saturday nights would be hugely enjoyable to watch and partake in, Madras .

When is it too old for people to stop or at least reduce their frequenting of bars and discos? Isn't he inching towards 50? Like, ffs. I see this everywhere now. Old people who still think they're teenagers.

It's also interesting the images the term "Chechen leader" conjures up. I guess Gullit finally found his match in Grosny. If the Russians can't boss these people around, who the f00k is Gullit.

Dutch legend Ruud Gullit has been sacked as manager of Terek Grozny just minutes after losing 1-0 to Russian Premier League rivals FK Amkar Perm on Tuesday. Terek, who have won just one of their last six games and hover just above the relegation zone, lost away at the Zvezda Stadium to a last minute own goal from defender Sergey Omelyanchuk. Club president, and controversial Chechen leader , Ramzan Kadyrov told Gullit prior to the match that if he didn't win he would be sacked for "thinking about bars and discotheques" rather than football. True to his word, Kadyrov fired the former Chelsea manager shortly after the final whistle, telling Interfax news agency: "Gullit will no longer train Terek. "Unfortunately, he was unable to prove his mettle as a trainer. Under his leadership, the team played exceptionally poorly this season." Gullit, 48, said moments after the match ended that he expected to get the sack even if he had won the encounter at Perm. "I don't think it would have mattered if I had won or lost," he said. The two-time World Player of the Year surprised many when he decided to join Terek in January. The honeymoon, however, was short-lived after the Russian Premier League side started the season with three wins from 12 matches. Gullit has been offered the chance to see out the remainder of his contract coaching the youth team but it seems highly unlikely after an apparent falling out with Kadyrov. That was highlighted by a long and bizarre statement released on the club's website on Monday, which amongst criticising Gullit's work ethic also sought to defend the lifestyle in the Chechen Republic. "President Ramzan Kadyrov is extremely dissatisfied with the approach Ruud Gullit to his duties, which, instead of rolling up our sleeves to work, given the standings, thinking about bars and discos,'' the statement said. "Gullit must know that he was invited not to night clubs and discos to disappear, but to work in a football club, in this case to achieve the result. "Yes, we have no drugs, no indecent nightlife, which in the Netherlands and in Europe there is lots. Grozny has all the conditions for people leading a healthy lifestyle. There are modern cinema, ice palaces and parks.'' http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/928215/ruud-gullit-axed-by-russian-side-terek-grozny?cc=5901

Oh man, Cardiff's gonna be my second team next season. Come on Sheerah!

Probably could be the best, most positive and most productive window under Ashley yet. Looks to be that way, although I'm not gonna strut about confidently just yet, or anytime soon as long as we're under this female genitalia.

You can't really blame Souness since DUff was signed by Roeder. "I blame Souness" was a popular meme on these boards during his regime. I still fall back on that one to explain pretty much all evils of the world.

Good point. Growing up in Uganda I constantly lied about my age. I was so cool, man, I fit right in.

Insomnia does have an adverse effect on memory, so I hope you're correct.

Where does the idea of all this supposed "affection" he has for us come from? He had a terrible time in the months leading up to his exit, not to mention he was constantly not played or played out of position by Souness, who preferred the neanderthal Duff instead. If anything, I can see him seeing us as an important step in his development, and may want to try out pastures anew. I hope to be proved wrong, though. I'd effing love to see him in a b+w shirt again.

If Liverpool & Everton are interested I'm not so sure we'd be his first choice, then.

WOOHOOOOOOO. Fantastic. What's with the watch, though. Casio?

I am not worried about Liverpool. N'Zog would prefer us over them. Based on what? Like Carroll did, innit.

25m quid for Jones? What're rovers smoking.

Ambition is what separates the good, the great and the has-beens. You look at players like Raul (Schalke) and Van Nistelrooy (now Malaga), players who've won it and had it all, and see them still doing the business for clubs other than the ones they made their name with, and the difference is stark. It goes for any walk of life. You can be the guy who gets 3 promotions in 3 years in a corporate job, watching the person next to you continue in the same position you were in, the one he has been holding onto for 15 years. When things get stale, you need a change, whether good or bad, otherwise wtf is the point of life. Comfort zone = might as well be dead.

Woohoo!