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I dunno what you lot are worried about. Shola 2-1 West Brom. It'll be cracking.

"when you have people like Michael Fish dying of anal trauma you have to sit back and say - look, as brilliant as this is, maybe we should stop"

Spot on. The bloke's a total fraud. He's leapfrogged Duff in my 'Most Hated' league and that takes some doing. Fucking arsehole. Not on the same level as JJ though, shirley?

Hoy get off the fkn laptiop EDIT: and stay of my PC! Skirge, you fkn mentalist

I would love it if he makes his debut tomorrow.

Only club without a manager and only club not to sign anyone I think... Magic I've got over anger now, fuck it. I'm going to enjoy this season regardless, can't wait for the day out tomorrow and actually having something tangible to support and follow. Besides, we're guaranteed to get promoted anyway.

"Michel Salgado is by no means a world beater, he never demanded a move from his club, or spent summer's touting himself away from Real Madrid, for 10 years he got on with the job he was paid for and never complained." If you weren't a world beater and being paid very well at Real Madrid, why the hell would you complain or agitate for a move away? Sounds perfect.

So the bid's been lowered? Maybe but the previous bid may have been 4 million now 2 million if they got in Europe, 1 million spread over 1 million payments stuff like that lol My guess is any offer now will be the full amount upfront. I think you're on the right lines, Levy doesn't do deals without add-ons and clauses. I was told the offer was £5m plus add-ons that still left it short of £10m. Whether it's been increased or changed I have no idea. If and when it gets completed, details will be reported to the Stock Exchange. If it's not reported, we'll at least know that it was less than £10m. Upfront or in total? I don't know how this works. If there fee were £6m with the potential (but not guaranteed) to rise to £10.5m would that have to be reported? If it has the potential to rise to £10.5m it has to be reported to the Stock Exchange. I was told it was £5m rising to a maximum of £8m depending on a) Number of appearances and b) Qualifying for Europe. As I said before, I don't know if it has changed but from what Sky as saying, it looks as though it won't get reported to the Stock Exchange for us to find out. Nothing reported to the Stock Exchange so any talk of £12m seems like wishful thinking. I was told it was £5m maybe rising to £8m, heard nothing to say that it changed. And if it wasn't for the fact that what you'd 'heard' in the first place was absolute bollocks, that would make sense.

Still think we'll win. Despite Smudge.

Good old Rampage.

Cos presumably he'll get better service, score more goals, playing better = more likely to be called up Does having better players around you make you a better player? He's still the same footballer that was with us, and Capello isn't really interested in reputation / club you play for. It does if your name is Steven Taylor. Never misses a trick, this one.

He wasn't going to play anyway. I'm pretty sure this was announced by big CH.

Cos presumably he'll get better service, score more goals, playing better = more likely to be called up Does having better players around you make you a better player? He's still the same footballer that was with us, and Capello isn't really interested in reputation / club you play for.

I don't understand why playing in a better team means Owen's more eligable to play for England.

Samesies.

BBC Sport leading with the story.

Exactly. How many players in world football could genuinely be classed as loyal?

Really? He was one of the few things I enjoyed on the pitch last season. Fuck knows who I would have said was player of the season if he wasn't around.

I'd be pretty much the same but Mike Hooper would be giving me a foot rub too.

Think it was common knowledge at Fratton Park (maybe not exact, but the same way we knew Owen was on roughly £100k). Mate from uni was a ST holder for a few years, it was just the accepted belief that that was what he was on. Redknapp (spurred on by Gadyamak) had them paying ludicrous wages given their turnover.

Nicolas Anelka, £500k - £23m.

Kevin Nolan £4m.

So the bid's been lowered? Maybe but the previous bid may have been 4 million now 2 million if they got in Europe, 1 million spread over 1 million payments stuff like that lol My guess is any offer now will be the full amount upfront. I think you're on the right lines, Levy doesn't do deals without add-ons and clauses. I was told the offer was £5m plus add-ons that still left it short of £10m. Whether it's been increased or changed I have no idea. If and when it gets completed, details will be reported to the Stock Exchange. If it's not reported, we'll at least know that it was less than £10m. Upfront or in total? I don't know how this works. If there fee were £6m with the potential (but not guaranteed) to rise to £10.5m would that have to be reported?

Yup. He'd clearly only be in it for the payday if he knew there was a good chance there'd be new owners in the immediate future.