OzzieMandias

Crazy, this situation they have with Adebayor, Bellamy, Bridge, Santa Cruz all sitting around on truly massive wages that basically make them unsellable (Wright-Phillips, also on the fringe, is "only" earning £60,000 a week; Adebayor is on £150,000, Bellamy on £95,000) and not even allowed to train with the first-team squad. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/aug/22/manchester-city-fringe-players-leave

Who does he play for?

Imagine going through life with a name like Goodwillie.

When I'm engaging people for a job, I tend to use people I know and have worked with before. Seems only sensible to me.

Even if I wanted to, I can't stand up for a whole game. Dodgy legs. So what do I do the next time I'm sat behind a bunch of boring 21-year-old twats, full of drink and with no idea of what it's like to be getting old or have a disability? Few years back at an away game saw an old Geordie, about 65 or 70, get intimidated by a bunch of Stone Island knobheads for having the temerity to suggest they sit down and let him see the game he'd paid to see. They weren't singing or anything either, like, just standing there trying to look hard.

Shut up man I can't see any other realistic explanation. The idea they're putting down a firm marker to start the season off doesn't really add up just because the idea our players weren't under control is so provably laughable - it's a trumped up charge.

Agreed, quite an unnecessarily dickish thing to say. I'm glad he said it, it was obvious he was tapped up by the the scouse scum ages ago, despite the hand wringing going on in here. Fuck off and good riddance.

Sounds rather ominous. Weirdly, just a few minutes ago I read an article claiming that the thing about mass lemming suicides is a myth. To perpetuate said myth Walt Disney personally threw handfuls of them over a cliff and clapped with glee as they tumbled to their watery death. Its true (well, sort of), watch 'White Wilderness'. Yeah, that's what I was reading about.

He's got what he wanted -- more money at a richer club and a higher profile in Spain. Hope he collides with Carroll on the training ground and they both break a leg.

Sounds rather ominous. Weirdly, just a few minutes ago I read an article claiming that the thing about mass lemming suicides is a myth.

Just need to convince him the club's looking good and is definitely not an utter shambles. Job done If that's what it will take to get a performance I would leave him at home and play someone who hasn't got a pet lip on. Every chance we could get something from this game if players who want to play are involved. Years since I heard anyone use that expression. Brilliant!

Before she met my dad, my mam went out with a player from Cowdenbeath. When I worked at Dunn's garage on the Great North Road, Malcolm MacDonald would stop to fill up his Mercedes on the way home from a game. He always gave me a 20p tip. When I worked late at Newcastle Airport, I would get a cab home from Bobby Moncur's mini-cab company. Bobby himself would sometimes be driving the cab. He was playing for Sunderland at the time. Friend of mine is a mate of Michael Bridges. I once took the piss out of Paul Gascoigne at a party.

I remember Arsenal selling their then best striker to Real Madrid for a vast sum not that long ago. And it's definitely part of Levy's plan for Tottenham to sell players if an offer comes in that is vastly more than the club's valuation.

The symptoms of Second Season Syndrome will almost certainly be masked by those of Newcastle United Syndrome.

If he signs a contract that's the same as the one the club originally offered him, I'd say it's a draw.

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00210/Pg-06-easter-island_210646a.jpg

Recent managers, maybe not. But Ossie Ardiles (unwisely, as it turned out) staked his whole strategy on young players, many of whom (Watson, Clarkie, Elliott etc) went on to become key players for Keegan.

I think his actions over the past few months have shown that he lacks leadership. He has desire but it is mostly self-centred. I would be happier if he left as I don't think he's as interested in the team's future as his own, and with so many new players to bed in, he's shown little interest in helping them acclimatise. Agree. It's a ridiculous dilemma that we as a club have a habit of creating. How do you deal with a situation where the most potent attacking player at the club could let you down at any time? Bellamy comes to mind tbh. Whatever is said about JB his talent or something close to it needs replacing, and there's a debate in itself on that topic. All this. I finally began to warm to him last season. Now he just seems like a self-centred bellend who is probably more trouble than he's worth.

Aye. Change it to "tosser" Or "Tosser whose words loads of people on here instantly took as gospel".

:lol: Witch hunt time! That poster over there! Yes, him!! He didn't slag off Llambias sufficiently!!! Someone get a rope!!!! Morons.

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Players have to be tricky to get the move they want and still hang on to their loyalty bonus.

If it has to be fucking Liverpool, I'd like the club to play it the way Liverpool played the Torres/Carroll end-of-window business: "The price of our player is the cost of this replacement we have lined up." I get the impression, though, that Liverpool have essentially spunked their wad for this window.