OzzieMandias

I guess the answer is "dull".

I think we can afford to match the spending of any club. What we lack is the Ambition to take financial risk. What's the weather like on your planet?

Where did the club suggest that this news would excite fans?

Divvent be daft, man. If we sell Tiote to Chelsea it will have nothing to do with them being able to offer CL football and outbid any other club bar Man City in terms of fees and wages, and everything to do with Mike Ashley being a money-grubbing liar who will trouser the proceeds to pay for his nights out at the casino.

It does make me laugh the way people who can't fathom the club's current strategy regularly and proudly announce that it's beyond them how anyone can possibly disagree with their opinion -- as if the poster's inability to see the other side of the argument is somehow proof of anything but their own mental limitation.

Sometimes people put out a press release with an "embargo" on it -- the information must not be released until such and such a time. It's a way of achieving maximum impact with an announcement. Media companies will not usually break such an embargo because, if they do, they won't be getting any more information or cooperation from the same source.

FYP.

So which team gets the players from Birmingham?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jul/13/joey-barton-newcastle-bargain-buy

Well, at least a few posters were able to get in a good dollop of pointless moaning between our denial and their denial.

Call me a cunt, then, but it's a shite haircut.

While in the very same article also having a moan ("How much does the club remain in debt to Mike Ashley?") about the consequences of him already having put in a shitload.

How would we get back to being a CL team under a different owner?

Nothing new there, then.

What for? Wanting to go to a more ambitious club? Play for his country? Not deciding or giving an indication of what he bloody wants, leaving the club hamstrung by his silence? At the moment, the way it stands, he'd be leaving in a similliar manner as Michael Owen did. Tell the fans you will consider signing new contract at the end of the season but, in truth, even a blind man could see that the intention is to leave all along. And departure is compounded by saying fuck all at the end. Nice. He's been making his intention as clear as if he'd handed in a transfer request, but he's hoping to hang on to his loyalty bonus.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/8611865/Fair-Play-rules-leave-clubs-with-unwanted-players-in-a-dormant-market.html

If we sell all our players we won't have any players!!!

I think he's going to be our version of the "false nine" – like Messi or Tevez, in their different ways – and, yes, should wear the No.10 shirt.

Some people really work hard at finding things to worry about!

So given that they don't want you, Jose, how about signing a new contract?

What a name Hughton will now be looking for a player called Hook to be his captain.

You notice that whoever did the comic couldn't actually fucking spell "Liver Bird".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_bird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liver_Birds so I was right then Half right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_bird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liver_Birds