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We beat Liverpool and Tottenham and drew with Man Utd. Perhaps we'd win.

I don't know what to argue against there like. If that's such an issue, it seems like a better idea to fix the game, rather than allow it to affect how we structure tournaments. As it stands today, if a team has found a way to beat another team, I don't have any problem with how they do it.

Which is why we have separate cup competitions. The best team in the country should be decided over the course of a league campaign, as it has been since 1888. Change is it good. So as I said, it just depends what you want. You want the categorical best team over 10 months to be the champion, so you go league. Others would prefer the team that can perform in high pressure situations, against the best teams in the league. Both are reasonable enough IMO. Personally, I'm bored as fuck with football, so would take playoffs just for the lols.

Explain. Barcelona have done pretty well in cup competitions like. I don't find them to be negative.

Depends what you want innit. Playoffs are fun, a great spectacle etc. They don't give you the best team in the league, but they give you the team that performs the best against top opposition, with a heavy sprinkling of random chance. It's not like it's that hard to comprehend why it's fun. People enjoy the FA cup and the Champions League finals...

Been awhile since I've seen the old, "I can't be racist, I have a black mam" excuse.

We've got Sterry man. He's knocking on the door.

Not a lot admittedly I do think though that Bellamy's track record with things off the pitch was quite a bit better than Berahino's at the same point of their careers, and hadn't fallen out with any of his managers to nearly the same extent as Berahino has thus far. This should be factored into the fee, which I don't believe it is if we are planning on a bid for £18 million. Bellamy didn't cost £18 million. Bellamy cost £6.5m in 2001. I don't have 'average fee' data over the years, so I thought I'd reference the British transfer record instead. At that time Rio Ferdinand was the most expensive British transfer at £29,100,000. Nowadays that record goes to Gareth Bale, at £85,300,000. That is 2.93 times how much Rio cost. Bellamy's £6.5m * 2.93 = £19,053,265. So you're right. We shouldn't be paying £18m, we should be paying £19m. I don't agree with using Bale as the most expensive British transfer - it's Real Madrid doing the buying in that instance and their spending power is far greater than any of the British clubs. Bale is also the most expensive player in the world, not just Britain, and an anomaly in the sense that he is the only British player to my knowledge to hold that particular accolade. Zidane, his equivalent in 2001, went for £45 million - 50% more than Ferdinand, the most expensive British player. If you instead use the most expensive player bought by a British club as the benchmark - Angel di Maria at £59.7 million (ignoring Martial and his weird add-ons until they kick into play further down the line) - di Maria works out at 2.051 times the price of Rio, which would lower Bellamy's modern day fee to £13,335,052. Jesus Christ. This coming from the man who just dug out the biggest transfer fee we received in 2001? Appreciate I was splitting hairs a bit in the previous post but at least let me get things back to Berahino: - If we're using the sum we paid Coventry for Bellamy in 2001 as a yardstick for Berahino's relative worth, I don't think £19 million is a good deal. - Regardless of what it would cost to sign Berahino, I simply don't like the guy. Pulis is probably the last guy I'd want to bring a talented youngster through the ranks but there's a real arrogance about Berahino that grates (as odd as it sounds, that FA Cup game against a lower league side where he scored 4 goals and couldn't even crack a smile springs to mind - as if the game was completely beneath him. He also got into a fight with James Morrison, who's hardly Roy bloody Keane). I know he's young, but his attitude seems a million miles away from those in his peer group - the likes of Kane, Barkley, Dier, Stones who all come across as consummate professionals despite their age. We have quite a likable squad at the moment who are beginning to turn it around on the pitch; I'm not sure I'd want to risk disrupting that by bringing in a bad egg. I rate McClaren as a coach but less so as a man-manager and I'd question his ability to get a talented but rebellious youngster on the straight and narrow. So you like Kane, Barkley, Dier and Stones, but you hate Berahino. I wonder what those 4 players have in common, that Berahino does not. I wonder if there's something different about him. Hmmm. http://i.imgur.com/SapANEE.jpg

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£41.5 million each Many Spurs fans say Andros Townsend reminds them of a modern day Ruel Fox, who actually used to play for NUFC. We signed Ruel Fox from Norwich City for £2.25m in 1994. At that time, the British record transfer was £5.5m, recouped for Paul Gascoigne, sold by (would you believe it) Tottenham Hotspur. The current transfer record is held by Real Madrid, when they purchased Gareth Bale, who was ALSO sold by Tottenham Sellspurs, this time for a handsome fee of £85.3 million. That's a multiplier of 15.51! And Gazza was better tbh. Which means, with regards to Andros Townsend a.k.a. the modern day Ruel Fox, we should be looking to bid somewhere in the region of £34.9 million. (2.25 * 15.51 = 34.9) Which still wouldn't take us anywhere near £100m in January, assuming Berahino goes for the rightful price of £19m.

"Unfortunately, due to Cheik Tiote failing to agree terms on his £4m transfer to Shanghai Shenhua, we have been unable to proceed with the £141m purchase of Saido Berahino from West Bromwich Albion. But we really tried this time. Maybe we'll sign him in the summer instead? We'll definitely try. RENEW YOUR SEASON TICKET." http://i.imgur.com/kONvBkZ.jpg

They paid £200,000 a week to a 33 year old Didier Drogba and this cunt can't agree a wage? Dense as fuck, wor Cheik.

I like it.

Please ignore the fact that Rio wasn't until 2002 and Veron was the most expensive in 2001 at £28,100,000. Which obviously would increase the Berahino fee.

Bellamy didn't cost £18 million. Bellamy cost £6.5m in 2001. I don't have 'average fee' data over the years, so I thought I'd reference the British transfer record instead. At that time Rio Ferdinand was the most expensive British transfer at £29,100,000. Nowadays that record goes to Gareth Bale, at £85,300,000. That is 2.93 times how much Rio cost. Bellamy's £6.5m * 2.93 = £19,053,265. So you're right. We shouldn't be paying £18m, we should be paying £19m.

Fucking BBC. Norwich sign Klose! weww *click* Norwich have signed Switzerland defender Timm Klose from German side Wolfsburg for an undisclosed fee.

They're nee Tranquillo like

God knows what kind of contract he's on here if he can't agree to terms with Shanghai Shenhua like.

I declare that to be a reasonable post.

i must've missed the part where ben arfa sulked and went on strike

he scored a hattrick against Reading

He has Premier League experience, and he certainly isn't an unseasoned young 'un. He fits the bill perfectly for some people around here. 5.5 year deal 80k p/w should do it.

mike is intimidated by confident, successful women

cos his breakable legs got shawcross suspended for 3 games

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