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I think Malbranque and Chimbonda would have been an improvement on what we have but obviously they are not what were looking for. I'd say the 4 are very good buys for Sunderland, definetly improving on what they have.

Yep.

Gutierrez not playing due to his registration issues.

If we're relying on Milner's crossing & corner taking next season, we're fucked. Might be wrong but didn't Guthrie take some corners for Bolton?

I thought he had to do the shortened 3 weeks regardless?

He has to complete military service in Turkey before the deal can go through.

Please tell me that Wigan away is fake. It's possibly the most vile football shirt I have ever seen.

from where? Injury.

Highlights of games would cost extra money to broadcast on TV (because of the existing TV deals) so you'd need a very large subscriber list to make it viable. As already stated MUTV do this but that channel makes a loss. If a deal was done with Setanta then would the extra cost only be for games shown on sky sports ? I would imagine also that any highlights would have to be shown after Sky had done their highlights bit. We'd have to negotiate a deal directly with the Premier League to be able to show highlights. We wouldn't get them on the cheap either, we'd have to pay comaprable rates to what SKY and BBC pay i.e we show highlights of 1 out of 10 games per weekend (our game basically) then we'd have to pay roughly 10% of what Sky and the BBC pay per weekend. I imagine these costs alone would make the channel impossible to run making a profit.

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Hope to god he doesn't sign for Spurs. Anybody but Spurs.

Pretty impressed with 3-1.

Just some of my random thoughts on other clubs summer transfers. - Hull City have done brilliantly so far. Brought in 6 players, 5 of whom have premiership experience (admittedly to varying degress of success). Look to be hot on the trail of King and Meite. Really impressed with them as despite me having a soft spot for them I thought they would certainly go down, now I think they are giving themsleves a chance to stay up. - Spurs look set to ruin a potentially very good summer. Modric and Gomes especially should do well for them but any progress they make will be instantly ruined if they sell Berbatov and Keane. Also rumours say Chimbonda and Malbranque could be on their way out and in my opinion they are both important players for Spurs especialy if they want to compete in 4 competitions. - What a load of rubbish Fulham are signing. Can't believe they paid £6.3m for Zamora (who scored 1 goal last season) and Pantsil (who started 7 games in 2 years).

What else in general does Keegan say on the Wolrd interview?

Get your facts right. The first mention of a Guthrie deal came at about Midday on Friday when the Liverpool Echo reported a bid had been accepted then the deal was announced as official by 8pm that night by us. Also another club was involved in the Gutierrez deal because he had to hand in his notice to Mallorca several days after the season finished.

Content at the moment. Just waiting to see how everything plays out.

Also when have we had a press conference for a new signing since the takeover?

Frings over Butt anyday... We should be looking to replace Butt with someone younger though, not 32. Frings would no doubt want a two-year contract which means we'dd be stuck with him until he was 34.

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Don't think anyone can answer that question.

In a way I'm glad I wasn't completely sold on him due to his poor form in the last season or two and his injury record. There are certainly less risky buys out there. Also I'm not totally sure we were actually after him. We've been doing our transfer business very quietly since the Ashley takeover so I'd be surprised if a deal leaked to the press when it wasn't imminent. Can see it possibly being the agent hyping up the rumours to get more money.

IF we do sign I'd be cautiously optimistic. If he can regain his form then he'd be an absolute steal at £7m but it feels like we've been here before, signing a big name player who hasn't been at the top of his game for atleast a year or two and who has had a few injury problems. I really do hope if we sign him he comes good but as I say I'm not getting too carried away.

Yes. I've seen Krul on a number of occasions and he is miles better than Forster and has the potential to in a year or two be as good or better than Harper and Given imo.

It's Aimar NEWCASTLE - Have made a £7 million offer for Pablo Aimar at Zaragoza. He has chosen the Toon over Portsmouth and Benfica with Sunderland also keen. Why is that of interest to Rovers? No idea. I'm just showing off.

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