Mick

Or it could be somebody stirring shit like they were earlier in the season when TrueFaith and Mort both suggested that they knew who it was. One person talks a load of bollocks and the others report it.

Some of our fans are as bad as those who print this shite, no wonder they print so much crap when so many lap it up. If we don't have any problems then plenty of people seem only too happy to create them.

The positions since 1993 have nothing to do with the ambitions of the club, the record breaking bid for Modric has, care to discuss that?

I must be missing something.

It must have been strong stuff tonight.

Those positions have never been in doubt, care to provide a link to backup what you're saying about the positions being the same or whatever it is you're trying to get across? I doubt it.

It seems to gone over a few people’s heads that the fee we offered for Modric was a club record yet we're accused of lacking ambition, crazy.

Apart from the top 4, none of the others have a realistic chance of winning anything, yes the two cups will have been won by a team outside of the top 4 but that's just like Everton finishing 4th once, it's a rare occurrence and is no more likely to happen next year than any other year in the last 10 or 15 years. We're not in Europe next season while some of the teams above us are, I'd be very surprised if some of the teams above us have more to offer than we do because I doubt some of the teams above us will be in that position for too long. I doubt Martin O'Neill is that well known outside of Britain, the same goes for Redknapp, Hughes (to a lesser extent) and Curbishley. The comments by Keegan will be forgotten about within a couple of weeks and I doubt many foreign players have even picked up what was said. Which of those former England managers were the ones that succeeded? Anyway, this argument is stupid, we’re obviously shit and are doomed for next season.

Thanks again.

You do realise that the point I was making is that we may not have won anything for a long time and it doesn't make a difference when trying to sign players. The fact that you say we couldn't attract players closer to 1969 but have been able to more recently does my point no harm at all, thanks for that.

NUFC in 2004 were 14th in the league so the opportunity of silverware wasn't as good as it is now although the difference in negligible but it still exists. I'm struggling how you can use money as an issue since we've been turned down by 2 players who were offered more to come here but chose not to for whatever reason. As for Keegan and England, he was given that job on merit and people will know him because of it. Keegan being out of the game for 3 years will not change the fact that he’s a big name manager.

Your stupid repetitive question is irrelevant, the point is that we've won nothing since 1969 and it hasn't stopped us from signing players. We even signed your favourite player and a player who became your favourite manager, the then England captain between 1969 and 1993.

Thanks, that's as good as a no.

I don't think I am missing the point, since 1969 we've been unable to offer anybody a recent history of winning anything yet we've still attracted players right up until this time, regardless of what others have done in that time. We've been able to attract players while we've has poor managers and other clubs have had good managers and we have got financial clout as we're still outbidding our competitors. For some reason we've lost out on two possible transfers but things like that have happened all of the time, we'll also sign some players and hopefully we'll attract some good ones, I doubt a single player will turn us down because of what Keegan has said. Keegan has been England manager, I'll stand by my thinking that he'd come into the category of being a big name.

Do you think something has happened over the last 10 months to cause the problem we now seem to have when trying to attract players? Give it your best shot.

No answer I guess, same as how happy you are that we've climbed up the league this season while also bringing in a better manager than we had.

I'll also direct the last question to you regarding finances. As for recent silverware, how has that changed recently? As for good recent history, what do you call recent? Europe, that's been dealt with but the penny doesn't seem to have dropped for some reason. I've already mentioned what Souness did when he was here and he only had Europe because of the manager before him and we only brought in Boumsong, Babayaro and Faye while we did have that. After that we had a 14th position with a shite manager and managed to bring in Owen, Parker, Luque and Emre. All of these players were highly rated before they came here although not all worked out. High profile manager, we've got one. Undisputable ambition, Keegan has said that he is going for 5th place next season, how many other managers have come out this week and claimed that they were going for 5th or above?

And we outbid Spurs for both Woodgate and Modric proves that how?

And the facts are?

And I guess that you are happier than last season when we finished 13th?

My point is that we can still compete cash wise, you said we couldn't, I said we could and have mentioned how. We are in no less a position of strength than before as we've got the same to offer regarding Europe (nowt) but still have cash to offer. Keegan will be more of a draw than Souness ever could be so one thing hasn't changed and one has for the better.

I know what you're doing.

What do you think about this season?

I could have sworn that our last two knock backs were from players who were offered more to come here than to go elsewhere so we can clearly compete when money comes into it. Souness did have Europe to offer but that was only during his first transfer window in January 2004, we also had players fighting on the pitch and Bellamy calling Souness a liar on TV, hardly anything to give potential signings a reason to sign for us. We didn't have the 5th strongest squad either and Souness often complained that it was "paper thin." As for what he's said, he'll not be repeating that in negotiations, at least I very much doubt it.