Joe_F

Yup

Who is Simon Pryde? Anchor of BBC Total Sport. Good on him tbh. His boss deserves to be dropped in it.

Be amazed and ecstatic if we got de Jong.

Thank fuck for that. So all this shite was because a journalist saw some scout at the match.

£6 mill ?? Handy price if true.

He's out for the rest of the year with a fractured metatarsal : http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/news/newsid=1698440.html

Come on Cardiff

Eh??

Cisse extended his contract to the end of the season then he'll definitely be sold apparently. I thought something like that was the case. I'm not sure if we'd sign a striker in January and then another in next summers window though. Aye he's probably out of our price range anyway. To correct myself, before somebody else does, he didn't actually extend his contract but agreed a wage increase on the understanding he could leave at the end of the season.

Cisse extended his contract to the end of the season then he'll definitely be sold apparently.

He's out of contract next summer? According to Wikipedia he signed a 3-year deal in July 2009. Bingo

Aye he didn't have that bad a game but the fact remains he hasn't a clue how to defend a winger running at him. Bale in two weeks is going to be a nightmare.

Was that Santon on the byline hugging Jonas?

Aye in a 6-2 defeat.

Shola WTF !!!!

Get the fuck in

Cisse has signed a new contract with Freiburg but is allowed to leave next summer: http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12875_7181096,00.html Watched him play against Stuttgart on ESPN last night. Looked real quality in a shite Freiburg side. Would have suited us down to the ground.

He chooses the wrong option every single time. Get Marveaux on man

Well the lesson isn't specific to the last day of the transfer window. My point was that the example of Carroll wouldn't encourage Ashley or anyone else to pay over the odds or pay what is now being called 'a premium', for a player you've targeted. Unfortunately the valuation of players we set in almost every case is stubbornly/optimistically low in the first place. So it's not the case of paying a premium. The reason Carroll was eventually overvalued at £35 mill was because we the selling club supposedly didn't want to sell and Liverpool kept coming back. In all the deals we were interested in the clubs were willing to sell and had set a price but we wouldn't meet their comparatively fair valuation. Not 100% correct. In two of the cases (Erdnic and Gameiro) and we did meet their evaluation. But the players didn't want to leave France, or preferred Spain. Aye we find absolutely no problems matching valuations nice and promptly for players who say they don't want to come here. Funny that.

That depends on how you calculate the expenses. If we include agent fees, salaries during the contract period and sign on fees, we've used all the money. And a very, very important factor is that we used some of those money to tie down Tiote for 6,5 years. You're not under any illusions why that was done, surely? Only so we can extract the maximum fee when we sell him in 6 months.

Well the lesson isn't specific to the last day of the transfer window. My point was that the example of Carroll wouldn't encourage Ashley or anyone else to pay over the odds or pay what is now being called 'a premium', for a player you've targeted. Unfortunately the valuation of players we set in almost every case is stubbornly/optimistically low in the first place. So it's not the case of paying a premium. The reason Carroll was eventually overvalued at £35 mill was because we the selling club supposedly didn't want to sell and Liverpool kept coming back. In all the deals we were interested in the clubs were willing to sell and had set a price but we wouldn't meet their comparatively fair valuation.

Is that a fact? We could have brought in Maiga or Cisse and found out they're shite. I don't understand the attitude of spending lots of money = better. It was tried under Shepherd and the club was in bits by the end. Look at Leeds too. No of course it's not a fact but it makes it a hell of a lot more likely. That's what good scouting and backing the manager's judgement is all about. Using your logic we'd never buy a player ever again.

I'm taking full responsibility for our failings in the transfer market and have tendered my resignation. That might.

Predictably pathetic

Ruiz in a nutshell - fucking dick. At least stick to your own bullshit.