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What do Spurs fans do about getting a shirt now they have two sponsors? Just go for the league one I guess...

It looks to me more like taking advantage of a situation than an actual tapping up.

I paid something like £9 to get into Maidenhead Utd, I was outraged.

If it's gone that far it's promising news. A bit of a weird move from the lad's point of view though.

The advantage of not signing any expensive/established/good players might be that we gain a reputation as a place where young players have a chance to get some football. Straws clutched.

For this reason I'm surprised he weasled his way out of Everton like he did. He could have easily signed a fairly lucrative contract while injured then engineered himself a move in Jan or next summer.

Suarez has been just as important as Forlan, Uruguay would be out if he hadn't saved that Ghana shot.

Oldtype, that's massively pessimistic! If "our goal is basically to achieve fuck all" means to just stay in the Premiership, then surely that applies to everyone outside of the top 8 or 10 teams?

Yeah for sure, but that only applies to up-and-coming players.

Vancouver is not a bad shout. Not a bad idea, especially since they play in Summer.

11 year deal please.

This time next year, if we are established in the Premiership, we'll start to become attractive to better players again (although we won't be able to afford them). At the moment it's a big risk joining us.

True, definitely not a reflection of their general behaviour.

Just indulging in the normal pre-season speculation. A lot less so than normal to be fair.

Basically this, Ghana could have won it this year, with Essien they might have got even closer.

Do you think? To me it seems like he'll be seen as too young to be thrown straight in, especially if we're struggling.

Wouldn't be a progressive step, you need the next top keeper, not one on the way out.

That's what you want like, a player who wants to come to your team because "Paris is Paris". He sounds like exactly the sort of guy who Sunderland shouldn't be signing anyway.

Midfielder that can run, striker with pace and some cover on the wing and we'll stay up imo. You're probably right, at least it looks like Hughton has identified our criminal lack of athleticism in midfield... that's what the PL is all about. how does it look like that, from the paper rumours or is there something more substantial i'm unaware of? The signing of Perch plus the rumours, that's it really.

The new Arsenal CB looks a bit of a bruiser.

Midfielder that can run, striker with pace and some cover on the wing and we'll stay up imo. You're probably right, at least it looks like Hughton has identified our criminal lack of athleticism in midfield... that's what the PL is all about.

If we sign more than one midfielder who can actually run, I might explode.

This is basically my situation... I only watch a tiny handful of TV shows, none regularly. If I could pay £15-£20 to add Sky Sports to my Freeview subscription I would do it in a shot.

I'm a bit wary of signing up for SS1/2 through another provider, in case Sky decide to move all their programs to other channels. Do you reckon this has any chance of happening?

First game. Christmas. Really depends on results. If we're safe from relegation I'll enjoy the end!