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I'm having the BEST week ever.

That Gareth Bale is going to get himself a move to a big club sooner rather than later.

Albrighton had a fantastic pre-season the summer before last, but then didn't get used in the season. If MON was still here, we'd probably have wasted 10m on McGeady and Albrighton wouldn't get a look-in. He's very promising, though.

Well I started to type this sort of response than.. well thought you know what.. some would aye but not as far as Villa went with us. When you say "as far as Villa went with us", you're referring to two banners, so two people, plus the usual gloating you'd have got at every single other ground in the league, had it happened there? Personally, I think banner making is a bit smalltime, but then again, I think overreacting to it is a bit smalltime as well. Shit happens, what's the point remaining bitter about it?

It is indeed. Unfortunately.

As I said at the time, the time to worry is when you get relegated and nobody bats an eyelid. To suggest there is some sort of niggly rivalry is a bit daft, to be honest.

It is UNLIKELY, not impossible, but unlikely that there will be fuckloads of songs sung during the game referring to their relegation, 3-4 banners taking the piss and some of our fans staying 10-15 mins after the game gloating. I think you'll find the reason they stayed back at the end of the game was more to do with the lap of honour, what with it being last game of the season, that to gloat, mate.

stop it man.. you will make yourself ill can't see him doing that bad (i'm in the "i don't see downing as being anything special" camp),much more concerned about ireland and young. Downing was cack last season. Rubbish. I'd put it down to him missing the first half through injury, making the move from Boro, out of comfort zone, all that. Whether or not that was true, it is too early to tell, but he played very well indeed on Saturday. Incidentally, West Ham were beyond awful. Well worth a few quid to go down. No shape, no idea, and worst of all, no spirit.

Delph. Looked really good when given a chance last year, but then did his cruciate. Back in the new year.

Young will probably play behind Carew (assuming Gabby unfit still). Cuellar is probably going to be fit, so I would suspect: Friedel Luke Young Cuellar Dunne Warnock Albrighton Ireland Petrov Downing Young Carew Looks a bit lightweight in the middle, mind. Lots of players left at home for tomorrow's trip to Vienna, mind, which suggests where our priorities are. I don't know why we bother, really, but hey ho. No Cuellar, Luke Young, Carew, Gabby, Dunne, or Petrov This fixture always seems to get played on a weekday evening or a fucking lunchtime. Annoying.

Rising to 29m with addons, by all accounts. Jesus titty wept. Just short of £30m for someone who's main attribute is "trying hard" He's more than that, he can use both feet too Don't get me wrong, he's a good player, he's just not worth that much. And for all the "see, Lerner's all about the money with the Milner deal" guff in the media, if that were the case, we would have insisted on straight cash. I like Ireland, he's what we've needed for a while, a central midfielder with a bit of nous, a bit of guile. Good deal.

Rising to 29m with addons, by all accounts.

Did anyone hear Dave Jones on TalkSport this morning? Without a doubt the worst outbreak of spurious "the football club" mentions EVER. Even beating Sammy Lee. I counted at least 7 or 8 uses of it in one sentence.

He's not even very good. And he's a nasty little fascist cunt, too, who, whilst he might fit in at a squalid right wing lunatic asylum like Lazio, we don't really want to see (back) here. "Didn't know the significance of it", my fucking arse.

According to everything I've read, no. Milner's agent confirmed it as a no a few weeks back.

I was never really convinced by Mark Draper. Garry Parker was underrated. I always thought Milner was shite.

Bosnich Staunton McGrath Laursen Delaney Merson Barry -> I would put Ian Taylor, but I think that's just emotional attachment. Young Atkinson Yorke Saunders Manager: Big Fat Ron. His first season was my favourite season following football, and that includes 80-1, 81-2 That midfield would get crucified, but I want those three up top.

Fifth in the all-time-points-won-since-football-invented-in-1992 table, actually.

Christ, how out of their depth do they look? Bit disturbing really, as they look so decent in the league, but they look like they're shitting themselves.

Evening all. Anything worth watching on the telly tonight?

Either that, or keep Young and get even more quality into their squad. I wasn't aware Ashley Young was even being sold.

I know. If MON was still here, I would bet everything I own - everything - on him trying to buy McGeady and Jenas with that money. Not to mention the cartwheeling gimp. I'd have put up with that one, actually. Is he really that past it?

I know. If MON was still here, I would bet everything I own - everything - on him trying to buy McGeady and Jenas with that money.

Personally, I'd go and spend a bit on Flamini, and a lot on a striker.

Apparently, the full deal is 16.5m + Add ons to take it to 19m + Ireland, with Ireland valued at 10m. and City are paying him 1.5m to leave. Madness. I just don't get City, they get fixated on players and must, simply must, have them, without that much regard to the long term investment on the players and what they're going to do with them. In the last 12 months, we'll have had (assuming add ons come in as above) 26m plus Richard Dunne plus Stephen Ireland from them, in return for Barry and Milner. That's good business, I don't care how it looks to sell players to them two years running, look at what Barry was like the last 12 months, and tell me that's anything other than good business.