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Word down here is that Villa and Everton were both after him, but he wanted 100k a week, and wasn't prepared to countenance pay as you play style sensibleness, which quite rightly made O'Neill run a mile.

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Shame he's got the mobility of a tortoise as if he did have any speed about him, he could have developed into top top class MF. Is he that immobile, MJ? Mind you, having said that, Gareth Barry has as much pace as I do (and I only ever break into a trot to get beer from the fridge) (oh, and to answer the door for the delivery man from the Ali Baba).

When Birmingham got relegated the last time, i was delighted for about 2 weeks, then i totally forgot they even existed.

Parker and Sidwell were found out at the very top level though, far too limited as players. Alternatively, he could be eased into the team and his talent will show. He's a hell of a player to bring on near the 70th minute mark when chasing the game. Sidwell has been found out at our current definitey-not-top level, too

Exactly. I suspect Chelsea are doing with him exactly what they did with Sidwell, get out of contract player on the cheap, do what you said, then move him on for a profit next season. How much will he cost them? £5m? There's some wittering about a tribunal set fee, but I think they always set shit money, like that Crystal Palace kid who went to (I think) Glorious Tottenham, whose fee was set at about 12 grotes.

Exactly. I suspect Chelsea are doing with him exactly what they did with Sidwell, get out of contract player on the cheap, do what you said, then move him on for a profit next season.

Gordon can't get a game for Sunderland most of the time, I'd expect Harper to have a shout there. For my money, he's a bit like Stuart Taylor (how weird is that, incidentally, anyway) - not a bad keeper, not brilliant, just a bog standard "goalkeeper"

Stuart Taylor joins Manchester City (he was our third choice goalkeeper). I guess he wanted Champions League football like that fat arsed cunt Barry. Strange move, though, esp with Hart rumoured to be going to Birmingham on loan for the season.

Club sells player to other club, then signs him back, then sells him again in about 9 months and it isn't a shambles? *strokes metaphorical beard. Metaphorically*

I think this indicates the departure of Mascherano/Alonso or even both. What a knob end Rafa is. You don't win the league by selling players like those two but spunking 18m on a full back. Reminds me of this http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/benitez-handed-%A320m-to-piss-straight-up-a-wall-200905211777/ Oh and poor Gareth Barry seeing Rafa refuse to spend that figure on him, then spending it on a striker he didn't actually rate, then a year later doing it again on a bog standard, average full back.

18m on a full back, for a club which is in troubled financial straits? Mental.

Here you go Awesome sleuthing there, he's a regular one-man Woodward and Bernstein, isn't he? Keith Harris is involved in pretty much EVERY takeover of a PL club by foreigners.

Good Lord alive. What the fuck is that?

Neither am I. But I can differentiate between giving s*** to someone and arguing with them. wasnt aiming it at you tbh Sorry, I wasn't aiming at you either (if it sounded a bit arsey of me).

Neither am I. But I can differentiate between giving shit to someone and arguing with them.

One of them will be Reo-Coker. Great tackler, niggly awkward fucker breaking things up, but entirely incapable of passing the ball to his conjoined twin, let alone someone standing 5 yards away.

Who is Joe Rogan? Whoever he is, I bet Spurs are "tracking" him and his entire family are ST holders at White Hart Lane. In fact, I bet Levy and a couple of other blokes in suits (occupying jobs which, if they worked for any other club in the world, nobody would have a frigging clue who they were, but as it is Spurs, we get to hear their 'ITKs' going on and on about them all summer, talking about them like they're latter day kingmakers) are right now flying into whichever city he lives in in a bid to sign him. OK, sorry, I'll knock it on the head now. Still, who is he?

You might feel that way, and you'd be entitled to your opinion. All available evidence points to it being a totally incorrect stance, though.

tbf Wiki is a perfectly valid source as long as the articles actually have sources. See that post, that's one straight from the "post loads of HAHAHA smilies around a point, in an attempt to distract from the fact that, actually, there is no point at all" school. :dowie: :dowie: :dowie: :dowie:

I assume you mean "than sixth", but yes, you are right it is, so is 5th the actual cut-off point to challenging the top four? Have you decided that because it fits your past? "decided to wave the white flag" - yes that's right, we just thought "fuck this, we can't be bothered", that was what it was and not the cumulative result of a season that started in early July with one of the smallest squads in the league. Where were Spurs in mid January, by the way? Were you in or out of the bottom 4 or 5? It is about where you finish on the last day. We've finished 6th the last two seasons, you've finished 8th and 11th. Go figure. So, I will ask again, why is us buying Harewood so funny, given your experience with Pavyluchenko? The statistics are in my post a few posts up. I won;t bore myself by repeating them yet again, I am sure you can find them. Based on what? The fact that you won the Carling Cup? You said yourself a few pages ago that you believe your transfer activity to have been a joke over recent years. Why have you suddenly changed your mind?

What is an absolute banker is that if someone does give you 4m for Alan Smith, Spurs will find a foreign based player (Alanikov Smithchenko?) who will be equally shit but cost three times as much, but OMG! their transfer windows are to die for

So what is this about: Someone else says something about Cuellar, so KD refuses to try to answer the questions in my post? Come on, KD, surely you can summon up a cogent, well put argument which doesn't consist of "OMFG!! UR SO SHIT!!! NRC IS A WANKAH!!!!"

Much as I love to say it, that's exactly what everyone was saying this time last year.

When you finished fifth, it constituted "making a serious challenge to the top four", but when someone else finishes 6th, well, that's a different kettle of fish. I don't really know how that works. I also don't understand your point in the above post about Cuellar, whose post are you referring to now? And are you ever going to answer my point about: Pavyluchenko - 14 million pounds - 29 PL games (19 starts) - 5 goals Harewood - 4 million pounds - 29 PL games (1 start) - 5 goals Can you not see the irony in you laughing at our signing of Harewood? And when we flog him this summer, we'll have lost about 2m on him. Do you reckon you'll get someone to give you 12m for Pavyluchenko? I don't.