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Couldn't afford 8.5m obviously Much better than shelling straight out for him. They can see how good he is with little consequence this way. It is a loan till the end of the season, with a contract to exchange the 9m then - it is a tax dodge by West Brom, similar to the one they pulled with Kusczak and Man United. There's no escaping it, we're legally bound to pay the money for him after a season.

Been telling you Young will play for England this year for ages. Top news for the lad.

I wonder who CurtisSteigersDavies is?

I'm going to comment that I too have seen him.

Someone post a rumour on that BBC page about having seen Brazillian striker Diego Swarfega at Gatwick.

I was going to say Harewood, but then 3.75m for a fourth choice striker is fine if you've got the money. However, for my money, the worst 3 or 4 signings have all been made by Sunderland - Richardson, Jones, Chopra. I actually think Gordon will prove a good one. Bent is massively overpriced, as well.

That is shocking. Nice work finding that, Wullie. I love "I just want people who are commiitted to the football club to stay and work at the football club" LISTEN TO YOURSELF, SAMMY LEE, YOU TOAD-FACED TARD, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? *twitches*

The person who mentioned "for sure" on the previous page is spot on, too, except it isn't just football people, it is every foreign person who does not speak English as their first language. Every single one of them.

With the window closing tomorrow, I'm wondering whether Mellberg will remain at the football club. Hopefully MON will bring some players in to the football club, having sold some players who didn't want to play for the football club. Obviously. Like.

Had that on here, does my fucking head in!! Isn't it remarkable? It has got to the point now where, when I see an interview with him start, I want to turn off, but I can't, I'm absolutely fucking transfixed, waiting for him to say it. I have a similar thing with Gabby Agbonlahor and the word "obviously" (he starts EVERY sentence he every mutters with the word). I need a lie down.

Sammy Lee interview showing on SSN at the moment, about 15 (seriously) mentions of "the football club", including a spell of - I kid you not - 4 in 10 seconds. Has he got Tourettes or something?

What's happening with Knight, he in jail yet? http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/30082007/1/knight-arrested-during-drug-raid.html Didn't take long to settle in the midlands. No settling required, he's from Aston, drugs and guns are in his blood.

Almost all prices paid this summer have been mental. He'll be thinking that that money for an excellent, young, U21 defender is value, given that Kenwynne Jones can go for 6m, and Spurs paid 5 rising to 10 for a 17 year old. We seem to be amassing a mix the current and the just-graduated England U21 side - NRC, Agbonlahor, Moore, Davies, Young, Carson, Cahill

would take Mellberg in a flash if he were available. Only complicating factor is that we still don't have a RB, and Mellberg plays there for Sweden - if we don't get one in, then we'll hang on to him as he's another option, but if we do get one in, then I wouldn't be surprised if he leaves (in the last year of his contract too, i think)

What's happening with Knight, he in jail yet? I fucking hope so. Preferably on the end of some lezza squaddie's leash in Abu Ghraib.

Villa apparently agreed fee with Baggies for Curtis Davies, 8.5m, deal to go through today. This suggests that Mellberg is on his way. He'll make a good signing for someone, I wouldn't be remotely surprised if he moved before the deadline ends.

There are rumours doing the rounds in Brum that Zat Knight has been arrested on drugs offences. Personally, I think MON has clearly been smoking crack, looking at this shitty fucking transfer window.

Under Big Ron, Villa once played a team including 9 black players. Not that that matters (skin colour, I mean).

If you have the same system we have (and I think you do, having seen some info posted here), then the turnstile operators only see whether the card is active and whether it is a concession or not, nothing about gender.

Crouch spoke at Lee Hendrie's leaving dinner a couple of months ago, and said that if he left Liverpool, he'd come back here like a shot. We'd never pony up the kind of cash they want for him, though. Don't they want 20m or something for him? Different regime or not, selling a player for 2m then buying him back a few years later for 10 times as much would be quite something.

Hmmmm ...... *thinks back not a long time* Milner, last summer? Had me confused for a while, I must say. I thought brummie must mean that too. I was thinking more along the lines of buying them and selling them off again before they'd even had a chance to prove themselves. Redknapp clearly doesn't think much of his own judgement and that would be a worry for a start. Yep, that's what I mean, although, you're right, totally different set of circumstances and thus totally incomparable, I was referring to a general sense of messing the player around (although I wonder if it is the other way around with Nugent). Only other example i can think of is us signing David Unsworth, then less than a month and no appearances later, selling him to Everton. What has gone on with Nugent? That's a bizarre state of affairs.

Hmmmm ...... *thinks back not a long time*

Having just seen Dyer's injury on SSN, I've come to the conclusion that it really isn't something to laugh at. Looked absolutely horrible.

Oh yes, I forgot about Forrester. Didn't we pay you something for him, though?

I'm not really bothered that Dyer has broken his leg. I'd rather he didn't, given the choice, and if something like that has to happen to a club, I am glad it is West Ham. I'm not going to gloat, but I'm not going to moralise either. However, i really hate references to "the PC brigade" which are almost always used as a justification to be horrible, racist, offensive, bigoted or xenophobic.