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I don't get it. It doesn't make ANY sense. At all. Why sell a player doing a decent job who probably isn't even on much wages and would probably be happy not being a guaranteed starter? Is it just that Mike Ashley is allergic to stability?

It's getting around to being just utter stupidity at this point.

According to the local press Sunderland are very close to losing out to PSV for Ji Dong-Won. Ji wants to go to the Mackems but his club seem to be trying to force him to PSV because they've made a higher bid. It's like their version of Gameiro, only in reverse and involving a (probably) crappier player.

Don't know about Hodgson at Liverpool, Big Sam at Newcastle was hardly this bad. A lot of us were very happy with the appointment, myself included.

I never said Kevin Nolan not playing was correlated 1:1 with us not winning, and never claimed to be doing so. I just got annoyed because people seemed readily straw man me into that in order to respond with the usual platitudes about "statistics, LOL" And I don't have a career in statistics. Thank God

Here's a broader rant: it pisses me off to no end how people think "statistics aren't perfect" = "statistics are useless" As a tool of analysis statistics are never going to give you the 100% perfect picture and if you rely solely on them you are going to come to some pretty screwed up conclusions, but too many take some snippets they've learned about how statistics are flawed and expand it to this really annoying "I'm cleverer than the numbers" attitude. Nobody intelligent relies entirely on statistics, but nobody intelligent tries to make it out like they're some kind of voodoo either.

I think it's a fairly robust indicator that there's a strong chance that the presence of Kevin Nolan within our team has a significant influence on our probability of getting a positive result from our matches. That's the fully qualified version, but thanks for setting up something like four straw mans for me without even asking.

See, I expected this. You English football fans and your pathological dislike of anything statistical. "Stats don't mean anything, my baseless conjecture is much more reliable."

We won 0 of 8 games without Nolan last season.

Granted, It's probably worth 15m over five years if he scores 20 goals and takes them up next season. Absolutely shocking contract in the abstract though. This deal sucks for us and sucks for them.

Wait, so Ronaldo was actually being sincere? Have I just whooshed myself massively here?

Have WHU actually given him 5 years? So much for learning from the mistakes of relegation.

A short, cunt-ish reply from Ronaldo. Wow. Never seen that one before.

Jonas has been the only "flair" player in our squad for a good two and a half years now without actually being a "flair" player. You have to sympathize. We'd be mad to sell him

Would he have been happy to have been a squad player though? For what it's worth he's quoted as saying yes.

I liked where Barton was at the beginning of the season. Then he went and had a great spell for a few months and went back to the self-aggrandizing idiot we all know and love.

Why does everyone always feel the need to take the most extreme position? Why does every player have to be either godlike or not worthy of the shirt?

Weird isn't it, you'd think he'd scored 30 goals for us from centre midfield in the last 2 seasons or something. Jesus, the way people drool all over Kevin Nolan you'd think he'd scored a hat trick against Sunderland or somehting.

http://www.whufc.com/articles/20110615/two-new-signings_2236884_2376810 Dear God, please let the other one be Smith.

Didn't Brummie disappear for something like a month after the 6-0? This might be good for about a year and a half I think

It's funny how people have emotions about football. Let's get rid of all football fans and replace them with androids.

Good to see Aston Villa doing their best to fill the void we left. (or have we?)

We're probably four really good players off having an outside shot at the top six but we're an infinity away from getting anywhere near fourth place. There's a big difference.

Was very "meh" about this yesterday. "PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE SIGN HIM" today.

Being a true bipolar football fan, If that happens, I'll go delete all my sappy posts.