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It's just really hard to think of a player as s*** when he was quite recently the best striker in the world and is still only 26. Shame he turned out to be a complete idiot.

It's worked elsewhere (and you could argue here with Hall) - is there a fundamental reason why it can't work here? If you say "credit crunch" or some variation then can you tell me there are no more people rich enough, with non-diminished assets, or should I point a few out? Admittedly none of them have expressed any interest but theres nothing to stop them doing so. you are dumb. everyone has been affected by this. I think most "rich" people have suffered more than the average person as most of their wealth tends to be invested in the market, hedge funds and real estate. With the market down as much as it is. Most people at the high end of the spectrum have lost over half their wealth and are not currently in a position to make a luxury buy like a sporting club. Prove it. Investing in football clubs aside the idea that the rich have "suffered" is ridiculous - down to their last couple of billion - my heart bleeds. Also a s*** load of money was made by short selling - who gained from that? The rich may not be standing in line at the soup kitchen, but the desire to plunk 400 million initially and God knows how much in the long term into a football club abates considerably when you've just lost about half of your fortune. Roman apparently lost around 90% of his money during the crisis by the way. And by the summer or the end of the year he'll have it all back. I've not got your amazing powers of precognition, but lets just say I have my doubts as to whether every billionaire on Earth will magically recover all their losses by next summer. I've worked with financial software since the 80s - stocks and assets always bounce back and rise over time - it's just a question of how quickly. The more you have as a starting point (assuming they haven't sold out) means the quicker you recover. As I also said money was made from the collapse - some rich people somewhere either offset their losses or made money. Unless you've been "working on financial software" since the 30s, you have simply not seen anything of this magnitude. I'm not saying that it'll never recover and we're all fucked, just that it's presumptuous to assume anything about where the economy will be in a year.

Indeed. The whole Chimbonda thing is equally though.

It's worked elsewhere (and you could argue here with Hall) - is there a fundamental reason why it can't work here? If you say "credit crunch" or some variation then can you tell me there are no more people rich enough, with non-diminished assets, or should I point a few out? Admittedly none of them have expressed any interest but theres nothing to stop them doing so. you are dumb. everyone has been affected by this. I think most "rich" people have suffered more than the average person as most of their wealth tends to be invested in the market, hedge funds and real estate. With the market down as much as it is. Most people at the high end of the spectrum have lost over half their wealth and are not currently in a position to make a luxury buy like a sporting club. Prove it. Investing in football clubs aside the idea that the rich have "suffered" is ridiculous - down to their last couple of billion - my heart bleeds. Also a s*** load of money was made by short selling - who gained from that? The rich may not be standing in line at the soup kitchen, but the desire to plunk 400 million initially and God knows how much in the long term into a football club abates considerably when you've just lost about half of your fortune. Roman apparently lost around 90% of his money during the crisis by the way. And by the summer or the end of the year he'll have it all back. I've not got your amazing powers of precognition, but lets just say I have my doubts as to whether every billionaire on Earth will magically recover all their losses by next summer.

What did Kinnear say about Appiah? Oh and the spurs itk reporting that Appiah has rejected our 6 month contract offer and is looking for a longer deal. 1878 i think we asked for Baines or Lescott tbh. With Bale apparantly being loaned out, i guess lb is a priority (redknapp has said before that we're short on left backs). Shame you sold your best one in the summer.

It's worked elsewhere (and you could argue here with Hall) - is there a fundamental reason why it can't work here? If you say "credit crunch" or some variation then can you tell me there are no more people rich enough, with non-diminished assets, or should I point a few out? Admittedly none of them have expressed any interest but theres nothing to stop them doing so. you are dumb. everyone has been affected by this. I think most "rich" people have suffered more than the average person as most of their wealth tends to be invested in the market, hedge funds and real estate. With the market down as much as it is. Most people at the high end of the spectrum have lost over half their wealth and are not currently in a position to make a luxury buy like a sporting club. Prove it. Investing in football clubs aside the idea that the rich have "suffered" is ridiculous - down to their last couple of billion - my heart bleeds. Also a s*** load of money was made by short selling - who gained from that? The rich may not be standing in line at the soup kitchen, but the desire to plunk 400 million initially and God knows how much in the long term into a football club abates considerably when you've just lost about half of your fortune. Roman apparently lost around 90% of his money during the crisis by the way.

Certain things seem a bit suspicious. How on Earth did nobody notice him training with us for two months? Why does he seem to have no club affiliation at the moment? Why does the photo have him wearing a Toon training top in what seems like Brazil? Caio Vinícius Ferreira seems to be a fairly common Brazilian name so Google isn't helping me sort out what the deal is with this kid.

Everything played by Turkey at Euro 2008

This has knocked the NE5 v the world thread off the first page, by the way.

Surely his name should be Geordinho

Yeah, we should have waited until the full week was up so there wouldn't have been any chance of him being involved against Blackburn. If we had waited the full week, he'd have been on about "Wise and his cronies" taking their sweet time identifying whether a player is good enough when we desperately need bodies. If we hadn't given him a contract, he'd have been on about how "Wise and his cronies" were wasting our time by bringing shit players to trial. There's just no helping some people.

Good signing I suppose. The fact that we've offered him a contract so early in his trial period tells me that he's actually bothered to do well. The fact that we're only giving him a six-month contract keeps him motivated. Best case scenario could be a decent Zog replacement. Fast and threatening, but ultimately a bit aimless.

Martins is out for at least 6 weeks. Paper's said that even with the operation he could be out for as little as two. Papers said were signing Nigel Quashie. So where'd you pull your six weeks number from then, thin air? SSN's after they'd spoke to JFK about Lovenkrands Harper recovered from the same surgery in 11 days. The truth is out there.

Martins is out for at least 6 weeks. Paper's said that even with the operation he could be out for as little as two. Papers said were signing Nigel Quashie. So where'd you pull your six weeks number from then, thin air?

Martins is out for at least 6 weeks. Paper's said that even with the operation he could be out for as little as two.

Don't think Saviola would be keen on warming the bench behind Owen and Oba.

We also don't know if when saying "international" Kinnear was referring to players who have actually played international matches or just "lads from abroad." With our luck, probably the latter

Dossena and Saviola maybe? Although I'm not sure we'd be after Saviola after signing Loevenkrands. Sosa from Bayern?

ah... memories of 06-07

Let the speculation begin! Link, btw?

Nile will just call in his big brother. http://ca.geocities.com/[email protected]/pr1034638.jpg

Dear Lord, who the f*** are we going to play. Have Kadar or Tozer been much use for the reserves lately?

Would absolutely love Bodmer here

Would a straight swap for Dos Santos be a good idea?

Right, stoke have got so much more "determination and organization" than we do. It's not as if they capitulated 5-0 at Old Trafford... Oh wait, they did. It's not as if they were molested 3-0 by a completely and utterly s*** Blackburn side... Oh wait, they did. Making blanket claims about a side's "determination and organization" based on one or two results will never make any sense at all. And making those claims about Stoke of all teams? Their first-choice striker just went and decked their captain a few matches ago ffs.