levelsevenlee

For me, as well as the fact that he was disinterested and shit, it's the impact on N'Zogbia's progress that this waster had. I couldn't understand at the time why we were signing an inferior player (on loads more cash) than what we already had - who'd had a blinding finish to the previous season.

Boo hoo you spoiled child. They say it takes a bigger man to walk away. Dont see why anyone should be abused for not wanting to let Ashley rub shit in his face each week under the pretence of 'supporting the team' I see absolutely nothing wrong with that stance. Ashley has quite cynically calculated that he could spend the bare minimum in the hope that fans will be deluded enough to keep buying season tickets. That attitude doesn't deserve to be rewarded. Even though I hate to see St James looking less than full it's perfectly understandable for people not to buy into his make do and mend crap. I came to this conclusion, via a different route, earlier in the summer: 1. There are just much, much better things I can be spending my time and money on - I would much rather spend some quality time with my kids, or play guitar with my band. 2. The only thing I can do which will in any way impact Mike Ashley is to not give him any more of my money.

Fucks sake man. Just pay what they want - £9m for a player that good, who's proven in the premier league, is well worth it. As for all of the 'but he left under a cloud' talk..... well, who put the cloud over him in the first place??

Souness thought he was a great defensive midfielder - "the next Scott Parker" was the quote. But there again, he thought Jenas was a right back, Shola was a winger, and Boumsong was a Premier League footballer.

mmmmmmmwuahahahahahahaha He has a one track mind ! You could say he has a "route one" track mind, ah ha ha

Jamie Dalton - The premier league transfer window began at the culmination of the Premier League season itself as per Premier League and FA rules. The date for international deals is around the 9th June. July 1st for most of the rest of Europe. Isn't there something about players' contracts running till the end of June, which is why you don't see the contracts being officially signed until July 1st?

You know what? I hadn't even thought about that cunt coming back. **shudder**

This is so obvious to everyone, but he'll *still* get a lucrative contract from some other mug when he moves on from Man U.

Absolute knob, if this is true.

I'd just like to remind everyone that the neanderthal saying this is in the England squad. I despair. FFS.

Have just watched it on Football First. How biased was the co-commentator?! I know he used to play for them, but jeez...

Away to Derby the year we came back from 2-0 down to win 2-3. Shearer clashed heads with Rob Lee & had to go off, so we had Dyer and Lua Lua up front - some class, fluid, passing football rather than just booting it up at Shearer. Mint free kick from Robert the "wrong" way round the wall, and Lua Lua did the somersault and came right up to where I was to celebrate when he scored. Was my first away game, could believe how much better the atmosphere was away. And the cherry on top of the cake was John "Prince of Darkness" Gregory getting sent of for quite rightly pointing out that we were offside for Dyer and Lua Lua's goals. Great days!

Have to be happy with what we've brought in - cast your mind back to the stupid "no capital outlay" statement at the start of the summer & compare how you felt then with how you feel now. As someone's already said, I'm still gobsmacked with the Ben Arfa deal. Can't wait to see the lad in black and white, he's going to be awesome!

Kevin Nolan might well be working at Macdonalds now. To be fair, it looks like he's spending quite a lot of time there already.

Is there not some sort of rule prohibiting agents from whoring their clients around other clubs before they've requested a transfer?

Some pace and creativity? Yes please.

I'm definitely in could probably do £100.

"The Dubliner" on Stroget (the main pedestrian area of town) have loads of tellys, and can show multiple matches.They're usually quite amenable about showing stuff on request. I would strongly recommend that you check out the "Parken" nightclub afterwards, the scenery is always very pleasant.

We need a smiley for "insane cackle", Dave.

Yep, unable to provide proof of funds http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11678_5456939,00.html Well, that surely puts a different slant on things - when I saw the headlines, I thought they'd withdrawn because they couldn't agree a price with Fat Mike. The fact that they don't have the money to buy the club in the first place should surely have the headline "NUFC withraw interest in Profitable bid"

You're missing the "selling the few players we do have who can play football for buttons on transfer deadline day" part from your assessment there. And coming back.

just watching this on sky+ - doing exactly the same mate! I've just got something in my eye. Ahem.

I wouldn't be surprised if the number of tickets actually sold is about that (~15k) - I reckon the rest will be 3 year sentence servers.

Did a double-take on that last bit. Would be proper funny if Lee Ryder just went postal and put something like that on the back page of the Chronicle.

I can't escape the feeling that Useless Mike might just choose the worst consortium out of those bidding as a final parting "gift" for us. You know, the one that's barely got enough to buy the club, no cash to invest.