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Be more than happy with that. Me too if it included a good run in the EL and/or one of the cups.

Getting bored. Something needs to happen.

Felipao - get your wallet out. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/counterweighttv/beautiful-game-the-epic-romance-of-brazilian-socce

Needs to understand his/Lille's place in the football food-chain. Right now, all his prized assets are leaving or want to leave. He can have Danny Simpson - the lad is a goal-line stopping machine. So should we understand our place in the football food chain when Man City, Chelsea, Man Utd., etc. come calling for one of our players? They have every right to try to keep him or get as much money as possible out of us.

Senegal aren't going to qualify so it's all good.

So basically the borehole will have paid for Rob Elliott. In all seriousness, it's a pretty good thing we've done. If every major sports team did something like this it would have a pretty big impact.

He comes across as an incredible cocksucker. Such a whiner.

Siblings don't even talk to each other anymore. They are probably all texting one another. Just the way of the world.

Not sure what I'm basing this on, but I thought we had gone the other way in the post-Wise/Vetere/Keegan disaster.

Have a feeling Ba will become pretty good value compared to Cisse, at least early on.

Think it's excellent. It goes against the way a lot of teams do business in football (throwing money around, basically), but it's nothing earth shattering. We evaluate talent, determine our own value, and then stick to it. In the past, silly money was thrown at players to get them here. That's not necessary. This is an incredible club with a majestic stadium playing in the most popular league in the world. We're finally using that to our advantage. When you combine that with the talented and together dressing room that we've built (partially by chance), it becomes a pretty attractive place. We have also been opportunistic and move quickly when a deal presents itself. Ashley and company have fucked up a lot of things and they still deserve blame for the relegation, tacky advertising, and the stadium renaming. But beyond that it's an incredible time to be a fan of this club. Long may it continue.

After taking some time to think about this I think I'd be ok with a loan > option to buy (100% our decision). The fee should be somewhere between 9m and 13m depending on how he does. Still a bit uncomfortable at the thought of him coming back and I worry about how we're going to play, but there's definitely a player in there.

Words can't describe. See to believe.

I love Biggie. Ba - absolute blinder.

I forgot how slow he is going to ground. It's funny in this setting.

That goal

Harper :lol:

Now that I've given it a few minutes...dear lord. This may end up rivaling the radio broadcast from last summer.

I'm just in shock that a preseason friendly vs. Monaco is on TV here. Amazing.

Can't believe I can't see this. Fucking Germans.

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Morning-Buzz/2012/07/13/StubHub.aspx Will be funny to see how cheap some tickets sell for...

Should turn that into an Audi sponsorship when it's over.

Can say the same about almost any team in the league. Some teams rely heavily on one player (Arsenal, Fulham).

Due to FFP they are trying to offload all their unused high earners. Think well see Kolarov, A. Johnson, Dzeko, Santa Cruz, Adebayor all shifted. To make way for RVP, a centre-half and a defendive mid. Johnson please.