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For this year only we have gold trim to celebrate our centenary

Pity Financial Fair Play doesn't handle the issue of money coming in as well as money going out. I could be worse though, like in Spain, where Barcelona and Real Madrid are allowed to negotiate their own private TV deals and then rake in ALL the cash. It's a wonder the other teams don't pool together and refuse television rights on any game their involved in against those two.

They want him to part the red sea when they play United and Liverpool

Ki signing for us today has broken 3 records. Record amount for a Korean Player Record Fee paid by Swansea Record Fee paid by a Welsh club. Hope he's worth it now edit: Oh we could break the last two this weekend by signing Hernandez.

3-0 Dyer for Swansea

Michu * 2 Fantastic run and pass by Routledge too. Excellent goal

Being as he's been a big Man Utd fan since childhood, maybe you should have bid for Allen, he probably would have chosen you over fork-tongue.

I can easily believe it, I liked his pace. Not the most gifted footballer I've ever seen but always gave 100%. Just one of those things. To be honest he's probably the best crosser we have, Sinclair runs inside all the time and Dyer tends to do short passes. It's nice to see all the usual suspects predicting relegation for us this year, if we replace Allen intelligently we'll have a stronger team than last year. Graham's looking likely to be scoring more this year.

Believe it or not Routledge plays quite well think Laudrup wants 3 or 4 wingers available.

Unsure about the truth of Scott Sinclair to Man City but we're apparently lining up Pablo Hernandez a right winger from Valencia

Blackpool have done that before, remember reading about some poor sod they signed that couldn't afford to live without hand outs, he was desperate. 90 a week and a big bonus for playing, shame they never played him. Here the story surviving on hand-outs tried with Fowler too Fowler... erm.... no

Although the statement is probably correct, Joe Allen doesn't have a twitter account.

I meant, known about in general, not just to Brendan. The f***ed up part being that Brendan is privy to it and has left the club. I haven't watched enough of your football to judge but who do you rate better than Allen? Will be interested to see how you perform next season Vorm, kept us in many matches, Williams (another supposed Liverpool target) a rock in defense, Taylor, Britton, Dyer all have been very good. New signings De Guzman and Michu seem the real deals and Chico is already becoming a cult figure, I think we'll do OK this season, maybe better than last.

No your not, Swansea are as well. We had agreed 7 million for Gylfi prior to Rodgers leaving, Laudrup wasn't keen as he thought he could get better for less money, our 3 new signings played very well in our 4-2 win against Blackpool, 2 bought for 4.5 million and 1 loaned for a year with agreed price (6 mil I think). Think we'll surprise everyone again this year.

He's a good player, but not our best by some distance, most would say not even the best. A very good player though. Rodgers obviously knew about the clause.

He likes his open letters, this one to us Swansea fans http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/story-16301404-detail/story.html%20, that was shortly before he went back on his written agreement not to come in for any Swansea players for at least 12 months. An agreement he signed for Swansea to allow him to talk to Liverpool. Its in the papers as well (who knows if true) that he's lining up Williams (our centre half) as a replacement for Aggar who he's apparently allowing to go in an attempt to raise cash, probably to buy the rest of our team. We find it amusing he's supposedly signing the keeper who left us at the end of his contract last year, after playing an important in getting us up, he preferred warming a bench at Wolves as he felt they had a better chance to stay up.

Our chairman Huw has a record of pulling surprises from his hat, two of the last 3 managers in line for the Liverpool job shows he has a nose for a decent manager. The only bad manager he has picked since he became chairman was the first, when in a moment of panic he selected the first team captain, one of a handful of players we had left. He arranged trial games to tempt players and signed half a dozen lemon's. After 4 months with us firmly rooted to the bottom of the 4th tier, Huw sprung into action and appointed the first of 5 managers that took us up to where we are now. Brian Flynn, Kenny Jackett, Roberto Martinez, Paulo Souza and Brendan Rodgers, all played their part to get us where we are. Jones was No2 here with Martinez, so Huw obviously saw something in him and has not been rebuffed by constant rejections, he was offered the job when Martinez left but he chose to follow Martinez, he was reportedly offered the job when Sousa left as well. Laudrup appears the favourite now in any case just wish it was all over though, so we can start the pre-season.

Hence my reference that we don't have 9 million plus players, if we stay up 3-4 years. hopefully we'll slowly evolve and get better players into those important positions

Cisse carry on with quality like that and champions league looks attainable for you guys

We get a lot of the 'this is boring' comments by opposition fans, especially when their team doesn't touch the ball a lot. Our game is based on patience, keep possession while looking to probe forward, if nothing shows, don't do a hit and hope, keep the ball. That way the oppo don't get that 50/50 ball and attack us, while you don't have the ball you don't score and while your chasing shadows your players tire. Doesn't always work obviously as your one up, but its worked often enough this season for us to be almost safe. I'm sure all us Swans fans would love to see more going on in the oppo's box, maybe that will happen when we can just nip out and buy players for 9 million plus. Until then we'll stay patient. Until about 3-4 years ago our record buy was just over 300K and that record had stood since 1981. Looking at some of your guys comments, it appears your bigger fans of the 'Stoke City' style, if you can call it that.

I just listed a few sites in the 'Links to Other Clubs' Message Boards' sticky thread above.

Swansea City Planet Swans Guestbook Vital Swans and a general all English team list http://www.fanbase-links.co.uk/

Absolutely incorrect there. At Liverpool and Arsenal we played more possessive and attacking football. The reason we were defensive this game was simply we were pushed back and had to be. You forced us further back and pressed us up high whenever we had the ball, this forced us into more passing mistakes than the usual games we play. The best substitution for Swansea was when Best went off.

We seem to have no answer at the moment. One thing your doing well is pressing us when we have the ball (that rare occasion), we just haven't got off the blocks. Was glad the whistle went.

We were one of the teams who turned down Ba when he first came over for trials at various clubs Apparently there was a question mark on his medicals