The Prophet

Is it right that Albin is out of contract this summer?

Given that would more or less our entire budget, I doubt it.

It still amuses me that folk expect managers to slate players in the press. Do you really think he'd be getting a game if Tiote wasn't on the verge of a ban/Guthrie wasn't crocked.

1) It wasn't the biggest fee ever in British football 2) You don't know they wouldn't have sold for less if that's all that was offered. 3) It's nothing like that analogy at all He had no choice about the club selling Carroll. However he made a big song and dance when he joined about being given a guarantee that Carroll would not be sold. If he had any integrity he should have made a stand and threatened to quit if the player was sold (unless he was replaced immediately with a striker he considered to be better and was given a guarantee that all the remaining money would be put back into in the transfer budget). As it was we went into the second half of the season where we were doing okay, but were by no means safe from relegation with 1 striker who was proven to be adequate at this level, but who is very injury prone, 1 striker who was proven to be inadequate at this level, and 2 strikers who were completely unproven at this level. Newly promoted clubs are notorious for having a good start and nosediving in the second half of the season, the sale of Carroll with no replacement could easily have triggered that decline. It's risky management to the point of negligence from an owner who has supposedly learned from his mistakes, but the manager being the senior man in charge of the footballing side of the club should be doing everything in his power to try to stop it or at least try and compensate for the loss of the player with an immediate replacement, permanent or otherwise. For all we know he may have.

I don't mind selling Jose like, its Luis that's been key this season.

I think we'll sign an experienced premier league striker out of the Elmander/Zamora bracket.

Neil/1878, how would a bid for Billy go down? The lad clearly has talent but doesn't seem to be in Moye's first team thoughts.

Time for a serious bash, in the name of avoiding revision: Out: Krul (Loan) Campbell (Contract expires) Enrique (Eight to ten million) Routledge (Minimal fee) Ranger (Loan) In: Bennet (Boro - Smallish fee) Van Aanholt (Loan) Capoue (Toulouse - Four to six million) McCarthy (Wigan - about the same) Zamora (Fulham - Four million) El Arabi (Caen - Eight to ten million)

Who's said that like?

Shut up Pleat you silly old twat.

BOOM!

Aye nice one Suarez, cracking dive.

In other news, Douglas the Lurpack man has melted.

Too far man, too far.

Their mouths are stuffed with prawn sandwiches man.

Kranjcar's available isn't he? Worth a punt.

Why is Lovenkrands lurking around like a rapist?

Suarez is so talented, how a man can act the twat with so little effort is staggering.

What Liverpool need is classy leftback...

I reakon Tyler would slip Kenny a crippler like, he'd be like a rat up a pipe.

Shame Suarez hasn't been hit by lightening.

I'd be nursing a throbbing stot on for the rest of my days if that happened like. You say that but we'd still have absolutely no squad depth.

Agreed, shame he's a cunt.