Ishmael

Will he get much first team football though?

A French Walcott?

cesc hasn't traveled; he's gone

lukaku to chelsea, €15m probably confirmed on monday

Agree.

Has been an intense summer. The emergence of twitter as the driving force of football related news the main culprit.

Who is this random 'man'?

Not long ago he was your England's number 1. The key word is ago. and even then he wasn't particularly outstanding

Owen Coyle is completely wrong.

Probably for the best

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mike-Ashley-Out-Poznan-protest/201077963280703?sk=wall burn them all with fire

I will officially label anybody who protests against our wage cap a massive dribbling mong.

We should all pitch in and hire some heavies to remove anyone who attempts this.

Should get as many people in as possible and every single one of them should chat Jose's name from start to finish.

Pardew?

I would say that an open discussion about the financial state of the club is exactly what the fans want to hear given everything that has happened this week/summer/year/decade...

How is it obvious? Do me a favor and take off the blinkers.

Too much effort for something that isn't comparable.

Who said that is all we're able to afford? I'd like to think that is obvious.

and he doesn't look like being a first choice selection. and he's playing in a lesser league. and his contract is up in a year. and they'll be knocked out in the group stages anyway. As fantastic as these points are, they still wouldn't tempt any player to cut his wages by a third. Precisely. Pure fantasy to pretend to believe otherwise. The assumed wage could easily be pure fantasy...

and he doesn't look like being a first choice selection. and he's playing in a lesser league. and his contract is up in a year. and they'll be knocked out in the group stages anyway. As fantastic as these points are, they still wouldn't tempt any player to cut his wages by a third. We don't know how much the player is on.

They're all much much much much bigger clubs than us with considerably more financial backing

Barton's on what?, 60k a week? Assuming this guy is his replacement then we should have at least 60K a week to play with. No we wont. We had a wage cap put in place since, remember?

and he doesn't look like being a first choice selection. and he's playing in a lesser league. and his contract is up in a year.

We knew he was on more, why would he take less to come here? Did we? He doesn't appear to want to take less, so let's move on somehow. Who the f*** would want to take less? Would have to factor in if this is the best offer he has for the next few years, bearing in mind that his contract is up after this season.