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He's not like but ok He's the most arrogant person I have ever heard on a radio. Fail. Alan Green.

West Ham please. More specifically, Gold and Brady, please.

We all knew that, he's Belgian and his last name is Hazard. Doesn't get much better than that. You'll not remember Micky then Now a cabbie too

Am I the only person who saw this thread on the first page and thought that was some serious revisionism?

They're more like TRs - Tall Receivers.

We say that every time. Every time.

Your future after selling Waddle and Gazza was pretty good though, wasn't it? For a while at least. If you call relegation OK...we went down the season after selling Gazza..!! We did OK after Waddle simply because we still had Beardsley and Gazza. No, my point is that HTT said there was no hope for the future. A handful of years after Gazza left, you had your best team in my lifetime and nearly won the league. There may be pain in the short-term, but there is hope when you are a club with a high turnover.....as long as UEFA manage to knock out the Citys and Chelseas. It was 5 years after Gazza left that KK got us promoted - it was another 2/3 years after that before we realistically challenged for the PL title...do you think that is a short space of time ? 8 years is only 2 short of the average Pl player's effective career span . In that time, clubs like Man U had won titles and other trophies...also in today's world, you need to be in the CL every year to get the big bucks in otherwise the other clubs that do just get wealthier and the gap bigger. I don't think you are being realistic. I am not saying it is a short space of time, just replying to the initial post that said there was no hope for the future then, when in fact a handful of years down the line you were the second best club in the country. With some better decision-making and a bit more luck that could have continued. Of course there's hope, because (1) you're a big club (2) the financial regulations might just help out clubs with strong basic turnover, like yourselves. You're a step ahead of us because you have the ground capacity in place, we're a step ahead because we maintained our income from other means, and we've been building our squad for longer. As things stand, of course, we haven't got a hope in hell of breaking a top four of Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea and City, but we shouldn't despair just yet.

Did you hope that Waddle and Gazza did well at Spurs? Genuine question.

Your future after selling Waddle and Gazza was pretty good though, wasn't it? For a while at least. If you call relegation OK...we went down the season after selling Gazza..!! We did OK after Waddle simply because we still had Beardsley and Gazza. No, my point is that HTT said there was no hope for the future. A handful of years after Gazza left, you had your best team in my lifetime and nearly won the league. There may be pain in the short-term, but there is hope when you are a club with a high turnover.....as long as UEFA manage to knock out the Citys and Chelseas.

£20k/week? Wow, I bet we'll attract some right talent with those wages. Maybe ten years ago. So the severe salary cap has been lifted? Even if 20k is a little on the low side do you see it really being higher than 35k? A long spell of attempting to unearth cheap foreign talent is in our future. I've never seen confirmation of a rigid salary cap. I'd based my figures on £35k/week which I reckon is probably about the standard going rate these days, particularly for players that I assume Ian W meant would be going straight in and around the first team. I wasn't having a go at you btw, just making the point that the £35m won't actually go very far at all when you include contracts. I'd have thought it would be an overall limit, linked to turnover. That's supposedly what we're doing - say, keeping wages at no more than 60% of turnover. So as you say, you're looking at a couple of big contracts. The more people like Smith you can shift, the more room for manouevre.

Your future after selling Waddle and Gazza was pretty good though, wasn't it? For a while at least.

No.

Agreed that getting a forward in isn't necessarily easy. We tried all window too (allegedly). Don't think you can say that hindsight was needed to see that you needed a forward though, it was pretty damn obvious even before the Carroll stuff and if you even have an inkling that he might go you should have a Plan B in place.

This I reckon. Still needed to look at someone like Keane on loan, or even bloody Martins. A wage structure is fair enough, but you have to be flexible enough to make the odd short-term decision. I'm guessing that the problem is that there are still a handful of silly wages left on the books, and that Ashley wants to bring wages down to a specific percentage of turnover.

Just seen the Tevez goal...yet another deflected effort. How on earth does he keep doing it?

Bloody hell, West Ham again. Wish that game was on here.

I feel a bit sorry for Kingson. He just looks so out of his depth at times.

Should have buried it, mind, but still a cracking save.

What a bloody save by Begovic.

Just withdrew from the reserve league. The thinking was that it was better to get players out on loan and playing competitive football - if we need to give back-up players a game we just organize friendlies. Fair enough really. 17 players out on loan is just insane though, even if they're almost all kids.

Could be even worse, we've got two bloody keepers on the bench. Again. Is your squad that thin? What happened to that Rose lad who scored against Arsenal on his league debut? Think he's still on loan at Bristol City, plus he's not great. We have a bonkers number of players out on loan now, I think it's 17 players (really). Add to that our usual catalogue of injuries. Still no reason to have two keepers on the bench though.

Could be even worse, we've got two bloody keepers on the bench. Again. eh? That makes absolutely no sense. I see Woody is back on the bench. Third time this season I think. I know Gomes was doubtful for the game, but still.

Could be even worse, we've got two bloody keepers on the bench. Again.

Can't do Arsenal for obvious reasons. I actually no longer care about who of the others wins, as long as it isn't spread around too much (and Liverpool don't win). Part of me wants City to win this year, because it will be a bit meaningless. Unlimited money?

Just out of blind curiosity, where are you from originally and where did you live in Scotland? I live in Ohio now, was born in Oz and grew up in London....but I lived in Scotland for a few years.