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Yeah and we were sending Graham Carr to Germany to watch Cisse. We scout France and Holland also admittedly, that is about it. Santon was a very blatantly agent driven deal as were the youngsters like Good/Mbabu who turned up on our doorstep for trials.

It's only got so many good players. Sooner or later you end up scraping the barrell when other teams beat you to the good stuff. Spain? Holland? Belgium? Germany? South America? Balkan countries? why can't we expand our market, there's talent to be found everywhere as teams like Udinese prove by leaving no stone unturned. And with the TV money English clubs have an advantage over more or less everybody. If we've got more scouts then why aren't the finding other players? Why do we keep going back to one small shortlist of Ligue 1 players that have contracts situations we can exploit?

Just checked, it did happen. Torino got him on the cheap from Juve as a sweetener.

Anyway, he's big and athletic so can see why Pardy is happy. Still think we're absolutely desperate for some attacking midfielders/wide players who can create. Or at least more who do all the basics right (touch, close control, short passing, movement, ball retention etc) like Marveaux does when he plays.

13 million Euros + bonuses. I heard they were going to give Torino half of Immobile as well but not sure that happened.

It's just lazy and proves that they have no actual scope for the great plan they had in motion (sign young and cheap, develop etc). It's just lots of established French league players.

The obsession with the French market has become completely absurd like. Mix it up FFS. We have one scout. This is the problem.

I don't think he's particularly great from what I've seen. Obviously much better than Shola and a bit more of a goalthreat than Gouffran but not exactly a worldbeater, guess this is what happens when you limit yourself entirely to one market and the cream goes elsewhere. Would take without being ecstatic.

£4 million

Reina is going to Napoli on loan it seems.

Oh, and around a year since Cardiff changed their shirt colour like the flick of a switch because they thought it'd 'appeal more to the Asian market'.

Leeds fans seem convinced the FA will protect them from any potential rebranding/renaming. There's been 10 years of Premier League growth and further ultra commercialisation since Wimbledon became McDongs. There's no way I'd have such faith, RB simply don't get involved in anything unless they know there is significant opportunity to rebrand. They don't do half measures.

Just seen the murmerings of Red Bull getting involved with a 'sponsorship' at Leeds. Aye, that'll definitely be all it is. Hope for the good of English football they get nowhere near any of our football clubs.

Apparently it won't be one of the current assistants. Somebody from outside announced next week, De Boer? Bielsa? Heynckes?

Wish him all the best, hopefully things aren't too bad for him and he can make a recovery However - and I know this might be harsh in the circumstance - but I don't think he was up to the job anyway. Yes they won the league but the performances in the CL and Clasicos were poor, defensively they are too exposed and I just don't think the same hunger and intensity in their play was ever apparent as it was a couple of years ago. Vilanova might be an excellent coach (infact I'm sure he is) but I don't think he has the same ability to implement his ideas to players and as such doesn't have the same authority over the squad, which has led to a disenfranchising of people like Thiago.

4 more to join too apparently. Nah, those four are included in the 8. Though Ekstrand (Udinese), Anya (Granada), Iriney (Granada) will follow. Hopefully Vydra too, but if he does we have way too many options up top. Struggling to see how we'd fit Deeney, Acuna, Fabbrini, Forestieri and a couple of promising younger lads in as it is. All of them are top Championship players. Fuck the police. Those were the 4 I was meaning, aren't all but Vydra training with you right now?

If I was a Watford fan I'd be so: to fans of other Championship clubs

RIP fella, amazing story.

4 more to join too apparently.

I've limited it to very few considering how much rubbish you spout.

What on earth are you wittering on about now?

michael owen ‏@themichaelowen 12m I'm doing another best 5 a side team I've played with after my performance tonight! Van Der Saar Gazza Barnes Scholes Giggs Owen (sub!!!) michael owen ‏@themichaelowen 2m Players I've played alongside keep popping into my head. Here's another decent team! Seaman Rio Raul Rooney Shearer Zidane and Ronaldo you fucking arse biscuit.

"If you take our best player I will engage in a impossible and fruitless task of taking yours! Muahahaha!"

Collymore saying Jovetic is exactly the same kind of player as Dzeko. Dogging idiot.