tom1988

I did this one: http://www.worldfootball.net/table_calculator/eng-premier-league/ Went with 1-0 0-1 or 0-0, didn't bother guessing scores. Got us to finish 12th with 36 points.. Think I may have been a but optimistic with some results but Swansea, Southampton and Stoke going down would make me a happy boy. Think it's a toss up between Saints and Watford imo.

Was at the west brom game today with my uncle and they looked shite. Solid enough but that was more to do with Everton being terrible - they missed Rooney massively. West brom just kept pumping crosses in and Rondon / Rodriguez / Robson-kanu were useless. Unless they reinforce up front they ain't gonna win many games.

Did we say we'd pay in bitcoin?

Schadenfreude. Their entire existence is this it seems.

Completely unrealistic but I would absolutely love to get Luiz, one of my favourite players (not on ability or reliability but just because I think he's class). Not sure he's exactly what we need but still, what a statement of intent.

Happy birthday Mike Ashley. Let's just hope when he was opening his cards this morning there was one with a cheque in it for £300m and a note saying 'Happy birthday Mike, wishing you the best for the year to come - now fuck off out of my club. Lots of love, Amanda'

This reminds me of a few years ago when some sports shop or another was doing a promotion of free shirt printing when you bought a new shirt... myself and my Arsenal supporting brother took advantage of the offer. I got Coloccini and he got Mertesacker. The lad on the counter could definitely tell we were just taking the piss.

Anyone think (hope) that with Spurs signing that keeper from Saints we could be in for Vorm?

5 3 2 formation ? Probably eventually yeah, need to see where van Dijk ends up because there's no chance he's starting for Soton this weekend. 442 first up probably with Rashford, van Dijk and Mooy on the bench

Mixed bag for me I feel - massively underestimated the depth of quality strikers in the PL... :'( De Gea / Butland Azpilicueta / van Dijk / Keane / Lindelof / Lejeune De Bruyne / Fabregas / Ritchie / Noble / Mooy Gabbiadini / Rashford / Abraham

I'd like to be in if it's not too late

Tim Krul? what's going on there then?

Kevin Wimmer from Spurs?

Leave me out of this, I get into enough bull crap of my own, I don't need anyone else placing me into anymore. Howay Stiffy man, throw us a bone. What do you reckon Joe's take on preferable trans Pennine transport would be? Was he gutted that the Bentley was in the garage and he missed the chance to shave 20mins off the journey and listen to some top tunes in his luxury leather? We need to leave the TransPennine Express out of the debate imo, not representative of train travel, it's awful. Those old East Coast trains though...

Paranoia is a motherfucker. Y'all need to chill. Unless anything major happens Rafa knows the score, he knows the limitations that he has to work within and he's got it under control. For him, this isn't a one - two year plan where he's going to change us from being a laughing stock to challenging the top 7 overnight, he's going to take his time. It's a project for him, he wants to build something sustainable. I really can only seeing him leaving for the Spain job or because MA reverts to type and brings in JFK and Dennis Wise as his PR team or something. Gung-ho isn't his style, just look at the meticulous way he prepares for matches. His running of the club will be no different. No stone left unturned. It's probably why it takes us weeks to sign a player that is very strongly linked because Rafa is there checking every little detail and having real in-depth conversations with the potential signings and their coaches, scouts etc.

Iheanacho is supposedly close to signing for Leicester for £25m. In today's market I would have thought that was relatively decent value. I hope these players Rafa thinks are undervalued are out there because I think we should be able to compete with Leicester for a striker of that calibre. Of course we CAN but the thing is we won't, I can't think of a player that's come in within the last few years where we have gone head to head with another club or two in order to sign. Might just be my short term memory and it being a Friday but I really don't think that's how we operate. Iheanacho at £25m is 'relatively decent value' but he has still only scored 12 senior goals in his career - a fact that won't be lost on those controlling the purse strings at SJP, they'll want value for money with as little risk attached as possible, unfortunately.

It's still relatively early days and whilst pre season has started and ideally we'd like to have a few more in by now we have to be realistic and look at the regime we're under. They're not going to get into a pissing contest (rightly or wrongly) with other Premier League teams. The players we'll go for will be like Lejeune who don't have 5 or 6 other clubs sniffing around them, so all these Delph's, Gray's, Iheanacho's etc etc are not going to be our actual targets because we're not going to enter bidding wars. FWIW I reckon Rafa knows this and has a list of targets that are lesser known players that he thinks are undervalued by the market that will work within his system. There'll be one or two more from Europe and maybe a couple from Britain. A lot will depend on when we start offloading the dead wood, which is easier said than done. Be patient, August 13th is a long way off still.

We should definitely start monitoring him Are you crazy m8? We've gotta first think about considering to monitor him. Apologies, i've lost track of all the stages. Can we get an official timeline together please for all the stages between thinking/considering/monitoring all the way through to get it over the line

How many clubs have actually signed anyone yet though?

£30m!

Chelsea (a) first game Manure (h) Boxing Day Spurs (h) last game

Maybe they were put off by the rumoured £60m fee. Or maybe they shat their pants. Probably want to try and maintain good relations with them so that they can keep the conveyor belt working. That, and the fact they're already banned from recruiting youth players from British clubs meaning that another incident of tapping up could result in an outright transfer ban. I wouldn't be surprised if it is Klopp that has told them to stop dicking around.

He's perfect!

Wasn't it Reina that got done by the beach ball down against the mackems? If we sign him they'll be flying planes over SJP dropping them instead of trailing banners. That said, he's still class and I think if we're assembling a young squad he could be a wise old head in the dressing room.

William Carvalho is class... on FIFA as is Andre Andre fwiw