Wilson

we best be drawn in the next 20 mins or am sat at me desk for dinner

jesus fucking wept

some dramatic music there

ffs am waiting to go on me dinner

"responsibility to play entertaining football"

same

eye test before this, not sure whether to put me lenses back in or not

three hands like?

http://uk.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2013/draws/index.html

http://www.touchline.tv/tv/football/201213-europa-league-round-of-32-draw-live-on-eurosport British Eurosport, 12:45 apparently. [First ball drawn at 1pm though, it seems].

What time is this draw? And i'm sure it will be but is it live on the UEFA site again?

Had £5 on chelsea/bologna to qualify which returned £41 Had £4 on benfica/braga/dortmund/estoril/btts napoli-bologna. Estoril still 0-0 after a delayed KO bu Braga have fucked it anyway. Won a couple lately, nowt massive but it helps

vitesse winning 10-1

It'll be like debuchy all over again. He's already ours, until we have to pay ....

Paranoid? It's not paranoia, it's the way it's been. Look back at the Carroll fiasco and the conflicting stories that came out from that, Enrique leaving etc (though that was more to do with the player wanting away). Still can't help but feel that Ba's been critical of the board / AP over his contract rejection, team tactics and saying that being at another club would be a dream - and this is probably the fall out from it. Ashley and Dekka are spiteful bastards man, we know how this goes Yes I think it's paranoia, think there's more things pointing to Ba wanting, well not so much wanting...but happy to leave(?) rather than him being pushed, there's nothing to say that. We'd be the party losing out if Ba was to leave, especially as we'd then have to find a replacement. Sure Mike would actually rather keep Ba than fork out for Remy for example and it's not like we'd be getting silly money a la 'the Carroll fiasco'. I just don't see any reasons why we'd be trying to shift him.

The story was over after the summer transfer window, Pardew was the one who mentioned that he still had a clause in his contract. Was saying this earlier in the thread, was no need for it. But someone pointed out he was asked directly? Unless it was in the Demba thread.

Sadly I could see that being the move for him. They seemingly don't care about money.

That changes it then, it's now or never for him. Aye, would make a bit more sense of his recent comments as well.

I guess once you add in crazy agent fees, high wages and probably increased insurance costs etc you're looking at a near-£15m deal or something like that. It might turn out that getting the clause set at as much as £7.5m was actually good negotiation by NUFC. Nobody knows obviously, but it's possible. Could be Ba wanted it at £5m or below. think this is most likely sticking point given his agents seem like absolute twats, how ironic if they're the very reason he doesn't get his 'big' move....shame.

Aye fair enough if he's asked direct: 'does the clause continue to the next window?' There must be some other ridiculous fees involved for people not to cough up the 7.5million. Just doesn't seem to make sense.