This Charming Man

I think I have a mongboard stalker.

Italian football has been in the sh*t financially for some time now. Even Milan have been flogging off all their stars this summer.

Sounds a bit more promising. Them sorting their finances out is them trying to secure a loan against the security of our instalment plan for Ramirez, I presume?

What I don't understand though is why don't other clubs have fans that go on holiday, have family commitments and work commitments? Why are we the only club that suffer from this?

FFS. Going to have to adjust my guess once again. He'll sign for us on page 78.

Should have phrased that a little better. Think we had 30 consecutive home games or something like that, that were totally sold out.

Has anyone gone through and counted how many tickets we've sold?

We've known that for the last 3 days.

Take Loftus Rd and WHL for example. The bottom tier always stands there, without fail. The upper tier always sits.

Yes. Surely that was fairly evident without the need for your usual smug response? Anyway, what does our attendance on the opening game of the season 10 years ago have to do with the Wigan game?

I'm just relieved he's gone somewhere. I've been having sleepless night's over the thought he may not get a club.

That's why you keep your mouth shut about things like that as those interviews are going to look very silly if we're relegated. I'm not demanding we go out and spend £50m, just keep the European ambitions under wraps for now. Didn't Venky's say they had similar ambitions when they took over Blackburn?

I do believe he's having a pop at NC and Adkins for banging on about European football in a few years time as we haven't signed players anywhere near the quality to achieve that... yet.

Where is the fun in that though? You're not going to get 50 pages of Twitter quotes and made up facts that way.

That their official feed?

It's a well proven formula that signing NPC players normally results in finishing in a European spot a few years later.

But that was before all this new found optimism. Back then, there wasn't a need for a 50,000 seater stadium. Now there is, just ignore the fact we haven't sold out season tickets and we haven't sold out the opening 2x games of the season.

That doesn't count as everyone was on holiday that week, plus there was roadworks, the weather wasn't great that day, it was a week before payday, Christmas was just round the corner and not to mention it's also peak time for weddings.

Has the game sold out? No. Then you are aware of that fact.

The lower tier always stands and the upper tier sits. Always been the way with Saints.

I would like to revise my earlier guess and he will in fact sign for us on page 59 of this thread.

Eh?

I put the "rightly so" in so I wouldn't get lynched by the Cortese Gestapo on here.

Arsenal did when signing a certain AOC. He was our star player, we didn't want to sell so gave Arsenal an ultimatium and all applauded NC (rightly so) for such a good deal. People now seem to be bemoaning this tactic when the shoe is on the other foot.

Then they'll sell him to someone who is willing to meet their demands. He wanted to leave last year when Inter and Roma came knocking but Bologna wouldn't sell.