Surman4no7shirt

I would guess to get anywhere near £30-35 million it would include wages over the length of the potential contract etc, not just the fee?

I genuinely had a nightmare last night about us getting relegated. The first season I had a season ticket was ‘99. I guess the measure of success you expect on the period you started going.

He'll be the next one off to Liverpool.

I see your Forster and I raise you a Pellegrino.

Forster didn’t get dropped because he’s ****. He got dropped because McCarthy is class.

The problem with the term “In The Knows”, is that it presupposes somebody in the clubs management has a clue what they are doing.

I didn't like Puel's style of football, for that reason I wanted him gone. Any regret would be that I probably overvalued the quality of our players, and in hindsight he was an average manager getting average results out of an average team. Since MP has been in, we appear to have a clueless manager getting terrible results out of an average team. You can quote me on this next year when we qualify for Europe under MP. :-)

SSN reporting Pelle to West Ham...

How many games did Puel win in 2017 with this squad? Genuine question.

I suspect you mean “Comprehension 101” rather than “Reading 101”. The thing about being a pedant is that you need to be correct while you’re at it. The OP quoted a Daily Mail article in his post. The verb ‘to state’ is means ‘to declare’, or ‘to affirm’, it is synonymous with ‘to report’, ‘to narrate’ and ‘to articulate’. A post is a statement. By quoting a newspaper article that states Puncheon has been charged, the OP is stating the same. When the poster wrote “a bit of a silly boy”, it was followed by the Daily Mail quote. Regardless of the intention or the writer, or whatever your limited compression of English has permitted you to understand, the writer is stating: “He is a silly boy for being charged with this offense” - there is no implication of guilt in his post, so there is no need to write “allegedly”. ‘To allege’ is to present a discourse without or before proof, or alternatively to put forward and argument. It is not an argument that it would be silly of a person to find oneself in a situation in which one were charged with a serious criminal offense; it is an opinion or a generalised statement of fact. As for the title “Jason has been living up to his name”, this is obviously word play, or a pastiche of a tabloid subhead, hence any implication does not need to be clarified as allegation, since it is clearly an attempt at humour. If it were the case that any attempt at humour needed to automatically include the suffix “allegedly” in order to avoid libel, then the Daily Mail and the other tabloids would have gone out of business years ago. He who lives in a glass house should not throw stones.

Yes, but the OP never implied that he was guilty, he stated that he had been charged. Puncheon hasn't allegedly been charged, he has been charged. There is no implication of anything else in the post.

Long sleeves and gloves. A fitting tribute to Fabrice Fernandes. Perhaps they’ll run around in circles near the penalty area constantly without shooting in his honour.

Why can’t we play at 3pm on a Saturday anymore?

Absolutely useless and never put the effort in.

The podcast is really good and lots of people enjoy it, has plenty of interviews with ex-players that are all really interesting. Someone is going out of their way to create free entertainment - you didn't pay for it, if you don't like it fine, but there's no need to be so harsh.

I was referring to this statement, I probably should have made it bold for clarity: I agree that if Puel does well at Leicester it proves the players aren't good enough (which is what I think). I hope I am wrong and that the players are more capable than they are currently showing as Hypocondriac said. Rubbish. Off the top of my head; Sturrock, Redknapp, Branfoot, Poortvliet, Wotte & Wigley were all significantly worse than Puel. The style of football was terrible, and I didn't like him as a manager here, but saying he's the worst manager we've ever had by far is demonstrably false.

Hope you're right.

Just this. We sold all our best players and replaced them with mediocre ones. Why would another change of manager help? The players are not good enough. I guess seeing how Puel does at Leister will prove or disprove this.

Six points off relegation would be pretty good for them at this point...

:lol: :lol: ...Can we have him back now?

Despite living in Milan, was in NYC for work....

Surely they would be thinking they could get 3 points? Not sure they’ll be as defensively minded as some assume.

The players we have are mostly bang average. Not sure how changing the manager again will solve this.

Le Tiss is winding up the Liverhampton fans on twitter, seems convinced VVD is staying. If anyone was likely to be ITK, I'd say it's him.

I'm pretty sure I've read that every transfer deal is structured in some way, then based on the contract between the clubs (providing both clubs are solvent etc), the bank will release the same amount of liquidity, as structured payments however you spend it. I'm pretty sure no club will have £70m sitting around gathering dust in a bank account.