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Emotional response of a fan perhaps with a little bit of negotiation tactics about it.

No. We have half the team out (I forgot to mention Vicente being out, too), and the replacements coming in are new additions to the squad still getting used to our style of play (Dobbie, Orlandi, Hammond and Lopez are all new signings). Take out 4 of your best players and replace them with...

Three men, CMS, Crofts and Bruno. Bruno is so key, Greer won't even bother passing to his replacement. We've effectively played the last couple of games with 10 and a half men because of this. We're also missing Crofts, his first absence was Sheff Weds where Hammond was making his debut with a...

Yes I did, because, while true, it's not relevant to why he should be included in a list of star graduates from his academy.

In the same way we point to the previous teams players were signed for a team while not necessarily representing them at first team level (Gai Assulin had to be quality because he was a barceona player, even though he only represented their B team). If an academy has a history of picking good...

You mean why is (voluntarily ex-) England international, premier league winner, fa cup winner, league cup winner wayne bridge on a list of quality products from the Southampton Academy?

I've never been good at rating players' value, I'm not going to start now. I will say, I think fans are generally way out of sync with actual values when it comes to transfer and wages, as I explained earlier in the thread, where deals are more complex than a given figure and what is revealed is...

I saw one of his goals on ssn, looked like it took a wicked deflection to me (the one from the edge of the box the flicked up over the keeper). Not that he isn't a good player. I remember seeing him on the football league show last season prior to our first meeting and thought he looked to be...

OSR originally said norwich. I've edited. To be honest, I tend to be sceptical of all figures that are leaked. I tend to assume each deal is more complicated than a simple transfer fee and each side leaks out whichever figure makes them look best or benefits them in future negotiations (e.g...

Most newspaper reports say £3m from norwich. The rumours on reading sites are that they offered 3.5m+church.

Curses! I'm too late. Dan the recycling that drew me away from my computer! Mods!

Quick edit that before he laughs at your English. (names the wrong way round? Bruno has less talent? Bruno doesn't have as much?)

As I gather from SSN you got a one nil win thanks to a Charlton goal being wrongly disallowed? He must have been immense.

Huh? The same sterling that was called up by hodgson to the senior team today?

What do you expect? He's Za-freaking-ha! He is probably dismayed that he still has to slum it with the under-21s, a player of his quality should be with the seniors. Screw that, he should be the seniors, single-handedly taking us to Brazil. He's not worth £7.3T for no reason, y'know.

Wasn't it only a week or two ago on twitter parish was denying he had anything to do with the team/tactics, now he's bragging about going over his manager's head and trying to buy players anyway.

Of course there's no problem with Dougie and the owners. He said he didn't want a player and they went ahead and tried to start negotiations regardless. How wonderful.

EFA

Buckley 8 league goals, 16 starts Zaha 6 league goals, 33 starts Include cups Buckley 9, 22 starts (some people give him the goal v newcastle, some say own goal) Zaha 9 goals, 39 starts. You can take that one goal off buckley if you like, but it doesn't really help make Zana look better since...

I meant lying in the other direction, for example suggesting the bid was higher than it really was (rounding up 4.5m as 5m) or giving the highest possible total (Bolton offered 3m plus an extra 2m if they had stayed up), because he can see other clubs circling and is trying to bump up the price.