Dan

Its a cringeworthy response from the bitters. Whichever way they want to dress it up the fact remains they are a smaller club with much lower expectations and a point at our place is seen as a good result. That is all Rafa meant. Blown all out of proportion and made all the more embarrassing for the stupid b*stards by piping up.

We only need a bit of tweaking so i seriously doubt anywhere near that much will be spent anyway

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What a f*ckin surprise

Which they will

A bag o' smashed crabs He's comin on loan

Think we were pretty blameless up to the point where FIFA gave us the go-ahead i.e. this morning. This paperwork stuff sounds amateurish though. Wouldn't surprise me if FIFA had colluded with the FA to f*ck it up for us. We can add Victor to the list of deadline day fiasco's as well.

I'm f*ckin gutted after reading that. Farcical. Unlikely to ever get an investor with as much financial clout and respect for our values ever again. B*llocks.

Echo take on it Gillett DIC

Rafa had two holding midfielders in the crushing machine didn't he which lined up 4-2-3-1 i think? Albelda and Baraja tended to sit in front of a 3 of Aimar and two wide players with Carew/Mista up front. Could easily be applied to our squad.

Tabloid paper in sensationlist headline shocker Hardly ground breaking

I know which positition i'd rather be in though.

Different. This should be clearer for you. He wouldn't start against Everton for me even if he's match fit (which he probably won't be). Gerrard, Alonso and now Pennant are doing just fine.

Shouldn't be a guaranteed started anyway. Soz.

Absoultley haunting that picture of Dirk

Don't be daft. We should hope for any advantage we can before and after kick off.

No he wasn't Don't see the relevance anyway

Nah, reckon he'll stay, they'll f*ckin love him.

Fair play to the guy. To those who are upset about this, would you prefer to see him sat next to f*ckin Paul Merson on Sky with all the other washed up cretins?

Really? No input whatsover? I knew it was minimal but am surprised he agreed to it.

Don't know if anyone was listening to R5 this morning but they had the chairman (or summet) of one of our local supporters club claiming that Rafa had a clause in his contract that meant zero input into the academy - literally nothing, and it was left entirely to SH. If i remember correctly the academy was one of the first things Rafa identified as needing attention when he came in. Does anyone know who this guy was and where he got this from? It seems strange to come up with such obvious bullsh*t on national radio.

We'll tw*t Watford on Saturday. The team will want to prove a point.

The sky is falling in

Merson really struggles. His comment about not wishing to sit in our directors box with a wod of cash was laughable. Go and chomp on your bargain bucket yer fat tw*t.