Billy Talbot

Probably more like sell the whole squad and keep one really really good player. Unless...

Yes - it's up to the company directors what's in the best interests of the company. Broughton's remit it to sell though. That's what's in the best interest of the company. He's not just there to milk us. Ayres and Nash. Who knows. But I think it's obvious now that were for sale, and those who are stand in the way are not exercising their responsibilities correctly. Gillet and Hicks aside - they don't give a f***.

I take it that's the first time you've used that word? and the second time it's entered your mind after the first time you read it in Broughton's interview yesterday? It doesn't matter who appointed anyone. A directors responsibility is act in the best interest of the company in which they're directing. Otherwise they're being a c*** and can be prosecuted by the company in which they act as director. How you prove that is another thing. But it doesn't look good if you're obviously acting in the best interest of another company whilst being a director of another. Everyone knows at this point that we're much better off being bought by another set of sharks. The current ones are shot.

See yer Yossi. He's useless apart from Champions League footy where he's commentated on by David Pleat.

Did you witness that yerself?

Well in Dirk!

I'll give him one game against them. After that I expect he'll be calling him a brazen c***. At least under his breath and / or in private. He won't have seen Ferguson's full labia exposed whilst managing Fulham or Blackburn. He'd have barely got glimpse of his piss soaked panties.

Valero is obviously one of the best around. Not only have all the keepers done well (apart from c**** face laugher boy, but then that's not Valero's fault) over the last few years, but the forwards have too. Well, at least G&T have. I remember reading Torres giving him quite a bit of credit for how his one on one finishing has improved at Liverpool. Rafa will want him at Inter. I wonder if the backroom staff contracts were renegotiated at the time Rafas was.

Keep yer hair on! What the f*** does that mean?

Great idea. I'm in. Book ordered. Looking forward to the Kundera...

I agree. I've had my moaning, he's not the manager I would have picked, even if we did have to let Benitez go which I still can't get my head around. But he's here now. He'll get my 100% support whilst he gives us 100%. He will give 100% and I can't ask for more than that from him. That interview is good, but shows he doesn't quite grasp the degree which he's about be shafted over his transfer budgets. He's incredibly naive to think he'll get to reinvest sales proceeds and he must think he will or he wouldn't have said it. They're liars Roy. Get used to it. We've all had to.

Welcome Roy. All the best. I only hope to god it turns out that your abysmal win / lose ratio is purely down to your old teams' s*** players.

You must be very busy.

To be honest, it doesn't really matter. 10pts for Fulham is so crap it's still crapper than us. Which was my point. The relevance is, it's quite contradictory to the general consensus that Hodgson is good value, cuts his cloth accordingly etc etc. As I said in the first place, we we're f***ing awful away from home last year, but we were still better than the team managed by Hodgson were.

My equation is merely proof of concept. It shows the opposite of economies of scale, which to most people is unintuitive. But it is how points/squad wages relate. Your dismissal of it as flawed either shows a lack of comprehension of the maths or you're saying that my statement that the Liverpool squad we're better value / point than Fulham away from home last year is not supported by it. Out of interest, which is it?

21 points Reina + Johnson + Carra + Agger + Aurelio + Mascherano + Aquilani + Kuyt + Babel + Torres + twice la liga winner, uefa cup and champions league winner Rafa Benitez equals better value per point than 11pts difference on the road than Schwarzer + Koncheskey + Pantsil + Haangeland + Baird + Hughes + Duff + Dempsey + Greening + Kamara + Zamora + Scandanavian no mark Roy Hodgson.

Howard Webb should be plotted against. End of.

It's not really that stupid because if you plot squad wages / points in this way you get something very close to final league results. It is also true that the each point costs more in wages. Could you please point out the flaws in "my" maths? Come up with one that doesn't.

if there are 10 things. the first one has a value of 1 point, costs £1, the last has a value of 10 - £10 - the total value = £55 If you can buy the first 8 things (36 points) for the same price / point you're you're doing much better than buying the first 4 things (£1, £2, £3, £4 - 10 points) for the same price / point. the first 10 points only cost £10 - you can't buy 20 points for £20 - they cost £36, the next 4 points cost £26 not £10. Similarly If you plot wages against points, Premier League points cost more for each point. So if Liverpool scored 21 points at a similar cost/point than fulham who score 10, Liverpool did a lot better.

I'd hope that's complimentary, but I doubt it

No. If you consider that each point cost more than the last, 21 points@4.2m per point is less than10 points @ 4m/pt Unless you're saying that you can double your points haul in the premier league by an increment in wages of 5%?

Liverpool won 21pts away Fulham won 10pts away Fulhams wages £40m Liverpools wages £90m Fulham 4m/pt Liverpool 4.2m/pt Considering if you plotted a graph of £/pt you'd see that each point costs more £ than the last, it would be plain to see that despite being absolutely f***ing awful away from home last season, Liverpool were much f***ing better than Fulham.

Was quite funny when he did it

I'm not sure about that either, but I'm pretty sure if the next manager does as well as Rafa did even last season he wouldn't get the boot "for football reasons"