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Why not? I was told by somebody working at Portsmouth that Johnson is now getting £139,000 a week - that's why he chose us over going back to Chelski.

Maybe we could take a leaf out of Shankly/Paisley's book and move Johnson inside as an attacking midfielder.....

VDV is talking to Bayern as we write....

How do you make that out? Theirs is easily the second easiest out of the English teams. Wish we had it.

Is it? Personally I think it is a difficult draw. The Mancs, of course, have the easiest.

Way things are going, that is where Rafa will be selling most of our players...?

Well, it can't be Robben because he's currently talking with Bayern.

I've been to Wolfsburg a number of times. Place is dominated by the VW factory and I've got an idea VW may be involved in the team but I could be wrong. It's not so bad as a town but if you have an afternoon to while away the VW museum is a very good one to visit.

I wouldn't lay money on that happening any time soon. So many times we have read that the Yanks are about to go belly up and they are still here servicing their loans. I'm told, however, that crunch time may be January but don't ask me what that means! The guy who told me that wouldn't say. Anyone know what is supposed to happen around January?

Anyone told his wife?

For me, Rafa has blind spots on too many players and he could rue this by the end of the season. Frankly, as far as I'm concerned Babel, Voronin, Ngog and even Lucas will never become the top players we need in the team to push Man Utd again. Babel and Voronin had their chances, Lucas is just a steady substitute and Ngog doesn't instil any confidence in me as a potential lethal striker. The problem with the first two named is that if we suddenly decided to offload them, they wouldn't bring in very much, IMO. Okay, I know Voronin was a freebie but that shouldn't have been an excuse to bring him in.

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Has he still got the Texas Rangers or is he about to lose them?

Away banker, then......

Is it true that Hicks managed to keep hold of the heavily indebted Texas Rangers(sic) because he syphoned off some of LFC's profits to pay charges due on the American team?

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Let's hope the guy coming in acclimatises to the pace of the game straightaway!

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Say that to Litmanen as well. There is such a thing as Scottish TV, believe it or not. B*rk

So is Pellegrino.

No, but having seen this guy on the TV he needs to make a three-point turn just to turn round. I'll believe we have bought this guy when it is announced and not beforehand.

Do you REALLY know what he wanted in order to stay......?

The words "desperate" and "buy" come to mind.....

Letting Hyppia go has certainly rebounded when you least expect it.....