Happy Face

It's like one of them IQ test questions. 3 , 5, 8, 13, 21.... 4, 5, 8, 17, 44.... Sack Keegan, Hire Kinnear, Sell Given, Wallpaper the stadium in Sports Direct signs, Sell Carroll...

Agreed Everything after post #5 should be moved to the Transfer Talk thread which I avoid like the plague. Sort it mods.

Why would Given/Nzogbia hang about if we were selling the likes of Milner? Why would Bassong/Beye hang about if we were selling the likes of Given/Nzogbia ? Why would Carroll hang about if we were selling all of the above? Why will Barton/Enrique hang about if we're selling the likes of Carroll? Why will Nolan/Colo/Jonas/Tiote hang about if we're selling the likes of Barton/Enrique? etc. In fairness...Ashley signed everyone in those last couple of rows, so he has shown that his replacements can be a good standard.

I can usually only take dub/reggae in very small doses myself, but.... Roots Manuva Meets Wrong Tom - Duppy Writer

That's more of a clubs v Uefa issue though. Total joke Fifa basically investigating themselves like. Ooh, I wonder what they'll find. The way I've read this whole carry on they're all guilty as sin but Blatter has more on other people than they have on him. No doubt that paragon of morality that is Swiss law will sort this all out though. Will money dictate they have to get serious? A few of the top sponsors have had a pop... "Emirates, like all football fans around the world, are disappointed with the issues that are currently surrounding the administration of this sport. We hope that these issues will be resolved as soon as possible and the outcome will be in the interest of the game and sport in general.'' "Adidas enjoys a long-term, close and successful partnership with FIFA that we are looking forward to continuing, having said that, the negative tenor of the public debate around FIFA at the moment is neither good for football nor for FIFA and its partners.'' Coca Cola - “The current allegations being raised are distressing and bad for the sport. We have every expectation that FIFA will resolve this situation in an expedient and thorough manner.'' The top 6 sponsors account for £1Bn (a quarter) of FIFA income.

There's 41 "chances" listed if you click the link in my sig. Is 42 the absolute limit

The 'year' is not an arbitrary reference point for each financial assessment. You have added the net on player sales from previous seasons? Some of that net would have covered 'annual' losses in the past. Point taken. April 2010 to April 2011 is a relevant financial period. April 2007 to April 2011 is not. But if we are going to use the former to speculate on an unrelated April 2011 to April 2012 net position, then surely the net position of previous financial years are equally informative?

Other than it doesnt mean anything in practice. I would have thought the fact that the club wouldnt spend £5m when Ben Arfa was fit but would spend it when he was fucked suggests the reason they didnt spend it was because they didnt have it. No? http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/839308-hatem-...r#ixzz1NxlvJEdB So yes, no. That clause became irrelevant, the desire to see him perform over 25 games can not have been the reason for asking for it if they just go and buy him 4 months later, with a career threatening injury. The only logical explanation is that they didnt have the money. Not sure how it all works, maybe some of the TV money will get paid once the first part of the Sky schedule is sorted. Sky schedule 3 or 4 times a season, with each part triggering some of the total £40-50m pay out. The first lot of money comes in before January, they paid for him. It became irrelevant, but it was relevant at the time it was put into the contract, surely? Which is all Fish is saying, we had an agreement to buy him and knew we'd have to fund it. It's been suggested that we've stopped playing other members of the squad when it'll trigger an expensive clause, and thatt wouldn't surprise me. It would have been an option here too. If we couldn't justify the £5m, stop playing him on 24. But as that didn't happen, it's fair enough to give the board the benefit of the doubt and assume they always planned to buy.

23/47.7ths of his £47.7m altogether net inflow like. Or less than half. I dont follow. We are £30m up financially since the start of last season, following a season in which we made a loss. What am I missing? We are $47.7m up financially since Ashley arrived....it's all arbitrary points on the timeline. Not sure why anyone would think it makes sense to include the Carroll sale and not the Ben Arfa purchase in any totaliser like. No its not. Its an annual cycle of revenue, so each period is one year. Which is why I said it's daft to count Carroll and not Barfa. You said you didn't follow the £47.7million figure though. It's arbitrary whether you choose to go back to the start of last season, 2 seasons ago, 3 seasons or 4.

Other than it doesnt mean anything in practice. I would have thought the fact that the club wouldnt spend £5m when Ben Arfa was fit but would spend it when he was fucked suggests the reason they didnt spend it was because they didnt have it. No? http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/839308-hatem-...r#ixzz1NxlvJEdB So yes, no.

I think you'll find Fish, Happy Face and Chez's post dwarf my posts. NNot sure how that relates to JKs post, but you've got more than twice my posts in this thread and in 2 years you've got half the posts I've managed in 5, so you're posting at a higher rate than I manage

Getting called a cunt hundreds of times a day can't be good for the ego who has called you a cunt ? who have you called a cunt ? Stevie uses up my allocation as well as his own on Robbie Savage, Michael Owen and Mark Bright.

I think Chez is just on the rag Fish. Nowt wrong with saying they had the Barfa money "ear-marked". It certainly should have been budgeted for without assuming we'd get £35m for a stiker with hardly any Premier League games to his name.

23/47.7ths of his £47.7m altogether net inflow like. Or less than half. I dont follow. We are £30m up financially since the start of last season, following a season in which we made a loss. What am I missing? We are $47.7m up financially since Ashley arrived....it's all arbitrary points on the timeline. Not sure why anyone would think it makes sense to include the Carroll sale and not the Ben Arfa purchase in any totaliser like.

Getting called a cunt hundreds of times a day can't be good for the ego

23/47.7ths of his £47.7m altogether net inflow like. Or less than half.

Wouldn't surprise me if he's bezzy mates with Tiote. Would also suggest Tiote's staying if he does come. Fingers crossed.

Poor Anne Begg I'd do her, nae bother.

Lass on the phone said 46. But I haven't had an email and some of the other lads have been put in row x so we'll be ringing for a move on Tuesday. 7 of us have sat together for over 10 years. Only 6 renewing this year and thought they had split us up into groups of 3. Just found out there's 3 of us together, 2 together elsewhere and one lad's been sat on his todd. It's not on this like, when there's plenty of space in L4. On hold... Gan in L4 better view even, and with us moving you won't be the only radgies in there. They were full of apologies and said we could fit in L2N or L2R as a group. Gotta send an email once i've collected all the supporter numbers. Think I'll put some of the more central L4 sections as a higher preference on the off chance we can fit in. She was going on like there was nothing doing for L4.

Lass on the phone said 46. But I haven't had an email and some of the other lads have been put in row x so we'll be ringing for a move on Tuesday. 7 of us have sat together for over 10 years. Only 6 renewing this year and thought they had split us up into groups of 3. Just found out there's 3 of us together, 2 together elsewhere and one lad's been sat on his todd. It's not on this like, when there's plenty of space in L4. On hold...

Stand in the opposition box deflecting pass backs very slightly.

He'll jajajaja in their face

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