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"There'll be music, competitions and world football freestyle champion Mr Woo to keep you entertained during the morning before training starts" Sounds absolutely hideous.

Thing is though, we suffered 2 years of Souness, only then could Spurs even consider being on par with us. 167435[/snapback] Their squad now is better than ours though. And they've got the money to kick on....

From True Faith. The usual bollocks spouted about it being OUR club, which it isn't, but there you go anyway. The fact that it was in the Chronicle means nothing, but there could be interesting times ahead if they are going to sell. With Villa up for sale, Portsmouth flashing cash about, and talk at the weekend of someone coming in to do the same at Everton, we might actually need someone to come in to keep pace with these teams. We've seen from watching Spurs how quickly teams can overtake or match a club on our level and it wouldn't take long for others to do the same if the money started getting splashed about.

Na. He's too ugly to score goals.

must admit the doom and gloom has lifted with the signing of duff - all cos of freddie. 167397[/snapback] That's exactly the point I was trying to make to Craig yesterday. It only takes one "big" signing and suddenly the fans are happy. That's how Freddie works. No good planning for the long term future of the club, let's just get a big name player in to appease the fans. 167410[/snapback] That's how he'll always operate though unfortunately. I'm guilty of it to an extent because I went to the PSV game off the back of the Duff signing. But as long as Shepherd remains chairman and has managers that won't stand up to it, or that welcome the big money signings themselves in place of a longer term plan, we'll always operate like this. I'm hopeful that we might be taking a more sensible approach under Roeder, but we'll see. It was at its worst under Souness last summer with the panic buying of Luque followed by the too-good-to-pass-up purchase of Owen and the ludicrous price we paid to price Liverpool out of the deal. 167415[/snapback] i'm reasonably confident that duff will not be the only high profile signing this summer. 167424[/snapback] And as much as I've just sort of complained about the culture of high profile signings that we have at the club, I'll be gutted if that's true. Although watching us at the weekend, if we don't make a high-profile striker signing this summer, we are in serious trouble this season. A striker with pace will score loads of goals for us this season though, I reckon.

Toontastic and N-O. Never bother with the BBC Gossip Column, or any sports news sites, because I know that if something signing related happens it'll be on one of Toontastic or N-O straight away anyway.

These days I probably dislike Spurs more than Man U, but only because I'm concerned at how much better they're becoming than us. In the grand scheme of things though, to most people Spurs are a non-entity.

must admit the doom and gloom has lifted with the signing of duff - all cos of freddie. 167397[/snapback] That's exactly the point I was trying to make to Craig yesterday. It only takes one "big" signing and suddenly the fans are happy. That's how Freddie works. No good planning for the long term future of the club, let's just get a big name player in to appease the fans. 167410[/snapback] That's how he'll always operate though unfortunately. I'm guilty of it to an extent because I went to the PSV game off the back of the Duff signing. But as long as Shepherd remains chairman and has managers that won't stand up to it, or that welcome the big money signings themselves in place of a longer term plan, we'll always operate like this. I'm hopeful that we might be taking a more sensible approach under Roeder, but we'll see. It was at its worst under Souness last summer with the panic buying of Luque followed by the too-good-to-pass-up purchase of Owen and the ludicrous price we paid to price Liverpool out of the deal.

That's neither gossip nor rumour. Jesus Christ.

whats 20m when your backed by a bazillionaire? 167389[/snapback] Are Spurs suddenly being bankrolled by someone like? I thought they were just running a tight ship, have no debt, and are starting to splash the cash a bit? 167395[/snapback] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lewis_%28British%29 167400[/snapback] That he lives in the Bahamas and is loaded would be reason enough to hate him. Bankrolling Spurs was his final mistake.

whats 20m when your backed by a bazillionaire? 167389[/snapback] Are Spurs suddenly being bankrolled by someone like? I thought they were just running a tight ship, have no debt, and are starting to splash the cash a bit?

I like him when he finances signings. I don't have much time for pretty much everything else he gets up to unfortunately.

That SHOULD sound like a complete load of bollocks, but with Shepherd you just never know.

I'm not that sad! I went to see them train once when Gazza was still at the club. Wore me full kit, stood behind the goal and stuck my leg out to stop a Neil McDonald shot that went wide. Right on the inside of the thigh. I managed to hold back the tears despite the perfect markings of the ball forming in red lumpy lines on my corned beef leg.

I'd take an insane bid like that for Charlie Zog like. He's not worth it, but neither's Carrick. Imagine what we could do with £18.6m spare now though.

That Jol bloke is alright for the most part, but when you're not in the mood to be patronised by a Spurs fan, he's quite often in the wrong place at the wrong time.

What happened like?

Shepherd runs the club the same way I play Championship Manager. If it's a signing I know I have little chance of getting, I offer them a ludicrous signing on fee (millions) and whack their wages up as high as I possibly can. I nearly always get players sold from under me for not sticking to the wage budget (Shepherd undermining his manager tbh. ). He a crazy man! Although I'd be at next week's friendly if Ronaldo turned up on loan this week, I have to say.

The difference is ManUtd are a for profit company, not some plaything of a dodgy Russian billionaire who is probably using them to launder his cash. ZZZzzzZZZzzz. 167328[/snapback] Put the chainsaws down lads. It doesn't have to end like this.

Keith, go and post that on N-O. 5 pager within 15 minutes of people just going "EH?! I wonder what that could be for. GAN ON FREDDY MAN!" - GUARANTEED!

For anyone who hasn't seen this post (and it's hidden in a canny big thread), it's the lad called killers_perm who used to organise the pre-match entertainment at SJP - the one who sorted out playing Pedro's videos at the ground. Anyway, he reckons he was in the swanky lounge at the weekend eavesdropping and overheard Hall and Shepherd bragging to these two businessmen (he named one of them in his post, can't remember who it was though) that we're trying to bring Ronaldo on loan for the season. The sticking point is supposedly that his agent doesn't want Ronaldo to become seen as a loan option when previously he'd have been a £20m+ saleable asset. Anyway, that was the craic in full. Tbh I don't think it's as implausible as it sounds - we all know Shepherd has crazy ideas like this. It'll be a Shepherd signing rather than a Roeder one if it's true though. I reckon he'd be a proper lazy knacker but he'd still score more goals than anyone we've currently got at the club if he came btw.

I haven't watched it in at least 14 years or something. I don't know if that's because the programme turned shit (guest presenters, too much miming etc.), or the music that they had on did. I dunno.

I've seen Lucky Number Slevin, and I know what you mean about Willis. Just deadpans everything. I thought Wolf Creek was good though - the bloke was properly scary with that mental laugh when they're round the camp fire.

I've got a Belkin router - it's 100 and something G though ( ) which I gather means it's quicker than the one you're linking to. However, they're dead dead easy to set up. Mine's a modem an'all like like Matt mentions above.

If only someone had introduced alex to the world of anabolic steroids when he was a burgeoning track talent. He could have retired a disgraced millionaire by now.