OTF

1-2 in probably means we'll sell 1 or 2, loan out 1 or 2 and buy 1 if we're lucky.

I hear that Shefki Kuqi is available...

Right on both counts I'm afraid. Also worried about the mettle of the side when things inevitably aren't going well and there's a few injuries to key personel along with the inevitable suspensions Tiote will pick up.

Don't worry lads Demba will score 30 goals and cover for both Nolan and Carroll.

GUILTY!! Another watertight case from Columbo RIP Peter Falk

All this fantastic publicity will do wonders for all of the potential targets that we'll be hoping to land. They'll be queuing up to join, negotiating their wages downwards trying to increase their chances of being signed.

Does it matter either way?

Was lovely out on Tuesday as well, playing some lunch time football. Somehow managed to pick up a cold off some bastard, now my head is blocked up something chronic.

I'm hearing some very late mail that we'll be making a fantastic offer to Evra minutes before the window closes. They would have got it in earlier you see but they were doing their best to land Erding, and Tiote was using the chopper.

Sometimes it really really sucks to be right.

No matter how justified he is in his decision to leave I'll still be pissed watching him play for Liverpool. I think I'd rather him have gone anywhere else to be honest. Now we get to sit and wait like helpless idiots to see whether we're lucky enough to have him replaced by a cheaper inferior player on lower wages, or whether we'll have to settle for the Chronicle and .co.uk bigging up some square peg round hole 'alternatives' that we already have in our squad.

Whoops.. was supposed to be Carroll and Suarez. Not sure where the heck I pulled Aguero from.

It all hinges on Gerrard returning to be a decent player I reckon. Up front Aguero and Suarez will be a handful (or handball in the case of Suarez) for any defense. Enrique will make a massive difference to their defense who are weak and/or slow currently. The way Downing integrates into the side will be another key factor.

Gerrin! They're balancing the fuck out of those books this week. It's glorious stuff. Tiote will be the only one of our top 5 players from last season left, and then it's clear that they're just sitting on him waiting for the best time to cash in. Someone should have told them you're supposed to keep your best players and replace the weaker ones.

No real difference between the stuff on .co.uk and in the chronicle. Sad really.

He's been on the windup for the 40 or 50 years he's been here, you'd think over that period of time he'd have shown some loyalty.

There's a fair chance they wrote £35M on a ping pong ball popped it under one of several plastic cups moved them around then voila all the money has been spent!

Bassong's a disgrace Duff's a disgrace ...and while I'm here Keegan's a disgrace as well. Luckily Dekka and LardAsh are there to keep these leeches honest.

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure they spend a lot of time researching every player. Except Xisco though, I think they have him confused with a rapper.

Fatty Fattison!

We saw in 08/09 that he's a confidence player. The way the morale is going he'll be one of the first that we will see the effects on the pitch. It will be amplified by the departure of fellow Spanish speaker Enrique whose pace is the perfect foil for Coloccini's lack. It will then be amplified further by having a rolling roster of players in the left back role, none of whom are any good there - Ferguson, Perch, Tavernier and Raylor. I'm shuddering just thinking about it.

Running the club and its reputation into the ground.

With the caveat that the money would be reinvested into the team. It's a little know fact, but when a player is contracted for 2 more years it means they are obligated to play for another 2 years. Turns down January contract when he has concerns regarding the direction of the club. When his concerns are found to be well warranted and he calls the owners out on it, instead of responding appropriately they offer him up for free because it's easier to do. They've got no reason to be dealing with the board until their contracts need to be reviewed, at which time, time and time again they become disillusioned with the lies and deceit. That was a joke right?

Aha - but it won't matter because your pie shop will be out of business in 5 minutes if it's run anything like Newcastle United. People aren't so blindly loyal about their pies; can't replace the beef with horse offal and expect people to keep queuing up to buy.

The only pertinent and undeniable fact is that the club have transfer listed the player of last season. Make of that what any person with sense would. If you then put that in the context of other movements it's even more condemning. In January the club sold their leading scorer who was contracted to the club for 5 years. In June the club sold their leading scorer and captain who was contracted to the club for 2 years.