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That is high for a club that size. Especially one about to get relegated. For them this is a really bad time to get relegated for sure. They'll need to sell the whole team more or less to get some cash back in and reduce wages and they're going to need that parachute payment badly.

Key points • Premier League clubs' total wage costs for 2005/06 increased by 9pc (£69m) to £854m. The wages to turnover ratio, a key performance indicator, increased to 62pc. • Five English clubs have total wages costs each season greater than £50m: Chelsea (£114m), Manchester United (£85m), Arsenal (£83m). Liverpool (£69m) and Newcastle (£52m). • The highest proportional wage rises came at Tottenham (up £7.5m), Everton (up £6.1m), Charlton (up £5.3m) and Aston Villa (up £5.1m). • Average gross annual earnings for a Premier League player next season estimated at £1.1m (2005/06: £0.9m). • Premier League revenues are set to exceed £1.7bn next season, the first year of new broadcast deals - £680m above the next richest league, Italy's Serie A. Premier League clubs' revenues increased by 3pc (£45m) in 2005/06. • The gap between the average Premier League and Championship club's revenue was a record £56m in 2005/06 and is set to increase to over £70m next season. • Operating profits in the Premier League fell for the first time since 1999/00 to £138m (down 15pc). • Fees to agents from Premier League and Football League clubs in 2005/06 estimated to be over £50m. • The money redistributed to Football League clubs from the Premiership rose to £48m in 2005/06 (2004/05: £28m); the highest since the Premiership began. • By the end of 2005/06, Roman Abramovich had injected £485m of new money into Chelsea, through a combination of debt and equity.

That is high for a club that size.

Manchester United: £660m (At June 2006). Liverpool: £350m (At January 2008). Arsenal: £307m (At November 2007). Fulham: £159m (At June 2006). Newcastle: £110m ('Liabilities' at June 2007 – before Mike Ashley takeover).

Youth in stockings would be better. [Meenzah/]

Ronny deal to Chelsea was 'done' last summer according to my Russian mate.

Plays for Fenerbahce? Yup. A def I've been keeping an eye on for a while. Hard in the tackle and a fluent passer.

Maybe the 'transfer policy' he has adopted in the two transfer windows is down to the £100 million of debt he's had to pay off to stop the club from folding because of your good mate Freddy This idea that a business like Newcastle (with a virtual monopoly and catchment area) along with massive gates regardless of performance had any chance of 'folding' I find spurious and the kind of 'spin' Mort has been putting out since he arrived. The millions pouring into the PL virtually secures all PL club businesses for a considerable period. Many top flight clubs carry proportionate to income high debt ratios. It's not really about profitability either as there aren't many PL clubs that habitually make a profit. That said I am of the opinion the debt did need looking at but I find the melodrama surrounding it unnecessary.

It's always better not to say these things in interviews although I understand the reasoning behind it. Celebrating success is important but there is a balance between that and bringing more pressure on the team.

Agreedage. The look nice but don't feel so good. Rarely. I thought they used fat for them male versions? The new versions are much better they use soya bean oil so leakage is no longer a massive health issue apparently.

This is a defender might be worth a serious look. Lugano Country: Uruguay Position: Defender

AVG free version does the trick. Upgrade later to full version when you're ready.

They are all new to Capello tbh. Level one retort. Level 2?

Silly playing friendlies and not trying new players.

First come first serve I take it?

Agreedage. The look nice but don't feel so good.

Thinking of getting this one.. http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Professional-DS...l/dp/B0001851PA Anybody know of competing models etc?

Correct. It is a war on our bodies yes.

"So thumping on to young women about how they should reject plastic surgery because it treats them like lumps of meat, when the thrust of culture is to treat both men and women this way, makes no sense. And yet, even while I am pro-objectification, I am still against boob jobs, as like diets, and all other kinds of surgery, the aim is to make everyone look the same. And if we are all aspiring to exactly the same model of beauty, it makes us a hell of a lot easier to sell things to. The truth about sex is that everyone's triggers are different, and even if you run a very broad church, your visual and sexual stimuli are not going to be exactly the same as your friend's. This is fine as, from a species perspective, it encourages genetic diversity and ensures that we all get laid. It's only if you're using sex to sell other things, or attempting to sell sex itself in some mass-market medium like porn, that you need to make attractiveness homogenous like this. So the argument against breast enlargement is not really a feminist one - it has more in common with the anti-globalisation movement. We don't please men by all trying to be the same shape, we please corporations. We make commodities of ourselves. It really has nothing to do with sex at all; it's like getting a Nike tick tattooed across your face." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/26/gender

Can't ban war, the job losses would be tremendous. We could and don't quote me on this make technology the benefits mankind rather than destroy it. Just a thought.

Dos Santos for £7m? Now that is made up.

Correct. Sad, but true. It`s just a fad. Costly fad.

I still do.

For a long time I wanted to be Clint Eastwood.