yep, i'll vouch for that! in my defence, i merely stated the words of one person on twitter who just happened to have got everything wrong about three players - now i'm stuck with the tag! on the holt front, i have heard that the deal is potentially still very much on although that was a couple of days ago and things change.
Supers, I'm willing to state on an open forum that I value your vast knowledge and I have to say that you are correct most of the time!
From all the facts I've heard, ignoring rumor sites, if Holt stays after this window I'd be very pleasantly surprised, I really can't see him staying past January. His family is more Important than Football.
And for good measure: "Sam Allardyce is keen to strengthen the West Ham attack with a £5m move for Sochaux's 24-year-old striker Modibo Maiga" -- BBC Gossip column.
If you mean the sausage shop, I did reply, but I think I just tweeted the reply, not joined it to yours!
it appears, if true, that reading may be paying guthrie as much as £35k a week that's not going to be sustainable for a club of that stature, i don't care what anyone says
Russian I like how when they got promoted the players and manager alike were saying how they wanted to be like swansea and norwich by adding not massively to the squad and keeping the teamspirit and backbone to the side. So far theyve signed Guthrie £35k p/w and close to signing pogrebneyak £60-70k p/w plus theyre looking at rhodes who will proberbly demand a fortune and theyve been linked to so many other players! The problem is, £35kp/w is bugger all in terms of premiership wages but to us its a lot and thats what will come to bite us in the backside sooner or later.
Here's a link to a thread I posted on the Reading board last week - http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/152273-Reading-to-follow-Norwich-and-Swansea-model-REALLY
What everyone needs to bear in mind is that running a football club is running a business.I've run mine for thirty five years now and I make a profit every year.It's not a profit that sees me making off to St.Moritz for a month every winter but I make a living.Now if you start paying people fifty grand a week willy nilly there isn't enough in the pot to keep up with the outgoings. That's why clubs like Chelsea and Man City have owners who are so desperate to succeed that they stick their hands in their pockets and fund the shortfall.In the case of the former every time we pay our gas bill,the latter every time we fill our petrol tanks we contribute to those clubs.And who is in charge of the who caboodle.Well I will remind you it's the BARCLAYS Premiership.I rest my case M'lud. So unless an owner is prepared to find twenty or thirty million quid every year to subsidise these inflated wage levels it's probably better to accept that at least we will have local derbies to fall back on.On the plus side these sort of people usually get bored with their toys in pretty short order.
yes and hopefully we never do that, if it means we float in and out of the top division so be it I dont care, I do care that I have Carrow road to take my lads to to watch proffesional football, and for the record I think we all enjoyed our year in L1 and the CCC as much as we did the PL year actually so it aint about money for me its about fun, ps I even enjoyed the year under Rodent so dont take any notice of me something to do with green and yellow blood
I think the answer would be to regi=ulate so clubs were only allowed to spend what comes in,over say a five year period.Clubs exceeding income would incur a 10 X surcharge.
Easy to talk about regulation, not so easy to make it work. How many of us actually believe that the new UEFA regulations are really going to make any difference? It's like taxation, for every loophole closed, another one opens -- if you have the wherewithal to identify it.
