Jeezus, Batmanu was all over our pages on 606 and he hasn't let up here either. **** off you plum! Can I say **** off on this forum? Oops I just did. Mods feel free to delete the expletives as and if necessary.
Someone told me a couple of weeks ago that the only promise Purslow made him was that the club would be sold by the October refinancing deadline. That was it, nothing else. Kenny Huang's people on the other hand, promised him the world (including Iniesta and Drogba). If he believed all that crap, it's on him, not the club. Of course, if Purslow promised him more than just the club being sold by October then I'm sure we'll hear about it.
Here's what I'd do. Make some enquiries and see if we can get anyone in. If we can, then I say to Chelsea cough up the asking price by 5pm today, or it's not happening. I'd say to Torres, tell Chelsea if they want you they need to pay up, coz if they don't then this is what happens. Suarez takes your place, and if he isn't available then Ngog plays. You will be on the bench every game, but you won't get on the field. You will however, have to warm up in front of the fans. If they don't come up with the dosh, we tell Torres and Chelsea to **** themselves and we'll sell him in the summer when there'll be other clubs interested. We hold the cards here. If they come up with the dosh, we try and get people in but if we can't then we'll have to wait til the summer to get them. We're not going down, and we aren't gonna make top four, so it's not the end of the world if he goes. The big disappointment is the Europa League, as this hurts our chances of winning it.
Oh and the ÃÆÃââââ¬à ¡ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã50m clause is there. There have been suggestions it doesn't kick in until the summer though. Not sure if that's the case but the clause exists.
Of course Torres wants away, he thought he was joining a better team when he left Atletico, his heart was at that club, it took alot for him to leave, and he ended up picking a team in a worse position, can you blame him for wanting to leave? He wanted to go up in the world, not down.
It's too bizarre. A lot of questions, all being asked everywhere: why now? Why not at the start of the window when he was still under Roy? Why when Chelsea can't guarantee 4th and need the 4-5 players Torres wanted to see come to us? Why when Kenny, who he is said to adore, has just taken charge? If he was looking to impress Chelsea and it was all on the backburner why the improvement in form at exactly the point Kenny took over? Why not leave last summer when everything was uncertain with little sign of a buyer, never mind players? Why did he stay? Why? No answers. Until there are I'm still behind him. I can't blame him for looking when he stuck by us until Hicks and Gillett were gone and we were back on our feet. I can't blame him for thinking he'd already lost the fan love when some were prepared to buy into the media noise that player effort was the problem, not Roy and his stinky system. He looked like a fan out there under Hodgson: confused, annoyed and fed up. Good on him. It helped get rid of the problem.
