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I think Keane may be able to help with this. We never have enough backbone to see off the teams we "should" be beating, and for what ever reason Culverhouse couldn't put that backbone into the players. I don't think it was so much as just tactics, just that we seemed to roll over or be too nervous against those teams. Hopefully Keane will add a bit of bite to the players so they can stand up for themselves in the scrappier games.

Orly? Keane has also pulled out of ITV's World Cup coverage "to focus on coaching". Personally, I think he's the sort of person we need. He may not have been the greatest manager, but he sure as hell was a great captain. He may scare the living shit out of our squad, but maybe it's what they need so that they don't balls up constantly. Maybe he can teach Westwood or Delph a thing or two about playing in holding midfield too. As for him being "footballing cancer", if captaining a Utd side that won multiple Premier League titles, FA Cups and a Champion's League is footballing cancer, our squad is well and truly ****! EDIT: Beaten to it. Twice. And by the guy I quoted.

Not reading anything into it but that's weird that our name was seemingly plucked out of mid air, especially as we weren't publicly for sale then too. Coincidence I'm sure though.

Good luck to him where ever he goes, will probably be missed, more so to do with us not having any other wingers than his ability. Ludicrously over rated, "the next David Beckham"

Well, it was by TalkSport, so they do have a job...

Finished my last exam of the year today, now for 3 months of doing naff all

The problem though, is that it isn't x number of sub-plots all in one story, it's one huge plot with several sub-plots used to accelerate the main plot that eventually tie back up together (or at least that is assumed). For example, whilst Brienne's plot-line isn't too interesting and a bit slow now, it's vital to see/set up another plot-line further down the line. Another example is how Ned's plot-line seemed very important at the start, but it's main reason was to further the plot-lines of his children and to highlight the politics used in Kings' Landing. They can't quite stretch out what they are currently using as the source material is already being fairly stretched out, at least two episodes this season have used a majority of non-book filler. As the characters become more separated, the story diverges into more and more sub-plots. In the first Book/Season, all the characters were centred around 3/4 places with the majority being in Kings' Landing, but now you have at least 8/9 different locations, because all the characters are no longer in the same place and are going in different directions. Also, don't forget that the main reason for some of the sub-plots is pretty much purely to highlight the effect of war on the common folk and outside of the capital/cities.

I think Lambert showed when he joined us that if he didn't want to be here, he wouldn't be here.

What's Lerner going to do about it though? He's not exactly going to convince any prospective buyers to not use their own jet. If you had a private jet, would you fly any other way? I doubt a billionaire is going to want to go on a commercial flight when he can get places in more comfort and I assume quicker with his own jet. Randy could be willing to lend any buyers his jet, but then that information would be just as intriguing as why would Lerner make PL and PF fly out to NY if he (or at least his jet) was to come to the UK himself just a few days later. It's not as if Randy can embargo the information either, he can't get TheTrees sacked or even get him to not pass on information he notices. Even flying into another airport would be a fairly unreasonable request, why fly somewhere to then have another 1hr30-2hr drive on top when you can fly to somewhere 30 minutes away from your destination. Doesn't matter whether Randy knows about TheTrees' occasional information passing, he can't exactly stop it.

I'd love to know where this "fact" is from. All we know is the club is up for sale, if you don't like the speculation, then stay out of the thread clearly named "£200 Million US Takeover".

But then why would they buy us? It would be much more sensible for them to just sponsor us, why shell out the extra £50m+ per year for no gain? Thankfully, maybe hopefully, this is why I think this Red Bull stuff is bullshit. It makes no sense for them to buy us if they can't change us to Red Bull Birmingham/Aston or whatever it would be, or change our colours. As Trent said, it's literally the reason they do it, and you'd hope the FA would be smart enough to block such actions.

Yeah, apart from the last 9 games when he started 6 times and was mostly crap pre-Cardiff.

If it's illegal under EU law, how come the Aviva Premiership has had one for 15 years? No idea don't know diddly about rugby but I know capping wages is illegal under eu law Well they obviously aren't as several top rugby leagues have had them in place for 10+ years without any challenges to them.

If it's illegal under EU law, how come the Aviva Premiership has had one for 15 years?

He can either fight himself, which he won't as he ain't too good at it, or he can name a "champion" to fight for him.

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Ah OK, never look at the titles really. A bit strange that they would give away spoilers in them? It's not exactly a huge spoiler, but you can work out what happens if you really think about it. Before the last episode, only book readers would be able to figure it out, and even after I think most would still be none the wiser.

Ridiculous, it's like suggesting the first thing Tottenham would've done with Bale was convert him to CB, it ain't gonna happen as it won't get anywhere near the best out of him. If Shaw is to be converted to a new position, it's much more likely he'll be pushed further up the pitch to play on the wing where he can hurt players with his dribbling and pace. Not to mention he's not great defensively so would get massively shown up at CB. And I'm pretty sure Utd will buy an actual CB instead of spending £27m to play a LB out of position.

Clubs which got to where they are currently before FFP was introduced and has effectively shut the door to that Top 4/6. It's all well and good talking about how we did it the "proper" way 30-odd years ago, but let's get real, in modern football, money is everything unfortunately, it is extremely rare to get close to success without significant investment. And it's nice he cited 3 clubs who have done it the "proper" way (even though 2 have also spent a lot of money), but what about the other 15 or so clubs in top European leagues that are currently pretty much untouchable due to their money? For us to get back to the top it would take years of extremely shrewd signings, or a few years of big spending.

Maybe they saw the reaction to the photo Weimann put on Instragram and thought that if that was the type of reaction a simple photo of the team relaxing after a game garnered, the fans may not take too kindly to the idea of an awards dinner.

He probably won't play a game until 2015 though ? There's no point having him unless he's making a difference on the pitch My point is that there would have been a good chance that we would have sold him this summer and not had him at all next season, providing the new owners don't come in Man City style. Instead, he'll probably come back from injury roughly October/November time and the next time he'll pick up some serious interest will most likely be Summer 2015, so his injury may be a blessing in disguise, for us at least, as we will most likely hold onto him for an extra season now.

Why did Lerner have to release his statement today?! Why not tomorrow or Wednesday? I've got an exam tomorrow and I'm currently spending time, that I should be using to revise, reading On Topic and thinking about who will be the next owner, and then further procrastinating by complaining about my procrastination. God damn it Randy, if I fail my exams the blame is at your door!

I think we were "lucky" that he got injured when he did and for so long as I don't think the big clubs will come sniffing again until 2015 imo. We'll probably want north of £20m and teams at the top will want to see how he does when he returns from injury before throwing that sort of money at a player who, despite his obvious talents, now has the possibility of not returning to his best and be potentially injury prone for the rest of his career. Other clubs will want to be sure he isn't a crock and will still have the ability to justify the fee we will demand.