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I thought I'd come back from a few hours away and we'd have signed at least 1 player. I am disappoint.

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surely signing Okore goes some way to shoring up the defence? we now have 4 CBs for 2 positions. I think we still have Herd right? not his best position by miles but assuming he's not in a CB pair with Lowton he can prob do a job, same goes for Lowton, so we have 4 CBs and 2 players who can cover in an emergency. I'd expect cover/competition for Lowton and Bennet to get signed too. As for goals from other areas of the pitch, he's grabbed Bucana and Tonev already to add to the midfield mix. So it looks to be something he's thinking about at least! I think Okore, Bacuna and probably Herd too could cover RB so I don't see that as a priority, unless we bring in someone very young as an understudy.

Looks awesome with the sponsor logo - xl boys for me! and the pink goalie kit is **** brilliant

hopefully it's not on 2 lines on the shirt. They'll want @D logo on there so with any luck it'll be in front or after the dafabet word. Then it could look decent enough - probably better than gentings which I don't like. Obvious joke to be made at our expense about villa being a daftbet? Like the Cows thing.

Logo looks quite plain and might look okay on the shirts. If not, I'll get a kids top.

Eh? So if you earned £20k a year then £2k wouldn't be a lot of money to you? I think not.

the badge or the kit?

People were saying exactly the same when we got linked to Christian Benteke last summer. With respect there is no comparison. Bentekke was the rising star of the Belguim national team - his current club Genk were very keen to hang onto him, a fee of £11m was mentioned at one stage. I think the only reservations that were expressed was if he could adapt to the premier league - most people on here were pretty excited. Ive never seem him play - but his CV doesn't seem a patch on Bentekke's. If he comes in and has a similar impact to Bentekke, I will happily admit I was wrong. I don't see us doing this deal in anycase. I can't find the post, but I distinctly remember some Belgian guy giving his opinion on Benteke before we signed him - saying that he was hit and miss and probably wasn't ready for the step up to the Premier League quite yet. Look how that turned out.

But Ashley Young was very much an expensive punt. That could easily have been a waste of big bucks. And we probably will buy 1 or 2 players this season in the Benteke price range, as well as 3 or 4 cheap punts.

Didn't Blues have a black and pink number?

He cites a source as Tonev's agent and that he acquired these sources in Poland working at the Euros. Certainly seems as credible as one can on twitter.

Same philosophy, no experience. I'm all for it, but it will probably annoy many on here!

Titus Bramble, Nicky Shorey, Florent Malouda and Arshavin please. All on £50k for 4 years.

Have we? only thing I heard is Lambert makes the worst performer in training wear a yellow jacket or something and that when Bent was awarded it he stormed off and had a big ruck with Lambert over it not heard anything about his team mates though He didn't want to wear Bannan's jacket?

Yes, they go into the 2nd qualifying round and then a 3rd qualifying round before the groups. They're currently 2nd seeds in the 2nd qualy round behind BATE Borisov and assuming all goes to form would be 2nd seeds in the 3rd round too. So they should go through if there are no surprises. EDIT : There's a FOURTH qualy round! They'd be 2nd seeds in that too but it's not exactly full of muppets. Likely to be sides like Dinamo Zagreb, Partizan Belgrade, Austria Vienna, Legia Warsaw. Sides capable of upsetting Celtic. where does the 4th placed English side enter? I could look this up myself of course, but it seems like you've done your homework.

I want them all to make it! Yes I think loans are key. There are guys younger than this group of players who have dozens of first team games at lower level and are better for it.

But we'd potentially make a net profit on their transfers, more than half the wages (for the player) and have someone 5 years younger with resale value. Also, since we're being linked with wingers, maybe we're looking to have a plan b.

Jesus he's got two feet like traction engines.

White socks with that? there's got to be a rule against wearing a kit that distracting?

yes this will work with the away kit, when it will be invisible

Double money from £20k (if that's what he's on) to £40k. That will make him one of the top earners once Bent, Given, Dunne and Ireland are gone, so he couldn't complain there. Gabby might be on more but he's a senior player and our all time top Premier League goalscorer. Then I'd expect him to go after next season, but at least the contract extension will allow us to command a huge fee.

5 * ~750k = £3.75m So if we get 11th with the new tv money added to that as well thats gotta be worth a total of what? 60m?......WOW! Am looking forward to see how this team performs without the threat of relegation looming over it actually. Also what PL will do now we're "Bentekeless"... Gotta be Bent & Weimann i guess The new TV prize money comes through at the end of next season, not up front at the start. If we can improve our finish next year we will get a bigger chunk of it. Doesn't really matter. If we're 100% owed it, then it goes into the accounts. When it gets paid is only really a matter for the cash-flow enthusiasts (i.e. poor clubs like Pompey). But we don't know how much we will be owed until we know where we finish next season. It would be risky to borrow against the prize money for finishing 8th but only end up finishing 15th and receive half of what we were banking on. TV money is shared out equally is it not? Prize money depends on place but is not as significant.

I don't believe you.

He must realise how ridiculous his predictions are come then end of the season and teams are safe on 29 points.