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He's right General, you should be at the front of the Holte.

Here Although the article also says we could counter. And it's in the Daily Mail :roll: It's not yet being reported anywhere else. SSN hasn't "gone yellow."

I wonder if Doyles injury for Reading today will serve to push prices for strikers up even further ? Hope not. Like Oaks, I think we'll see one this week. I've got no evidence, just a feeling.

General, How's our new Chief Exec getting on, I hope he's enjoying these few quiet weeks and finding his feet ? :winkold: Please pass on our best wishes to Mr Fitzgerald and wish him the best of luck.

A nice piece, and I agree with almost all of it. I've just got a niggling feeling that it could have been written by a Liverpool fan in 2005. Maybe this is just how he is ? I'm not convinced Milan will ever turn the corner completely and be the player he can be, I think he's destined to see out his career looking like he might.

I'm not sure whether £5m + Davenport + Routledge adds up to more than £7m. Maybe at a push £2m for Routledge and £1m for Davenport would give them £8m, but both of these would probably want more money than Young. I wonder how much he's on at the moment, I'd be suprised if it was more than 10k a week. Davenport and Routledge would want three times that between them.

Whilst I don't agree with Malcolm on many of the points in this article, isn't the point that there is no official line on VT. It's this that means that any and all opinions are valid, and that's why I come. If I stop reading the people I disagree with, I'll never know why they disagree with me, and I'll never learn anything.

A scathing attack on no-one on particular ?

I think Ashley Young will sign as soon as Boothroyd has finished trying to talk his price up and O'Neill has stopped trying to pretend he won't pay it.

They are at that, and they bring out a special sort of madness in all of us. You know when you watch a wildlife documentary and there are thousands of animals of some ridiculous species or other behaving utterly stupidly because its the mating season for four weeks. That's us that is. Transfer windows are mad and I love it.

General, if I saw you coming with a violin case I'd run a mile ! Isn't it the case that we are tied in to the distribution network of our current shirt manufacturer ? There are teams that seem to get shirts everywhere that are no bigger than we are but have a higher profile kit manufacturer and are therefore in more sports shops.

Best get to Villa Park early for the best seats at the introduction to the fans in the North stand, it's sure to be busy.

I've got a good feeling about today. I'm quietly confident. Is it my imagination or do we tend to do a lot of our transfers on Thursdays ?

General, I'd like to echo the previous post about playing reserve games at Villa Park, it's a good way to encourage more local kids to get involved. Mrs Easter teaches at a local school and her kids loved the open training session, they get an afternoons training with a Villa coach every week and play league games against other local schools in the Academy. If you offered them free entry into reserve games as well, you'd have a little army of ten year old good will in the local area. That can't hurt surely !

I would hope not, you'd have queues of angry season ticket holders trying to get money back from tickets you've sold at full price since the offer expired. I'd love to see it trialled again at another match this season though.

SWP on loan seems to be gathering momentum. It's very similar in a lot of ways to the Milner deal, unhappy and largely unwanted player sent out on loan, hopefully he'll enjoy himself as much as Milner did and will want to stay. Hopefully Chelsea would let him.

I think one big deal will happen somewhere at the end of this week and then the whole thing will just go bang !

The £5 per ticket offer finished earlier in the week, which means at least 1,500 have gone at that reduced rate. You couldn't be more right Rollo, If you're out there and you're going, invite a friend. We've all got friends who are casually interested, nows the time to force them into coming with you. A big crowd would be a show of strength and a gesture of solidarity with our new owners and their people. Kiddy, rouse yourself from that negative slumber, we're on the up.

You can never have too many right back / centre backs ! A big welcome to the lad, good luck and I hope he does very well.

Working on the theory that we aren't making a lot of noise on the transfer front, and that very little has been mentioned about Reo-Coker in the press, I'm strangely hopeful about this one. Of course, that could just be "window-fever." It's very common at this time of year.

The thing is, with there being a number of clubs being in for him, and a fair few having something to prove (ourselves and Wet Spam under new ownership for example.) it's a sellers market. These clubs can't afford to wait too long, or someone else will nip in. Our owners have so far done a good job of keeping the pressure off themselves. It's not been entirley successful, but others haven't done as well. It West Ham don't buy big, then Eggert is just an asset stripper and they will be relegated, collapse and go out of business. I know that's not true, but it's how it will be percieved by some in East London. If Newcastle don't buy a striker, they'll have wasted a season, let down the worlds greatest fans, missed out on the Champions league, and will have to sack the manager. Again, not the truth, but the way that some in Geordieland will percieve it. If Tottenham don't go in for every good quality young English player available, then they aren't challenging for the top 4, are happy to sit in mid-table and face a revolt from their better players who will look to move on to teams who can compete for the Champions league. There's pressure to buy everywhere, there's not a lot available for sale. Somebody will buy Bent and somebody will pay an awful lot of money for him. With Chelsea lurking too, I wouldn't be surprised to see somebody pay £15m for Bent, more than he's worth, but less than some would value their reputation at.

I don't know if anyone has wandered around the jewellery quarter, but if you get the chance they've done a great job of branding the area with a few banners on lamposts and some pavement details with a little bit of info every few hundred yards. ( I think it's called the jewellery quarter discovery trail and you can actually follow it to find the complete history of the area.) None of this looks like it broke the bank, but you're in no doubt where you are and it's very effective. Why not have a look General, you could pick something up for Mrs Krulac while you're there, make up for all this time you've been spending on the internet.

Strictly as a loan for Man Utd's future though.

General, Now that the official site has its message board back up and running, you're not going to leave us are you ? :cry:

It's a fair enough question Fuse but the General has explained elsewhere in the thread that these matters are handled by the manager and by the new CEO, who are looking at all of the day to day matters regarding the squad. It would be innappropriate for the General to expose them here !