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the papers are saying £10m for downing **** right off 2.5 times that or nothing

anything above doubling our money and i'd probably be happy enough. if we ended up getting close to £50m for ash and downing it'd be great business. another £15-20m on sales and £30-40m from randy in and the new man has enough money to put a whole team together

slightly worrying, but the guy who first broke the henderson deal yesterday is saying that downing is close to signing for them ill be mightily **** pissed off if thats the case

if you swap Hughes for Moyes I'd be more likely to agree ... I have a hunch that Hughes isn't going far why do you think its more likely we get an employed manager than one currently without a job? if its not hughes ill eat my own face

I am convinced that is exactly what has happened. If it is, then who is the mystery manager and will it be of Darren Bent proportions? its hughes im convinced its hughes

because they interviewed jol for the job last year, so it was just a case of picking up the phone and offering it to him this time around no selection process, no interviews, just the offer had jol said no, then theyd probably have taken the same amount of time that we have

other clubs manage by dangling huge wads of compo money in front of the other club's nose. any approach made by any club to hughes up until july 1st is in breach of the terms of his contract, and would be deemed tapping up despite the fact that he's already been replaced by playing nice with fulham (at least on face value) we could very easily get the exclusive ability to talk to hughes before anyone else, without running the risk of fa sanctions or legal action from fulham

not ramping imo, it's us using leaks to the media to cover the fact that we've been talking to hughes illegally Would agree but why ? - the compo on Hughes would be nominal compared to what we gave houllier last week. I d rather have hughes with a budget of £20m for players - than Mclaren with a budget of £40m its not as straight forward as paying the compo hughes obviously left fulham for a reason, if we spoke to him or his representatives before he left we'd be absolutely hammered by the fa. if we have spoken to him already, a softly softly approach with fulham was what was required to get them to let him talk to us, despite his contract with them (which isnt up til the end of the month) saying he cant

not ramping imo, it's us using leaks to the media to cover the fact that we've been talking to hughes illegally Or that, which I wouldn't mind actually as Hughes is far better than most of the candidates out there.we'll know soon enough anyway. now that jol is fulham manager im sure if we have any real interest in hughes we'll have been on the phone to fulham to ask if we can speak to him (despite the fact im pretty sure we already would have)

not ramping imo, it's us using leaks to the media to cover the fact that we've been talking to hughes illegally

whats more is that he only says what hes been told. its very easy for the club to use the media for their own devices if they want, by putting out things to buy them wiggle room elsewhere

special report on how gullible a load of villa fans were

Repeating what MM said, not whether he's right or wrong. My opinion on Hughes if he was on the list, I'm pretty sure he'd be signed up by now and we're reading far too much into his contractuals. we have a good relationship with fulham, so it wouldnt surprise me if we were waiting for them to get something sorted so they'd let us talk to hughes

still got a feeling itll be hughes if it is im impressed by how manipulative of the media we've been for a change. get him to quit, tell fulham we're not interested knowing they'll go after jol, put out a few things saying we're after jol, get in touch with al fayed and explain we have jol number one and hughes number two on our list, but we'll pull out of the race for jol if they allow hughes to talk to us early bada boom, bada bing, hughes in by the end of the week

That'd stop if he left Celtic. no it wouldnt you'll get some nutter who'll take advantage of the relaxed security to make a name for himse

since 2005 rooney's got 1 more

we wouldnt hire lennon because of the circus that'd follow him last thing we want are nail bombs in the post

what would we do with him exactly? pay him insane money and sit him on the bench on the off chance bent gets injured?

you mean macarrone?

he did alright at boro

can someone break down the mcclaren hatred for me? what's he done in english club management that makes him such a terrible choice? he did a great job at boro, then went and won the league in a country usually dominated by a couple of a clubs with a team who'd never won it before. things didnt work out at wolfsburg, but they were in the process of being completely asset stripped when he arrived

ive no doubt its hughes due to the fact that it was reported by those in the know that hughes was top of the list right up to the point where hughes resigned. then all of a sudden we have no interest in him, when it comes to light that he can't actually join anyone til the end of the month. it's all a little too cloaks and daggers in my opinion. blatantly obvious so far as i can see that we've tapped hughes up, told him to walk from the contract, and guaranteed him the job would be here for him when he can take it as i say there'll no doubt be plenty of other links, most likely from within the club to manipulate the media one way or another, before hughes finally gets the job i dont think we were ever in for ancelotti, it might have been something that was mutually beneficial that was agreed with his agent. we put something out saying we're after him, he gets his name back in the italian and english press as being up for a job, spurs other interested clubs into contacting him in case he signs for us, while we take the heat off the hughes thing

is this thing that mcclaren is a bad manager because of how he did with england? coz, you know, his club record is pretty good

mcclaren

i dont get this hughes is out of contract right now since he didnt take the option for a second year at fulham, why would we contact them? Showing another club a bit of respect by telling them we don't want their manager so there's no need for them to worry. he's not their manager he's out of contract