King Cropley

You have to laugh.....Tom Cleverley, Premier League winner and England international, but strangely not good enough for us even if we could afford him ? Jesus wept, what do you drongos smoke ? Have you seen us lately ? We look like a bunch of individuals who've never even met, let alone trained together. But let's keep dismissing guys who can actually play in the vain hope we sign a Jap midfielder plying his trade in the bottom half of the Bundesliga or a Belgian who barely starts in the Portuguese league. A bit more reality and a little less Football Manager I think....

...thank f**k you posted this! I thought I'd signed into highcroft.com

only problem is Roger Johnson signed for West Ham on loan other day! ...I think you'll find that's why he mentioned him, or was that not immediately apparent ?

I think you'll find Southport were ahead of you there.....

For the money that's being bandied around I'd definitely take him......but apparently Burnley & Huddersfield are toe to toe to sign him ?

If I go into a shop where I know a loaf of bread is £1 then it's unlikely I'm gonna offer £10 for it - equally, I wouldn't embarrass my self by offering 50p. No abuse - just common sense. Take your blinkers off - we're a shambles....

If all we can stump is £750k then let's not piss any more clubs about and antagonise them......just give some pies away at the next home game......just when you think these clowns have run out of ways to embarrass us....

....sounds like he's having a break now - out on the piss in Temple Bar, Dublin last night with Clark. Mind you, after the latest pile of dog wank they served up at the weekend, they could hardly nip in the Adventurers for a swift half or three.

It's easy to dismiss a competition when you've already won it several times (along with league titles, FA Cups and Champions League medals). I'm sure if you asked someone like Bardsley or Fletcher if they fancied a Wembley final, you'd get a different opinion.

....perhaps he's picking up the keys for the new pad that his girlfriend and baby are going to live in - unless he ISNT the Chairman that the wicked witch Brady was referring to, in her Sun column yesterday ?

The main thing these two have in common, is their mutual love of the piss - hence the main reason, why one of them was bombed out to Palace and the other one is pissing away his career, up a wall, outside Gatecrasher. Lambo's plan to split the 2 amigos up has yet to come to fruition, hopefully it will soon ?

Ashes to Ashes would be more appropriate I think......

....absolutely pissing myself at some of the comments on here....'we are a better option than Schalke or Anderlecht'......Jesus wept, do you smoke or inject ? There is more chance of Stevie Wonder pitching up at Bodymoor Heath than Defour. Comedy gold......

More than happy to see us linked with him. First pre- requisite ; is he better than what we have ? Considerably so, I'd say. Would deffo improve our midfield in terms of both experience and creativity - if the £1.5m being bandied about is actually true, even better. Go get him !

A tosser of the first water. On occasion, made us a laughing stock - anyone care to remember when he waved his transfer hit list around at a press conference and it contained names that Real Madrid and Barcelona couldn't have afforded between them.....complete charlatan who used the club to increase his own self esteem and profile. His only semi-redeeming feature has been to re-invest some of his ill gotten gains in various projects, most of which are titled 'The Doug Ellis Sports Centre', the The Doug Ellis Wing', 'The Doug Ellis Phone Box'.......easy to be a philanthropist with other peoples money......

If by 'half decent second half of the season', you mean getting knocked out of 2 cups by lower league opposition and being in a relegation dogfight until a week before the end of the season, then fair play. Personally, I thought it was a dreadful season......which is about to repeat itself. Keep up the good work Lambert.....

Crowd revenue and shirt sales just about cover stewards wages and the kit mans coffee bill these days. Revenue comes from TV and sponsorship.....and based on current form we are about as appealing as Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris introducing Children in Need....

Hmmm I disagree... I think if we were to buy 2 or 3 quality players in the summer we'd be comfortably mid-table. Then the summer after that bring in 2 or 3 more quality players and make a push for 8th. But I don't see Lerner allowing that. Lambert wouldn't buy 3 quality players. He would rather buy 10 shit ones for the same price Don't be silly. I'm sure he'd much rather spend the money on better players but the money isn't there. Imagine if he had have bought 2 quality 10m players instead of all the players he did. We'd have absolutely no squad depth at all. We'd be struggling more than we are now. You have to remember we're still paying for Hutton, Ireland, N'zogbia, Given and Bent (when he gets back from Fulham). When these players are gone will he be able to replace them with better ones? I hope so. The books are balanced whilst paying for all these. So when they're gone, we should be able to bring in better players who Lambert wants.[/quote ...and which one of the above 5 couldn't get into our current team ?...... If selected of course ? Hmmm I disagree... I think if we were to buy 2 or 3 quality players in the summer we'd be comfortably mid-table. Then the summer after that bring in 2 or 3 more quality players and make a push for 8th. But I don't see Lerner allowing that. Lambert wouldn't buy 3 quality players. He would rather buy 10 shit ones for the same price Don't be silly. I'm sure he'd much rather spend the money on better players but the money isn't there. Imagine if he had have bought 2 quality 10m players instead of all the players he did. We'd have absolutely no squad depth at all. We'd be struggling more than we are now. You have to remember we're still paying for Hutton, Ireland, N'zogbia, Given and Bent (when he gets back from Fulham). When these players are gone will he be able to replace them with better ones? I hope so. The books are balanced whilst paying for all these. So when they're gone, we should be able to bring in better players who Lambert wants.[/quote ...and which one of the above 5 couldn't get into our current team ?...... If selected of course ?