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Another 8 pages since last night discussing the definition of world class?

Wait I'm confused. Is our new striker world class or not?

Jo Lavezzi Pelle Pappas cisse Demba ba Freddie guarin Gervinho Gyan Just from a glance of the league's transfer history

Which strikers have gone to the Chinese Super League that might be having second thoughts? Plausible given Dr Tony's connections

Not from my memory, was the other way around and then the fan sites started picking up on it... Nothing to do with the Wyness meeting just wishful thinking

The Mariano link wasn't a link. It was that Shelley bird on Twitter adding "Real #9" comment together and getting 43.

He really is not a winger - he would be far more effective in the middle running the game. He comes far too deep to pick up the ball for a winger and more than 50% of the time Westwood etc turn and switch the play for some stupid reason, leaving Jack standing there in the centre circle wondering what the ****. He's the type of player than needs to be on the ball every time we pick up possession to stay involved in the game, not just when the ball makes it out to Aly and he decides to play it forward (once or twice a half).

Gollini - 8 - Super impressed with him so far (mistakes aside). Will be indispensable by Christmas, once he's settled and played together more with his backline Bacuna - 7 - Fine I suppose Elphick - 8 - Excellent leader. Good defender Chester 8 - Solid Cissokho - 6 - Same as always. Defensively ok, the odd brain explosion Gardner - 4 - Hitting the post doesn't make up for the other 93min 55 seconds. Not sure what Forest fans were looking at last season. Jedinak ASAP Westwood - 6 - Fine, this is his level but really would prefer someone else (Tsibola) Ayew - 7 - First half didn't touch the ball for rating of 6, second half was a lot more involved for 8, an average of 7 overall. As always, too selfish McCormack - 7 - Glimpses, but came in and out of the game. Should have scored from 18 yards in the first half Grealish - 7 - FFS can he PLEASE be played centrally? HE IS NOT A WIDE PLAYER Gestede - 6 - OK Kozak - 4 - Had a few decent performances last season but this was woeful. Hope that its just match fitness Green & Amavi - Not enough time

The Home Office is the Home Office is the Home Office. Even the £1100 "same day service" that they offer isn't a guarantee of getting your visa on the same day (speaking from experience)

http://www.skysports.com/transfer-centre

Mee-lay, its Balkan

Agreed, but not as much as Gabby leaving

Well technically you can these days, there are hundreds of measurements taken by clubs each day at training and during games. Unfortunately in gabby's case, he couldn't fit into the GPS tracking vest so we'll have to go off his scoring record for the past 5 years and it is shit. (Although I think he holds the club record for most nitrous poppers in one night)

Seeing as both of their managers got sacked afterwards, who knows?

As I mentioned in the AVTV thread, Wyness said that TV rights for individual teams are not for sale by the Football League, which is insanely backward for a second tier league but there we are. The only possible scenario I guess would be Villa licenses the rights for the entire league for some country (ie. China) and find a partner to stream it to "China" (where "China" is basically the internet)

lay off the ayahuasca mate, too much of that shit and you'll disappear down a hole there's no coming back from

TV deals are a derivative of the world economy, not just the UK. There are plenty of countries where the Premier League is not at saturation point, and that will drive transfers/wages forward for at least another 50 years (realistically more though).

Twas ever thus mate. That's what they said when Kevin Keegan broke £1m. The world keeps getting richer (on the whole), so the TV deals will keep getting bigger

What bubble? This isn't the housing market. It's not like suddenly 30% of Sky Sports viewership will suddenly decide to watch darts instead.

Yes I imagine it would have been just like Bridge of Spies...

Yeh I know, my point was that I was surprised he (or Palace), hadn't applied for ILR already, as it makes all this kind of rubbish irrelevant.

You can pay a higher fee for "expedited processing". I think its something like £1000 for 48 hours and £5000 for them to come to your workplace for same day service

I'm well aware of the vagaries of UKBA mate. I'm an aussie living in the UK

Visa? He's been here 6 years, only need 5 for residency... very odd