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I can't take much more of this false OGS hope

I can see Lerner making 20m available

Plus sales of collins Warnock Dunne etc would give rafa a decent budget

Very little over £20 million then!

He'd have to use some of the £20m to get someone to take them off our books.

Benitez turned a profit and had an average seasonal net spend of 13m.

This myth he spunks loads of money is dumb.

Top class manager, get him in.

He turned a profit yet the net outflow was £13m a year? I'm going to hazard a guess that you're not an accountant?

**** hell, Benitez has jumped from 11/4 to 4/5 with SkyBet in the last hour or so.

That can mean only one thing - his wife is perfectly settled where ever they're living now and doesn't want to move to Birmingham.

Liverpool are going to become a bigger car crash than they are now. Every season the owners don't get CL football they chalk up another £30m into the "lost revenue" pile. In ten years time I can only imagine they'll be blaming everyone under the sun for being £300m short and realising that football is rarely going to make you rich (I think only the Glazers are likely to walk away from the PL with more than they started with).

If we, as a club, are waiting for their cast-offs then god help us.

What has Lennon done in his managerial career apart from win the league in a season where the only other team who can possibly win it went bankrupt? He also spends more time banned from the touchline than he does on it. No thanks.

abraxias

I've got FIFA 12 but I'm absolutely awful at it (I just rely on pass and shoot lol)

Hmmm I forgot Dragon's Dogma was out - think it'll be next on the list as I've just finished Uncharted 3 (very good btw)

All our international players are on a board in one of the meeting rooms in the North Stand. Went in there a few times last season.

At this point in time I'd be on a plane back to Norway armed with nothing more than a chequebook, a pen, and the question "exactly HOW much do you like it in Norway?"

Bas Rutten now that is thinking out of the box!

:shock:

He would sort Dunne and Collins out.

Remember the Euros starts June 8th, that also means a lot of players are busy and will have a small vacation after the euros --> less time to negotiate (players wanting to wait til after the euros, agents busy and also wanting to wait, clubs also) and prices inflates if players do well and so on.

We need big changes, players need replacing, time might be important...

I dont want to hear that "yeah, but the players had so little time with the team during pre-season" again.

You're assuming we're going to be signing players who are involved with the Euros?!

2 million compensation i believe. Be better than paying anything to McAllister

absolutely agree

how do we know its 2m though?

Just seen a thread on a BHA forum that says it's £2m, obviously I've no idea where they got it. Was more interesting that it was on a thread discusing whether Poyet would move to Villa.

If people are starting to admit knowing who the manager is an announcement must be close...

or they're talking utter crap.

Do they?! I've never heard that.

Poyet worked with Damien Comolli at Spurs. Hmm....were the stories about Comolli being seen at VP true? BTW I've just stuck a tenner on Poyet so that virtually kills off any chance of him being appointed

If we appoint Martinez my hope is that Villa apply to play all their games in the last 10 weeks of the season so we're about 30 points adrift at the foot of the table with 38 to play, as that's the only time he seems to get a team to play well.

Whelan's just sweating because he knows full well there is only one reason that Wigan cling onto Premiership football, and the chances are that he's heading for the door. No wonder he's spouting cack.

I get the feeling that in reality, Lerner's the CEO and Faulkner the COO.

AVB would need a lot of convincing judging by the noises coming out of the press. Saying that, perhaps those noises are being made with the intention of Villa approaching him saying "sure, we can provide you that set-up".

Liverpool fans would have less patience than AVB would need, and the dressing room has some characters just as rooted in the club's fabric as Chelsea does.

We could do worse than looking at Domingos Paciencia, seems promising and wants the job apparently.

Worth hearing him out atleast.

Thought he'd already put his name forward and been rejected?

Listen, this RDM thing. He didn't win the CL final, Bayern Munich lost it. They defended the Germans to the point of boredom and used a get out of jail free card for an equaliser, and then another one as Robben fluffed his lines in extra time.

Bayern had 55% of the posession, 21 out of 34 shots on target and 20 corners. If RDM had been managing our team in that match we'd have lost about 8-0.

Should RL/PF think that RDM's "achievements" make him a good managerial candidate for us they've quite frankly lost the plot.

I had Ken McNaught sitting in my living room a couple of months back organising a game against the Villa Old Starts (this sunday by the way) and he said when Villa played Bayern in 82 the game was pretty much brick up the goals and try n nick it 1-0 - in his own words...... so on that basis above, we can wipe off the Euro 82 win because we didnt "play mesmerically" that all fans seem to want nowadays...........

I dont care for tip tap football..... everyone wants to play like Arsenal, Barca and for some god-forsaken reason, Swansea........ and what is the sumtotal of all that - THEYVE ALL WON SWEET FA THIS SEASON........

Id much rather play like Chelsea and win the Champs League - and if anyone else thinks otherwise, then IMO theyre frankly deluded !

No, my point was that if RDM tried tactics like with WITH OUR CURRENT SQUAD we'd get massacred. He's pretty much lumped with the current squad so a new manager can bring in a few new signings and dictate the style of play.

No matter who the manager is, if his aim is to defend the other team to death then we're quite honestly screwed. Did you watch us last season?

Alternatively we can get all the 82 squad out of retirement?

Listen, this RDM thing. He didn't win the CL final, Bayern Munich lost it. They defended the Germans to the point of boredom and used a get out of jail free card for an equaliser, and then another one as Robben fluffed his lines in extra time.

Bayern had 55% of the posession, 21 out of 34 shots on target and 20 corners. If RDM had been managing our team in that match we'd have lost about 8-0.

Should RL/PF think that RDM's "achievements" make him a good managerial candidate for us they've quite frankly lost the plot.

A Huddersfield fan just messaged me asking what time we'd like him to drop Grayson off at VP. I'm right enjoying today.

I hope we get someone who's never managed in the English leagues before.