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lassana diarra pompey-real madrid £20 mill
adam bygrave weymouth-histon £5000

david may man u - plymouth

Sturrock getting desperate... If I had the time machine Sturrocks using I'd approach someone else.

joss labadie west brom - shewsbury

David May is one of the only footballers who has a league runners up medal, in 2 consecutive seasons, for two different clubs. If that makes sense.

Another decent piece of trivia is that his mate Henning Berg, is one of the only footballers, who has a league winners medal, in 2 consecutive seasons, for two different clubs.

I posted that not so long ago, I'm sure of it....

cant be arsed to find it but I remember posting the old Henning Berg trivia question.

It's a sports quiz staple, along with which player has scored hat-tricks in each division, cup and international, etc etc etc

Rob Earnshaw?

It's David Gray not David May ::)

http://www.pafc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10364~1505492,00.html

Taking a break from his music career obviously. Someone had to, right?

 Shit....I thought billy was going to post every transfer on here for the next month...it now seems he's unreliable...although not thinking Sturrock had signed the old David May, I did have a very tiny inward chuckle that ManUre had unearthed another David May.

 I fucking hate the music fella.

need to get my post numbers up will keep you posted unless someone beats me to it ;D

joss ladadie west brom - shrewsbury

No need to post it twice.

No need to post it once really.

No need.

Fuck me Labadie has gone from the Baggies to the Shrews again :o, he only went yesterday.

baggies made them pay twice stupid shrews :doh:

 You've already failed to inform us about several key transfers billy..not sure anyone else will, well maybe Gazza...I mean surely Richie Barker going from HPool to Rotherham was worthy of mention.

I can't see any reference to Plug Chadwick moving to Franchise from Nirwich either.

He does tend to Babylon on a bit in interviews.

 Indeed it's slack darts by billy...next we'll have to go onto the BBC sport website and look for ourselves, if remotely interested that Andy Sandell has left Sarum for Aldershot.

Guilty as charged :doh:

Man U have signed 2 Yugoslavian fella's for a combined 16.3 million. One a left winger will replace Giggs I guess.

i reckon kolo toure will leave arsenal.i hope we get at least 3 players in here.

I predict that European teams will buy more from England than they usually do, and English teams will buy fewer from Europe than they usually do. Because... a £10m player would have cost €14m 6 months ago, but now that works out at about €11m. And vice versa.

Lucky we got Yinka Casal when we did otherwise he'd have cost a lot of money.

:)

bridges chelsea - man city fee agree
given's newcastle - mans city next
think man city will be the big spenders this time round

no shit sherlock?!?!? fuck me full of surprises you are

Spurs fans will be hoping that Juande Ramos signs all the shite off them that he bought in the last year or so, starting off with that Gilberto fella.

I read somewhere they were trying to get rid of Dos Santos as well. I thought he was supposed to be really good?

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i no :-[

a few years ago dos santos was tipped to be a world class player, i dont think bacralona would have got rid of him if they still through that, and especialy at such a low price, i guess he's stopped progressing and was not going to get any better, i dont understand why spurs wanna get rid of him as i think that would be his level. he is still a very good player but not world class player

fucking hell
oxford got 2 players
adem chapman sheff utd - loan
shane killock - huddersfield
still non for us

*I **know.

Its only 2nd January. Remember DW still needs to see his players before he decides who isn't good enough. This is a tad tricky bearing in mind he can only see them in training.

you would think that DW would look at all the squad in training before making decisions yet his first training session 9 players trained seperate from the rest of the squad, Dave Byrnes input no doubt

WILSON OUT!

just would like him to have his own assesement of the players cos Byrnes clearly wasnt working out very well

Who were the so called nine that trained on their own then?

 I've been hearing these rumours about dissent among the squad, with our decline being laid firmly at Byrne's door...looks like a campaign to get him out.

its not relevant who they are, the point was that when a new manager comes in there is fresh optamism and players are all up for the challenge of proving their worth to the manager, yet when these 9 train alone, the current players dont need to raise their game cos its clear they are going to be playing whilst the other 9 are all pissed off knowing they arnt going to play anytime soon

Yeah but if they aren't going to be playing what's the point of them training with the ones who aren't going to be playing?

Danny Wilson hasnt even seen them in training so how does he know how good they are?

That seems odd when you need 11 outfield player's plus sub's for the next game,surely they need to train as a team not just nine player's.

I cant believe this is something a manager of wilson's calibre would do, especially with the position we are in.

Wilson doesnt have a clue.

problem is we got him(wilson) too late and it will be a couple of weeks before he knows how good they are
if we had him at the start of dec he would be wheeling dealing now .he doesn't want to make a mistake by getting rid of the better players
give him time

the players had no boost for the brighton game because what we watched was Byrnes team out their not Wilsons

And they were all utter knickers.

No shit.

usually teams have a boost when a new manager comes in like Allardyce at Blackburn etc but Dave still picked the team against brighton

Because Wilson had been there 2 minutes!

I don't really know what you're trying to complain about. Byrne? Wilson? Just for the sake of it?

nothing will change on the pitch while we still have the old regime having their input, Dave had his chance and failed miserabley, yet hes still having his input having players isolated when they should have a clean slate under Wilson

So are you saying wilson is not taking the training sessions,if that's true then we are in the same boat as before.I thought wilson was going to be hands on when it came to the training.

What im saying its lets all be negative for the sake of it.

This wouldnt have happened under Calderwood.

Nah..what he is saying is that Wilson doesn't have a clue.

 VD can provide stats to back it up....100% losing record...no activity in the transfer market...no sackings of back room staff and no match on Saturday...it's a compelling argument.

Of course he is.

JPC is talking bollocks anyway.

what that 9 players trained seperate?

When Redknapp took over at Spurs,he inherited a similar situation due to Ramos sidelining up to 6 players.
They didn't even have squad numbers and trained on their own.The first thing Harry did was to bring them
in from the cold,train with the squad and include them in all club activities.It didn't mean for one minute that
Harry was going to play them or that they wouldn't eventually leave,but it fostered a togetherness and improved
team spirit immediately.It's called good man management!

I've seen and spoken with DB on a number of occasions and been left with the feeling that he is
a provocative type of character.Usually,an assistant is the gobetween, between the manager and
the players.He's a type that players relate to and befriends them.John Gorman would be the perfect
example with Glenn.DB seems to get on better with the younger players,who listen and take things
on board,but he doesn't seem to get the same response from the experienced players.

..
....and then regress a la Spurs

Can we not turn this thread into another discussion about DW and keep it on topic. Thanks.

boffin

he was only out of work for a week though...be fair

 What Danny the former Metz, Anderlecht and Standard Liege midfielder, still only 33, think he might have retired though.

i remember him, used to get him on FM a decent DMC

he's managing someone now isn't he?

Danny Boffin must be in his 40's now suuuurely!

wiki says 43

This assessing the squad bit is bollocks. Jpc no doubt it was the players who did not play a big part over xmas who trained seperatly

it wasnt

was it the black players, is Wilson a racist?

 Must be right then....OK not Boffin how about Paul Op De Beek, wonder what he's upto now?

Sad story that ... went canoeing and lost his oar.

Was it players that i had seen in liquid slagging off the club?

u stitched Callum big time, he wasnt even there!

Its all water under the bridge now i think/hope

Jp i dont know who and why someone has told you that as its bollocks. I was invited to training and actually saw the 9 training and the squad for the two xmas games did a gentle warm down

mate they trained, not a warm down, then the next day they was at ciren in the dome

Yeah they were in for training my point is mate it was the xmas squad

Did Jamie Vincent train?

Didn't see him

it is

Leeds will have a lot of money to spend:

Manchester United have made a £10m bid for Leeds United's 17-year-old midfielder Fabian Delph.

Think alot of that involves players dell.

Manchester United have made a £10m bid for Leeds United's 17-year-old midfielder Fabian Delph.

Delph, who has been a regular in the Leeds team this season, has been attracting attention from a number of Premier League clubs.

Newcastle United wasted no time tabling a bid, but their £1m offer was rejected rather firmly by Leeds chairman Ken Bates, who is determined to keep hold of such a huge prospect. Bates said in November: "Fabian Delph will be moving to the Barclays Premier League - but we hope he'll be moving with us via the Championship."

Arsenal, Portsmouth, Bolton Wanderers and Sunderland have been linked with the England Under-19 star, while while it was reported earlier this week that Fulham had made an official £6m offer for the Bradford-born player.

Yet, United's bid, which is based on performances and appearances would trump the offer made by Fulham.

Ah right yesterday a few mentioned players involved. Great player either way

Yep, quality player, one of the best I've seen for quite a while but 10 mil?  Kolo Toure is rated at 10 mil at the moment according to the press...

Delph for 10 mill is pricey but will be worth it. 18 years old and bosses league 1 teams about

10 million is way to much imo.

It is now but wont be in the long run if that makes sense

it does make sense,but at that price is a massive gamble.he is quality at league 1 level for sure,and i'm sure he can step up.but 10 mill is alot of money, and i doubt he'll go for that much.

The Utd deal is worth up to £10m, not £10m up front.  If he makes x appearances, is part of trophy winning squad etc then the fee grows.  In which case it's a decent deal for both clubs.

seems a bit strange leeds wanting man u to win trophys
i can see it now fans in leeds supports club cheering man united on  in a cup final :D

cannot argue with that.

Is this the same team that beat Orient