Rayvin

Can Santon not play right back? I thought he could play either side.

Agreed, it's foolish. Unless they have some evidence for a potentially higher footfall other than current attendances.

I think a lot of what you've set out makes sense. I'd still be keen for us to get another striker over the line though as even with Ings we're looking a bit light there. Plus we're probably going to be selling Perez on in the January window next year. If we get Garde then maybe we could go in for Lacazette. Unlikely I know, but there we are. Definitely agree on moving Tiote on and Caulker would be a good step up on Williamson for sure. Would we pay his wages though?

Surely that's it for Carver.

Fully agree with this...

Not only is he behind the defender, he's in his own fucking half when it's played That's criminal.

Maybe Carver has learned from last time out that hoofball with Perez is a waste of time.

We aren't shit, it's just a new manager bounce. Ride it out, they'll be shit soon.

I'm not going to say definitively cos the truth is I don't know, but surely Bluetooth would be able to do what you're talking about. Perhaps try googling that?

Kind of agree that the next six months is our best chance to get anything decent for Cisse. A good player mind, on the whole, but probably is time to move him on. That said, it'd be nice to have some other serious strikers before we do.

Convincing to be fair. And surely this can only be good news? If he's wiped £40m off the debt, that's a good amount of it gone. I know we'd rather the team got it, but the if the priority is Ashley leaving, this is a good sign.

That's the Guardian through and through though. I don't think they even believe all the stuff they come up with, they just know it stirs up a good number of clicks.

That can't be right, we can't have a profit of £52m/year surely?

I mean, supposedly 10 clubs were interested. How many of them would have paid him more than £30k/week on the other hand...

Doubt Arsenal need him. What for? They have Giroud and Welbeck. Palace probably would want him but I don't think he'd go to them before us, even with our managerial issues. Schalke and Dortmund maybe.

With Cisse going the other way? I thought they were interested in him...

Ok sounds good, but will Charnley have noticed/be at all concerned?

At least he's better to look at than Blatter whose face looks like it's in constant danger of sliding off...

How good is that lad from Notts Forest supposed to be then? Is he the answer in defense?

That's genuinely very interesting. Fair enough then, maybe it is for the best. If a team other than Celtic win it in the next 10 years, perhaps that'll be the proof.

I still don't even get what he's doing getting involved in that mess. I was thinking about the prospects of him selling though, and wondered if (wishful thinking) he might be vindicated in the years to come. Under FFP there's absolutely no prospect of a super wealthy buyer coming along as they won't be able to invest their money to get the desired results. As such, no football clubs will be looking particularly attractive these days. Lerner has been trying to sell Villa for years without any joy, and its apparently for this reason. The only way I think a football club could become an attractive proposition, is if it's one run like we are; profit making with relatively low costs. If that's the only way that Ashley can get out of the club then maybe we should actually be pleased that he's doing this. Although the paradox I suppose would be that if he was more ambitious, we probably wouldn't want him out of the club anyway.

Taking Ibrox as collateral isn't going to be popular. Looks like Rangers are going to fall apart again here...a disaster for Scottish football, given how pointless it's been since they fell apart again last time.

He's just trying to go for it. While we don't think he's good enough, this is the opportunity he's been waiting for his whole life by the sounds of it. Can't blame him for trying to go for it. Charnley is the one to get angry at if it goes ahead.

I mean, this is never going to happen (and I wouldn't be too surprised if it turned out to just be an elaborate advert for Paddy Power) but even so, fair play to him. Isn't there some middle eastern prince running as well? I can't see Blatter being too worried about either of them, but you never know. It's a shame that it's all based around cronyism.