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Love Rhodes like. Lindos is a right sun trap, prepare to be frazzled. Used to be a cracking restaurant just outside the old town near the harbour as well.

Bollocks

Not hungover but bit of a headache and a mix of hayfever. Need to take dog out and can't be arsed.

1 would be enough like.

Speak to LM then

That looks rank.

Wait a minute, sell your best players? Not spend all the cash you get from them? STILL qualify for the Champions League?? This doesnt make sense!!!

Lad I work and grew up with is his cousin. Knew about the circus circus thing but not the later one like

Hoilett confirmed to QPR.

There you go. I really shouldnt post from my phone.

Ah they included one of mine. I'd not say any were brilliant, just the sheer volume. Awesome

they also have the greatest net spend of recent times. More so than us, which was my point. But they havent won the league, so are they being unambitious?

My wife pays my gym membership. Not sure what she its trying to say like... But I go to FX on the team valley.

Aaah you think I should be content when struggling and kick up a fuss when alls going well

Yeah I agree to a point. I thought emulating last season would be a very tough task. A lot of things went in our favour. that said, there are other things for this season coming. Liverpool and spurs have new managers and we have no idea how they will work. Chelsea will have a full season now as well and we have no idea on them. Arsenal have new forwards and may yet lose vP. The new clubs like West Ham seem to be making an effort to make sure they stay up. But, we are not standing still either. 6-8 for us and a few cup runs would not surprise me but Id also accept (hopefully and get back in to europe).

So, were Man Utd unambitious when they didnt replace injured players and then finished 2nd? What about Arsenal?

So long as we progress, Im content. When they fuck it up again, Ill go back to slating them.

#AskEnrique was class last night like

Fuck off.com

Well that is true. We had a flying start to the year and were well placed come Christmas. they could just have easy sat on their hands and maintained that a top half finish was their aim.

Noooooooooo. The club is sitting on a wedge of cash? I have to disagree. But Im not even going into that as its been done to death. you say with a bit more ambition we could have made 4th. So, with more ambition could Man Utd have reached 1st? Did that make Man Utd unambitious? What about Arsenal? Spending pattern similar to ours, were they unambitious but over achieved? this is why I say you cant simply think ambition = £ spent on players. Thats far too simplistic. KK had aims? dont forget the uproar when we sold Cole. The one big thing you need to think about, is that MA is not running the club from any blueprint of success. Hell, I dare say no one is. There is no magic formula as you seem to say else everyone would use it. there is no simple ABC for us to reach 4th. MA has a way he wants to run the business. In his typical maverick style he wants to rip up the books and do it his own way. Every pundit and player and manager is starting to applaud his approach and he is slowly getting fans onside as we see results where is matters. On the pitch, not on the balance sheet. Ive said again and again I dont give a fuck is we have £5M of the AC money left or have over spent it by £5M. Who cares? All I know is last season we finished back in Europe, something we havent looked like doing for a long time, we're playing good football, its good to watch the team again, something that has been missing for a long time. these are the things Im bothered about.

I agree in a sense with part of that. For me ideally if we had players A, B and C. A being the best. We have player C now. We buy B and sell C or he becomes a squad player. Then we buy A and C has to go if he hasnt, B becomes the squad player or is sold. Im fine with that. But, Im also realistic and common sense prevails. Example of that would be Smith is a C player, didnt need replacing but getting him off the books freed up some of the wages "pot". Guthrie was a B perhaps but needs to be replaced. Now we have got rid of Best © and Lovenkrands © so I think we need at least one ( player to come in. If Ba (A) goes then we need another (A). If Ba and Cisse stay we need a ( at least or an (A) if we can keep all 3 happy. I dont expect A's throughout the squad overnight. Its a slow building process. I also get that they knew Cisse might have been available in Jan so wanted to hang fire for him. Bit like when we sold Cole and then waited until the summer to buy Ferdinand (from memory). KK had a plan and we just had to wait. You say if we finished 2nd you would want us to push for 1st but wouldnt say it lacked ambition unless warranted. Im not sure what you class as a lack of ambition or what is ambitious. You need to clarify those tw for me. I fail to see at the moment exactly what we got horribly wrong in finishing 5th? Apart from maybe finishing better than expected sooner than expected and thus increasing expectation for this season.

That does my head in. anyone who adds ".com" to the end of anything should be send swimming with brick shoes.

LM where we disagree is you would have the club make the manager spend as much money if not more than gained from selling anyone. Irrespective of the operational costs and income of the business. Also spend it whether or not there was a player available we really wanted. For example, Maiga or whatever he is called just signed for west ham. We were about to sign him but oddly failed a medical when we found out we could do a deal for Cisse. I would rather wait for the right player if it means "making do" for a short period. Not just buy immediately. Your stance on "ambition" is totally flawed as you seem to only use transfer fees as a measuring stick for it. If swansea signed a shite player for 20M and we signed 3 players for 5m you would say they are being more ambitious. Id say they just spent over the odds when they could have strengthened the team better which is the whole idea. You mention common sense alot but you don't seem to apply it to our own argument? like it or not, we are being run like a business. People have said it is a different way of running a club (ie not built on loans from a bank) but have looked on in interest and even envy as it for now is seeming to work. In the unlikely event we finished 2nd (we won't but still) you would argue we weren't ambitious enough to finish 1st.