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I'm surprised we didnt go for Clyne tbh, the Debuchy deal has been dead for weeks. If we wanted a cut price half decent right back he was the best out there. Palace want 4mill, Southampton are offering 1.5, so the compromise will be 3ish. Good price, he's looks a good player.

oh sorry old son, it wouldnt let me quote you a few minutes ago. I was a member of the eetpu, now Unite as you say. Are you the ghost of Len Chapple?

And it looks like Gene's blocked me, for saying he's a prole like the rest of us Howman why are you literally posting (about) shit on here instead of enjoying your holiday? LTB I think the bloke with the sellotape may be on secondment at BAE Portsmouth...

The point remains. None of that means you're middle class. Wanting to better yourself is natural and millions succeed in doing it. Quoting a few poncey words doesnt mean theyll accept you into something like the Reform Club, where class means a huge amount. Are you associated with anything that gives a fuck who you're old man was?...if you are, thats to do with class. If not, thats to do with how youve turned out yourself.

Just because you want to educate yourself doesnt mean youre middle class.....unless you despise those who brought you into the enviroment you were brought up in, which is a whole other can of psycological worms...

theres some real wummers on here nowadays...Gene's one of them, or he was the worlds dullest teenager

Lack of other options? see also Michael Owen 2005.

There you go. Income has changed, but class desnt change with it iyam. Good on your old dear.

How come they were big mates then?....Sir Bob and Fergie both disliked Clough as it goes, and he did have a reputation for pissing his peers off badly. No one says things like that about Fergie. Fergie has huge power in the gme, hes the "go to" man for directors for references before they appoint managers, and for his fellow managers before they buy players, second opinion sort of thing. I imagine that pisses a lot of people off. The way hes come across via the media since hes been manager at manu doesnt bother me in the slightest. He likes to be in control, and makes sure he is. Nowt wrong with that, the image that portrays is irrelevent.

Yeah but that would depend on what Rent's and HF's folks did for a living...if theyre doctors or lawyers then you're pretty much right. If theyre dads worked at Swan Hunters in the light plate shop probably not, more like the opposite tbh.

Fuck all to do with "class", its about income. They wouldnt let any of us lot on here within a million miles of the Carlton Club in London, thats to do with class. But some of us may be able to afford the fees to join. Thats to do with income. Huge difference.

Stevies not middle class, he's middle income.

Joe Harvey nearly signed Fergie from Dumfermline around 1966...he went to Rangers instead, understandable as he was brought up 100 yards away from Ibrox. A mate of mine went to a non-league managers seminar in the 90s, he's an ex semi pro player and was looking to move into the management side. The FA set it up and the list of speakers was imressive; Hoddle was the England manager at the time and he spoke, think he said Graham Taylor was there as well, cant remember who else. Anyway Fergie was booked for an hour in the afternoon but spoke for 3 and my mate said he learned more about football that afternoon than he had in his previous 30 odd years on the planet All his ex teamates from his playing days say he's the one who organises reunions, wip rounds when one of his ex team mates' wives has died, that sort of thing. Him and a journo called Patrick Barclay had a mutual friend who Barclay knew hadn't been well and mentioned the bloke to Fergie one day. Fergie went on to tell him what the exact nature of the problem was, what the prognosis was, the treatment he was getting etc etc...it was obvious that hed visited the mutual friend quite a lot during his illness, all this and still finding time to run arguably the worlds biggest football club. Like him or loath him, not many people he's worked with slate him. Only the bell ends in the media who he's treated with a fair bit of contempt over the years. But as somebody mentioned he's only done that to protect his players and club. He's a fuckin genius really. Wish we'd had the board with the foresight and gumption to try to get him in the mid 80s, he spoke to Wolves and Arsenal at the time so may have been open to it eventualyl joining us....our modern history wouldve been a lot different if he had.

Rodger's inexperience shining through. Joke of an appointment. It has to be said that the outstanding candidate for that job was Alan Pardew

We've had huge success in bringing in someone better in as well, so thats good

This is Mike Ashley we're talking about, he only does a deal if it meets all his criteria. If we keep everyone we've got then under those circumstances its a good window iyam.

The Journal not really telling us anything we couldnt have worked out for ourselves tbh. If we hold on to everyone we've got, I'll be ok with that really. Good point about Wenger, he virtually invented the system we use for transfers which almost certainly rules out him paying daft money for Cabaye or Tiote. Chelsea on the other hand....

More like we're not going to pay daft money for a player with a year left on his contract. We've signed 3 players for central midfield, whatever other posistions/roles they may be able to cover Anita,Bigi and Amaltifano are all central midfileders as far as I can make out. Cetainly smells like Cabaye or Tiote will be gone by Saturday morning, but that may well not be the case if we play hardball on the transfer fee and clubs wont pay it. Going to be a very interesting few days....

No, its all the other shit you post as well that makes me think you're mental. And if you speak to others in your family or at work like you speak to folk on here then all the above is plainly bollocks. If you don't, then you're a WUM. So you're either a psycho or some sort of bored man-child. Not sure why you keep inflicting yourself on this place, but I suppose its a free country isnt it?

Debuchy to Real Madrid.....anything in that?.....is it, as they say nowadays.. "all over Twitter"?.....

If the flouncer isnt a WUM, he's got zero emapthy for anyone. Sort of kid who tortured kittens. And we all know where that leads.... Frankly, if he stands by everything he says on here he's one scary fucker.

Not sure mate, but its a good excuse to play this

Villa have 5.6million within 30 minutes drive. The population of Northumberland Tyne and Wear,Teeside,North Yorkshire and Cumbria is 2.5million. During the season, more people go to watch Newcastle and Sunderland per month than watch Liverpool and Everton, despite Merseyside having a population more than 500k greater than Tyne and Wear. In some ways, we're much the same as any other set of supporters. In other ways, we're fuckin exceptional I cant be arsed with this lot, beating them 6 nowt gave me a lot of pleasure as they acted like fuckin arseholes at Villa Park 09, but if we sent them down I really wouldnt give a flying fuck either way.

Oh and we'll sign nobody, thats how Mike rolls We may let one or two go.....got to be for big money mind, think of Andy Carroll a couple of years ago and you'll get the gist of this deadline day, complete with the club chopper sat on the tarmac at Woolsington..."too late to bring a replacement in" etc etc