Park Life

Meetings in London though...

Have to disagree, I don't think KK would be hanging around if he couldn't bring 2/3 good players in.

I'd get bids in for Dunne, Wright Phillips, Sidwell and Arshavin pronto. That would be most of our problems sorted in one go. Combined £28m. I consider £30m ish...About right. Wages will be more or less covered by the exit of Smith, Duff, Cacapa and Zoggy (wages and fees). Keep a hold of Owen. Slap £20m on Martins head. As said earlier with KK we can safely see the garnering of another 12 points or so with the current squad, with some astute spending we may add another 10. It's easy this football lark. I'd agree with that as far as signings go, not sure about sidwell, think we could do better than that, at least get someone who has played football this season, a long time on the bench can destroy players (ala duff, he was injured too but still) I'd have harper from reading as long as he got a shirt that fit and there are one or two from birmingham I'd take that we could probably get reasonably cheap Aye there is that young DM at Brum forget his name. muamba? I'd take kapo too, bit of power for the midfield which does lack muscle really Muamba aye. What about Jerome??

I'd get bids in for Dunne, Wright Phillips, Sidwell and Arshavin pronto. That would be most of our problems sorted in one go. Combined £28m. I consider £30m ish...About right. Wages will be more or less covered by the exit of Smith, Duff, Cacapa and Zoggy (wages and fees). Keep a hold of Owen. Slap £20m on Martins head. As said earlier with KK we can safely see the garnering of another 12 points or so with the current squad, with some astute spending we may add another 10. It's easy this football lark. We might even finish above Arsenal. We don't have enough ambition for that. I was taking the piss out of your pre-season prediction numbnuts. It wasn't a prediction it was speculation to garner debate. Did they win anything this year btw? You were speculating there was a good chance we'd finish above them weren't you? Not predicting. I was taking the piss out of your speculation then. ...and you're always welcome to do that.

I'd get bids in for Dunne, Wright Phillips, Sidwell and Arshavin pronto. That would be most of our problems sorted in one go. Combined £28m. I consider £30m ish...About right. Wages will be more or less covered by the exit of Smith, Duff, Cacapa and Zoggy (wages and fees). Keep a hold of Owen. Slap £20m on Martins head. As said earlier with KK we can safely see the garnering of another 12 points or so with the current squad, with some astute spending we may add another 10. It's easy this football lark. We might even finish above Arsenal. We don't have enough ambition for that. I was taking the piss out of your pre-season prediction numbnuts. It wasn't a prediction it was speculation to garner debate. Did they win anything this year btw? You were speculating there was a good chance we'd finish above them weren't you? Not predicting.

I'd get bids in for Dunne, Wright Phillips, Sidwell and Arshavin pronto. That would be most of our problems sorted in one go. Combined £28m. I consider £30m ish...About right. Wages will be more or less covered by the exit of Smith, Duff, Cacapa and Zoggy (wages and fees). Keep a hold of Owen. Slap £20m on Martins head. As said earlier with KK we can safely see the garnering of another 12 points or so with the current squad, with some astute spending we may add another 10. It's easy this football lark. I'd agree with that as far as signings go, not sure about sidwell, think we could do better than that, at least get someone who has played football this season, a long time on the bench can destroy players (ala duff, he was injured too but still) I'd have harper from reading as long as he got a shirt that fit and there are one or two from birmingham I'd take that we could probably get reasonably cheap Aye there is that young DM at Brum forget his name.

I'd get bids in for Dunne, Wright Phillips, Sidwell and Arshavin pronto. That would be most of our problems sorted in one go. Combined £28m. I consider £30m ish...About right. Wages will be more or less covered by the exit of Smith, Duff, Cacapa and Zoggy (wages and fees). Keep a hold of Owen. Slap £20m on Martins head. As said earlier with KK we can safely see the garnering of another 12 points or so with the current squad, with some astute spending we may add another 10. It's easy this football lark. We might even finish above Arsenal. We don't have enough ambition for that. I was taking the piss out of your pre-season prediction numbnuts. It wasn't a prediction it was speculation to garner debate. Did they win anything this year btw?

I'd get bids in for Dunne, Wright Phillips, Sidwell and Arshavin pronto. That would be most of our problems sorted in one go. Combined £28m. I consider £30m ish...About right. Wages will be more or less covered by the exit of Smith, Duff, Cacapa and Zoggy (wages and fees). Keep a hold of Owen. Slap £20m on Martins head. As said earlier with KK we can safely see the garnering of another 12 points or so with the current squad, with some astute spending we may add another 10. It's easy this football lark. We might even finish above Arsenal. We don't have enough ambition for that.

I'd get bids in for Dunne, Wright Phillips, Sidwell and Arshavin pronto. That would be most of our problems sorted in one go. Combined £28m. I consider £30m ish...About right. Wages will be more or less covered by the exit of Smith, Duff, Cacapa and Zoggy (wages and fees). Keep a hold of Owen. Slap £20m on Martins head. As said earlier with KK we can safely see the garnering of another 12 points or so with the current squad, with some astute spending we may add another 10. It's easy this football lark.

Setting aside the winter of our discontent we look forward to the summer of our rebirth. In the hot seat one of the most enigmatic managers to grace the game and an owner whos net worth is stellar gives us a real chance now to set down a marker. How would you wish us to proceed?

Agreed.

How do you know that btw? Times List, Chron article, Guardian last year, Telegraph this year.

He's on 102k.

Total PL TV revenue this year is 1.7 Billion of the top of my head. Cannota finda da linka....(looking). I estimate we'll get about £42m. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/153...V-windfall.html

they might not have a choice I don't usually have a go at other clubs, even though i dont like some but it would be fucking hilarious if he left them I calculate it would take me about 7 years to stop laughing.

Malouda deffo and how the fuck is Schev not on there?

Agree and Arsenal have to be careful as there is a little gap there now as well.

The point I was making about HBOS wasn't the figure that he actually lost (though if you want to discuss the ins and outs of spread betting then we can - and the figure was still over £100m) but the fact that he can throw that sort of money around to speculate, we are small fry compared to the rest of his business empire. The clubs income comes from 3 main areas: TV, matchday revenue and commercial income. All three of these will go down if he starts cutting costs on the field, it's as simple as that. A football club is not a business where you can streamline and then sell off for a profit, it just doesn't work like that. no your right , he doesnt mind taking a gamble with his money , altho i think that hbos spreadbet was more calculated than his exploits at the roulette wheel . i firmly expected the guy to come in and started parking tanks on the lawn , commercial ties with his other interests and all the fluff that comes with it . as it is tho , its very easy to cut the fat out of this club within a couple of year and sell for a profit , remove the debt and reduce the wage go's a long long way to that , the tv and commerical money wouldnt have suffered much in the time its takes todo that . he certainly didnt pay over the odds for this club , hidden debt or not . So why would a guy who casually gambles many millions hesitate to throw transfer money at KK (if that is the case)??

There may be no truth in him wanting to buy Spurs. That's a separate issue for me anyway. It's just that I worry he might just have bought the club with a view to making a profit. He seems willing to ride roughshod over people when it comes to his other businesses so I can't see him giving a shit over pissing off Newcastle fans if he rakes in a load of cash in the process. I'm definitely going to wait and see what happens and I'm taking all the press stuff with a hefty pinch of salt but I just don't think his wearing a Toon top and getting the drinks in in Blu Bambu proves a thing about his intentions. The man made £29m in two months on his Adidas shares, he lost over £100m on his HBOS shares. Given the amount of profit he could hope to make on our club and the amount of time he has to spend on us I don't think profit is his motivation. I still reckon we're a billionaire's toy thing. That's sound logic tbf and I hope you're right. There isn't that much money to be made in football clubs apart from a rare few. If so inclined it is a great way to use some of your residual capital and have some good days out.

They can't sack KK and they know it. It was poor making him travel down when there were easier alternatives. He's testing the reality behind how successful Ashley wants to be and he was encouraging a showdown of sorts (he wanted more communication imo). If they think they can control a man wth the charisma of kk they're seriously deluding themselves.

Coppell has totally fucked up at Reading this year tbf.

...and to think we nearly had Mourinho.

Parky's all over the shop today. Needs a few Ritalin to calm him down. All the cloak and dagger meetings, hearsay and innuendo with no solid information has his conspiracy theory node about to blow. No it is abunduntly clear Craig doesn't follow the sutble strands of my theme. The list aren't all failures at all. Half of them Reyes, Helb, Eduardo, Sagna have all done thier bit and Walcott is coming into his own now. I'm really only showimg that Wenger spends when he needs to but is as hit and miss as most other managers barring 2/3 exceptions a season....Your Toure, Van Persie and the right back cum winger I've forgotten the name of. KK has already in a dozen games got us playing football with little passages of posession not unlike Arsenal or Spurs at their best. The secret here for me is that now in the PL to compete for top 6 you need 2/3 standout players and 2/3 good ones as well. We currently have 4 very good players. Beye, Owen, Martins,Faye, with Enrique and Zoggy capable of becoming fixtures in most PL sides. I'd say with just the addition of 2 midfielders one central defender and a new striker we could give most sides a game. What are Everton if you take out their CD's and Arteta? What is Spurs without Keane and Berbatov? Also we witnessed how unsustainable good runs are if there isn't strenght in depth ie Man City and Portsmouth. If I was backing KK I'd put down £100m and tell him to go out and have fun. But I realise that isn't neccessarily what might be good for us right now.