Madmax

Welcome mate

Rajkovic/Ferreira look the likeliest makeweights. It's good that we've made it clear we're not interested in permament moves for Bruma/PvA.

^That. FIFA and it's cronies are fucking political mugs. They cannot bear their established darlings being outshone by new arrivals.

I'm not one yet, so I'm okay

Please stay away. He's no better than Pienaar. And he doesn't even work for the team.

Why the fuck does Capello want Terry for a friendly? Ridiculous!

Arrrgh not this again ... Btw, welcome back, Yossi

Exactly. The media can't be arsed with actually thinking through why we've not signed players so far and hence find it easier to put up an article saying Roman's scared of those rules.

2 games in 2 days - I'm not surprised.

Josh needs work on his right foot.

I refuse to get excited at this stage. But fingers crossed.

Right well our man Esk has come up with the video as promised Knock yourself out First half -

Thanks for the links guys

It's been 84 days since we last won away from home in the league .

How's he been doing? The loan reports on the official site are shit.

Santos themselves announced on their website that they had rejected an offer from Chelsea. On topic - The 15 mil figure is correct, although in euros, not £. And it's for the first year, it reduces to 10 mil after that. This money to be given as equity, not loan. Also, player wages cannot exceed 70% of the revenue.

The rules are a hindrance yes, but the lack of spending is not entirely down to that as the article would have you believe. We've put in bids for Neymar and Torres in the summer and Luiz in this window. Roman was perfectly aware of these rules before making these bids. It's not like he suddenly woke up all sweaty one night after just remembering about the rules. Anyway the impact of these rules is being overhyped imo. What it only states is that you can't spend more than what you earn (the earnings of the club, not the owner). The 40 mil loss figure (which is still not confirmed) belongs to 09-10. After that we've shaved practically 25 mil off the wage bill by releasing those guys in the summer. Add to that the new sponsorship deal with Singha Beer and the Samsung renegotiation and the revenue stream is looking healthy for the time being (in the long run though we'll have to consider naming rights for the Bridge because moving stadiums or expansion looks very unlikely). In any case there's a 3 year rolling grace period from next year till 2014, where the owner can pump in £15 mil (I think that's the figure, but I'm not sure.)

Now only if Gourlay went away ...

CB shouldn't be a priority. But looks like we'll end up getting one anyway. Until then, let's play Ferreira in the middle and loan out Bruma. Sigh.

He once deleted my post which said "hey gael please sign a new contract at chelsea." First 'liked' it, then deleted it, probably after realising the club wouldn't really appreciate that lmao http://www.facebook....100000736322320

New Tottenham signing Steven Pienaar has claimed it was the club's attractive football that persuaded him to sign for them ahead of Premier League champions Chelsea. "The style of football is really important," Pienaar said. "I played with Rafa at Ajax and we played attacking football and I want to be in a team that plays attacking football that is exciting for the supporters to watch. "There is a lot of creativity in this Spurs team and a lot of goals in the side. Everyone can score from all over the team so that is important, but also we have to make sure we don't concede." From Soccernet.

Mind you he wouldn't be able to move his much outside our box

Thing is though at youth level, it's not a given that the big name clubs will dominate. Teams who're not fancied at senior level often have impressive youth academies (eg Southampton) and they are likely to give the big boys a run for their money.

Why Terry?

Don't forget Carrick either