My voices are tell me that the new owners will be used to model next season's kit when it goes on sale this Friday when the long awaited takeover will be announced. A photoshoot took place at a secret location in Dorset recently and will also features Ricky Gervais. Regarding "recently", ...

When has it happened previously? eh? This season Everton played at home to Man City. Everton were in a mess and in danger of going down, but Liverpool were top of the league on 42 points that day. If Man City won, Everton would have known it would help to stop Liverpool win the league. Were Everton...

planned on putting money on Man City scoring a hatfull against West Ham but the odds are terrible. To score 4 or more they are only evens and 5 or more is 9/4 Looks like they also expect West Ham to take something of a walloping What are the odds on West Ham winning? I might have a punt. The draw t...

Spurs fans are on a hiding to nothing anyway Lose, end up in a competition (EL) your squad is probably more suited to anyway, banter received for it being "Spursy", noone will remember it a year from now Win or draw, banter received for handing a trophy to your rivals until the end of fcu...

Was having a chat with a family member at the weekend. Massive City fan who through work contacts has had a few opportunities for private conversations with people high up the chain there. In short - Pep more than happy for the media to create their 'Pep', and for fans to think he just inherits sup...

Watching that bit of a dirge of a game yesterday after the 2 games of 0-0 in Championship play-off games I was thinking about the Premier League effect on our top level and wondered how competitive and/or entertaining it really us. Looking back at 1991/92 some interesting ( to me at any rate) things...

Have watched Jackson Irvine a few times in English football and thought that he could do a good job for us. Had lost track of his whereabouts until catching SSN last night and seeing him celebrating as his club St Pauli had got promotion to the Bundesliga. Our German/English/Irish and latterly very ...

He certainly talks a good game and fully deserves another season. The slight concern, bearing in mind that the interview and article appear to be very much up to date, is that the takeover is still spoken of as "if" rather than "when". I suppose that, having been let down so ofte...

Sadly we remember our play-off game at Wembley v Bolton. Having beaten them shortly before that final we had some optimism ahead of the big day and the outcome might have been different if somebody had told Archie that their keeper wouldn't have studied his previous penalties. :wink: Anyway, fast fo...

I know that ours in not the richest club in the world but they could have offered the chance of winning something such as a free season ticket to encourage us to complete what was implied to be quite a lengthy survey. Greater numbers provide a wider view of matters. BTW I hate the expression "m...

Today Graeme Souness (top player but not too successful a manager) has come out to say that Pep Guardiola is not a genius. He makes the case that when Pep took over at Barcelona he already had Messi, Xavi, Iniesta & co. When he took over at Bayern Munich they had just won the quadruple. When he ...

There is simply no better footballing entertainment about at the moment than Leverkusen - it is frankly incredible to watch. When they got back to 2-1 last night, you could see the team collectively decided that they would rather risk losing 3-1 on the night (and going to ET) in order to try and st...

Yeah, not really sure what they expect, they've finished 6th, 7th and won a European Trophy under Moyes (and a Semi final as well) and look likely to get top 10 again this year. Guess every manager has a shelf life as far as fans are concerned but can't say Moyes has exactly held them back. For a c...

Think wing could do a job in the champ, just wouldn’t stand out like he does here He is around 30 but don’t think he’s had loads and loads of games in his legs - could go for another 4-5 years I reckon He will be 29 next month and his game is not about great pace. Luka Modric is 38 and Thiago Silva...

I really don't think Wing would cut it in the Championship these days. I think many of the younger players would step up though, while the higher skill and fitness level would see him struggle to be effective. As for Wing I do believe that with younger legs to work alongside him he could step up fo...

It's just nice that, for the first time in years, we're retaining a decent core of the squad and talking about targeted signings before the season is over rather than being left with a 7 a side team and scrabbling around in the bargain bucket in July after every one else has had their fill. Very mu...

Lita, Asaba and Convey are all a mixed bag. Lita was quality in 106, and a small spurt in the first prem season, but he never really performed consistently and ended up failing. Convey - FDTW has summed up perfectly. Asaba actually did ok in a poor team, and was only here 1 season, but didn’t meet ...

It's very rare a League One club actually signs a player for a transfer fee anyway. We got some very good League One players for free last summer - Lewis Wing; Sam Smith; Harvey Knibbs all spring to mind. I imagine we'll be able to do good business again from the free market. We'll also be the only...

Aren't we still under an embargo for the next 2 transfer windows? If so , it will just be freebies and loans and at least last season's acquisitions show what can be done but seeing the numbers retained we might not be doing too much business regardless of the ownership. In L1, there is loads of go...

What embargo/restriction will we be under if the takeover goes through? Are we still looking at free transfers/out of contract players only? Aren't we still under an embargo for the next 2 transfer windows? If so , it will just be freebies and loans and at least last season's acquisitions show what...