West Ham & Southampton Strengthen

Southampton have brought in Billy Sharp a proven goalscorer whilst West Ham seem set to bring in Morrison from Man Utd and have been linked with Vaz Te from Barnsley and Maynard from Bristol City. There is also Ze Eduardo the Brazilian striker.

Are City going to do anything?

It doesn't look like it.

We're doomed, we're doomed!

Third in the league, possibly second after tonight, in the final of the Carling Cup, so our current squad must be rubbish!

Need to strengthen in certain areas to push on. If we get a few injuries we will struggle to maintain or improve on our position as it stands.

Need to strengthen in certain areas to push on. If we get a few injuries we will struggle to maintain or improve on our position as it stands.

We'd all like a couple of new players, but perhaps some of our targets are happy where they are and don't want to move!

If their clubs or agents are asking silly money for them as well, do you think we should just pay up and break our current pay structure, thereby risking unsettling the current playing squad, who would probably be on less money?

We're doomed, we're doomed!

Third in the league, possibly second after tonight, in the final of the Carling Cup, so our current squad must be rubbish!

Who has said our squad is rubbish?
We have an excellent squad' but we need some more depth and experience to allow for any injuries and suspensions we might incure during the remaining fixtures.

We're doomed, we're doomed!

Third in the league, possibly second after tonight, in the final of the Carling Cup, so our current squad must be rubbish!

Who has said our squad is rubbish?
We have an excellent squad' but we need some more depth and experience to allow for any injuries and suspensions we might incure during the remaining fixtures.

I was insinuating it, as so many people have become pessimistic on here, just because we haven't signed any big names like West Ham or Leicester for example!

As I said to bridgendbluebird30, We'd all like a couple of new players, but perhaps some of our targets are happy where they are and don't want to move!

If their clubs or agents are asking silly money for them as well, do you think we should just pay up and break our current pay structure, thereby risking unsettling the current playing squad, who would probably be on less money?

Southampton have brought in Billy Sharp a proven goalscorer whilst West Ham seem set to bring in Morrison from Man Utd and have been linked with Vaz Te from Barnsley and Maynard from Bristol City. There is also Ze Eduardo the Brazilian striker.

Are City going to do anything?

That's the top two spots taken, then. Playoff Heaven beckons.

What nobody else appears to have taken into consideration is that West Ham have a budget of millions thanks to their parachute payments and the Saints sold the kid Chamberlain for a vast fee somewhere like 8mil up front with add ons to come. Hardly an equal playing field. What will be - will be.

Southampton have brought in Billy Sharp a proven goalscorer whilst West Ham seem set to bring in Morrison from Man Utd and have been linked with Vaz Te from Barnsley and Maynard from Bristol City.

I wouldn't want Morisson. The kid is poison, an arrogant little c**t who is everything that is wrong with modern football. He would be nothing but a disruptive influence in our superbly closely knit dressing room. And if Man Utd turned him down because of his wage demands, what on earth makes you think we could afford him? No thanks.

No, clearly Messrs Gold and Sullivan are wielding their financial cocks about like they did with Birmingham when they signed EVERYONE (including Rowan Vine, a former City target who did f*ck all for their £2m) a couple of years back to get promotion. It only worked then because they had Kevin Phillips. Without him and his goals they would've been mid table. And of course, look at Birmingham now. In all sorts of financial creeks without so much as a stick to paddle with. No, I'll leave Gold & Sullivan to "Ridsdale up" West Ham, and laugh at them when it all goes so inevitably tits up. There's no cohesion there and it'll fall apart as quickly as it was built up.


As for Soton - great signing by a great club. I'm less aware of their financial situation but I'm massively disappointed in Sharpy for letting down a Donny Rovers side who helped him through what will undeniably be the toughest thing he's ever had to go through. Donny will go down without his goals, and that's some thanks. And lest we forget - after his last big money move, £2m to Sheffield Utd, he flopped, massively. How will Saints fit him, Lambert and all the others in the same squad? Will they be a Norwich or a Cardiff - of last season of course.

Who knows.

But the Malaysians are certainly not witholding money. They're being sensible with their money. Malky certainly isn't NOT targeting players. You don't bring in a "head of player recruitment" if you don't want to bring in players...

The people to blame for our relative silence in the market is of course the agents and the massively over-inflated transfer fees. We've been spoiled over the years with some ridiculous signings - but of course, those were under lesser men than the Malaysians who were utterly incapable of any financial prudence.

So calm down. All is not lost because we didn't sign some jobsworth/mercenary for millions of pounds as a stop-gap until we made the Premier League, on unsustainable wages.

Southampton have brought in Billy Sharp a proven goalscorer whilst West Ham seem set to bring in Morrison from Man Utd and have been linked with Vaz Te from Barnsley and Maynard from Bristol City.

I wouldn't want Morisson. The kid is poison, an arrogant little c**t who is everything that is wrong with modern football. He would be nothing but a disruptive influence in our superbly closely knit dressing room. And if Man Utd turned him down because of his wage demands, what on earth makes you think we could afford him? No thanks.

No, clearly Messrs Gold and Sullivan are wielding their financial cocks about like they did with Birmingham when they signed EVERYONE (including Rowan Vine, a former City target who did f*ck all for their £2m) a couple of years back to get promotion. It only worked then because they had Kevin Phillips. Without him and his goals they would've been mid table. And of course, look at Birmingham now. In all sorts of financial creeks without so much as a stick to paddle with. No, I'll leave Gold & Sullivan to "Ridsdale up" West Ham, and laugh at them when it all goes so inevitably tits up. There's no cohesion there and it'll fall apart as quickly as it was built up.


As for Soton - great signing by a great club. I'm less aware of their financial situation but I'm massively disappointed in Sharpy for letting down a Donny Rovers side who helped him through what will undeniably be the toughest thing he's ever had to go through. Donny will go down without his goals, and that's some thanks. And lest we forget - after his last big money move, £2m to Sheffield Utd, he flopped, massively. How will Saints fit him, Lambert and all the others in the same squad? Will they be a Norwich or a Cardiff - of last season of course.

Who knows.

But the Malaysians are certainly not witholding money. They're being sensible with their money. Malky certainly isn't NOT targeting players. You don't bring in a "head of player recruitment" if you don't want to bring in players...

The people to blame for our relative silence in the market is of course the agents and the massively over-inflated transfer fees. We've been spoiled over the years with some ridiculous signings - but of course, those were under lesser men than the Malaysians who were utterly incapable of any financial prudence.

So calm down. All is not lost because we didn't sign some jobsworth/mercenary for millions of pounds as a stop-gap until we made the Premier League, on unsustainable wages.