Everton agree fee for Leroy Fer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isJqu23-R-4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isJqu23-R-4

Really hope this deal goes through.

Waiter - more salt, please...

I take back all my negative comments but I must admit I don't know him. Then again I did not know Felli either.

If Rodwell cost more than him its tremendous business for us and just what we need to push us on to the top if he is as good as they all predict. I'm really excited that the club have done something positive and not gone for bargain basement stuff that turns out not to be bargains!

The fans will soon pay the money back at the turnstiles if Leroy is the goods.

I knew I'd heard of him before..........didn't realise it was because of the horse story until you just reminded me. Fair to say he's not the brightest button then!!!

Looks like a good signing though, despite the above.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2013/01/28/deal-agreed

Or is it "The Badger"?

Looks like it could be just what's required, great news.

Also, is this the prelude to the new contract?

Whether anyone is heading for the exit, we'll have to wait and see...

Looks strong fast and confident. For £8.5m he better be!!

Sell Felli for £24 million in the summer with a huge upfront payment to repay debt and hope that everything is OK.

It/s the Everton way under Bill.

Have to say I'm pleasantly amazed, I'm sure there'll be a sting in the tail somewhere though..

On January 28th 2013, it was announced that a fee of €10m had been agreed between FC Twente and English Premier League club Everton for the transfer of Fer's registration. He is also known for having size 18 feet and ingrowing toe nails on his left foot, he uses them to curl the ball better. A fan of English football as a child, Fer was quoted as saying of the move "it's a great honour for me to be joining the team of one of my greatest idols... Ray Atteveld".

We've (nearly) signed someone.

This Dutch lad came out of nowhere.

More than I was expecting I must admit, although I confess, I don't think I have heard of Leroy Fer, unless if I think really hard I may have done? Unless that was a dream.... I feel I need to clarify, I don't dream about athletic Dutch black men.. it's not my bag... I've said too much... the wife will kill me!

Er, anyway, new signing, Dutch international, who knew.

'Fer hit the headlines last year after splashing out £22,000 on a pet horse for his girlfriend - only to find out that she can't keep it because she lives in a block of flats.'

Though this is from the Daily Nazi...

Then Heitinga scored... Then the Reds lost to mighty Oldham... Then we sign Leroy.

I feel drunk – and I haven't touched a drop!

We sign a dutch international midfielder and you turn it into an indictment. Miserable git.

Wanted to know of anyone has seen the lad play and if this means the end for Fellaini.

Personally – I think Felli will go in the summer either way, with Fer being his replacement, with Moyes insisting on having 6 months to bed his new man in before Fellaini goes!

Heard he bought a horse for his girlfriend who lives in a block of flat. Maybe he thought she could keep it in the garage? Sounds almost as funny as taking a knife to a gunfight.

My question to Moyes: Will you play him or have him playing footsie on the bench with Vellios, Barkley and Gueye etc?

According to what I've read, he's not very technically gifted, but is a hard working Moyes type player, likely to come in and play the anchor role. Considering that this is really our weakest link, then this could be a great signing, and hopefully the end of Phil Neville, at least in midfield.

This signing does not appear to be the end of Fellaini, because if anything, he's been brought in to provide the defensive cover we lack due to Fellaini's flaws.

http://www.footballtransfertavern.com/premiership/who-in-the-name-of-god-is-leroy-fer

I suppose if he has any attacking tendencies he can always be reigned in. Heard he's good in the air, nods a few in, etc. Is he any good? If he is we won't keep hold of him furlong (Ferlong?!)... OK, I'll bow out and let someone else have a go!

Don't know anything about him, anyone with some first hand knowledge?

What you see there is a tall, strong young man who is being compared to Patrick Viera. Moyes has gone for size and skill with Leroy and along side Felli they will make an impressive pair. More to the point, this may mean that Felli is going to play further up the pitch which in turn I hope will mean the reappearance of Jelavic as our top goal scorer.

It might mean the return to a more direct playing style but if it works.....and will give us a plan B when the Baines-Pienaar-Osman triangle is not working. Also it may mean that both Gibbo and Mirallas are set to be out for a while.

At the end of the day it proves we do have some money to spend — and don't play cards with Moyes!!!

This signing does not appear to be the end of Fellaini, because if anything, he's been brought in to provide the defensive cover we lack due to Fellaini's flaws.

I am delighted with this signing as IMO it is just what we need but I will never be happy with Kenwright's running of the club and the deep suspicions he arouses in fans with his 'smoke and mirrors' act.

"...Yeah, he got stuck with the racehorse. He's a good player though! A lot of power, box-to-box type of midfielder. I see him getting into the Dutch team, but got a lot of injuries."

I'm just glad we got someone in and hope we can up our form a bit.
Doubt he'll start against WBA as still to pass medical and agree terms.

Still, I'm buying a new calculator just to keep up with the goals we put past Villa on Saturday (deluded, I know)

I reckon DM has conned BK by saying, "I'm just goin' out and buyin' a fur, I'll put it on yer account."

Jason le Fur to warm us up

The money: Can only guess that someone will be leqaving either now or quite likely in the summer. Felli will leave if we don't make CL. That'll still mean another £20 million after this deal is paid for. And if we make the CL. The money for that will pay for this fella.

To be honets, if we were to spend, I wanted a striker. We are not taking enough chances, and should be close to Chealsea right now. But, hey I'm not complaining.

the Shite, Barcodes and Juve were rumoured to be after this guy... if it sounds too good to be true and all that.

Fer is seen as a promising player for the near future. He had some bad luck with injuries over the past months. Physically strong, doubts on his technical strenghts. Can score goals with headers as well.

All in all a good singning for us. See you at the Reading game!

COYB

Where has this amount of cash come from?

Either Felly is gone, or that rich backer has arrived.........

Fingers crossed Fellaini stays.

I've got to be honest and say I've never heard of him. It says on the BBC website £7 million fee agreed and he's got 10 goals in 29 games for McLaren's side. That's some going for a supposed holding midfielder.

I hope he bloods him on Wednesday... now just bring a striker in and I will be happy.

In all seriousness though, he'd be like a new signing.

I watch quite a lot of European football and he is a decent player, surprised we got him really as others were surely in for him. Now all we need is a striker to help out Jelavic! (Vossen please)

I wonder if he's trying to flog the unwanted racehorse to Tesco's as part of the deal?

https://toffeeweb.com/season/07-08/comment/editorial/7728.html

He's not a defensive mid but more a box-to-box player who scores a lot of goals. If he remains injury-free he will be a great addition. Might need some time to adjust to the Premier League obviously.

I've also heard that horses love to feed off Jelly...

Since our reserve keeper is rather underemployed these days, perhaps he can be asked to Mucha-out the stables where Fer's girlfriend's horse lives.

Enough!

http://www.soccerway.com/players/leroy-fer/24308/

I mean the dude's Dutch and he bought his girlfriend a Mustang, not the car.

Clearly, the dude has woman problems.

Love the Wikipedia writ-up – 'On 28th January 2013 it was announced that Everton FC of the English Premier League had agreed a deal to secure the services of Leroy Fer with Fer's agent stating that although Liverpool football club had been interested in signing him he wanted to sign for a "big club". :-)

Get him signed up sharpish.

Looks like we've borrowed £7m against next years' TV money – if this lad is half decent and also at only 23, that would be money well spent.

(Not much to say about his intelligence though!)

They have great waffles too

Hope its all true about the signing though.

If he and Gibson can avoid pulling up with injuries for the rest of the season then there should be some intense jockeying for position in our midfield.

Fourth place at a canter.

I'd thought the M'Vila stuff was just putting on a show of being interested in someone we had no real chance of competing for financially, and then this happens! Based on the M'Vila figures quoted is it fair to assume that the 8 - 10 million euros won't be going as one installment or have things changed that much since last week? Maybe it was the personal terms that were the main problem in turning his head from the Russians.

Or is Leroy a better prospect than M'Vila (and Odjidja-Ofoe for that matter)? Personally, don't have a clue about this lad and a little worried to hear he has had some recent injury problems, but it is exactly the sort of signing I was hoping for in the middle of the park.

Fingers crossed it is finalised, the lad settles quickly, no-one needs to go before the summer, and there may even be a couple of loans as well.

Shit on it.

He is being talked about as Fellaini-like though. Hopefully the manager just thinks it would be interesting to have two of them on the pitch at the same time.

....we must've dangled a bigger carrot

He is nothing like Fellaini. Powerful has pace and is very direct. Tireless engine. A classic No.8. Finally someone with pace who can run at people and commit players.

Bought a horse for my girlfriend (a 3 year old chestnut mare)

By coincidence, she also lives in a 4th floor flat.

My girlfriend simply wasn't interested though, she said the lifts were goosed and she wasn't prepared to walk 4 floors just to see a horse.

(see what I did there?)

He'll definitely STIR(R) UP the midfield. (I was quite pleased with that one.)

Just don't nag him.

Pace, power, good header, nice touch, can pass too. Big rangey piece of work he is. Fingers crossed.

From a couple of years back but a little more insight into the lad.

She shouldn't have looked the gift-horse in the mouth.

Is your girlfriend a 3 year old chestnut mare?

Leroy Fer-eezing.

Sorry, wrong thread.

Great signing, Moyes!!!

She's now his bridle-to-be!

Or is my lack of knowledge of the horse owning world glaringly obvious?

General feeling is this will destroy Twente FC's title hopes and that he could push Everton into the CL places.

Very highly thought of player.

Negativity: bad.

This is good news. Enjoy.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/blog/_/name/thetoepoke/id/900?cc=5739#

The Daily Heil article is clearer, but I can't bring myself to promote the wretched rag.

"Too many foals!" Brilliant. Keep up the top equestrian banter, lads. I can't help thinking the "cold weather players" riff I started yesterday has started a new punning trend on TW, Michael and Lyndon are probably cursing me!

I've been frustrated all month waiting for this moment and I hope the lad is as good as they say. Some even compare him to Viera. Stop looking gift 'HORSES' in the mouth and accept the lad as a requirement for our tiny squad.

We finish top ten every season and have great gates every week and the money is overdue in coming. Clubs like Newcastle have signed five players so far and virtually every other club is doing something.

FERry cross the mersey

"Is your girlfriend a 3 year old chestnut mare?"

Absolutely, 100%, definitely NOT!

She's..um.. almost 4 now.

Actually, I call her 'Miranda' after the TV star.

(it's not so much that they look similar - it's more that I've never heard either of them say or do anything remotely fucking funny).

We're on the verge of signing Leroy Fer, a very promising young Dutch midfielder who just so happens to like horses.

Why the long face?

Interview: Leroy Fer over zijn transfer

TRANSLATION:

Fer: "I was surprised about the interest Everton had in me. But it´s always a nice next step to go to the Premier League, for myself, for my qualities. Everton has always been a very nice club to go to, so I´m very pleased they went for me. It all happened a bit earlier than I expected to be honest".

"I´m a box-to-box player so that fits good in England. They came faster than expected, because I only expected to go in the summer in the earliest.

[reporter asks: With Twente you can go for titles, with Everton that´ll be a bit harder?]

"Yes sure, but it´s still the Premier League and Everton always plays for the European spots. And as I said, nice club".

[about the transfer price, 10 mil euro]

"Yes, but I didn´t set that, that´s between the two clubs. I don´t feel pressure because of that price tag. But I´m proud that I have that kind of price tag set on me".

[Reporter asks what Moyes expects of him]

"I haven´t spoken to the trainer yet, but I hope to play".

[about the purchase of his horse: ´they like jumping horses in England´]

"Yeah, maybe I´ll buy a new one there!"

Read more: http://www.grandoldteam.com/news/transfer-news/2013/jan/28/leroy-fer-speaks-of-everton-move#ixzz2JI9reuK5

Howard
Coleman Jagielka Distin Baines
Mirallas Gibson Fer Pienaar
Fellaini Jelavic (inform).

Fucking awesome

I hadn't heard any whisper of this one beforehand (had anyone else?) which on the one hand makes me think; (a) the press know rock all; (b) how clever of EFC to keep it all quiet.

However it also makes me wonder: why bother to release it now before it is all signed and sealed? Some foul cretan could come in a try and hijack the deal (didn't the Rs once do that with Sissoku?)

Etc

1st: Ham and eggs breakfast;
2nd: bouncer
Let's hope he's not the 1st....

Please don't piss him of before he even plays for us. Someone reading this will probably say,"If you cant take a joke...", but the large number of horsey comments are IMO no joke.

Carl Peters, my first reaction was, "Has the board... could the board... would the board...?" Let's hope so. What a day.

Dan Walker, I wouldn't say it's negativity. Rather, a sign of how deliriously devoid of hope we all were. All puns aside, I think most people here are actually extremely excited.

Did anyone else see a little bit of Manny Fernades in those youtube highlights? I think Fellaini and Fer would be okay together in CM.

(take it all back if we actually sign him)

He looks and sounds like the player we have been looking for. If only we got him in a bit earlier for the Southampton game so someone would have at least attempted a tackle rather than having to watch Neville skipping after the Southampton players.

He can replace Neville in CM who is a good captain but should really be put out to stud. He says he is upset to have missed Cheltenham the other week.

Had a look round Goodison and he likes the ground as its like our team – Good; Soft in places...

Let's face it, the last marquee signing we made was the one in the Park End car park for pre-match hospitality.

If he's as good as YouTube says he is (and when was the last time you saw a crap highlights video?! I could make a 20-second clip of Vellios that made him look good) then we will win the race for Europe at a canter.

I can understand Moyes bringing in Fer because Phil Neville is 35 and will need replacing soon but I still think goals should be the main priority.

As for the money, I read it was spread over several years, so there is probably a few million downpayment now, with additional funds to come from future seasons TV money.

I'm not disputing the need for a Neville replacement or someone to play while Gibson and Mirallas fight for the physios's attention! But Tim Howard is sadly done. He's not commanding and is getting by with a top drawer save every few matches. I just think that we need to shut out goals first and foremost. Maybe this guy who's a Centre Midfield player can help that, but we really need a new GK.

As for those people amazed by what they see on YouTube, be careful because we've fallen for that before. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Mirallas and Drenthe have more minutes on YouTube than they do on the pitch in Everton shirt.

Lets give the lad a chance. Don't send him to the glue factory yet. I remember how many fans were slagging off Fellaini away at Hull when we first bought him, and Baines wasn't a world beater straight off. This guy could be just what we need.

We may have cover at CB but who would you trust? Heitinga has forgotten how to play football, Distin makes mistakes but usually makes amends due to his pace, Duffy is unseen and Jagielka has resorted to hoofing it more often.

Tim Howard is a good GK, I'm not stupid enough to dispute that, but we need someone better than good.

20+
I don't think we have any player who can get near 20 goals a season.

15-20
I also doubt we have anyone who is gonna get over 15 goals.

10-15
I'd place Fellaini (9) and Jelavic (7) in this bracket.

5-10
Osman (5), Pienaar (5), Anichebe (5), Baines (4), Mirallas (4) and maybe Naismith (3) will fall in this bracket.

0-5
You get a couple of goals from the defenders Jagielka (1), Coleman (1) and Distin (1).

0
And so far Gibson (0), Neville (0) and Hitzleperger (0) have nothing.

"It appears that Everton have got their man, ahead of several top European clubs including Liverpool" ......

Surely that should read:

"It appears that Everton have got their man, ahead of several top European clubs AND Liverpool"??

Glad we cleared that one up...good answer.

I hope Moyes goes out and gets Capoue now. These two look similar in the way they play (strong and a good engine); at least we won't ever have to see Neville or even Heitinga in midfield again.

Yeah, I guess I'm a bit of an old stick in the mud, but I just cant stay on the FENCE on this one.

Anyway, the lad is tall, slim and looks pacey so we have got him at the right time and age.

He looks like a young Viera/YaYa Toure type (I wish).

If he develops well he should have a good few seasons with us and sell for profit if need be.

It's about time we signed someone 'real' as we have been dining on has-beens and never-wases too long.

Also I don't the issue about buying the horse for his bird who lives in a block of flats. Surely there are things called boarding stables where the majority of horse owners put there horses.

Well done, mate.

Finally someone to rival Pienaar for the t-shirts...

Goodison will surely be a godly place from now on.

Horse-related tale... hmm, I have fed the horse in a flat — does that count?

Certainly Patrick Viera-esque in his prime!

Spot on signing IMO...

Apparently the girlfriend had said she wanted someone built like a horse, so he went out and got her the real thing.

Do you seriously think Moyes was thinking to himself "I don't really need another midfielder and I'm deliriously happy with Neville. What's that? some people are on a forum saying we need a better midfielder. Quickly someone find me a midfielder now, I need a better one now. Thank fuck I read ToffeeWeb and the insightful promptings therein about this very topic, otherwise it would never had dawned on me to sign anyone."

I just heard on the Dutch television that Leroy Fer has committed a crime a few years ago when he was a player for Feijenoord and there is a real chance he will end up in prison???

Seriously we can't afford to have another player signing who a) may bring our club into disrepute b) will be unavailable for an extended period of his contract.

FFS Kenwright do your homework will ya!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

I know I'm stupid.

Wow, this smells like Bilyaletdinov who cost us £9.25 Million, not worth the money.

I have hardly heard of this guy and we spend £8.5 million that we do not have.

Next step is Fellaini has a deal with Chelsea to go there in the summer.

Looking top quality in this video

But the main reason I am surprised is the position we've brought reinforcements for. We desperately need a striker. You might challenge that given we've got Naismith, Jelavic, Anichebe, Mirallas and Vellios. But due to injury, inexperience or not being able to hit the proverbial barn door, we don't actually have an in form striker at the club.

So, as many have mentioned, this enforcer box to box player is likely to be a replacement for our other midfielder from the lowlands. But, if it's the difference between Moyes staying or going (again much like I suspect Fellaini himself was back in 2008) then I will take it. But he will be about the 5th most expensive player we've signed so he better be up to it!

I'll breath that sigh of relief with the rest of the Everton Fans on this page when he's put pen to paper! Why The board agree to announce the clubs agreement before he signs on the dotted line makes no sense at all! Especially after all that's happened in the past! If You Know Your History Bill!

Think about it...

Nikica Jelavic (Looked good to begin with but now clearly couldn't score in a brothel. Is he Premier League quality???).

Matthew Kennedy (He's 18 now but nowhere near the first team).

Bryan Oviedo (A bloody expensive substitute nowhere near a starting place).

Steven Naismith (A free transfer but lets be honest who would pay money for him??).

Thomas Hitzlsperger (Another free transfer 5 years past his best).

Kevin Mirallas (An injury prone crock).

Darron Gibson (An injury prone crock).

And the less said about Magaye Gueye, Jermaine Beckford and Diniyar Bilyaletdinov the better.

In fact, not counting Steven Pienaar (Because Moyes knew what he was getting there) you would have to go back to 2009 and Sylvain Distin for the last time Moyes got a really good player and value for money.

Dick @ 761 Alex Nyarko? I could've done without you reminding me of that mare, he should've been sent to the glue factory.

Beckford – FREE, scores 10 in a season, sold for £4 million

Oviedo – given that we're in the top 6 clubs in the Premier League, is £3 million really that expensive for a substitute?

Naismith, Hitz – both FREE, if you can't go shopping in Harrods then you get down to Tesco's. I'll go with Gueye for a similar argument.

Jelavic – £5 million and I suspect his purchase was the difference between finishing where we did instead of about 3 places lower and without him we wouldn't have got to Wembley. Disappointed about this season but he kind of paid for himself with what he did last season.

Kennedy?? – behave

Bily – started well and had a dreadful second season. He cost a lot so you can definitely have that one!

But have you chosen to forget Vellios or Coleman or Johnny (Player of the Season) ?

My Argument was that recent signing have lack both quality and value for money.

So yeah Beckford worked out value for money but he lack quality.

Naismith and Hitz probably are value for money but both lack quality.

Oviedo might well have the quality but for his brief appearances so far he lacks value for money so far.

Likeswise Mirallas and Gibson both look like quality players but again they both lack value for money because they are injury prone crocks.

Inc

I would argue he has not found that since Distin and possibly Heitinga but I'm not sure on him to be honest.

11 goals from 35 starts & 4 sub appearances is phenomenal for a midfielder, though. Just seems odd. Any opinions?

I'm not even including Gibbo because he "only" cost £500k which doesn't normally get you a bag a chips and the Sunday paper these days. In our case we got a top drawer midfielder (legs sold separately).

Just hope I can sit here recovering and read he has passed his medical and agreed personal terms tomorrow, see the confirmation on the OS then I'll feel even better. He will then be a signing and didn't think we were getting any never mind one for money.

Doesn't have to be as long as he can play great football and stay fit, eh?

August 2009 - we sign Distin, Bily and Johnny with the Lescott cash

January 2012 - we sign the players you refer to

During the 2 yrs 4 months between those months, I am fairly sure the players we purchased were as follows:

Beckford - FREE - 2010
Gueye - £1 million - 2010?
Velios - I cannot remember the amount or the date but it was buttons
The Straq - fairly sure this was a FREE?

The players you refer to were basically funded by a combination of the Arteta, Rodwell and Bily money.

[Gets hat and leaves the room....]

Just to prove that you can get a horse in a flat...

Some horses are good at football, others simply aren't interested. In the next clip, Horse A is really going for it big time, while Horse B is clearly thinking (at 00.25) "WTF?"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AesfgUWRQD8

REPLY: He must've missed you. You must be one lucky lark.

(Apologies for that OFF-THE-HOOF comment but I'm ONE MAN who's been at the RED RUM after a LONG RUN today).

(Smiles smugly before logging off)

1. As funny as us (Horse Jokes)
2. As negative as us (where did we get that money from then... who gives a shit?)
3. As positive as us (4th no probs now lads)
4. As paranoid as us (this deal is going to get scuppered, the kid is going to Jail?? Redshit or Toon are going sign him. Kenwright wants that??)

Evertonians, aren't we?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUu2Ij-Ax3I

From one of my favourite movies, The Commitments : )

Don't want to put the cart before the horse, but I'm slightly more hopeful about the top four now.

Van Nistelcheat was a Dutch fella with a horse face, and he worked out alright.

He has no previous sustained injury record so let's calm down a bit antsy pants and enjoy the new signing shall we?

I have been eagerly waiting for another example of your fantastic side splitting, wet yourself humour.

Thanks for that.

"'Ello, Leroy, me old mate, I'm Davey Moyes, but me mates call me 'Awwy. 'Ere, give your 'orse to that nice Mr Leahy, he don't know much abaht 'orses but Every Little Helps, eh? He'll look arfter it. Nah... come on, it's a long drive to White Ha...er, Goodison Park."

Moments later, Bill's car screeches to a halt... "Davey, I honestly don't know how ALL four tyres on my car went flat... look, we're only a bit late, I'm sure Leroy's waiting somewhere. I used to go in the Boys Pen yer know..."

Howard
Coleman Jagielka Distin Baines
Mirallas Gibson Fer Pienaar
Jelavic (or Anichebe?) Fellaini

Bench: Mucha, Heitinga, Osman, Neville, Oviedo, Barkley, Anichebe

Now that is a strong matchday squad. If only Gibbo and Kevin could get their hamstrings in order!

Midfield was definitely the priority area to strengthen. With Gibson's fitness a big question mark, we loose the Fellaini goal threat if he has to drop back to support Ossie.

Ossie is great on the ball just outside their box, but has a habit of loosing the ball in our half at critical times.

Next priority is another defender, unless Heitinga comes on strong in the second half of the season, which he has done in each of the last three years.

He's big and he's black, he will buy a horse for your flat, he's Leroy Fe-ee-er

Laaaa roooy
Laaaa roooy
Laaaa roooy

Here's hoping he's a star signing, coyb

He has an upcoming court case for smuggling horsemeat from France into the UK in the back of a Nissan Micra.

So still time for it all to implode, cue the Moyes statement, "I'm happy with what I've got"

Can't handle the amount of incoming transfer news I'd imagine.

"I've been scouting Moyes for years now. Gotta lot of good intel off the boy over the years, I can tell you. When I heard he was knocking about Cheltenham recently, well, I just had to look around myself. He slipped me, to be honest, so I nipped into the Racecourse to have a quiet flutter on the old Gee-Gees. Next thing I know, he's signed this Dutch fella! Dunno how I'm going to play this one, lads, his first name not being Kyle."

Even Redknapp gave a rueful snicker when asked, "That must explain the long face then, 'Arry?"

Andrew James, the Straq was a loan, so "free" if you want. Just wanted to clear that up.

Noel #893 - well said and couldn't agree more because TW definitely has the full range of Mighty Blues. Far better than being a deluded, sycophantic kopite (but they do have their uses - listening to their after-match phone-ins is often pure joy. Mind you, it will be difficult to top some of the whining after the Oldham match.)

They fielded a weakened side; have some compassion, man!

Iain (#960) Stooshe song??? Could you hum it?

What a stunner, well in Leroy, she'll brighten up the main stand!

Assuming he passes the medical obviously, why are ours NEVER straightforward?

Never heard of the bloke but looks good on YouTube.

10 goals in 29 game for a box-to-box player is good.

Is the deal complete?

Will he revitalise the team, which in the PM looks a bit jaded.

Couldn't care less where the money has come from. Got enough bother balancing my own finances.

We are carrying players who are plainly NOT PL standard. If anyone can give me good reason why we are providing living expenses, ie, wages and a laughable lifestyle, to people like Naismith and Gueye (and I could go on if I could be bothered). Answers on a postcard...

But PLEASE DON'T PUT THEM ON THE PITCH BECAUSE ITS NOT FUNNY!!! I watched the team that won the Cup Winners Cup and comparisons are embarrassing.

ps: I'm not a total pessimist but I'd love to see us get top 4 playing like we did in the first ten games.