JonShar

This is the truth.

Has he b****x.

I'm fine with that scenario too!

Is it not possible that Firminho has been signed as the striker we needed, and that we're not really after Benteke at all?

He's accurate, he's not quick. He almost always needs a touch before passing.

Diouf. Collymore. Ruddock.

Aye. We're really not far away from having a very good squad.

Where's he gonna play though once Coutinho, Firminho, Striker are clicking?

Exactly right. Glad they kept the history and tradition of the stadium rather than building a new one, but improving/modernising it was a must.

Brilliant bit of skill.

Ahh that makes sense, and you/he are definitely right about the modernising of the ground being a feel-good factor. Looking forward to seeing it now!

How so?

In a world of mad shouts that's one of the maddest shouts ever. He made some soft calls but he was fine, there are worse ref performances in the league. Milner really did look very good, class touch. Was that who was doing color commentator? He is a bit of a w***er.

Not really, otherwise Lucas would be terrible there and Joe Allen would be brilliant there. Think Milner is a great shout for that position - in most matches our 'DM' should be on the front foot anyway.

Oh s*** mate, don't even try to argue that point. Get out of the larger cities and it's just a mass population of racist, sexist, homophobic relatives.

Oh I didn't say we shouldn't do it, I said it was easy and lazy.

Exactly right. So easy and lazy to sit around complaining about them, none of us ever having owned a football club before.

Living the dream!

There are some brilliant people over here to be fair, I just live in the south where there's a high percentage of not-so-brilliant people.

It's America, they all do it here. Then I buy phones outright and get the monthly plans that are half the price and people are shocked that I'd pay that much for a phone, even though it works out to be a grand cheaper over the 2 years. Short term thinkers over here.

I was talking about that to a mate yesterday - City have effectively spent 100 million quid getting Sterling once his salary is taken into account. Mate couldn't get his head around it.

And it's more than that. Sponsors want to know what worldwide support fanbase is. Sponsors back before TV became a big deal cared about how many people came to the matches, how many shirts they were selling. Nowadays it's about reach - memberships, social media followers, emailing lists - these numbers all add up to more sets of eyes on their marketing material, creating top-of-mind brand recognition with millions and millions of fans, not just the 40,000 that show up to the match. I get smithdown's point, but global numbers make a massive amount of difference to sponsorship money.

Thought the same thing, an embarrassment that.

Get the heck outta here with that nonsense. If it was PR management then they'd have blown 35 million quid on someone the fans wanted, not Andy Carroll.

Exactly. What a bizarre stance.