norris

We are discussing what makes business sense. However, I can't shake one particular thought from my mind. Over the last 10 years we have had several players of value that have obviously reached the end of their time at the club. They could have been sold to bring in money for the club - for Chansiri, but his mentality meant he let the contracts run down and they left for free. He is happier to let a value reach zero rather than sell something for what it is currently worth. He is doing the same with players and manager right now. No club is willing to pay £5 million in compensation but if Röhl isn't being paid he can leave for free with his contract torn up. Chansiri has shown time and time again that if his valuation is higher than someone else's, then rather than negotiate, he will sit sucking his thumb and see the value reach zero. The value of the ground could reach zero if repair costs are higher than the price someone might be willing to pay. The obvious right answer is to sell the club to one of the several interested parties. But that hasn't happened. Talks haven't happened if you believe Chansiri's statement. There is only one answer to why it hasn't happened and that rests in the caverns of Chansiri's brain. I'm worried.

The difference is, you can know exactly what time dawn will happen each day. We have no idea when the Wednesday dawn will be. It could get significantly darker for us yet. A better quote would be "At some unknown point in the future, it will start to get lighter again."

Can Man City not afford the full amount upfront? This is from the BBC article on the Club World Cup.... "City earned the most in the group stage because they were the only side to win all three matches, and will depart the US having banked approximately £37.8m." This is about the same as our whole club is worth.

Birmingham and Plymouth both had decent starts. Sunderland got 9 points from their last 15 games.

We have dismantled a team, and replaced them with a worse team.

I think we have a stronger squad of players, but do we have a better team of 11 players. Genuine question - if we played the team we ended last season with, and had Moore managing them, how many points would we have now? I think we would have managed a couple of draws. Conclusion - in the short term we are worse off, but in the long term we are moving forwards. Is this the right manager to get the best out of the players we now have? I haven't seen anything yet that makes me think the answer is yes.

I was talking to George Byers the other day and he told me the reason he has been out of the team is because he has developed an addiction to Viagra. He said it's been the hardest 6 weeks of his life.

It's ridiculous that when the season ends in 10 minutes time, there are 4 teams that won't know whether they are relegated or not.

Fulham will rest players. Middlesborough will be safe. Two easy wins.

A win puts us 13 points above the bottom 3 (assuming 12 point deduction for Wigan). That would be a massive psychological boost.

My phone has stopped sending me goal alerts. Even technology knows what is happening.

Although the aim in football is to try to prevent the opposition from scoring, sometimes that will not be possible. Also, if all the other teams added up the points they would have if they hadn't conceded goals then we still would not be second. Hope that helps.

First the Earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil.

No.

So, after we have won, we climb 3 places to 11th in the table.