Everton Banter Archive September 03 2012
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03 Sep 2012 22:07:29
Maggie Gayue stank the place out he was awful, rather have green on the bench before maggie least green would give you abit more to the game with his directness
Joe
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Moyes probably knows best who's ready etc - you can't guarantee who'll play well each game
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LISTEN U person gayue is coming on well he took is volley well an we not gonna replace im with a 16 year old cos the rs are relyin on a 17 year old to win them games get real joe gayue is talent
Blue Duck
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Magaye was brill against orient, some of the first teamers like Barkley and Junior etc under perform for the reserves.
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03 Sep 2012 22:05:25
Work in London not from barnet, so went the reserve game tonight! Few positive George green looks like he's gona be a top player also lundstram breaks the play up well. The right back browning got terrored all game gave a penalty away! Maggie gayue
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03 Sep 2012 21:13:41
this is thetuxxx speaking iknow this wont be posted but every time i visit the blueshxxx page its full of posters about lfc the thing with you lot is this you are totally OBSESSED with LFC and whats going on with the club and its fans its incredible that all you seem interested in is LFC this is FACT {Ed025's Note - Your having a giraffe mate...I get loads of your trolls every day!..I have to delete most, as they are nasty, and offensive..
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Haha, u red sh*te r obsessed with man u far more than wer concerned about use. It winds me up ( and should all evertonions) that use refer 2 us as bitter when it's quite ironic that use r worst and cannot see it. The red sh*te EXCUSE is that ther mancs??, but the pub I was in erupted when city won the league and they had lfc tops on and everyone knows real people from Manchester support city. Anyway COYB
King Kennys P45
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Obsessed with LFC? None of us give a t**s how Lingfield F.C. Get on.
WtG.
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Just one of question
Why do you come on the site?
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Your obsessed with Everton
EFCwhitesocks
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I love the irony of him claiming we are obsessed with Liverpool, yet he is on our site spiting complete crap
Sad seeing how LFC fans are so bitter now, they really cannot handle the fact that they are 2nd best in town.
You know what makes me laugh, the fact that LFC fans are getting on their owners beck for giving no investment, are you kidding me? They give Brenda 20-30mil which he spunked on Borini, Allen and a 5mil loan fee + 120k a week wages for Sahin.
If he used a bit of scouting, like Moyes continually done, they wouldn't be in this mess, I mean 1 Allen could have gotten him Pienaar, Naismith, Jelavic and Mirallas.
Complete joke that club is now, and to be honest, I couldn't care less as it was their own doing.
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The Red Sh!tes are deluded! Theres no point arguing with them because they live in their own little world (based somewhere in the 80's). They even think we are bitter! How can we be bitter of a team we finished above in the league? They think that we live in their shadow? However it is us that stands between them and the sun.
I for one love to visit the r/s page. I never post but do like to giggle at some of their fantasys! I also love to see them lose and hear their excuses. Working in an office full of them I do hear some belters!
Blue Bones
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The majority of Evertonians don't give a shi* about LFC and you get the obsessed reds as well which the eds delete most of the time.
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Its also quite ironic that we are the ones obsessed yet he is the one comming on our site.
Blue kaz
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03 Sep 2012 20:54:41
Banter is defined as "the playful and friendly exchange of remarks in a good-humoured teasing way". On that basis, any comments about Liverpool's poor start to the season, their transfer dealings (or lack of them!), and their prospects this season and beyond are all fair game. Where I draw the line is the vicious hatred that some posters put forward - I'd rather put all of that energy & effort into supporting Everton through thick and thin.
CowPat Sid {Ed025's Note - I agree Sid...nice post..
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03 Sep 2012 20:01:38
A journalist asked Brendan rodgers about all the comings an goings at anfield, asked how far away from a excellent team challenging for champions league he is!
Replied about a mile through Stanley park!
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Arf-Arf!
WonHungLo
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03 Sep 2012 19:49:37
a letter from bill to the fans...
I am as delighted as anyone connected with Everton Football Club that we were able to add further to our squad in this summer transfer window, it was through desire & effort on the part of all of those involved. They pushed hard in the transfer window on a number of targets and it is fortunate that on this occasion we were able to conclude acceptable deals to bring these targets in.
A summer window which brought in three young, but significantly talented starters in Steven Naismith, Kevin Mirallas and Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe as well as two exciting young potential stars of the future Matthew Kennedy and Ben McLaughlin could hardly be deemed a failure as we build for the future.
Nor should anyone minimise the importance of keeping our best players during this window. We successfully retained Leighton John Baines, Philip Nikodem Jagielka and Marouane Fellaini-Bakkioui. We greatly appreciate their faith and belief in the club. And we successfully negotiated new, long-term contracts with Philip and with Marouane.
No one should doubt my commitment to the club. In David Moyes we have a talented young manager and we have valued highly his judgement about the make-up of the squad. This is still a work in progress. It will take a little more time for Davey to instill his philosophy into the squad and build exactly what he needs for the long term.
The transfer policy was not about cutting costs. It was - and will be in the future - about getting maximum value for what is spent so that I can build quality and depth. I am an avowed proponent of UEFA's Financial Fair Play agenda that was this week reiterated by Mr Platini - something I heartily applaud. We must comply with Financial Fair Play guidelines that ensure spending is tied to income. I have been successful in improving the commercial side of the club and the monies generated going forward will give us greater spending power in the coming years.
We are still in the process of reversing the errors of previous regimes. It will not happen overnight. It has been compounded by our own mistakes in a difficult period of ownership. It has been a harsh education, but make no mistake, the club is healthier today than when I took over.
Spending is not merely about buying talent. Our ambitions do not lie in cementing a mid-table place with expensive, short-term quick fixes that will only contribute for a couple of years. Our emphasis is on developing our own players using the skills of an increasingly impressive coaching team. Much thought and investment already have gone into developing a self-sustaining pool of youngsters imbued in the club's traditions.
That ethos is to win. We will invest to succeed. But we will not mortgage the future with risky spending.
After a long period at Goodison, we are close to having the system we need in place. The transfer window may not have been perfect but we are not just looking at the next 16 weeks until we can buy again: we are looking at the next 16 years and beyond. These are the steps needed in restoring one of the world's great clubs to its proper status.
It will not be easy, it will not be perfect, but there is a clear vision at work.
We will build and grow from within, buy prudently and cleverly and never again waste resources on inflated transfer fees and unrealistic wages. We have no fear of spending and competing with the very best but we will not overpay for players.
We will never place this club in the precarious position that we found it in when we took over at Goodison. This club should never again run up debts that threaten its existence.
Most of all, we want to win. That ambition drives every decision. It is the Everton way. We can and will generate the revenues to achieve that aim. There will be short-term setbacks from time to time, but we believe we have the right people in place to bring more glory to Goodison.
Finally, I can say with authority that our ownership is not about profit. Contrary to popular opinion, owners rarely get involved in sports in order to generate cash. They generally get involved with a club in order to compete and work for the benefit of their club. It's often difficult. In our case we work every day in order to generate revenues to improve the club. We have only one driving ambition at Everton and that is the quest to win the Premier League playing the kind of football our supporters want to see. That will only occur if we do absolutely the right things to build the club in a way that makes sense for supporters, for us and for those who will follow us. We will deliver what every long-term supporter of Everton Football Club aches for.
Bill Kenwright CBE
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Is this for real, Eds?
Concened Citizen {Ed025's Note - It's a real post mate...I can't tell who actually sent it, but it is very well written..
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I'm assuming this post is supposed to be a joke as it is a direct copy of the FSG statement to Liverpool Fans, at least I hope it was meant as a joke otherwise its a little sad.
ToffeeAL
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Yes very well written... by John Henry with a few name changes by some joker
ToffeeAL
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03 Sep 2012 18:36:08
As much as I don't like to talk about the RS on our site I have to say i respect the fact they have a chairman who engages the fans. Be good if our chairman took that approach instead of the silence, not allowing questions at agm's, stopping the press attending.... Just saying!
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Actions speak louder than words! and our chairman engaged himself in a lot of action this year! and he never misses a game!......jmff
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After the january transfer window, end of last season, this summer's transfer window and the start of the season and you still find a way to have a go at BK time to appreciate what we have at least we got players in on deadline day.....grbefc
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I respect the fact they have a chairman that gives £30 million for transfer funds at the start of the season, shame he was too stupid to realise that Everton would of been a much better proposition than the sh*te
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I just feel you want him to say what you want to hear its reality he has told us time and time again we don't have money we have to wheel and deal we live within our income he has been good this summer sold Rodwell 12m and yobo 2m and he has given moyes all of it
Mirallas 5.5m
Naismith free
Pienaar 5m
Oviedo 2m
Ofoe loan
Thats what I call clever business and makes our squad a lot stronger think back to when we have struggled with goals not this season we will score at least 30 more goals this season and that will give us more points as long as we keep tight at the back but you want him to come out and say club sold to billionaire and that we will buy messi get real and stop dreaming we are where we are and I want bill to stay I don't want to risk club being sold and his own manager to come in we will loose everything that is good about us
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He tried and got stabbed in the back by The Blue Union.
You have obviously never spoken to the man or listened to him when he speaks, there is no more passionate chairman than Bill Kenwright.
Who cares what the R/S say? because i certainly don't.
Ste F 1878.
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You are talking about the RS
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What did he say?? We tried to buy an attacker! How insulting is that to the fans? If BK sold jelavic, with the promise to buy a better striker, then wouldn't/couldn't get one, the ed's here would go into meltdown with all the complaints from us! He's just giving the rs fans lip service to keep them off his/Brenda's back in the hope that results pick up. Blue Lee.
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How can someone agree with this tripe? Utter crap..............
TC
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Its just red coloured crap TC. I quite enjoy it when they clutch at straws
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03 Sep 2012 17:00:35
klasnic on free be good
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03 Sep 2012 17:00:10
what about klasnic on a free and fernandes free
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Fernandes scored 2 at weekend 4 besiktas.
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03 Sep 2012 16:54:12
Just curious, out of these 2 situations what would people prefere??
7th/8th place finish and FA Cup or League Cup
or.....
4th place?
Steve
I would honestly go for 7th or 8th and the FA Cup. We badly need silverware, it's been too long and we would qualify for Europa so at least it's some European football which we have not had for 3 years.
Then move onto next season and target top 4 then.
Just my opinion, what would you guys prefere, including the everton ed's?
Steve
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4th place for me mate, brings more money in and we all know money buys players
Degsycool
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I'd prefer the 1st one. Mainly for the reasons you said and we might not get Champions League football if one of the English teams win it this season and finish below 4th.
Keith EFC.
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Bit of tricky one. 4th still means a playoff situation. But would love to be in group stages.
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Given that choice right now it has to be 7th/8th place and FA Cup for the same reasons, we need a trophy and then we can look at next season to break into the top 4
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I know wat you saying degsycool about finishing 4th but its only a play off and if we didnt get to group stages we havent really gained much money really id go for 7th place and fa cup been too long since we won a trophy then we could concentrate on top 4 the season after
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Silverware for me. CL means money only of you get into the group stages. Winning a cup gets us in the record books for all time.
Cowpat Sid
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7/8th league cup and then we get into europa league.
CP
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No brainier why I do hope we win a cup as moyes deserves a trophy top 4 for me money champ league brings in would move us on further I know what moyes would choose put it this way if moyes had already won a trophy you would all be saying top 4 also champ league would mean holding on to our top players finishing 7 or 8th this season we can say bye to Fellini Jelavic baines and so on we would be easy picking as players will want to play higher level
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I'd take the cup and Europa League, lets face it, with this squad adding a few quality buys in the summer it would be possible to go all the way in the Europa the following season, with the best will in the world we wouldn't do that in the Champions League.
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Unless we finished 3rd, cup all day long. Finish 4th, we will face Spanish opposition & some retiring, bald, bung snatching official will ensure we don't get to the group stages.
Vincent
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Although it would be nice to win silverware, 4th place opens up so many doors for us and could give us long term benefits.
Champs League opens up more money for new players, even opens up more quality players as they would be attracted tot the fact we have CL footy, this in turn leads us to having a better team and thus could win silverware for years to come.
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Id take top 4 this season, the main reason being is that a lot of the top teams are in transition this season, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool, i think Newcastle have not really improved either. So if we could sneak in now, get in to the group stages we could have funds to stay there. Next season there might be a much stronger Spurs Arsenal and Liverpool to contend with but the FA and League cups will always be there.
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One word.Collina.
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03 Sep 2012 16:46:04
Merseyside 11??
Howard (on current form over 12 months)
Johnson Agger Jagielka Baines
Mirallas Fellaini Gerrard Pienaar
Jelavic Suarez
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If this is current form then forget Gerrard, he is finally done, even the Koppites want him dropping, happy days
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Take agger gerrand an Johnson out then I will agree till then I disagree
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On current form all Everton. End of.
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I would say no gerrard he has been poor the last 12 months id go for
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johnson agger jagielka baines
mirallas fellaini gibson pienaar
jelavic suarez {Ed025's Note - Reina??
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Mirallas is debatable
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Howard
Johnson Jagielka Skrtel Baines
Sterling Fellaini Allen Pienaar
Suarez
Jelavic {Ed025's Note - I like Allen, and sterling...but johnson and Suarez would both struggle to get in on current form..
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Not one RS player would get in our team. They are all useless.
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03 Sep 2012 16:06:37
Liverpool need a striker to lead the line - looking at free agents Emile Ivanhoe heskey is available
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So it's Ivanhoe for Liverpool? They'd have preferred Robin Hood van Persie surely.
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03 Sep 2012 16:04:10
Knocks me sick how we beat Man U first game, now weve both won 2 lost 1 drawn 0, same goal difference yet they still manage to be above us in the table!
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They have scored more goals mate.
Ste F 1878
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It's because they've scored more.
Keith EFC.
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Because they scored more goals
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Goals scored
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03 Sep 2012 16:00:38
Another thing that made this transfer window just gone the best we've had in God knows how long is the ages. In this current time, and with the amount of players we have that are the wrong side of 30, it's imperative we look towards more youth - and the ages of our new signings certainly show that:
Naismith (free) - 25
Peanuts (£4.5m) - 30 - although he knows how we work
already, so he doesn't need settling in time unlike others.
Kev Mirallas (£5.3 - £6m) - 24
Bryan Oviedo (Undis. - places say different things from £1m - £5m) - 22
Matt Kennedy (Undis. - believed to be around £200,000 - £300,000) - 17
Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe (loan w/ view to buy) - 23
Here's the average ages based on these line ups:
Howard, Hibbo, Jags, Distin, Baines, Naisy, Ossie, Gibbo, Peanuts, Felli, Jela.
Avg. age = 28.727
Alternative: Howard, Neville, Johnny, Distin, Baines, Mirallas, Gibbo, Felli, Peanuts, Naisy, Jela
Avg. age = 28.272
So both of our 2 main line ups average about 28 years-old, but add our new players from deadline day and likes of youth from the bench and that drops.
I don't know if there was much point in that last bit, but yeah. Our squad has a nice mix of very, very experienced players and a lovely bit of youth, and that's without including players like Barkley, Duffy, etc.
COYB. IMWT. NSNO.
Keith EFC.
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You forgot McLaughlin, 17yo
the belgian guy
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03 Sep 2012 14:55:11
Eds, on deadline day, we supposedly inquired about Jack Butland from Birmingham. Did we make a bid and would you say we will try to sign him in January? {Ed025's Note - We made enquiries, that's all..
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We made a enquiry but they wanted 6 million
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Interesting that we enquired. Having missed out on Joe Hart when he was younger, it's good that we're looking at potential successors to Tim Howard. Not sure where that leaves the other young keepers on our books...conceding goals as the reserves and academy teams get regularly beaten this season by the look of it!
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They wanted £8m. We offered £6m installments.
Keith EFC.
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03 Sep 2012 14:27:02
when neville stops playing for everton should darren Gibson become captain?
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Jagielka I think
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Perhaps Osman. Never gets the credit he deserves.
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03 Sep 2012 11:51:25
edds any news on the odjidja paperwork will it go through or was it to late. thgfest {Ed025's Note - We should know later mate..
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03 Sep 2012 09:58:27
whats up with jelavic?
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Nothing except no service everything fell to fellini who had a of day he was marked better than previous games needs to go back to midfield
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Oh you mean cos he isnt scoring every game, get real man, if he scored every game he would have cost 50 million and not 5 million
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I think pushin felli up instead of naismith is taking jellys movement away becos now they aiming for fellani what you think ed {Ed025's Note - I would prefer jelly and Naisy up top myself..
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Agree with you ed playing felli up top full time will not work.its ok as and when needed like the united game when they played carrick a midfielder at centre back where playing there is alien to him.jelavic is making the runs and trying to find the space only it seems everything is going through felli.id have him back in midfield controlling the game and push naisy up just behind jelavic.jimmy
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I really think it depends on the opposition we face as to whether we play Naismith up top or Fellaini up top. In games where we will dominate possession, would rather see Fellaini drop deep and Naismith up top because Naismith is much better with the ball at his feet than Fellaini. But when we verse teams like United, City where we will predominantly concede possession, then having Fellaini up top who can keep hold of the ball and allow the likes of Pienaar, Naismith and Mirallas to join the attack.
Also depends on the opponents centre half, if they aren't that physical (Carrick for example) then Fellaini would be a good bet.
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03 Sep 2012 09:38:54
Does anybody know when the loan transfer window closes? because apparently that's open longer than the transfer window
EtidAaron
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Closed same time, hence why we are trying to get clearance on, vadis..............
TC
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Only for football league clubs i think
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Yes for championship clubs
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That closed at the same time. Only free agents are available.
Keith EFC.
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Its closed for premier league clubs, but the lower league's can still loan premier league players
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Ooh okay thanks, I was wondering if we might go for Huddlestone on loan, he's quality and doesn't get enough playing time at spurs and they were trying to offload him in the transfer market
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03 Sep 2012 11:23:39
Expectations for the Leeds game anyone..?
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We should win comfortably
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The week before the Leeds game we play Newcastle on Monday night and then Swansea at Saturday lunchtime so we might have some players unavailable for the Leeds game, which IMHO won't be as straightforward as the Leyton Orient game - we'll need to be on top of our game. Most of us were very cocky about the WBA game - just turn up and take three easy points - but we certainly got a reality check. Leeds will be up for it big time.
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02 Sep 2012 23:09:11
Hey eds now the window is shut till january how soon do you think it will be before the first take over rumour appears?
Gandolph's not been on for a while
I'll go for Monday 3/9/12 probably about 4 pm when the kids are home from school
Big C {Ed025's Note - It won't be long, that's for sure..
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Ive heard the Nazarian family worth 2 billion want to buy everton. There an iranian familly in the usa and want to make a move in the footballing world.
blue kaz
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Where did you hear that kaz any truth ed? {Ed025's Note - Not that I have heard mate..
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Lol I was joking lads
Blue kaz
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