On another note I despair about repeated mistakes with England.

Yet again we agree a highly paid deal with the manager before the world cup starts so we should keep with it otherwise its a waste of 6 million which could be spent on better things.

The German government has invested more money in youth development in South Africa than ours has in any British youth.

After their failure in 2006 Germany massively invested in youth development centres where youngsters can get top coaching regardless of how rich their local club is in money and resources.  God help the next Pele if he is born near Maidstone .  All teams in the areas these centres operate benefit though i suspect some more than others ***glares at Bayern***.

The French did much the same and was well documented before their success and to some extent Italy too.

So what have we been doing then....well we have put a commission together to erm investigate yep that was what it was, and that disbanded in 2008 and not heard from since.  I am sure there was no truth in the rumour that Howard Wilkinson bored them into submission .  
 
We also pissed a shit load of cash on some land where we were going to build a big erm one centre where all the best FA bigwigs could hob nob around because who needs more than one place.  Oh yea that was before we spunked all the money redesigning Wembley 100 times concentrating on what the hotels will look like and if we will have a delightful running track around it like the last one which will never got used,  completely forgetting about what the pitch will be like.  Result?  Well now well we own some expensive fields which nobody can play on.  And local training and football pitches get more and more expensive to play on now, no such thing as jumpers for goalposts, its astroturf and floodlights and corporate rates.  There are less and less of them too as they get developed and schools sell off pitches to fund school textbooks.

Oh yes what else, we have decided to help youth development by preventing most of the country access to the best academys simply because they dont live near there (45 min and 30 min travel rules for differing age groups).  Most London clubs used to recruit from boys clubs and not necessarily the ones nearest to them and the strong Essex leagues.  I am not sure about the north but think it was similar with Man U getting a lot from Oldham boys etc. Too bad if the next Pele lives near Maidstone (apart from obviously being very unfortunate anyway) which is an easy trip into London.  The only way lower league clubs can even survive is by hoarding any talent and hoping for a good pay day when they sell to a bigger club such is the price of even the most incompetent of local players.  

The most we have done in the last 20 years or so was dabble with the now gone centre of excellence which actually surprisingly didnt do too bad considering they only admitted 6 boys a year...yes I did say 6.

OMG that was long but i feel better now

Capello stays on then... He says he wants to introduce new players to give the team new energy...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/h...cup_2010/8784093.stm

Page 10.... that's a first.

Anyway, Gary Cahill was linked to Utd yesterday. I can see him eventually moving, but the reasons quoted were nonsense. Apparently they want him for the new homegrown player rule, despite having about 20 players that fit the bill already...

Oh Dear! Corals have us as favourites to win the Championship.

The first batch of TV games have been announced...

http://fourfourtwo.com/news/en...d/59508/default.aspx

It's slightly annoying that they've picked four Bolton home games, I hate awkward kick off times (especially those stupid Saturday evening ones) and they will impact on attendances. If I didn't have a season ticket I probably wouldn't go, and I imagine many without a season ticket would feel the same way.

Afternoon
That's interesting Joe, they must like Strachan (Gawd help 'em)
Disley, I don't mind the Sat eve matches, it's the early Saturday kick offs that I can't stand - especially the away matches where you have to faff about with night buses etc to get to the Emirates to get the away coaches that are leaving at stupid o clock.
They really should take the distance that away fans have to travel when they are fixing the early kick offs or the late Sunday ones when you don't get back until 3am

I'm not sure that "customer's" opinions are as important as the Tellybox, police, and MacWorld in general.

Was reading something off BM earlier about a conversation between Vieira and Micah Richards. I think having Vieira around this year could be good as he carries alot of experience... will see if it gives Micah a kick up the arse now.

Afternoon all
This is an interesting story about Dan Gosling.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/...g-walks-everton.html


Wonder what Barney and Strike think of it

havent read your link yet veggie but just heard on the radio about gosling ... not impressed

typical everton sounds like they forgot to do a contract extension

he was a decent enough player and I always thank him for that goal against the RS in the FA Cup , but there are other players I would rather get signed up

just read your link and would like to add 

Bump





Six weeks til season starts.

Spurs v City kicks it all off....   although I must say , it's not

until around October it all gets going for me.

It still is going for me rzb! Friendly games start soon.

Hiya Joe, did you have a good hoiday ? . What's your thoughts on Kris Boyd signing, seems a good buy to me.

Sorry! i've been sorting out a few things for Mrs Joe (still bedridden)
Very pleased with his signings so far. Boyd is probably the partner Scott MacDonald needed earlier on this year.

Thanks! I had a great holiday. Weather was great, lots of cycling and football. I find Germany a much better environment to watch the game.

Barney
 Maybe but I doubt he thought up the 'going to the PL' bit all by himself. It smacks of an agent stirring stuff up to me. I bet it's because Newcastle wanted him but didn't want to pay the 4 million or whatever it was.

Now he's on a free he'll be able to ask for higher wages I would think
He'll be forever linked with ITV cocking up live footie because of that goal

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Morning everyone

Barcelona failed to pay their players wages last month and Sandro Rosell has come out and said that the club is in a delicate financial situation... yet they still go after Cesc Fabregas?


I think its time we stick an outrageous bid in for one or two players.

Morning Meaty
That news was all over the Arsenal blogs yesterday. You can bet that Blatter and Platini would be screaming if it was an EPL club in that position.
The worst of it is; when you sell them a player they don't pay it in one go, it's on the never never. So if they go bust then you lose your money.
They still owe us 12 million for Thierry and Hleb

isn't that how all transfer deals are done, I believe Liverpool had only paid £5m of the £20m they bought Robbie Keane for after about 6 months.

Morning RZB
Yeah it is, that's why there's so much consternation about clubs going bust - because of the domino effect it has.
Plus clubs like Newcastle were allowed to spend based on what they would be recieving in the future on these hp transfer deals which caused even more problems.
They shouldn't be allowed to do it

Isn't that what pretty much finished Pompey off? That they had unpaid transfer fees amounting to millions of pounds...

Yeah I think so Disley. Plus there is this 'football creditors' ruling which states that clubs you owe money to have first priority on any moneys coming into the club.
Which is why the govt is apparently taking the FA or the PL to court as they want Revenue and Customs to get the priority treatment.
There is a phrase for this but I can't remember it from my accounting days.

Coyle has been talking about Wilshere again, he says he wants him back on a six month loan deal. I'm thinking if it happens, it won't be until the end of the transfer window when we'll have an idea of how many games he'd be likely to play for Arsenal.

He certainly seems to enjoy playing for Bolton... this picture says it all. Friends for life by the looks of things, and I'm sure many Arsenal fans would never have imagined anything like it....

You're right Disley, loads of us (myself included) were really unhappy about him going to Bolton, although as I have said before Bolton are a different deal now that Allardyce has gone.
It wasn't just the footie style though that we were unhappy about. It was the total over reaction of Coyle to the Gallas tackle. Even though he later apologised for it I would have refused to do any favours for him.
As to you keeping him, there may be a better chance than you think as Arsenal are not fielding a reserve team next season. They have said that the majority of non regulars will go out on loan so Wilshere will be available unless AW wants to regularly play him

I find it unbelievable that a team like Barca can be allowed to have so much debt that they have had to take a loan out to pay players  and yet they are still talking about signing players for 40 million.... Mr Blatter and Monsieur Plattini would be screaming if a team in the EPL was doing this.

Perhaps Monsieur Venger would like to loan us a couple of his babies for the coming season, I would certainly like to see some of his younger players in our team and I think we are the type of team who could bring them as we like to play passing football and this would suit them.

ION the new West Brom shirt.  Yes well, I'm sure we will be dialling 999 at some stage of the season ~ the joke many of my fellow fans are saying is we should be sponsored by the Samaritans!!   Quite like the all black away kit though..

My apologies for not being around much lately, I have got something called labyrithe vertigo, which has literally knocked me off my feet for a week or more, on tablets for it at the moment and return to the doctors in a fortnight to see whether it needs further investigation at the ENT clinic at hospital.... I have not been able to stand up properly, it's been dreadful.

Sorry, but it does look abit like a sunday league kit

Pinky  Wishing you better hun. I wondered if you had tinternet trouble again I was going to message you on FB tomorrow to see.
You should ask Robbie DiMatteo to ask Le Boss about the babies. I am quite sad that we will have no reserves next season as I enjoy watching them and I always take quite a few kids who can't get tickets to the Emirates,
They've also decided to let Jay Simpson go  I thought that they would. He has a year left on his contract and a few clubs looking at him but he'd probably like to come back to you if he had the chance.
As for those barstewards at Barca

Pinky, scrub what I just said about the reserves! Now Arsenal are saying they will field a reserve team but that they will only play certain matches at Barnet.
You are still in our part of the league so we may have a chance to meet up if we can get the  Baggies match played at Barnet
http://www.arsenal.com/news/re...emier-reserve-league

This is par for the course and nothing new for Barcelona or Real Madrid.  They both have been bailed out by local government on more than one occasion.  Yet here they are tapping up other clubs players waving around money they dont have and then have the gall to say the media attention ups the price of players.  Well then dont use the media as your personal tool to tap up players then .

Barca had to be forced to pay the remaining on Overmars way back and Madrid for Anelka.  They take the lions share of spains tv revenue as well something like 80% as well between them.

Yet you dont hear a peep from Platini or Blatter about it.

Evening Capt
I didn't know that about Overmars but nowt surprises me with them and their dodgy finances. Real Madrid have been bankrolled by the govt since Franco and Barca get payment from the Catalonia equivalent of the Council Tax. It's shambolic that they are allowed to get away with this.
I've sent you a pm btw

You won't be hearing a peep from platini for bit!

Yea I knew about that when I wrote it. GJ.

I cant see it veggie.  How do you get into your pms anyway i cant see an option for that or am i missing something?

Just put your pointer over the Livecloud logo at the top and it should give you a drop down menu. Just click on your dialogues

I'm gonna try and get to watch the Baggies next season.

GJ bet you're glad Kris Boyd signed for the Boro.

Darlo  Where you been hiding?
Nice to see you here

I had dialog blocked for people who werent on my buddie list sorry so i think thats why i didnt get it.  changed now.

Lol it's not appearing on my dialogue list, maybe I need to resend it.
It's only a sweary picture