Call me a dreamer, but I like to imagine Lomtadze huddled in front of a screen in his bunker in Astana watching Wanderers TV every week - leaping for joy when the winner went in on Tuesday and swearing on everything he owns that Kone is never for sale.
He is a manager of another club looking to immediately improve his awful squad with players he has worked with. Some people seem to be very thin-skinned and some of them are the ones who were saying, move on, it's business and there is no room for sentimentality.
'No, sorry I cannot consider preventing relegation for this club by bidding a lot of your money for a player from my old team or it will disappoint the Gasroom and @Konetheming will say ';mr wycobe your havin a laugh'
If Gareth had gone to a club where they said here's 10 million buy who you want...I suspect there would have been a lot of tear stained keyboards as his legacy visibly tarnished...
It is mad to think that only 18 months ago any one of our players could have probably had a £500k bid offered and we'd have sold up without question...
Not worried about Kone going to Luton. Genuinely believe he will stay with us if we go up, and if we don't he can have the pick of any Championship club (and Luton will be in L1 anyway). There will be a number of high flying Championship teams keeping very close tabs on the king between now and end of the season.
This process with Luton suggests that there is no actual negotiation going on. It's simply a question of them suggesting a number and us saying no. If we were TRULY motivated to sell we would have fed back that number by now.
And also all these massive numbers are UP TO. So that is x up front plus. And who knows what the make up of that plus could be. Luton winning the Champions League? We can get excited about the big number but if it is £2.5 million thats the number, plenty of clubs get stiffed with add ons (including us).
And as for Matt's role in all of this he has said the board do the transfers. If you were in the sh1t and needed goals then it make sense to go after the hottest property you think you can afford. I am sure Matt is not sat there thinking how he can ruin my day. He probably feels a pang of discomfort I am sure. Saving Luton and seeing his team of 20 odd years get promoted in one season would be a joy for him. And if it happened I would happily put him on the open top Transit van as it drove past Stewart and Arnold as part of it's victory route.
@TheDancingYak the zebra crossing and the black and white poll with the orange bit on the top are different things. Everton mints and their wrappers are also notable for their being separate items. Is Richard Kone’s torso actually Oxford and Cambridge blue under that football shirt? That is as yet unknown.
Who would not want a winners medal, safe in the knowledge you will be playing Championship football next year either with us or someone who's paid a vast sum for your services? I think Kone will stay. I say again, the constant 'disappointment' in MB for trying to do the best job he can for his new employers I find as risible as Rice laughing diabolically when he sees the Luton number come up on his phone.
(I did consider a "shut the f up kadonny quote", but realised half the thread wouldn't realise it's a "witty" edit of a quote from the same film you're quoting from and not an @Alexo style explosion of rudeness , so went safe instead).
He's probably looking at that league table doing the rounds on Twitter ranking English clubs by the wealth of their owners which puts us 16th next to Spurs.
Hahaha he chuckles, I'll soon have a football team that is 16th in the Premier League that cost almost nothing, save for a few million on an academy and a willingness to wait a few years,
Kone gets us into the Championship and being in the Championship makes the academy look good. That's why we aren't selling him. Not because Lommy adds 0.1% to his wealth if he does.
High Chaparral, Alias Smith and Jones, even the bloody Waltons and whatever film was on if it was in Technicolour. Who knew the sky in America was always blue!
On absolutely no evidence I think Kone will end up with West Ham.
He appears to be a better player with each passing week and it would be a shame for him (I think) to go to a club like Luton who it is hard to see being Premier bound in the near future. If he does go to Luton it will be that he feels he owes something to MB who, to be fair, seems to be primarily responsible for cultivating an unknown, raw talent into a player who is already in the multi-million pound bracket.
I know I talk about Twitter a fair bit on here, and get the same response, but the state of some of the replies on the Exeter feed about Hartridge are just downright disrespectful. It’s not something that surprises me but man, there’s just no need. Be happy for the lad and keep scrolling. Proper trolls.
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Call me a dreamer, but I like to imagine Lomtadze huddled in front of a screen in his bunker in Astana watching Wanderers TV every week - leaping for joy when the winner went in on Tuesday and swearing on everything he owns that Kone is never for sale.
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He is a manager of another club looking to immediately improve his awful squad with players he has worked with. Some people seem to be very thin-skinned and some of them are the ones who were saying, move on, it's business and there is no room for sentimentality.
'No, sorry I cannot consider preventing relegation for this club by bidding a lot of your money for a player from my old team or it will disappoint the Gasroom and @Konetheming will say ';mr wycobe your havin a laugh'
If Gareth had gone to a club where they said here's 10 million buy who you want...I suspect there would have been a lot of tear stained keyboards as his legacy visibly tarnished...
It is mad to think that only 18 months ago any one of our players could have probably had a £500k bid offered and we'd have sold up without question...
Not worried about Kone going to Luton. Genuinely believe he will stay with us if we go up, and if we don't he can have the pick of any Championship club (and Luton will be in L1 anyway). There will be a number of high flying Championship teams keeping very close tabs on the king between now and end of the season.
This process with Luton suggests that there is no actual negotiation going on. It's simply a question of them suggesting a number and us saying no. If we were TRULY motivated to sell we would have fed back that number by now.
And also all these massive numbers are UP TO. So that is x up front plus. And who knows what the make up of that plus could be. Luton winning the Champions League? We can get excited about the big number but if it is £2.5 million thats the number, plenty of clubs get stiffed with add ons (including us).
And as for Matt's role in all of this he has said the board do the transfers. If you were in the sh1t and needed goals then it make sense to go after the hottest property you think you can afford. I am sure Matt is not sat there thinking how he can ruin my day. He probably feels a pang of discomfort I am sure. Saving Luton and seeing his team of 20 odd years get promoted in one season would be a joy for him. And if it happened I would happily put him on the open top Transit van as it drove past Stewart and Arnold as part of it's victory route.
@TheDancingYak the zebra crossing and the black and white poll with the orange bit on the top are different things. Everton mints and their wrappers are also notable for their being separate items. Is Richard Kone’s torso actually Oxford and Cambridge blue under that football shirt? That is as yet unknown.
Everything before 1969 was black and white
Who would not want a winners medal, safe in the knowledge you will be playing Championship football next year either with us or someone who's paid a vast sum for your services? I think Kone will stay. I say again, the constant 'disappointment' in MB for trying to do the best job he can for his new employers I find as risible as Rice laughing diabolically when he sees the Luton number come up on his phone.
Not really Blooms though is it; he has told his club owner & DoF who his targets are and they are the ones making the bids etc.
Yes, although I'd be very surprised if he wasn't persisting they push for Kone. Time to give up, Matty.
Yeah, well, that's just your opinion man....
I have memories of visiting my grandparents in the mid 80’s and watching snooker on their old black and white tv.
Did you only ever catch the very end of the frame?
Penguins have great and yellow involved as well.
I'd argue zebra crossings are more grey and white than black too. Also they have a yellow light at each end too.
This will not stand man
(I did consider a "shut the f up kadonny quote", but realised half the thread wouldn't realise it's a "witty" edit of a quote from the same film you're quoting from and not an @Alexo style explosion of rudeness , so went safe instead).
He's probably looking at that league table doing the rounds on Twitter ranking English clubs by the wealth of their owners which puts us 16th next to Spurs.
Hahaha he chuckles, I'll soon have a football team that is 16th in the Premier League that cost almost nothing, save for a few million on an academy and a willingness to wait a few years,
Kone gets us into the Championship and being in the Championship makes the academy look good. That's why we aren't selling him. Not because Lommy adds 0.1% to his wealth if he does.
Sadly not. The old phrase “if you’re watching in black and white, the yellow ball is next to the blue” was very real and very painful.
I recall when we first got a colour telly we would literally watch anything that was on just because it was in colour...
The High Chaparral - where the grass looked very yellow.
I didn’t realise Bagpuss was pink until 1982.
High Chaparral, Alias Smith and Jones, even the bloody Waltons and whatever film was on if it was in Technicolour. Who knew the sky in America was always blue!
On absolutely no evidence I think Kone will end up with West Ham.
He appears to be a better player with each passing week and it would be a shame for him (I think) to go to a club like Luton who it is hard to see being Premier bound in the near future. If he does go to Luton it will be that he feels he owes something to MB who, to be fair, seems to be primarily responsible for cultivating an unknown, raw talent into a player who is already in the multi-million pound bracket.
That Matt really tied the gasroom together.
(Too soon?)
The world turned to colour in January 1970 with episode 1 of Spearhead From Space. FACT
who knew the (terrifying) ‘Singing Ringing Tree’ was in colour, as was Thunderbirds!
Oh, I see Matt Butcher has gone to the horse punchers on loan.
Hartridge has gone on loan to Exeter. Good move for him.
Pleased for him - they love him down there so it must have been upsetting for him to see his big move end up so disappointingly.
I think we will end up selling him end of this season
I know I talk about Twitter a fair bit on here, and get the same response, but the state of some of the replies on the Exeter feed about Hartridge are just downright disrespectful. It’s not something that surprises me but man, there’s just no need. Be happy for the lad and keep scrolling. Proper trolls.
Yep, very clearly didn't work out at all here but sounds a great outcome for him