Yngwie

Surely the explanation for these apparent contradictions is simply that there are people who know that they will be leaving shortly, but at this moment in time are still employees of the club.

I've never thought about this before, but what is the word for someone who is not disillusioned? Illusioned?

Whenever I see anything about New Zealand and football, I always think back to Scotland putting 5 past them in the 1982 World Cup, and then taking the lead against Brazil, but still failing to get out of the group on goal difference. :D

One of my all time favourite managers. B)

Brechin pencilled in on my calendar.

Do you think they are amongst IHE's "all time favourites"? Actually, do you think before you post?

OK, enough. Thread closed.

We've known for almost a year that Marius was pursuing ICT for transfer related fees, but I'm not sure if we've ever seen details of what exactly is being claimed. Sunday Times reports first of all that Inverness Sheriff Court will rule "imminently" regarding ?85,000, which is the part of his signing on fee that he claims ICT never paid him. Secondly, an action is with FIFA regarding ?148,800 he claims is his share of the transfer fee to Dinamo Bucaresti. The same article reports that he is up for sale, after his club finished 3rd and missed out on a Champions League place. As Stevico mentioned recently, Celtic are supposedly interested, but Liege and 3 Russian teams are perhaps more likely buyers. I seem to recall that we agreed a straight transfer fee rather than one with a sell-on clause, which is a shame when a 7 figure transfer is being talked about.

Offer him ?2,000 a week but with a 10% deduction for each mistake, out of position, fresh air swipe etc.

Not quite true. He says he was contacted, that's all. If he was offered contracts by them he would have said so.

Matt Elliot.

Yep, they have been saved. This Len Blavatnik is a megarich Russian American who profited from Russian oil markets opening up. He's also been the biggest shareholder in TopUp TV for years - another seriously struggling venture. Maybe there is money to be made from these investments in the long term, but maybe he also fancies himself as a media tycoon. It's reported that he's paying ?20m for 51% of Setanta. A year or two ago Setanta's shareholders were trying to sell the company, and there was plenty of interest but they priced themselves out of a deal, looking for ?1bn for it. Big mistake.

Have to? Are you a jockey or a horse?

The only thing funnier than England being terrible and getting knocked out of a tournament is England having a great team and still getting knocked out.

It's basically Aviemore.

The website says "they have agreed a deal in principle". He hasn't actually signed. The club would have to be pretty confident that he's joining for them to put it on the website.

I'm sure one of our resident taxi drivers can answer that one for you. But as I recall it, all forms of transport increased their prices when the cost of fuel went through the roof. Since then diesel has fallen by over 20%, but all transport prices seem to have stayed up.

Birdog sets it up, Yngwie taps it in.

Not a flute pandemic?

Phew, our games can go ahead then.

The Africa one is not as ludicrous as most of your ideas. I'm sure there are plenty of players who would do well in Div 1, and higher. I guess the reasons clubs don't plunder the African leagues are : 1) Work permit problems 2) High risk of player not settling, due cultural issues, language and weather 3) Anyone decent usually goes to a French or Belgian club (same language, colonnial connections, friends and family there, easy to get a dual nationality passport and avoid work permit) 3) You have to make very dodgy payments to very dodgy people

:019: You've made my day!

Just making a reference to the acrimony, not blaming anyone.

Don't feel sorry for them, they have their eyes on winning the Champions League. From BBC article:

Depends. Is it 3m pounds, euros or Zimbabwean dollars? I'm sure he'd just love doing business with our Board again.