The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[Percy McCarthy]

I'm fairly sure that when Martin brings in the removal men to re-locate this site to the new server he'll find a considerablle number of lost marbles where the settee was.

Heard similar claims before, when I said Liverpool will drop out of the top 4... Gabby will convert from a winger and make it as a centre-forward ... Milner will make a good centre-mid...

I realise it sounds smug, but when you are called a crackpot it's very tempting to remind people of it.

[hilts_coolerking]

I'm fairly sure that when Martin brings in the removal men to re-locate this site to the new server he'll find a considerablle number of lost marbles where the settee was.

Heard similar claims before, when I said Liverpool will drop out of the top 4... Gabby will convert from a winger and make it as a centre-forward ... Milner will make a good centre-mid...

I realise it sounds smug, but when you are called a crackpot it's very tempting to remind people of it.

Can you predict 4th place next season for us please?

[hipkiss92]

I'm fairly sure that when Martin brings in the removal men to re-locate this site to the new server he'll find a considerablle number of lost marbles where the settee was.

Heard similar claims before, when I said Liverpool will drop out of the top 4... Gabby will convert from a winger and make it as a centre-forward ... Milner will make a good centre-mid...

I realise it sounds smug, but when you are called a crackpot it's very tempting to remind people of it.

Can you predict 4th place next season for us please?

and the next 5 sets of lottery numbers?

[TheSandman]

Just that?

I'd like Percy to predict us to win the Quadruple.

[hilts_coolerking]

Just that?

I'd like Percy to predict us to win the Quadruple.

The secret of successful predictions is not predicting anything outlandish.

[KevinGage]

I'm fairly sure that when Martin brings in the removal men to re-locate this site to the new server he'll find a considerablle number of lost marbles where the settee was.

Heard similar claims before, when I said Liverpool will drop out of the top 4... Gabby will convert from a winger and make it as a centre-forward ... Milner will make a good centre-mid...

I realise it sounds smug, but when you are called a crackpot it's very tempting to remind people of it.

With respect, none of those were entirely out of leftfield.

Gabby doesn't have the skill, trickery or crossing ability to make it as a winger (wasn't he a forward in the reserves and youths anyway?) but pace will always cause trouble up top. On his debut v Everton and in MON's first season he scored some very well taken goals, so it was pretty clear where his future lay.

Again Jimmy wasn't the greatest as a winger either, delivery not fantastic, no great array of skills and not blessed with blinding pace. But a good work ethic, good range of passing, can get stuck in and not afraid to shoot either. All the makings of a decent CM in other words.

Of all the clubs in the top 4 Liverpool have looked the most vulnerable for a while (last season's 2nd place finish looks increasingly like a blip). The ongoing antics of Laurel and Hardy and a deluge of crap signings by Rafa has ensured that even a team blessed with the talent of Gerrard and Torres are usually as about exciting as watching paint dry.

[hawkeye]

At the very least I think we should hold out till after the World Cup. If he has a Platty-esque tournament we'll be looking at another 10 mil on the transfer fee especially if England do well

There will be no movement on this until after the world cup.  That at least we can be sure of.

Faulkner is seeing Milner next week as Milner wants this sorted before the worls cup

[hawkeye]

I'm fairly sure that when Martin brings in the removal men to re-locate this site to the new server he'll find a considerablle number of lost marbles where the settee was.

Heard similar claims before, when I said Liverpool will drop out of the top 4... Gabby will convert from a winger and make it as a centre-forward ... Milner will make a good centre-mid...

I realise it sounds smug, but when you are called a crackpot it's very tempting to remind people of it.

i said Sidwell wasnt good enough before we signed him, i said the same thing about Downing

[Percy McCarthy]

I'm fairly sure that when Martin brings in the removal men to re-locate this site to the new server he'll find a considerablle number of lost marbles where the settee was.

Heard similar claims before, when I said Liverpool will drop out of the top 4... Gabby will convert from a winger and make it as a centre-forward ... Milner will make a good centre-mid...

I realise it sounds smug, but when you are called a crackpot it's very tempting to remind people of it.

With respect, none of those were entirely out of leftfield.

Gabby doesn't have the skill, trickery or crossing ability to make it as a winger (wasn't he a forward in the reserves and youths anyway?) but pace will always cause trouble up top. On his debut v Everton and in MON's first season he scored some very well taken goals, so it was pretty clear where his future lay.

Again Jimmy wasn't the greatest as a winger either, delivery not fantastic, no great array of skills and not blessed with blinding pace. But a good work ethic, good range of passing, can get stuck in and not afraid to shoot either. All the makings of a decent CM in other words.

Of all the clubs in the top 4 Liverpool have looked the most vulnerable for a while (last season's 2nd place finish looks increasingly like a blip). The ongoing antics of Laurel and Hardy and a deluge of crap signings by Rafa has ensured that even a team blessed with the talent of Gerrard and Torres are usually as about exciting as watching paint dry.

Yes, but when I was saying the same things 4,3 and 2 years ago respectively I was reading essays in response questioning my sanity.

[KevinGage]

Ah but Perce, who is really sane or insane.

Capello and MON see something in Heskey that the rest of us miss, yet they haven't been dragged off to Highcroft yet.

"The closer you come to insanity the deeper in life you go."  I read that somewhere once. On the menu at Pete and Bernie's Philosophical Steakhouse, I think.

[hipkiss92]

I hope O'neill is sitting at home at the moment watching th Champions League Final saying: I will sell Milner to Man City for 30 million and the go and buy Diego Milito.

[hawkeye]

So we have now worked out that it would be a good idea to have contract talks with Milner, so really pro-active management going on

[Toronto Villa]

So we have now worked out that it would be a good idea to have contract talks with Milner, so really pro-active management going on

Both parties had agreed to have a discussion after the World Cup, but with the Man City bid and all the speculation it has changed the landscape. That can happen you know, and it requires the appropriate action. Not everything the club does should be criticised.

[Monty]

What I really can't stand is that Man City are quite clearly not only trying to sign Milner because he's an excellent footballer, but also because it would weaken us, a competitor. It really is a bit vomit-worthy the way they go about things.

[Mister E]

Monty, isn't that just being competitive?

BLF: for once we agree - Delph will be a bit of a star, I think.