3 hours ago, neophox said:

Andres Iniesta would had been  gem on a free transfer.

Since the Chinese club in for him is offering 2 million bottles of wine, perhaps 1 million pints of thwaites might swing it.

Can't wait until Ipswich take the champions league by storm.

10 minutes ago, BiggusMickus said:

It'll give him another "black people aren't getting jobs cause football's racist" to bleat about in the press when he doesn't get the job anyway. Not because football's racist, but because he's obviously crap.

This. He's an arrogant twerp who plays the race card at every opportunity. Failed to be London mayor? London is racist. Not being offered a premier league manager's job? Football is racist. Not being England captain, and getting 200 caps? The fa and fans are racist. I'm surprised if it wasn't him defacing the Steven Lawrence memorial as it takes the attention away from his perceived struggles!

PPV is a joke for this fight, but if there are enough muppets who big up Fury like he's Ali and hate Joshua, then I can understand cashing in. 

14 minutes ago, Gav said:

Couldn't agree more.

They brought in Walter Zenga to start off with after bombing Lambert out of the club when he refused to sign players he'd never seen, and Walter failed miserably.

Wolves will fail, its only a matter of time.  

 

Thanks Gav. I thought I was the only one who didn't go for the Wolves/Mendes love in. It's like the name Jerome Anderson has been forgotten by some.

15 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Not so sure. Depends whether the Chinese are genuinely interested in football and building something or whether they're only in it for short term publicity and because the agent sold them a dream that they bought into. It could go either way but the evidence so far is they have a lot of money to invest, are going to do it regardless of the pathetic FFP rules, and aren't bothered what people or the authorities think about it.

There's no reason we couldn't do what they have done these last 2 seasons, by which I mean spend massive money, build a very strong side and stroll to promotion to the Premier League but we haven't got the brainpower or determination to do it.

If it is a mutually beneficial arrangement whereby they can promote their company, develop Wolves overseas and Mendes meanwhile gets to move his players around then everyone wins, meanwhile the Wolves fans are delighted just to be remotely successful after nothing of note for decades and the media love them because they've got loads of fancy foreigners playing 'good football' which is always preferred over British players and managers doing it the old fashioned way.

It may indeed work out, but we all know the risks of letting an agent more or less run the club. It also takes money of of the teams' pockets as the agent will want millions in fees of all kinds, and would be happy to unsettle the club's top players if a really big club is interested. When you have the president of Sporting Lisbon saying he has no idea who owns his players, surely 3rd party ownership is suspicious.

 https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/03/sporting-lisbon-bruno-de-carvalho-pressure-third-party-ownership-rojo
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/doyen-sports-wins-legal-dispute-with-sporting-lisbon-over-compensation-claim-for-transfer-of-maros-a6787046.html
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2014/09/10/5096091/sporting-lisbon-president-rages-against-third-party-monster
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-brazil-ownership/brazil-bans-third-party-ownership-in-line-with-fifa-rules-idUKKBN0KM2EY20150113

Whilst outright 3rd party ownership of players has been banned by the EU and FIFA, this set up with an agent and a foreign owner is a way around that. It's probably what Big Sam was caught talking about that brief moment he was England manager. Wolves will be like one of those ants that has been infected with a mind controlling fungus.

Wolves will end in tears one day. Either the agent will get bored and foist too many Myles Anderson types, or the agent and the owner will fall out over 'consultancy fees' and suchlike and the Chinese owners pull the plug.

Great if it did, but I think it'll take a pretty long time unless that gobshite agent who has his hand up Paul Pogba's bum decides to join in with some takeover from a foreign trillionaire. 

1 hour ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

By good feeling I mean mid table with hopefully a play-off push. I would see that as huge progress 

Sad, isn't it? 

 

Yep, but two consecutive promotions, and then ending up about 10th in the Premier League (and thus reversing Venky's reign of terror) is too much to ask for. 

Don't do it to yourself BDS. Next season, I'd be happy with mid table mediocrity and really happy with a play off push.

The fat sexist homophobe is coming back!!

As we all know you're only an interview away from an Owen Coyle.

Seems to have been confirmed.

Which GF does that? I presume it'll take up one of those 4 abilities you can do.

I hope not. The random encounters annoyed means you'd be trying to either find or avoid battles and it would be annoying. I'd try and fit all the different monsters in, and perhaps put a couple more new ones as well. With the extra computing power since 1997 there's no reason that you can't have them roaming around. Especially since it'll be over 3 games. 

On 4/6/2018 at 16:06, DE. said:

I also assume some enemies will be missing from the remake. Remember Hell House? 

And frankly, I do not want to see this definition of nightmare fuel in a remake:

In fact the whole ShinRa mansion in Nibelheim would just be horrifically creepy with improved graphics quality. It was unsettling enough in the original game.

I liked Hell House because of it's weird lame looks. I can imagine the designers thinking "well we've got the zombie ones done,  and those dudes that look like hedgehogs, what would be completely unexpected." "I know, a robot that's like a house that's had a jumbo jet has crash into it." And there are some monsters like Ying/Yang that would be fantastic in the remake, along with all the WEAPONS and Hojo monsters.

You can turn one of those Raspberry Pi jobbies into an old console that covers the various machines over this period. I get ads for it on my facebook page. I'm not sure I would though, as I worked for Unipart in 2016, and they used those machines in part of the process to test Sky boxes after they have been fixed, and they were fairly temperamental. When they went down, it took hours for the technician guy to connect them back up again. 

Anyway, let's indulge in nostalgia a bit more. It's hard to believe this was revolutionary once.

Though I preferred this one:

That's more consoles than I can think of. If I won the Euromillions, I'd have a room with that sort of list, though I would throw out a couple of the duplicate machines. Completely forgot the Panasonic 3D0 and Philips CDi existed. I think you're only missing the Atari Jaguar, the Neo Geo and the one Commodore made then you'll have all of them. Being in my mid to late 30's, I grew up in Hong Kong during the 90's and Mega Drive games were half the price they were in the UK, and you could get some really crap games like Slaughter Sport or World Cup 92 (sic). And the shops sold gadgets that you could copy the cartridge onto the 3.5 inch floppy disks with the metal catch. Completely illegal, but no-one gave a crap until armed police raided the shop.

I apologise that this has nothing to do with new games, but it's not often you hear of someone owning a Panasonic 3D0. It's like finding out someone has a laser disk player with all sorts of weird Japanese programmes like Ultra man.

Yeah, I stopped buying consoles after the PS 2. Didn't really have the money, and the games I had were good enough. I'm the sort to use something until it breaks rather than just throw something away as the new thing is brought out. I liked the licensing system that is on FF 12, but FF 8's set up was way too convoluted and complex. I've not really got into 9 or 10 yet, but I'll start those once I finish 12. 

FF 12 is worth a go. I only have a PS 2, so I missed out on the later ones. I read the remake will skip the cross dressing bit to get into the gangster's house, so it'll probably be a bit more PC (if you excuse the pun) so the screaming outrage idiots who find Friends offensive won't complain and cry on social media. I normally have a theme with the name, so one time it was figures from the French revolution, another time they were all Nazis.......

Is FF 15 good? I've only played 7,8 and 12.

I wonder if we can get a team going? From the Premier league era onwards, mine would be:

Fettis

Orr/Peacock/Dailly/Anderson

Murphy/Grella/Etuhu

Fowler/Varney/Brown

I have probably forgotten many more worthy candidates, so there may be a 'better' team to be made.

Especially if they end up with a gimp like Coyle or McClaren offering to do it on the cheap.

Blubbing because they got caught,that's all. Typical bullies swaggering about when they're on top and then go to pieces when they get found out, and are standing with their pants down.

I hope they get stick when they return. Cricket Australia actually stood up to the issue.

Probably had a scouse agent.