we have paid £5m, and the rest is dependant on other things/performance etc, at least thats what we announced to the stock exchange when we exchanged contracts with the russian on friday, fact.

and why have you steamed in with your owen point????

remind me again, did bellamy have a clause or not?? im pretty sure it was you that gave me a load of grief swearing blind that he didnt? cant quite remember how that one turned out??

Presume the words "is Bellamy" are missing from between "year" and "took". No doubt you'll understand, he did the same to you lot.

And as for Duff, £5m seems a decent price, looks like you've got a decent deal down to Abramovich. But if you are ever heading towards an injury crisis Duffers hamstrings will have their own treatment table reserved.

Can't see why you feel your lot will finish above Rovers this coming season. Got anything better than "because we will?"

Come on son, speak.

for starters, he didnt do the same to us, we kicked him out, im confident he would still be playing for us now if we hadnt.

i just feel that we are stronger than you, or we will be when we finish our shopping.

we get loads of grief for our defence but im pretty sure our goals against column wasnt to dis-similar to yours???

you have replaced bellamy with franny jeffers/jason roberts. i do rate roberts but jeffers is a joke, and kuqi is ###### as well. however, i will reserve judgement on the forwards when we bring ours in, but with talk of klose/ ashton/ defoe, any one of them will mean that we have a stronger attack than you lot in my opinion.

i feel our goalkeeper is better than yours (although friedel is very good) and i also feel that we are stronger in the middle with duff, zoggy, emre, parker, milner and solano to choose from.

time will tell though, as i have said earlier we could argue this point all night, the fact is, neither of us know, but i am confident of finishing ahead of rovers, i feel you will struggle to live up to last year, just an opinion though.

Nice result in the intertoto mate.

Prestigious competition that. of course being about £90m in debt, any prize money would be welcome, eh?

Let's compare notes at the end of the season eh?

yeah, lets. this argument could go on forever, but neither of us know what will happen.

as for the £90m debt, man utd have got £660m, i suppose they are going to 'do a leeds' as well???

its not the debt mate, its how it is financed and structured, but i wouldnt expect you to understand that.

hows bellamy doing??

you have seen your managers record with clubs havent you?

Finish 7th get relegated - finsih 7th get relegated

Where did you finish last season??

yeah, thats right, we will get relegated

p.s, who else did glenn finish 7th with and then take down??

hate to burst your bubble lads, but we revealed yesterday that we only paid £5m for him.

hell of a deal.

we are expected to unveil our new forward on thursday, so watch this space.

and as for you finishing ahead of us next season

the only reason you did it last year took a huge pay cut in order to get out of your club, he couldnt (Please don't use that word again) off quick enough

all the best eh

A cheeky bid for N'Zogbia is in order methinks. Cracking player.

aye right, the lad has arsene wenger after him so bburn would have a chance.

wake up son

the whole ranking thing is a joke, its based on a points scheme ( i think) on how many games you have won (european) over the past few years, last year we were ranked second by one system! it makes no sense!

we turned over teams like sochauex and olympiakos, eindhoven and even teams like juventus but how can we be ranked higher than teams who have won champs league games and won their respective leagues??? its stupid.

thats why teams like ipswich are higher than rovers!

at the end of the day rovers should be seeded ahead of us, hence you finishing 6th in the league and us 7th and hopefully entering via the uefa cup, but it doesnt work that way.

chelsea arnt seeded for next season chumps league yet man utd are??

its daft