Burkie where are you? not seen you on here for a while hope all is ok?

i have been a longtime visitor to this site and enjoy many of the posts and banter that i see on those so i have decided to take the plunge and join you all for the upcoming season which no doubt be full of angst and special moments that only come from following our great club.

Allegedly for 500k. Is it just me who's disappointed to see him go? These youngsters should be getting game time. Who knows if this Aguerd is going to hack it in the Premier League?

all the stories about another target missed out on this time it is Ake £40 million moyes admits the bid of £50million for Raphina along with the Nunez bid of £40million so please tell me how the club can say this and keep a straight face and then plead poverty and only a small budget for this summer.

so we were willing or could of spent £130million+ in last window but now for some strange reason we have only a small budget for the summer.

Do they really expect fans to be so gullible with the names they throw out and then claim ohh we just missed out on the player lol cloud cuckoo land if you ask me.These kind of stories may massage the egos in the boardroom but realistically they make them look dumb.

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Never saw enough of this Lad to see how good he is but listening and reading to reports the club are fuming he did not sign a deal offered to him and claims he has been tapped up by at least one premier league club.

Not sure how true that is but if he was/is as talented as being touted why wait and no doubt low ball a contract for him to sign and fully expecting him to do so.....This young man has an agent agents at any level play the game and whilst i agree the club should not let itself be held to ransom by any player of any age like it or not you have to pay the going rate for a talent at the level he is right now.

Good luck to him i say if he could not see himself making it into a Moyes squad but other clubs letting you know they value you more at his age his head will be turned.This is all part of football...Clubs let players go all the time thinking they wont make the grade so why moan when a youngster wants to move on...The club will get money for him but expecting a player to hang around on the off chance of being given a go is nonsense.

Has he made a mistake? who knows a fleeting flirt with the first team not enough to convince him he would get a chance from the bench...young Freddie Sears scoring on his debut for us against Blackburn Rovers was really the last time i rmbr a kid coming through the ranks to the first team but it was clear his talent always suited to championship and lower leagues and so that is what happened to him and there is no shame in that at all.

Tony Cottee saw his debut and really he is the only striker i can think of who came through the youth and made the grade at West Ham so Sonny Perkins in a very different world to the one Cottee was in has made a decision but the reaction from the club is an overreaction because they clearly thought ohh he will just sign what we put in front of him....Ignorant and amateurish.....who decides the contracts at youth level i am not sure and again i have not seen enough of the player to make a judgement but Cullen let go Coventry? jury still out Holland was let go so why all the bitching about this Lad because he decided he would not sign a contract.

Goodness me i am a busy girl this morning waiting for my train yeah i know you have to laugh!.
So is he a winner? he says he is but personally although he is a good manager and knows what he wants i do not think he is a winner because he is to cautious and winners are never that winners have a bit of JE NE SAIS QUOI(sorry Burkie use google to translate for you xx) something sadly he can never possess.
So a winner as in silverware etc i'm sorry but this girl just does not see it.

So this is it he is out of contract and Moyes needs an answer because in this girls opinion the reason we are acting so slow in the transfer market is because Moyes wants lingard so so bad its getting rather silly.

So simply put do you want him or not? for me i say know because of his age and wage demands,we are meant to be trying to lower the age of the squad and get shot of players who were clearly earning to much compared to there ability and time spent on the pitch.

So if the board sanction this deal and then Moyes will feel justified in selling Soucek i truly think we will have a disaster of a season and then next summer Rice goes we will be left with an ageing Lingard in the middle of the park no Rice no Soucek and back to struggling as ever.

Ok so i am in the know thank you camp on lingard how about you boys?

Lingard response is deafening!!!!!! He's obviously waiting for a better offer elsewhere.......

29 years old that means in less than a year he'll be 30..(You have to get up early in the morning to beat me on maths).

So if wages are sensible, maybe it's good business after all. Still a big time Charlie though.