Happiness Is a Warm Gun

Now that I live in the States, it should come as no surprise to you that being able to get my hands on a big-fuck-off-weapon is really not that hard at all. Virginia, for instance, has open air markets where you can easily get a hold of a shooter. Tomorrow in fact, I may venture into the Virginia countryside and do just that, in an attempt to blow my head off to rid myself of the memory of the absolute tragedy that was the closing day of the transfer window.

Now, I'm not one of those Johnny-come-latelys who is all too bothered about signing as many players as possible for ridiculous sums of money, which seems to be all too a la mode is the Prem nowadays. Man City for instance decided to blow £34m on Robinho today, now in my books no one is worth that much, and I'll renew my call for a salary and transfer fee cap in light of seeing the old British transfer fee record broken twice within about an hour (Berbatov being the second). But I am very angry that our dear Linda was let go. The official site states that Linda handed in a transfer request due to family reasons...apparently his misses couldn't settle in down south, and if this is true then fair enough - Linda was a good servant, and sometimes these things happen. But this surely has to have some spin on it somewhere - if Linda was so set to venture back up North, then why wasn't this transfer request honoured a lot sooner? Why didn't we sell him a week or two ago and give ourselves a bit of time to go out and replace him? Didn't he just sign a new 5 year contract with us this summer? And why did we play him on Saturday when we could have used that opportunity to blood more youngsters? This last fact makes me believe that the wake between Curbs and the board may be more like a tidal wave with both Anton and Linda taken from right under his nose.

So now not only have we just ousted our second best player according to the HOTY awards last season, but we also have no recognised left-back. And whilst I don't care if we really challenge for the Champs League or not within the next 4 years (or even Europe in general, although it would be nice!), if you're the board and you've come public with that statement, then you have to ask yourselves what have you done to actualise this ambition? I'm not saying go out and splash a ludicrous amount of cash on Robinho, but bloody hell at least keep a hold of the talent we have.

On a lighter note though, we no longer have selection problems for our back four, we only have four fit so we know who'll be playing!

Best of luck to you Linda, you'll be missed.