kick it off

It''s an interesting topic, but I''m not convinced it actually would benefit the England team to be honest. Do you want England players playing against the best in the world week in/week out or do you want more of them playing in a diluted talent pool? The Turkish league is seen by most to be weak and they have a pretty strict cap on foreign players - 6 foreign players allowed per club, but their national team is pretty good so maybe it does work?

[quote user="Joanna Grey"][quote user="Indy"]A bit of racist sterio typintg there Joanna, might be looked at as poor taste![/quote] By whom? [/quote]By anyone who is Polish or has Polish heritage like me.It was poor taste, put your Daily Mail down, and you might see it''s a rather silly scapegoat as most economic migrants have gone home now anyway.

Won the Swiss League twice with Zurich and went to Hertha for 3 years after before Cesena according to Wiki. I have to say I dont know too much about him at all but on complete face value he sounds like he''d be a fairly good acquisition.

This season I went to see Brazil vs Ukraine at Pride Park in Derby. Saw Pato score right in front of us and a Dani Alves stunning volley across the goal and in off the post from a far post cross at the other end.

Rudolph - I actually Lol''ed at that! Genius

Rum Ol... The kit last season was pretty different imo?

Give peas - i have the page open ready to order, but not committing funds til the missus gives the OK (whipped or what?!). I found It''s easier to go onto the online shop from the Canaries.co.uk homepage link, then click on the shirt from there. Hope that helps!

I think kit looks good. I''ll be buying it. Might even order today. You can still buy last season''s kit but only in sizes XL up for whoever asked that - £15 from the online shop. Shame as I guess they won''t have any more in, and I wanted last season''s kit too but as a S/M, an XL will drown me!! That is ongoing by the way - anyone hears of one up for sale let me know!!

CaptnCanary - I thought the exact same thing - you can only see a split second but Simeon''s joy looks pretty genuine, think he must''ve been stood there for a while!!

Looks great - cheers CUSDP.

Speaking of high-profile transfers - the reported £6.6mill Man U got from Villareal for Giuseppe Rossi looks a good bit of business from the Spanish side as he is off to Barca for £30mill + next week!!

Andy Carroll was worth about £8-10mill in this market imo. £35mill for a player who had scored 12 goals in 42ish Prem games prior to the transfer. What a joke. For the money they have spent - Liverpool could have built a far superior squad to what they have. When you think Van Der Vaart cost Spurs about £7-8mill, kinda puts it in perspective. Although I think they got a good deal on Suarez to be fair. Great little, player who will be worth £40mill + in a few years.

Ridiculous sum. Liverpool determined to pay at least 3 x any players value even in this inflated market! What worries me is Ngog as part of the deal moves Pacheco up in the pecking order...? :s

Marc (Great) Bircham can be added to the list

My Gran used to live in Carleton Rode... Carlton Palmer? Or does the spelling disqualify him?

and maybe Jacko''s first City goal I think vs Swansea (H) to make it 2-0 in the early days of the season - Holt''s cross and a great finish off the bar.

I have to say, I think whilst this includes our most important goals, I think Simeon vs Derby (number2) should surely have been in there rather than Pacheco or R. Martin

Yellow Blood - hot off the Wikipedia presses - Daniel Pacheco Lobato Date of birth 5 January 1991 (age 20)

**Correction - it says: "I would be interested in rejoining them"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3621664/Norwich-win-the-race-to-sign-Bradley-Johnson.html Article is about Brad Johnson but one line "quote" from Lansbury at the bottom says "I would consider rejoining them (us)". Would love for this to be true. Lansbury would be a great addition on loan or perm.

I think the new kit being Errea is pretty much nailed on now. Skysports reported last night Buckley is signed, sealed delivered to Brighton - move completed - Record ever fee of £1mill - I''d say Bennett is nailed on too and expect the announcement either today or tomorrow with the kit news.... (http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12875_6968702,00.html)

Sign him up now. That boy is a steal at the figures quoted. He genuinely can pull the trigger from anywhere. What a prospect!

I just tweeted Michael J Bailey on the subject of whether we will get an extra surprise, who replied to say "It''s scheduled as a chat with Morison and Paul, I''d be highly surprised if another seat were out". Sounds like it''s just Morison then :)

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2011/06/02/donegal-news-in-very-brief/ Sounds legit. Nice to see us operating pro-actively in the youth department as well as the first team squad.

Another former canary playing too - Efan Ekoku - what a hero he was.