Sentiment and speculation: Delph and Martin O´Neill

I don´t think I can completely agree with what Doc posted yesterday. Don´t get me wrong, the feeling was fantastic but I´d swap Lerner in a heartbeat for someone willing to put a few quid into the club.

It isn´t that Lerner hasn´t put in a few quid and I love the mosaic, but had he given O´Neill some proper money to spend we would have been in the Champions League by now and if he doesn´t start giving proper money soon it won´t be long before others start referring to him as just another Doug Ellis.

But, the mosaic is nice, the PR is fantastic and the sentiment is great but we would all swap for success because ultimately that is what supporting a football team is about.

But we are not here to talk about that today we are here to talk about Fabian Delph and if you believe the papers we have had a bid turned down.

I believe the papers today and it wouldn´t surprise me if he was fairly close to the top of the Martin O´Neill wish list and talking about the manager, he has spoken.

Martin O´Neill
We have lost a couple of players - Gareth has gone and Martin has had to quit so there are obvious and immediate replacements that we are looking to bring in.

I am hoping we will be able to add to the squad over the next couple of weeks.

I loe Martin O´Neill almost as much as I love my wife, my son, my vegetable patch and almost as much as I love brown sauce, but all this ´hope´ is start to frustrate.

I´m going swimming. Back in two hours with ´hopefully´ news of a signing.