Yeah but surely he is injured at present?
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Mad, completely mad, this is from an earlier report about Sturridge going to Newcastle, bet the same terms will apply to West Brom…
Newcastle will pay a loan fee of about £1.5m and cover the player’s wages of £120,000 per week.
I think the “at present” bit is superfluous.
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Pleonasm??
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I’m going to go with tautology again. Certainly, a phrase such as “the injured Daniel Sturridge” would be a tautology.
Must be a world record reply time.
Definitely Pleonasm though…
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This post states the obvious, but also misses the point that clubs are in for Pelle, we we’re in for Walcott.
We are smalltime, fucking hell.
Well fuck off and go and support a big club…seems all you care about.
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Right @fowllyd I need to get this straight;
Tautology is using different words in succesion that mean the same thing, e.g; ‘‘that twat Bletch is a cunt’’ - Twat=Bletch=cunt, 3 words with the same meaning.
But pleonasm is using words that arent necessary and don’t mean the same but one is implied by the other, e.g. ‘‘Bletch’s arrival at the pub caused a mass exodus.’’ - Exodus already implies ‘a lot’ so the ‘mass’ is not really needed.
Is that about right?
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Pretty much. Tautology is generally defined as saying the same thing twice, but in different ways. For example “I saw Bletch the other day - he looked a right cunt in that flowery shirt” would be a clear tautology (in fact, it’s several in one go), as would “I nearly got run over by some cunt in a Range Rover”.
Pleonasm is redundancy or superfluity - examples would be “most favourite” or “he killed him dead”. So “mass exodus” would indeed be a pleonasm, and a commonly used one to boot.
I suppose the main distinction is that tautology, or its alleged use, is normally used for comic effect (as in “that wanker Bletch, if you’ll pardon the tautology”) whereas pleonasm isn’t.
Thinking about it, it’s a pretty fine distinction.
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You can stand down your speeding fucking armadillo fowllyd:
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What’s he fecking saying? Ge-o Garit-choo?
bless you
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So obvious you can’t grasp it.
but also misses the point that clubs are in for Pelle,
More fool them and you appear to be suggesting we should go for a player just because others are showing interest.
we we’re in for Walcott.
4 years younger, playing competitive football and about a 1/3rd of the wages.
Which one do you think is a bigger risk?
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Cunts
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How’d you like that tortoise?
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You been sniffing the barmaid’s apron again - and on a school night?
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Quincy getting Saints twitter all in a tizzy last night…
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Nice to see something I had thought about pop up from MoPe,
The masses baying for Gabbi to start, my comment that he seemed off the pace against Spurs (he needs game time cried the mass) his blackened sunken eyes concern me greaty in terms of health/fitness
And then this
“I don’t know anything about his situation, or about speculation, but I would like Manolo to keep him, to try to recover his best level, but he has to train hard, he has to be ready and try to help the team when the team need him,” he said.
Something not quite right there methinks, equally even off the bench we need him until Obi Wan or another nipper is ready next season for the bench role
Full interview
Equally the masses insist MoPe has no idea what is going on
Mauricio Pellegrino has played down reports that Manolo Gabbiadini will leave Saints before the end of the month.
Gabbiadini has been heavily linked with a loan move to Bologna after finding game time hard to come by at St Mary’s.
Saints have completed a club record deal for Guido Carrillo, but with Charlie Austin sidelined can ill afford to let another striker leave with Gabbiadini and Shane Long the only frontline alternatives.
Pellegrino said: “I don’t think so.
“This morning I was talking with Les. Every day we are talking about some news in the market, about how we have the possibility for some players to leave and some to try and bring in but nobody told me anything about Manolo.
“He’s an important player for us.
“He’s not playing too much right now but is one of our main strikers, our main players, and I want to keep him.”
Pellegrino, who also dismissed speculation linking Saints with a loan move for Tottenham youngster Kyle Walker-Peters, was also quizzed on the possibility of Quincy Promes joining from Spartak Moscow and replied: “It’s all speculation.
“Obviously we have been working with many players to bring players with capacity, with quality.
“It is not easy but we will keep pushing and we are not sure until the end what will happen with us.”
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