Today's Express is leading with a story that Shinawatra has/is about to transfer-list the whole squad. I've only saw the headline on Setanta's preview of the next days papers, so can't and wouldn't really like to vent my spleen just yet, but i'm guessing (if true, and these things do have to be taken with a pinch) it's in retaliation to their support for the manager. I don't even want to begin to imagine what the atmosphere must be like behind the scenes now, it can't go on. An early guess would be that it's a reaction to the result at Boro and the possible standoff between the board and the players about the summer trip. You'd hope that someone in such a position would have people around him screaming the obvious at him, but i expect he listens to nobody but himself. It would be such a shame to throw all this away now. We're two or three players off having a really top side, one that could perhaps cement a top six place, maybe more over the next few years, but we MUST keep our best players, and we MUST have harmony between senior figures at all levels of the football club. I can see how he might want to throw his weight around, if i can put my allegiances to one side for a minute i think i probably would had i invested so much money in a club, but lets have a bit of common and start conducting outselves with a bit of pride, eh? Even if Sven isn't in charge, which is a situation that i'm beginning to not be absolutely against after all that's happened, lets get the bloody house in order, top to bottom, stop all this nonsense, stop the waiting, stop the politics, either sack or get 100% behind the manager, get smiles back on the faces of key players and them hopefully signing new deals, and lets get prepared to move forward, as unorthodox a way as we're going about it. This is all bollocks, and the type of 'typical City' stuff that we (perhaps naively) thought we were now past.