DIMITRIOS Konstantopoulos has extended his loan spell at Swansea City for another month.

The Greek keeper has spent the last two months at the Liberty Stadium after agreeing a move from Coventry City.

Konstantopoulos, who has made five appearances for Swansea this season, saw his loan spell end following Sunday's draw at Birmingham City but is now back among Roberto Martinez's squad.

The 29-year-old will provide competition to Dorus de Vries to become Martinez's first-choice shotstopper.

For the last month of a 3 month loan deal.

aah fu-ck!!!

We're fooked.

Not denying its truth but where was the info sourced? All I could find was an article dated 21st November 2008. There's nought on Coventry's official site or POK's favourite the beeb.

is there a link? Can't find it on Swansea's site

Beat me to it Mr P

It's from this is South Wales website got via the newsnow thingy click on Championship then Swansea

First story

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Footba ... ansea+City

Upset by the news but cheers for the link to confirm bluemonkey.

knackers.

Can't blame him for wanting to stay as high up as he can, maybe they knew of Pools' interest so they upped the ante.
If Barrett is in nets for the rest of the season we are fu-cked, simple as. Let's see what the club can do in January, because it's not looking good otherwise is it?

No thanks to Danny "happy with our keepers" Wilson.

Did anyone really think we would be getting him back ?

I was hoping.

If he was so happy with our keepers he can take them with him and we'll have Peter Brezovan in exchange.

We were all hoping,just like we're all hoping that Kylie & Cameron Diaz will knock on our doors & ask for a threesum but we're not really expecting it.

maybe Mr Gaunt's suggestion of Clayton Ince might be the way forward, he's experienced and that's what we need to get us through the season

Where is Souter? Where is the lad Cook?

Surely we can afford to pay one of our existing keepers off preferably Barrett and get someone in NOW before its too late

I would of thought with Kyle going back that money would be available for wages

[quote="Thin and Crusty"]3 different, unrelated, sources convinced me Dimi was coming back. Infact I am pretty sure negotiations took place............so its broken down somewhere.

Maybe Dimi was just TOO greedy?[/quote]


like your meal times perhaps

When will people start believing that Dimi,Tommy Miller and Boyd will not come back?

I said this ages ago and got shot down it just won't happen unless they're past it and no one else wants them

so we have to show no ambition and go for crap players?

Not at all pal its just people on here expecting us to get them. And why go for ex players all the time?

The thing i want to know is are we really in for them to begin with?

just gotta hope that what we've got can battle away to keep us up.

not too hopeful like, but keeping the old fingers and knackers crossed

We were definately interested in Dimi yes.

thats the only ex player we have been interested in for some time

if Barrett is kept in goal, we are fu-cked. That would be taking the piss. The outfield players must be appalled at the thought of him staying in goal for the rest of the season.
The Huddersfield game we got the points in spite of him - he caused us to have to score at least two goals we shouldn't have had to score that night - but the list goes way beyond that. Now the forwards aren't able to dig us out of these shit-holes caused largely by the goalie, and then the centre backs and IMO left back area -in that order of who makes the most mistakes- we are going to be lucky to get a single point in any game. A goalie constantly making mistakes, though, is disastrous.
If the club is happy with relegation this season then fair enough, but a lot of people won't be and it could cause irreparable damage so far as getting the crowds in is concerned.
We have to get a keeper in I don't care what the people who run the club think - and if they are stubborn over this then they will get what they deserve.

At least ALB is reliable...you can always rely on him to ship two goals minimum .... that's it, we're fooked... oh dear, oh dear, oh fookin dear.

Absolutely gutted about this.

I've never felt so much apathy towards Pools as I do right now. I don't even feel like going on Saturday.

Ditto.

But the transfer window is open and we might sign a couple of players before the weekend.

And pigs might fly.

And Paedo of Kent might grow a brain.

Hang on. Even if Dimi wanted to come back, which by the sounds of it he's been billy bullshit to a one or two of the posters on here who apparently speak to him now and then!!
Why should Hodcroft splash out making him the highest wage earner here when we are barely getting 3000 home fans, honestly some people believe owt on here, Boydy, Dimi, Miller etc....
give your heads a shake, we are Hartlepool United, getting one of the lowest crowds in league 1, we are stuck on the foooking freezing cold north east coast, we are doing shite in league one and we pay shite wages. Nuff said!!

Isn't that attitude exactly why our crowds have alarmingly dipped?

Our crowds have dipped because we are no longer battling it out at the top of league 1 or league 2. There is also a recession and the honeymoon period we had pre-cardiff is long gone.
We are one of 92 league clubs fighting for top 6 finishes out of each league, our squad is mediocre with only 5 or 6 players good enough to sustain league 1 football.
We are shipping goals like there is no tomorrow and our leading scorer is foooking off at the end of the season.
There's a few reasons to be pessemistic!!

Correct my little Micra driving mate

sounds like he has either been spinning yarns to his poster 'friends' or there's been a late spanner in the works by someone somewhere.

...so it's down to the weather then eh? .... and how does footy survive in the tundra north of Hartlepool? Scotland springs to mind.....

Read that so quick thought you wanted a threesome with Ms diaz and the Kyle!! Thank christ I'd misread it

Hang on. Even if Dimi wanted to come back, which by the sounds of it he's been billy bullshit to a one or two of the posters on here who apparently speak to him now and then!!
Why should Hodcroft splash out making him the highest wage earner here when we are barely getting 3000 home fans, honestly some people believe owt on here, Boydy, Dimi, Miller etc....

Maybe Hodcroft shouldn't splash out on the player mentioned above but did he not say after the last time we got relegated that it was his fault it happened and he would make sure it didn't happen again.

Well something needs to be done and quickly or the same thing will happen again and I hate to think what the crowds will be down to next season if we end up in division 4.

The club pay good wages, if you don't think £60000 a year is good, which is about the same as other clubs in this division, stop drinking turps!

Cold weather, you sound like another manager who has just scuttled away from the Vic after a scuding


Lets just give it all up then, eh???

I'm going to straw clutch for the time being, as nothing has been put on either Coventry or Swansea's websites It can't be official yet?

Perhaps he just doesn't want to come!!!

I think crowds have dropped due to the amount of negativy surrounding the club at present. Reading some of the posts on this board We're clearly all doomed and may as well just go and slit our wrists now!. OK I know things could be better and am as concerned about the lack of depth in the squad and the quality of some players as the rest but can't people just try to be a little more positive.

We have a big, attractive,game coming up against a team from the Premiership. A chance to get a big scalp and there are people on here talking about not bothering to go.

Do you have a source for this information or is it an opinion?

Didn't we lose £1.6m last year? I don't think it's the oil running dry, I think it's a tightening of belts. Our only hope of preventing similar loses this season is too not pay silly fooking huge wages and perhaps a decent cup run.


* We still don't know the percentage Pools paid of Kylie's silly fooking huge weekly wage

I'm not very optomistic about the future but IOR are still in charge, we have a 3rd round f.a. cup game on saturday which I cant wait for and things can only get better.
If we go down tough shit, we'll be back, maybe we're just a Crystal Palace type team bouncing backwards and forwards every couple of seasons, years ago we wouldn't have argued with that.

aye it's a funny old situation

If this is a problem, what the fook was pre IOR? ... let's bring in some perspective eh, we're going through a period of transition, Uncle Ken is securing the ship for a lumpy passage but the ship aint sinking. ffs ..... CHEER UP.

Yup ..I had some ice in my diet coke.

Hold on a minute ever thought Pools maybe dont want to sign him back.

Just a thought like.

thats a radical view

I just want us to sign a goalkeeper and a striker better than what we have, but I wont be too despondent if Budz is in goal, I will however worry where the goals might come from!!