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hot dog, charles n zog, alberrrrrrt luque? Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque.

I thought Leazes/NE5 might post in this thread. How stupid am I!

You've got a couple of those right though...

Oh yeah, I thought Smith would do well too. I also thought that he and Malbranque were signing for us a few years back.

I love the way people report on seeing people who they don't recognise

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I hope he does. After some of the shite he's bought for 40 million. Namely..... EDIT: Actually, I know where you're going with it, but I think a couple of his signings were ok, just over-priced. Don't know where Sunderland are going to get £50m from though.

What channel is it on?

Scored against reading too. Two good things since we signed him = awful signing.

Agreed, but not for £16m. Man United signed Ronaldo for £12m. I'm pretty sure we could get much better value by looking abroad.

I'm sure, when I just scanned through this page, that someone mentioned 16m for Lennon. That for me is the funniest thing I've read in this thread so far. Jesus weptathon.

Me too, and I still think it was. Though he shouldn't have been replaced with the Sottish wanker. I suppose the mistake was the replacement, which I said from the start was an awful move (hardly difficult to predict ). I feel vindicated then. Gejon and I thought Faye would make a good signing (the Faye)

Lionel Perez never played for us did he?

I thought Luque was going to be superb for us. I thought that moving on from Bobby Robson was the best thing for the club (despite how much I love the guy). I thought Keegan would get us relegated. I thought Paul Kitson was brilliant

This.

In what way? Malbranque had too much time and space on the ball, but then he put in a brilliant cross and Bent's finish was outstanding. In the way that the full back should have closed the cross down. No fault of Faye's though - Bent's header was superb.

People used to call Joe Cole a show pony; basically because he'd do stupid tricks in the middle of the park which didn't create anything. Then he worked out that he actually needs to get some goals and assists. Robert has never been a show pony.

Leaves it nicely set up so that if we spend £200m in summer, NE5 can come in with the "needed to spend £250m" comments. So NE5, how much do you think the board should spend in summer?

The 2 worst teams to watch in the world Hmm. I can think of hundreds worse tbh.

Take a look at what Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea are doing tonight. That's what he wants to be doing, and who can blame him? The best deal for everyone would be if a top european team came in for him. No idea why more English players don't go abroad.

So we dont need another top forward player considering Owen and Viduka's injury history? More than a midfielder? No. Our midfield, despite the last couple of games, is sub-standard. Butt, Geremi and Duff are all pretty much past it, Emre never plays, N'Zogbia looks to be on his way out, Barton might go to jail, and Milner is average. What does that leave us with?

There's one thing for sure, I'll give him much more time than I gave Souness, Roeder or Allardyce. Even if we'd gone down (even if we do) then he's the man to trust to sort things out. I think that even if some fans don't think he's the right man, they're a lot more willing to wait a lot longer to find out.

We need midfielders. Anyone who thinks different is wrong. End of. OK, we need a goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and strikers, but midfield is the key area.

6 years ago, yes.

63 assists is immense tbh.