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Dreadful defending.

Pretty much how I feel about it as well. It's inevitable we will overpay eventually despite all the overtures to the contrary. We did with Wood.

We seem to have a lot of difficulty selling our shite players mind

Would be amazing to have the LeBron James of soccer

Good luck to him. Immense in the Championship, not cut out for the PL unfortunately.

Another day without any real links with substance... Gonna be a long window.

Can someone explain to me how a loan with obligation to buy circumvents FFP?

Yes I'd have Howe over Gerrard 100 times out 100 but we also only have two good attacking players, one who is very erratic and inconsistent and the other who is very injury prone.

If we sign some attacking players it will be interesting. At the moment we might concede less goals, but we're still going to struggle to score them.

Like the business you've done this summer. Reckon you will finish above us this year (as squads stand).

We should keep him just due to the fact we haven't got enough good players in any of his positions.

The Ashley years still haunting us.

As long as we're loaning players to fill gaps where we can't buy the quality we want. We're not a Man City or Liverpool where we have loads of quality already in the squad to fall back on if we can't get our number one targets. Our team, quality wise is very lopsided and I wouldn't be happy to go into the season with the current squad.

The bar for out of the blue is Jonas when he signed. Literally nothing, just suddenly "Jonas Gutierrez has signed for Newcastle".

It's perfectly reasonable to be frustrated by the lack of attacking signings, considering how weak that area is.

This guy actually plays for us. It's still surreal.

I just want a home grown wonderkid. Thought we had it with Carroll at one point.

How did he do today?

A man of many no talents.