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That would be humiliating if even Everton can afford him and we can't.

Strange team

The Hargreaves fan boy in me is so conflicted about this.

Ashley as owner + Purchasing skillful Mangod Ben Arfa = Some kind of sorcery.

I wouldn't worry about it as there is as much chance of him going there as there is of Sunderland being declared European City of Culture 2011. seem to remember brummie saying there was more chance of him being appointed manager of villa than mcleish. i'm not worried about it but it seems possible, are villa really that much more an attractive proposition than the mackems? i cant see it. and one thing i know for certain is that if bruce needs any more motivation to go all out for him, then being seen to get one over on us will be ample. Ask Darren Bent. Oh, and thanks for dragging up the McLeish thing I said *slits wrists vertically, horizontally, diagonally* sorry mate, i'm not sure you lot are in as good shape as when bent signed Of course we're not, it was the McLeish thing that got me going. We've sold two players, one of whom we've known was going for months, and another of whom went yesterday. In fact, he stil hasn't actually signed. So long as we replace them properly, we'll be fine. I can't help thinking that Downing out for N'Zogbia and 10 million pounds in is a bit of a winner of a deal, though. If we can then persuade Scott Parker to come and finish the Given deal, that makes: Downing = Scott Parker + N'Zogbia + Shay Given. I doubt anyone would suggest that is not a good result. Still, let's see what happens. I wouldnt be surprised if we didn't get any of them and the whole thing went to tit. Let's hope eh?

Villa > Sunderland in just about any non-Sunderland supporting players mind. I'll be green with envy when he goes to Villa though. True f*** up by Scrooge McAshley.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01108/tiote_1108514a.jpg

Something about that is hillarious but I don't know why.

Is it just me or does that sound like an invitation for other clubs to put in an offer for Tiote? The tea lady's need new tea pots.

Fuck sake. Our hierarchy are such sissy's honestly.

Positive news therefore it must be bollocks.

Still think he'll come to be honest.

I wonder if we get any royalties from the last day SSN drama which inevitably will involve us again this year.

He looks a tad like Kieron Dyer in that picture. On the Jose body language scale this means he will never ever leave us. Never.

Like a boss

Was the day I realised I really never would see us win any thing.

Are you saying he's not? Or maybe he's questioning the masculinity of the rest of our players!

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/black-white/ben_arfa_must_fight_for_toon_spot_1_3565135 Likely story.

Aye. Nutmegged the keeper and all .

At least he won't be coming back now!

Why would they remember? They have Asamoah Gyan who despite having a worse goals to game ratio than Ba is better than any striker we have!

Best part is if the signings were the other way around you know they'd be saying how average Gardner, Larsson, Dong etc are.

Considering Bent, Welbeck and Onouha are actually good players it's pretty obvious. Larsson and Gardner are decent and Wickham might be good eventually but certainly won't hit the ground running. The rest are all hillarious signings.