Django

Pardew: We're already in transfer action (Sunday Sun) http://tinyurl.com/3jmx23y A couple of names I hadn't heard linked in there: Cheikh M’Bengue & Gervinho.

Piece in the Daily Mail about the fastest, slowest and fittest players at each Premier League club, interesting that Danny boy is our fastest, Harper slowest and Guthrie our fittest. http://tinyurl.com/3c3azbp

Nice to see Sam Allardyce doing his bit for the beautiful game as usual. Constant long balls from the keeper to 6ft 5in Samba playing up front. Wish he was still here!

I would sell him, the chances of him having a season like this one in the future are uncertain. In purely football terms. But this seems, if true something of a power play by Madrid, attempting to re-establish themselves as the biggest club in the world. As mentioned the £100 million would mean much more than the signing of one player. It would be symbol of their dominance. Just as Zidance, Beckham, Ronaldo et al were in the past. It's undoubtedly bullshit though, just another in a long line of hugely exaggerated estimates of the value of Cristiano Ronaldo (I still think the Ronaldo when hear that name alone).

Naah! He's watching the Senegal vs S.Africa game and he knows they're going out!

Gone to Lazio? http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jan31l.html