FFS.
Then we need to ditch our principles and pay the going rate or arrange a short-term stopgap. We cannot afford to leave ourselves short this time.
There's Pardew's (and the clubs) excuse in nice and early, when Ba hasn't been replaced by midnight, Jan 31st.
Is Kuqi still available?
Think he is at Oldham now but I think Franny 'fox in a box' Jeffers is on a free