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My ability to read body language remains tight

He's looked exactly the type of player we've lacked since Tiote when I've watched them but I suppose they know their team and players better than I do

If West Ham do manage to get Paqueta then I'd be in immediately for Soucek as DM tbh

Need to cash in as much as possible on the Glazer panic-buy spree. I'd sell him tomorrow but I'd not loan him at all. Thought English clubs wouldn't deal with us in the market btw? Now the biggest of the bunch come cap in hand? Fuck clean off Better still - dick them about until 5pm on deadline day then cancel the deal. See how they fucking like it the smarmy wankers

Yep. 10 mins

Fucking rinse them. Take the utter piss and ask for something ridiculous like £18m and negotiate from there, fucking arseholes

That might be the worst tackle I've seen this season so far. Absolute shocker and the fact Aldridge has admitted it speaks volumes

That's fucking disgraceful. Double red

Unfortunately this is the exact level of quite a few of these Newcastle players tonight.

Sucker punch but it's so fucking easy man. One ball over the top, tap in

Can someone alert the plane nonces please?

Looks like Yasir dropped his credit card at the weekend

HOT FUCK!!!!

Joao Who?

Best F5 ever tbh

Honestly man, if anything significant happens, good or bad, the title will be updated shortly after. If anyone is genuinely getting wound up by a thread then just don't open it until the title has changed

There's always a risk but I don't see, other than energy and running, what Almiron brings. Playing up there you'd expect goals and assists and his are awful. He harries and chases and when we're not in possession he's pretty good, problem arises when we do have the ball and he produces virtually nothing. I like him, he's a good lad, he works hard and does his job 50% of the time. But he's just not got the quality to produce on a consistent basis. I'd cash in on him for any decent price and roll the dice on 2 or 3 younger players who would match his workrate.

Yeah, exactly, I'd not sell him for £8m, that's ridiculous. I'm talking about a decent amount of money, I'd not give him away. Let's say hypothetically that it was £18m - I'd be buying a prospect from the Championship for about £10m and asking the scouts to get 2 more prospects in for £4m each, probably from the continent. That type of thing

We have very few players who are both a) expendable and b) worth something. Almiron is one of them and Lascelles, Dubravka and Fraser are the only other ones off the top of my head. I'd sell any/all of them to fund players to bulk the squad out with potential tbh.

Sheff Wed man, 3 absolute bangers tonight already

I know they saying goes 'never accept the first bid' but in this case I would as I'm not totally sure there would be a second one coming. Lovely lad, works hard, not good enough

Ah right, makes sense, cheers gents

I just hope they sat him down after the match and explained how close we actually are to cracking it. Won't get a better moment to convince him to push it as far as possible. And I STILL maintain we should just sign the players now and discuss FFP if/when we get pulled up about it. Other clubs seem to be able to negotiate and explain their finances and avoid punishment, we should give that a go.

Cheers. Is he even registered?

Probably a daft question here but what's happened to Manquillo?