Pata

I was sure that was a pel initially.

We will really miss Guthrie this season especially in the cups and Europe if we get past these.

WTF ref?

Exactly the same setup. Usefull during the gambling weekends as well, you know mate. Very true.

Exactly the same setup.

Everyone's calm, I trust him as well but it's a growing concern imo. Well yeah, it was more directed at ATB/Mole.

I think it's ridiculous to suggest that we play 4-4-2 just because of Ba. Pardew has been brilliant enough that we shouldn't be criticizing him after we lost 2-0 to a pretty much guaranteed top 3 team. And it's not like 4-4-2 has always been awful for us. I trust Pardew 100% what ever formation he decides to go with. This season has lasted a week now, calm down everybody.

How can anyone say we were playing flat 4-4-2 today? I just want to see us play poorly in 4-3-3 and see the reactions from ATB/mole

Whats really worrying is there are not even any promising signs from him... Been f***ing awful.

http://i.imgur.com/np6BC.jpg Starting to feel bad for the dude.

Wake up ass-ref!

Same.

Perch for £50m I might bite if it's not to a straight rival.

Either you don't know that 'C' scores double points or you have pretty strong belief in Taylor heading in a couple.

Peter Crouch has moved for £11m, £11m and £10m that could rise to £12m since July 2008. We'll always get most of the money back. As for the possible career-ending injury, that's just daft thing to worry about.

Lunacy. Meanwhile, fans are paying record high prices to go to games, games are not televised 3pm outside of the UK. Fans brought the Premier League it's reputation because the demand to watch football was there. Now the money that derives from the broadcasting deals prevents fans, not only in Britain, but all over the world from watching the games. Absolute bollocks. What's this? Nothing's changed in Finland.

6.5 seems low. If we were told in May/April that we have only lost Guthrie and Best at this point of the window everybody would've been ecstatic. FB/striker/CB on that order for me. If we could somehow get even just Debuchy I would be over the moon and consider this window 9/10. Cheick will knock Senegal out and we have Perchinho.

Weird team, they have a lot of players I would never have playing for us (Neville, Gibson, Osman, Hibbert) yet they are always competitive.

Perch is much more comfortable on the ball. He would fit in better than Simpson for what we are trying to do now.

It would really help Simpsons case here if he was good at something.

Perch anyday for me.

Perch is great. Nowadays I'm confident he'll do well in whatever position he plays. Biggest improvement ever when you look at his first games?

3 hours and I'm in a car driving to the airport.

Never seen the guy play but this is just stereotypical BS.