BottledDog

Must be flying back to the Netherlands by now. Any spotters?

'Gaping hole'

Defended him against the reasonably understandable onslaught, gave him my backing, now just hope he can keep it going after a reassuring start and an impressive following season. Good luck you hateful cockney puppet.

Shit will always get out, they have to expect that...still... The guy that was tweeting said himself at the start - 'Ap wants to do more of these. Wants however to keep as much as poss in house and respect for privacy etc'

Yeah, time to move onto other targets.

'Have been discussions on Carroll, Douglas and Anita.' Was hoping there would have been a bit more clarification on Debuchy. Hopefully someone there can give us a better insight later. Would hate to think the saga played out in the media was mostly bollocks.

http://images.worldnow.com/digitaltrends/images/19057244_SS.jpg Is this the future?

Eh? Well excuse me for edging towards preferring a less than stellar window, to drowning in pools of blokes gravy.

http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20120813/season-tickets-update_2281670_2880005? Thousands of season ticket holders should by now have received their cards ahead of the opening game of the campaign against Tottenham on Saturday. The Club began sending out tickets, using a staggered approach, last Monday, and they should all have arrived with supporters by Tuesday, 14th August. Anybody who has not received their new smartcard by Wednesday, 15th August should contact the Box Office on 0844 372 1892 with their supporter number ready. The Club will then arrange for a duplicate to be printed, which can be picked up prior to the Spurs match. Season tickets are still available from the stadium Box Office and online via tickets.nufc.co.uk.

If we sign those three (and lose no-one) the spunk will fill the drains Ffs. I genuinely don't want us to sign anyone now.

Ner, not in the squad. Tbf he's not exactly a regular.

From 7, but not sure there are many/any tickets left.

I'm not saying it's one or the other. I have gone on record saying I don't think we work to a transfer budget, but we try to get good deals when we see them even if this means our squad is unbalanced. This is my concern currently... Do you really believe that the Anita signing is an opportunistic bargain? That strikes me as frankly ridiculous if I'm honest. Not that ridiculous like. He just turned down a new deal so he's kind of become 'available' now. Obviously its not that simple and we've had an eye on him for some time like all our targets. We have a list of players and when someone's situation changes in a way that allows us to make a good value for money signing, we strike. And that's fair enough, but there is no way that we sanction knee jerk bargains at the expense of the squad and positions that are more pressing. I'd even question whether €8.5m plus future bonuses is that much of of a bargain in the first place. We want him for a reason, he will play. If we can't do a deal we're happy with we'll happily leave gaping holes in our squad as has been proven before. We've gone the first half of last season without the striker we were after since Carroll left and the second half of the season without centre back cover even though we knew Saylor was out injured for the remainder of the season, gambling our excellent start of the season by relying on Colo and Williamson staying fit for the sake of a few million. Eh? That is an entirely different argument. Yes we will abandon or wait on deals until they are right financially for us, even if it leaves us short temporarily. Again, fair enough. But that has no bearing at all on whether we would go out and grab a player that doesn't fit into our plan for the squad just because he has a 60% off sticker on his bonce (which I don't think if the prices quoted are right, describes Anita in the first place). And I don't think buying Anita has any significant knock on effect whatsoever on any other deals that may be being worked on to address the 'gaping holes' in the team.

I'm not saying it's one or the other. I have gone on record saying I don't think we work to a transfer budget, but we try to get good deals when we see them even if this means our squad is unbalanced. This is my concern currently... Do you really believe that the Anita signing is an opportunistic bargain? That strikes me as frankly ridiculous if I'm honest. Not that ridiculous like. He just turned down a new deal so he's kind of become 'available' now. Obviously its not that simple and we've had an eye on him for some time like all our targets. We have a list of players and when someone's situation changes in a way that allows us to make a good value for money signing, we strike. And that's fair enough, but there is no way that we sanction knee jerk bargains at the expense of the squad and positions that are more pressing. I'd even question whether €8.5m plus future bonuses is that much of of a bargain in the first place. We want him for a reason, he will play.

I'm not saying it's one or the other. I have gone on record saying I don't think we work to a transfer budget, but we try to get good deals when we see them even if this means our squad is unbalanced. This is my concern currently... Do you really believe that the Anita signing is an opportunistic bargain? That strikes me as frankly ridiculous if I'm honest.

I for one will be ...if he actually does. Oh, and yeah, not sure what stream the expert bloke was watching. Sounds a bit of a chancer.

Greedy c*nt.

Why? Because to think otherwise may jinx it. Oh, plus he doesn't strike me as terribly tempted to forego being a starter in the CL this season and leaving on a free if he so chooses this time next year for a bigger club possibly. /still... fingers crossed

I'd be very surprised if he chooses to come. Very surprised indeed.

Bu-Bye Tiote.

They're after one anyway! Lille seemingly don't want to sell Marseille will for the right price Simples FYP

Hardly 'talks' if L'OM haven't responded tbf.

Happy with him as the replacement. Reasonable price and we can spaff the rest of Tiote's fee on a striker.

Yes. Yes you can.

Speak for yourself, bonny lad.