James

Good news!

Isn't he supposed to be on a curfew?

Not that surprising the more it is thought about.Pulis loves his past it injury prone ex England internationals, Stoke throw money about. Owen can expect to start alongside Crouch. Meanwhile Stoke continue with the brand of football that suited a newly promoted side, but doesn't suit the money spent or players signed. Every season they get worse. This could be the final nail in the relegation coffin.

To sign for Stoke. turned down Everton - Press Association

The increase isn't really significant when you consider the international tv deal.

That was the basis of a whole article in the times to be fair.

Probably has one of the least secure places in the team, but that isn't a bad thing when you consider who the more secure players are.

Is the tattoo on his wrist New?

Fell through when Kinnear called him Um Bongo and told him that they drink him in the Congo.

He is a talented player but not even the best player at the club, probably 5th best as others have been consistently talented. He can be the greatest but still needs to be. In that case I think he is looking more of a player for Arsenal, Atletico, rich Russian clubs, the top German teams. Ben Arfa is motivated by different stuff to money and trophies. It is still important, but he chose us as the better all round package and I don't think he is ready to leave for those sort of clubs.

We will sign him, nufcfans.co.UK will claim to be insiders then the people that only sign onto forums to talk transfers will hang onto their every word. Nufc blog will quote them as a source.

Tragic, especially with the timing. RIP

Would have been in the statistical England squad apparently.

Nobby Solano Hatem Ben Arfa Amalfitano

Cant find that anywhere?

I don't think he has nailed down a position yet. He is an all round good footballer, but like Steve Watson you can see him everywhere even up front. Wouldn't be surprised for him to end up like Jonas, only with better technique.

Don't forget £20m is the price of Ba. If someone wants to pay that much fair play.

Spurs will offer the clause, find out about the agent fees, dither, Redknapp will kick up a stink, the Spurs board relent. Then discover the insurance bill is in excess of £5m and cancel the deal. Redknapp wanted the Spurs board to ditch the insurance, gets in a right tiff. Sacked 5th September.

I was thinking about all our internationals in the shower, thought I'd mentioned something about lack of internationals last year and found an insane thread from 4 years ago today so had to be updated.

Don't have the time to update this but there is probably clear improvement from us. 3 players at the Euros. 4 others represented their country at the most recent tournament. One fringe international who is U21 captain. And that excludes Coloccini.

I'm happy to see him sign for Swansea TBH. About time football and footballers realised that everyone doesn't need to play for Man City to have a good career. Well done and good luck to him IMO. I don't mean Swansea, I mean us. If we kept all our current team and they played a similar amount of games to this season and we added him to the team we would be in the Champions League.

6.8 million for Siggurdson to Swansea is criminally cheap. He will be amongst the top 10 best attacking midfielders in the world within 5 years. No offence to Swansea but other bigger clubs should be taking advantage of that fee.

IIRC we had Shearer Ferguson Cort, then Ferguson requested a transfer that summer and we bought Bellamy.

A little further back, Beye for Carr was impressive for one season. Further still, Robert for Glass.

Tiote for Butt