James

Old school friend of my fathers, played in the same team. hope he pulls through.

I doubt Cole could pick out Pardew in a 30000 crowd so they probably said hello. Moot point anyway, the question is who at lille is being watched?

Doesn't mean we are signing Cole, but it does sound like we are looking very closely at a Lille player.

Im on my phone. look up the Eurosport website.

It's according to Cole himself. At Lille games.

Alan Pardew has met with Joe Cole at least half a dozen times this season according to Joe Cole.

Are people going to chance their arm and go from Newcastle? Seems like an opportunity for Manc based mags like myself.

Appreciate the sentiments about Stoke but do you not remember Pardew putting together a game plan to specifically deal with Stoke and us thumping them earlier in the year.

I think we have 7 points left to get. So can Chelsea get 9 or Spurs 7? Spurs, probably, Chelsea will have to beat us probably, so maybe.

Although with worse set pieces. Just let Cabaye take them.

I will be at the match so we will lose.

Simpson has repeatedly ignored Ben Arfa and gone for silly passes. Only passed to him once.

Definitely want to be back in Europe, but I think we'd need to use every ounce of our outfield squad, and that includes Vuckic, Gosling, Abeid, Tavernier, Sammy.

4 Keepers?

I imagine at times it will be 442, at times 433, at times 451, at times 541, at times 4312, at times 4231 given the flexibility of the players at our disposal.

I'm not sure I'd agree with the assessment that new players have settled in quickly. They have settled in to a level that makes them better players than most, but I don't think any of them have peaked yet, and one player having a bad game is often covered by a team mate having a good game. Cabaye has been hot and cold all season. Santon hasn't really established himself. Marveaux hasn't had much to show for himself. Ba and Cisse have been fantastic, but I reckon both are still improving, particularly with their all round game. Also you may as well consider Ben Arfa who is only just showing his best. So we have six players who are only going to improve next year.

Pilko is Peter Crouch Wullie is Jermaine Jenas. Lots of hype but doesn't actually do much.

JH is Steven Taylor, come through as a teenage prospect to becoming a seasoned pro.

Don't also forget that £7m is what we would receive, the cost for the buyer is close to £20m according to club sources.

Should probably be considered vindicated for choosing us over Liverpool.

I'm starting to compare our trio up top to Owen, Viduka, Martins during the Keegan days, only each player is much better than what we had. So for Owen, Viduka, Martins, see Cisse, Ba, Ben Arfa respectively.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17579377 Pardew - Ben Arfa is like Messi

Beautiful player. To sign fo a club in January, go away to the ACoN, then come back and hit 7 goals over the rest of the season is incredible and he has another 7 games left.

Enrique in goal for Liverpool at SJP, not shit, but glorious.

Life ban from SJP for him and all his family please.