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Ron, I know you hate all "king" references...but surely if he was manager at Selhurst Park, he'd feel like one.

Pardew. Go. Pls.

In honor of forging our new partnership - please enjoy our away template featuring mountain wave.

is there something belgian about the wave design thing?

the link ain't on here though i know the image is though.

Completely agree. Same nonsense? He has the most predictable and easily defend-able attacking move in our team. He runs up field until he gets caught, then cuts inside. He cuts inside at the expense of attacks, creating space, and tries to compensate for what has to be an incredibly awful left foot as we've barely seen it. Sure his confidence is shot, and I 100% agree with you in regards to our classically stagnating youth development and I'll always () defer blame to Alan Pardew and the shambolic coaching. For the record, I wouldn't advocate this kid to play anywhere but LB or RB (when injury and suspensions) prove it necessary. Having said all that - he's still our best LB. But I still stand by wanting a player with more confidence, a left peg, or one who has more than just a "cut-in" tactic.

Prob Giggs

Ah okay - good point.

http://www.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/handbooks/premier-league-handbook-2014-15.pdf

Could have used us as a stepping stone ffs

TBF he's always going to cut in from the left and I have no problem with that. My problem is that Gouffran is going to seek the inside as well and just congest it. We have no fluidity down the left and haven't had it for a long time and the problem for me usually isn't Santon but the player in front of him who always seem to be given more defensive responsibility than he should. I do have a problem with it because he always, always does it, making him so predicable and easy to mark, it's unreal. For me, he hasn't progressed at all since coming here, his positional sense defensively is shocking at times, he is painful slow at making up loss ground when he has been caught wandering and he never hits the byline to mix it up a bit which makes him terribly one dimensional and at this level, that isn't good thing. Santon on form is pretty damn good at times. He has good height and think that when he's feeling confident he looks strop. His attacking side though...He drives the ball forward, cuts in, passes it, or his cross hits the first man. That's about his attacking expertise summed up for me. I haven't a clue how he'd do behind a left footed left winger, but I'll be damn sure that I know that as soon as he loses steam going up, he'll cut inside, and lay it off to a central midfielder or cross it and it'll hit the first man in the box and be cleared away. Mind you, Haidara and Dummett try to get space on the left and deliver a cross - albeit nothing extremely amazing or exciting out of the two. MH has good pace on him and sometimes can work in a good low or driven cross. PD has actually a good left peg on him but tougher for him to get space to deliver anything worth a damn. I'd still rather take a Janmaat type signing and have Santon/Haidara/Dummett compete for backup, reserve, and who should be sold.

There isn't a single way to figure out the net cost of transfer Crayola - unless there is a Deloitte or similar independent auditor report that gives an average of the transaction costs to doing a deal. Which always be a % of the amount being publicized versus the amount actually recorded on the books. Assume transaction costs = travel, agent fees, player sign-on bonus, etc.

Aye Toby Alderweireld is worse than Moke and Saylor.

"Excel is Art, like"

I like that Happy Face changes the style of every single one of his graphs and charts; you need a branding/style guide for your work, man.

1 year on loan at Seattle. Was hoping he'd go somewhere in Germany or Spain tbh. Just somewhere with some track record of developing youngsters (mind you Spurs have been doing better at that dept recently and I do like Poch'tino)

Stating the obvious is always painful - Fucking guy still didn't get sacked after that run-in last season.

"eat a broomstick"

For me its either him or MYM, and I prefer MYM - and a new LB and CB partnered next to either. A player of the quality of Janmaat on the left would be nice. I like Santon but he's hurt and Haidara has a lot to learn to develop, imo.

He needs to be a leader, not get bossed or done for pace or strength so many damn times or go on a walk-about back to Argentina when the going gets tough in the Winter time.

Yeah believe we were.

Sakho?

Santon is by far our best LB but his damn cutting in shit is about as annoying as the Tiote spin move