Rich

I am frothing at the gash to see this lad in our colours and bombing down the right. Also hope he gets the number 12 shirt, not having a RB wearing 7.

Tim Krul by a landslide. £150k for a lad who is now the Dutch number one and has already played 92 games for us, being good-excellent for the majority of the time.

Enjoy how that splendid Phil K observation totally glosses over the Marveaux deal, for one, and just the fact that the example goes back over 16 years

Or at that Eto'o club. And score against us to knock us out of Europa? (if both teams get through) He'd be cup-tied brah. Would prefer him somewhere like that than at a PL team, obviously.

It's done the rounds over the last 12 months in a few of the papers if I'm remembering rightly, I think he's one of those that is destined to move to England sooner rather than later. Not necessarily to us, of course

Wonder if we have any real interest in Toby Alderweireld, or if there'd even be any chance of him following Anita here. Contract up in 18 months, but the price would still be substantial. If we're looking for a first-choice CB and not just another body then he's the sort of class of player we should be trying to get.

Aaron Hughes is the definition of average. He might not even be that good.

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Cisse does have a pretty good record of scoring goals when he plays through the middle, even before he came here. What is this sorcery?

The timing and matching fees are probably a coincidence then. Like all the other times. Nowt to do with it being nearly January of course.

I for one am truly shocked at this.

The better all-round player is going, don't think there's any doubt about that at all. However, I've personally got no doubt that if it's down to Cisse to take the central role on his shoulders and be the "main man" again he'll come up trumps for us. He's a special player in his own right.

If he's gone before the Everton game he leaves us having scored 29 goals in 54 games (50 starts) in all competitions. That's not bad at all for a free transfer that many didn't think could lead the line for us in the first place. It's a shame how things have gone since last January for him here, but he's still done the business for us on the pitch this season in particular. Very rarely out injured despite his "suspect knee" and appears to have been a well-liked and respected individual in the squad. Cheers Demba

You thought wrong sausage.

His contract ends in 6 months, we are allowed to talk to him. No it doesn't.

57 days

Think that's all fair enough as well like Can we draw a line under it now?

Fuck's sake lads. It doesn't take much nouse to realise posting as a Man Utd fan in this thread, at this time and after that result is leaving yourself open to people getting silly about things. It doesn't matter how civil/gracious you attempt to be and it doesn't matter what has gone on in the past in regards to stick you've received, it's an NUFC Forum. I'm not having this bollocks about "friends on the forum" either though, you can fuck off with that. We're just trying to ensure things don't get further out of hand.

I think that result has broken me.

It's in-sync with my iPhone and laptop like, just checked via ssh and on the forum software Great start to my Christmas, think I've peaked too soon.

Merry Christmas one and all, updated the banner as well

How is he still fooling people into thinking he's "very articulate"? He talks utter gubbins most of the time.

I also keep forgetting that lack of investment isn't even an issue here. I'm such a mug.

We'd have more than 11 purples as well, can't be fucking having that.