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Exciting times indeed....My boss took me into his office yesterday to have a few words with me, he thought that i should be working more and not reading news on the internet. How easy is that these days?

and im supposed to be rested and fresh for work tomorrow...or for today..

Could it be so that Big Sam wants Eidur as our creative player in midfield? and also as backup for a striker position if Oba/owen was to leave?

If injuryfree and in form Motta is a very good player. Experienced, has alot of good qualitys and on a free (if they release him) he would be another peace of great business by Big sam. Rather him than Edmilson. Edmilson is out for a very long time because of his knee i understand? hell im going up for work early today, these rumours keep me awake too much these days. exciting times..

Why is there talk about Thiago Motta? Have we even been linked to him anywhere? or just some ITK going around once again?

It feels great. Been a long time since i was this optimistic about the future. Therea has been so many positions in this club that has had changes recently. And tbh thats exactly what this club and we fans really needed. Hopefully there is a great future ahead of us. This was needed, i bet that i would of got stroke before 25 years of age if i had to live with the state of the club and team these years under Souness and Roeder and the old board.

From what i can remember from seeing Motta play a few years ago he was a good passer of the ball, quite reckless sometimes in his tackles...

If i had to fuck myself from behind to get rid of Carr from our club i would certainly give it a try..

I want him to stay, but if he was to leave i would much rather like to see him go to Italy and Juventus. Would do my head in if he went to Arsenal and fulfilled his potential and developed into one of the best strikers under the guidance of Wenger. But i also believe that Wenger will end up at Real..

Scores a few goals every season

Well i guess for £1m it's not a too risky transfer. And i can for sure say that he's better than Ramage. Cannot compare him with baba/carr because they play in a different position. But i dont think Jon Jönsson would come here (if he was to make the best possible carreer decision). He would NOT be good enough for our starting 11 But i would rather go for someone else better for backup..

When me and a friend were in Newcastle a couple of years ago to watch NUFC - Aston Villa (dyer vs bowyer) We met a couple of other guys at the same hotel who also were from Sweden and were there to watch the game also. One guy's sister was Jon Jönsson's girlfriend. Well i guess who gives a s*** about that. In the Swedish league Allsvenskan he's really good. Has a great leap so therefore very strong in the air, and he has one hell of a strike. He's very comfortable with the ball at his feet and plays very often QUALITY longballs/crosses. He's simply a very good defender in the Swedish league. But in the PL? he has some good qualitys but the step from Allsvenskan to Premier League is too steep for him imo. Best choice he could make is to try for a transfer to either the french league or the dutch. And from there to one of the biggest leagues. Good player but not good enough for us yet. And he isn't very young anymore. I believe that he will end up in the french league and play there for a couple of years before moving to a midtable team in one of the three best leagues. "inget SM Guld till AIK"

I saw him play here in Borås last evening. Im working right know so i dont have time atm to say what i think. I have seen him play about 20 times live. I read that there were people from NUFC at the stdaium. If had known i would have put my Newcastle shirt on

Fucking hell if this is true

Sagnol is probably the best right back in the game if were talking purely about the defensive side. He turned down a host of CL elite teams a year and a half ago to stay with Bayern, including the likes of Real and Juve iirc, when he could have left on a Bosman that summer (ie wasnt interested in the money on offer). Should be safe to say that we would have no chance. Jansen is a left back as far as i know

Wrong, Boumsong. Well i dont think he was shit at first. But after time he became shit.. What about Stéphane Guivarc'h who played for us up front, he was a world cup winner & mega s****. Well of course. But mostly players who are included in France squad are not exactly shit..

Zidane when he had one on after a game between France and England

I read on a Lyon forum and there was a thread about Diarra leaving. I translated about 30 posts with AV as i dont know that much french tbh. I still could not get that much info about him. The only post that gave me some optimism about this player was where some guy mentioned that he's been excellent everytime he had seen Diarra play, but too badly he did not play enough. I dont know how that would help us being positive about this, but still, better than saying that he's been really crap there. And i guess you cant be shit if you were in the WC squad for France. I was going to register myself on that forum and ask for some opinions about him as a player and so on. But i didn't as i guess that generally the french people doesn't want to speak english or cant. Probably better spending time with my dog and learn it to speak chinese..

Too bad that no one seems to have seen this guy that much to have a real opinion of him as a player. Inluding me.

Why not try to talk about this Diarra a little bit...

I agree 100%

We need a squad though, Barton and Emre as creators and Butt and Diarra as holding players leaves us with a well equipped engine room. I appreciate we're not Real Madrid but they'll all get games and Butt might be past it in a year anyway so now is a good time to look for a long term holding player. Besides we may well be planning for a 4-3-3 formation next season in which case we will need another centre mid. I certainly would not say no to Manuel Fernandes in that case

been reading abit on a Lyon forum. He wants to play in the EPL and is cool on the idea of joining Pompey, i also read somewhere that he has refused to sign for pompey. Dont know how reliable that is though Rough translation from a Lyon Forum: Me I do not know so much what to think, each match which it plays it is excellent, it undoubtedly does not play enough (done with av) I guess it says that he doesn't now what to think, each game he plays in he is excellent, undoubtedly he doesn't play enough. (but i guess you could understand that yourself)

Im glad that we will have som taller players in our team/squad for this new season that starts. Isn't there any french member on this forum that can light us up about Alou Diarra. I guess those french fans support Arsenal.

The price is £12m. The £6m or 9m euros is for Benfica's 50%. A consortium owns the other half. Oh ok. I see. I did not know that. But still a good player..