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WTF! Pienaar still playing? Last thing i heard about him was that he was working on one of those shark cage boats for tourists, just outside of Cape Town.

If Janmaat goes to West Ham can't we get Sakho and offer them some money as well (i fucking know swap deals almost never happen wise asses)

Give Ronaldo the coordinates

Fair play to them

Twitter L'Equipe: Séb Haller is now interested in a move to Newcastle after he received a call from Rafa Benitez. As if they would know..

Not many people on here saw the game so here's some comments from the Bristol fans for those who are interested. By the sounds of these comments it sounds more like a professional performance than i thought it was. (despite us not being impressive or anything with the ball) http://www.themag.co.uk/2016/08/bristol-city-fans-say-defeat-newcastle-interesting-newcastle-united-bristol-city-0-newcastle-1/?

Jesus! Some kind of charity or what

Yeah I just realised

Lindegard or whatever his name is? Or maybe he didn't start for Man U?

Not sure why people see Colback as a DM. Because he's absolutely shit going forward? He's at least as bad defensively in every way. He's a proper turd of a normal cm if anything.

Not really a rumour but thought i'd post it anyway. Nothing new either..

Not seen that one before :lol:

Ideally i'd like a quality RB (who knows maybe Gamez will be the one) but we have more important areas to strengthen first.

Probably wont happen with Rafa (who knows) but i really hope that we go with 2 up front, playing Mitro and Gayle. First of all we haven't really got a player that has shown how to master the #10 role for us, and with Mitro up front we'd have a focal point and he'd be able to bring others in to play with his hold up play. We'd also have an outlet forward when things get too tight in the middle of the pitch. It's early days but our attacks don't last long and more often than not we run out of options and lose the ball in midfield. Having him up front would make a massive difference. Personally i've always liked the 4-2-3-1 setup but Gayle isn't perfect for it (yes he has scored goals). All of the Palace fans really like him and rated him, most of them thought that he could very very effective but not alone up front, never mind Pardwide. Like i said we don't have a #10 specialist, yes we have Diame but what he does in this role he could do from a CM position as well, maybe even better since he can do more of his runs when there's more space to run in to. The thing is that when you play with an AMC the opposition usually drops a DM down to try and stop this player which means that Gayle is still alone against two CB's and not much space. Playing with another forward next to him, a strong target player like Mitro would force one of the CB to mark him tightly, and even follow him when he comes to meet the ball. This would mean that we'd break the oppositions defensive line and make them more uncomfortable as well as giving Gayle more space to take advantage of his movement and pace. As it is now he can't really be as effective because he can't make these runs as often as he could with us playing two up front, because now he has to play with with his back against goal to give our midfield more options. Playing Diame in the role in front of our CM will be almost the same as us playing a central midfield 3. We'd just end up with one of the CM's serving no purpose forward or defensively, especially with the players we have available right now. Might as well replace that player by playing two up front which will give us more advantages in other areas and ways.

Mitrovic became a father recently, i wonder who would win a cage fight between his kid and Colback.

I understand what you meant with saying 30 for example Let's hope he gets 25 or more

I thought that "at least 25" is the same as 25 or more

Hopefully this away win helps us mentally, and gives us the confidence as a team to play better and in a more relaxed way, with more belief

That noise when the ball goes into the net

If we really really wanted him he would already be at the club. What did we offer? £10m if rumours are to be believed? Doubt we'd offer the £16-17m (at least) it would take to get him now after a few games. Just not gonna happen and i'm not sure he'd be worth that kind of money...

It aint gonna happen. Maybe before the season started...

Can this saga please end asap. Wonder how close/far away it is from something actually happening. Can see it go very late with him ending up at some desperate club wasting money because they have ran out of time to get other prefered targets in. Not impossible but i just can't see him staying even though it looks more likely with every day.

About time

Do we know why Janmaat wasn't in the squad?

Add a creative CM and a pacey winger with flair and he will get tons more chances (Attacking LB as well of course )