Ikon

Quite how i see things tbh.

Don't want him in the wide forward role. Can't see him coming if not first choice either.

Vuckic is the only one of our youngsters that i have had real belief in for the last couple of years. If (big if, like) he can stay fit im sure he could play in a game with high tempo. Confidence and fitness has been the issues with him. Firstly stay fit. Bigi as well of course. Has an eye for goals and assists.

Good news! Cant get worse!

Read my post again then..As regarding HBA i think it's very harsh to call him injury prone.

Am i? Why Ronaldo? Dude.

Hatem injury prone? One bad muscle injury?

Some diiiiee young, lalala

If he can prove his fitness from now on i would build my team around him in the AMC position. Personally i really do rate him that highly. Keep the ball on the deck and play positive football and i think he would score more points than any of our other players, maybe HBA would be close. Would be very unhappy and sad if he leaves us, would fucking idiotic.

Yes Best was good, and now when we have Cisse and play 4-3-3 we simply dont have good enough players out wide (HBA injured alot last season) so we don't function as well as we should with Cisse. That and tactics/negative foootball with no movement as well of course.

There's no window, Pieters broke it!

Personally i think what he said sounded and was idiotic.

A monkey has very strong arms, maybe he could hunt Pardew down with a 800p borehole iron pipe.

I like yanks, cause the girls in San Diego are beautiful!

Great signing, the german bastards will turn him in to a great consistent team player.

Ben Yedder has a decent strike, good player but he's not 8ft tall.

Normally i would take Bent as backup, but not when it's pretty certain that the c*** in charge probably will play him and Cissé at the same time. Would much rather have two strikers in the Remy/PEA mould though, that can play more than one role. Would give us very good options if we play 4-3-3 (which we should, or 4-2-31)

Not really.

I must say i'm confused as to why some think Pardew might do better this season, admittedly it'll be harder to do much worse. But watching him not able to change a thing, keep the same out of form players playing week in week out, our pathetic set pieces to name a couple of things last season. And then see him say he got it wrong a few times in that recent interview. A few, a f***ing few, that right there is a man who doesn't think he got it wrong. He thinks it was the players, Europa, injuries and every other excuse that he could come up with to exclude himself from blame. Will he suddenly have figured out what he lacked in managerial brain power last season to be better this. Hope so, but it's not bloody likely. Like women married to wife beaters. Get slaughtered 45690087634663464634399 times and yet they go back thinking their husband might change.

"Try" and keep it tight, and hopefully some magic from HBA will get the ball in to the box a couple of times per game, a couple of natural scorers in there might score from these few chances and win us the game 1-0 or 2-1. Do not move when HBA has the ball, hold your positions just in case if Hatem loses it. FFS!! Give me a razor blade.

Yes our team and squad has a few weak links, but the thing is that we could still be sooo much better than we are if we had a good manager, i would bet my life on it! That's what probably hurts the most, and knowing that it will keep on going for way too fucking long. It's fucking surreal...

I've never ever been this negative about a coming season as i am now. Thinking of Pardew makes me fucking boil. I literally hate him.

Bent and Cissé, the new Pardew disaster 2013/14 (refusing to see the obvious)

ffs!

What about all those balls through/over our back four? Only Mapou is really pacey. It's not just about defending against good headers of the ball. And Mbiwa is twice as composed compared to Taylor who often goes down to the ground when he tackles. Yes i know that Mbiwa wasnt brilliant but he also hasn't played much in this league or with his new team mates, and most above all, we've been a mess of a team and he hasn't got games with the calming influence that Coloccini is. I think Mbiwa will be much much better this year (if he gets to play with Colo that is)