TRon

I mean in terms of who we've signed. Would you be complaining had it been, for example... Cabaye - £7m, Ba - £7.5m - Marveaux - £5m without any Freebies? I don't think they're unreasonable valuations either. At this point hypothetical valuations mean nothing, if these guys start producing on the pitch no one will mind that they cost relative peanuts. The truth is only Obertan excelled against Arsenal and looked the part. Cabaye was tidy at best, Marveaux is still absent and Ba was taken off and may well not even start against Sunderland. Until we get these guys on the pitch putting in match winning performances there will be disappointment at the transfer dealings so far. That isn't to say these aren't good players but we'll need to see it against Sunderland to get everyone on board.

Would be a canny signing, under 25, would be on lowish wages, hits all the right notes! What's his value anyone know? Around £5m City are looking for Leicester had a £4.5m bid rejected. I would also like to sign him. I live in Bristol so have seen him play a few times. Inferior to Gary Hooper, but costing nearly double? Strange price tag. I think City want a bidding war to start and get as much as £5m very good player though Two goals today will just have added to his already inflated price tag.

If we'd got that pacy striker in time we could have tore them a new one. Ifs and buts though. Start Obertan and he can tear them one anyway.

That's if Pardew has either the balls or the insight to press Sunderland on their own ground. It will be interesting to see what the answer is.

What the hell happened to your sig, Wiggum? It was the only thing keeping me going I like these tits much nicer tbh. Do you like them lopsided then? these are less lop sided than the other ones tbf.

If Shepherd was still in charge, I'd say possibly - this is the one result that could of forced his hand (as it did with Gullit). Ashley, though.... nah. Difference with Shepherd would have been that we already would have made some expensive transfers probably. If it was Shepherd in charge we'd have spent £20m on one hollywood signing then filled the rest of the side with cheap and cheerful no marks.

What the hell happened to your sig, Wiggum? It was the only thing keeping me going I like these tits much nicer tbh.

Marveaux can score goals and takes dead ball kicks so he can definitely deliver better end product than Routledge. Hope he's back for Saturday just to put the shits up the wearsiders.

If we get the right player in then it will have been worth holding out, even though it might well impact our game against Sunderland. I don't know much about any of these full backs tbh, but I assume they are quality judging by their price tags. If were to lose the derby then sign Bridges on loan at the end of the window there is going to be some very angry people. I just hope that isn't a serious consideration.

Same here. Or Ba alongside Best if Ba doesn't like playing as a target man.

We probably thought we could pick him up for £4m and that's why we are bidding for three different left backs hoping that will panic one of the clubs into selling for a lower price. The problem is none of them are desperate to sell so all this daft bartering is not going to get us anywhere except nearer deadline day with no left back.

I can actually imagine you talking like George Takei. You're probably a lot more girly than him though... for some strange reason I can picture you talking like Mahatma Gandhi, god knows why.

If the quotes in there are true though, then it looks like they intend to hold onto him until/beyond the weekend (at least), which probably rules him out of signing before the derby. It was fairly obvious this one was going to drag, we absolutely need a left back before the weekend though. Honestly I think we need to forget about getting anybody in for the Sunderland game, it's going to be a relief for me if we get the left back and striker in before the window closes as things stand.

Colocho's such a twat

Same old, same old.

The bottom line is we've wasted far too much time chasing the wrong targets and are now scrabbling round looking for a quality forward and left back -both key positions - in the last fortnight. We had all summer to haggle it's frustrating as hell that we are suddenly now casting around for new names and starting the bidding process all over again.

Except by next year someone else will sign M'Bengue for a free and we'll declare Ferguson as the next LB superstar in waiting.

It means they aren't selling him unless we pay quite a lot IMO. Which we won't.

We will bid less than Lyon want for Cissokho, piss around for a week then sign Pieters for a lower fee and less wages. nobody If you're going to be negative at least do it properly man! I'm not one of the wrist slitters, I'd put myself more in the resigned/acceptance group if you please. Wullie/Dave/Minhosa and the rest are that-away --->

We will bid less than Lyon want for Cissokho, piss around for a week then sign Pieters for a lower fee and less wages.

No he was always mentally unstable IIRC. Raging against the world in his better moods tbh.

Seems like they allowed us to talk to him from the Independent report but the fee hasn't been agreed, Maiga got the hump because they were dragging their feet, now they are pissed because he's gone on strike.

Me dad was in the Black Bull in Wylam with him the other night and he thinks we will go down. Good. He's thick as mince so that's exactly what I want to hear.

^Hope rises ^

The whole sentence is a train wreck sadly.