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That means Shola will be around the 20 goal mark by the time the season finishes. That sounds about right then, wonder what we are worried about?

Problem is, the cheap shit is all we can get while we are in this division. No we could have got Moses but then we'd have had to up our bid. As a rule I agree that we should be looking to sign young, hungry players and obviously we have a limit to our budget. But if there is an opportunity to get a genuine talent for a good price I'm disappointed we haven't taken it. Will you still be whinging if Leon Best scores another 10 goals this season? If he can score 10 more goals this season with our midfield he should be commissioned for a statue at St James.

Beckford will be on a free by then...

Problem is, the cheap shit is all we can get while we are in this division. No we could have got Moses but then we'd have had to up our bid. As a rule I agree that we should be looking to sign young, hungry players and obviously we have a limit to our budget. But if there is an opportunity to get a genuine talent for a good price I'm disappointed we haven't taken it.

Two men upfront with 10 men Anyway may have gotten the side completely wrong, but atleast he bollocks their performances behind closed doors. Might actually have some control afterall, just needs to drop a few players now to prove it. Hughton looked well wound up on the touch line as well during the game, but he should have made changes far earlier once their man was sent off. That would have had a lot more impact than raging in the dressing room.

Well to be fair it's me who keeps bringing it up repeatedly, it must get tiresome but still

Nothing wrong with getting players cheaper due to their contract situation but it flies in the face of the supposed Arsenal blueprint policy which was trumpeted so loudly. My understanding of that was we would buy the best young talent not the cheapest available. At the moment it feels like we can't get the players we really want so are buying up players that are easier to get for a nominal fee.

Like I said, fans aren't always the best judges of a player, you only have to look at this place to see that, but it's always interesting to get a view. I hope Best does well, Hughton has obviously put himself on the line by bringing him here.

Saw the youtube clip and he looks like a black version of Andy Carroll, i.e. big and jumps high. Maybe he holds the ball up better, won't really know much more than that until he's had a few games.

how the mighty have fallen. Gallagher, Milburn, Cole, Beardsley, Shearer, McDonald etc AND Best You missed out Shola.

If you go to matches or buy merchandise, you are just as responsible - if you don't like the system, boycott it...but how many will ? As for the 'Free Market', what about the Zils that the hierarchy in the Soviet Union used to ride around in whilst the plebs were making do with the oh-so-reliable Moskvitch ?? Fans of Socialism are like St Augustine - 'Oh Lord, give me chastity - but don't give it YET..!' They want it to happen, but not for themselves. Yeah your right, social reform is a bad idea. Lets ban the minimum wage in this country while we are at it that way we might even be able to afford to give the corporations CEO,s and the bankers a bit more on their bonuses, poor souls. Who mentioned Bankers ? However, it has obviously escaped your notice that the politicians(including those pretending to be 'On the Left')have wrecked the UK by making its economy dependent on Financial Services - what the hell else do you think has allowed the current shower to keep spending money on non-jobs to keep them in power, other than the huge tax revenues the Chancellor has been picking up from the spivs in the City of London ? The Germans(and the French)have kept - and subsidised - their basic industries while UK companies were being merrily sold off to the highest bidder...WITH the approval of BOTH major UK political parties. Wake up and smell the coffee mate - the Asian nations like China & India are making stuff at a FRACTION of the costs in the West because of low wages, and unless outsourcing is stopped that will continue to wreak havoc on Western jobs. EVERYONE in Europe or USA that wants cheap goods is to blame because they BUY them... If you feel that strongly about exploitation of the workers, DON'T buy cheap goods from China etc...trouble is, you'll have a bit of a job finding similar products made in the West that are anywhere near the price for the same quality... Over to you......go on, tell me I'm wrong.... Lets not forget that cheap labour isn't just restricted to clothing sweat shops. All these banks, energy providers and the rest who are out-sourcing their call centres to India, what would the reasoning be behind that then?

Quite a few of their fans seem to rate him according to that, e.g. Let's hope they are the ones talking sense and the ones that boo are the morons.

Does anyone have any links to a Coventry site? Would be interesting to see what fans think of him, although fans aren't always the best judge of a player.

Beckford will go on to prove the better buy though, I'll wager. Hope I'm proven wrong though but I doubt it. If so, why won't any Premiership clubs take the chance on him now to save their seasons or push them on to a european place, instead of waiting till the summer when they can sign him for nowt? If he's such a good prospect and likely to do better, and all that? The point is, Beckford has allegedly signed a pre-contract with Everton so obviously he's already rated higher than Best by the prem clubs.

Beckford will go on to prove the better buy though, I'll wager. Hope I'm proven wrong though but I doubt it.

The ones surrounded by hype tend to be surrounded by hype for a reason.

Will this guy even get into our starting line up ahead of the likes of Shola, Carroll or Lovenkrands?

ok, but my point is we could have got the players we wanted but it had nothing to do with Hughton's failings, premiership players or not.

Exactly the sort of signing I thought we'd end up making. I don't know anything about him so it's really all about Hughton's judgement.

No point in blaming Hughton when the Moses deal fell through because the board wouldn't sanction it.

That's because promotion is worth more than £2.5m to Leeds. A lesson in the limits of being too tight-fisted for your own good from Ken Bates former uber-cunt chairman of the world.

Terry was/is still with his missus tho. Well if she's still with Terry she's obviously got over it so we don't really need to take her into consideration.

I don't think anyone would give a toss if he was shagging some page 3 bird who was seeing someone else, but the fact it was a team mate's partner is not good for team morale. He should have the captaincy stripped immediately.

If you could describe Guthrie as a Midfield Boss or a Midfield Bitch which would it be? I think it's usually the case that the midfielder opposite makes him his bitch so that's how I see it.

Oh and btw, all of you who didn't think the mighty Newcastle United were a big enough draw put that in your pipe and smoke it.