Shak

Ben Arfa has looked good and we've shown a commitment to keeping it on the deck, so those are positives. We just don't look good in a 4-4-2 though, far too stagnant, no width. It's gonna be a running issue this year if Pardew's comments about Ba and the Carroll chase are anything to go by.

Corner routine worked perfectly btw, just Cabaye didn't hit it far enough. One of the strikers had gotten completely free.

Stupid from Cabaye, been shite so far.

4-4-2 is wank for us for so many reasons, crazy that we're playing it. Main issues though are. - Cisse and Ba just run into each other the whole time, they look horribly unsuited to playing together. - Both are wide men are more comfortable cutting inside, meaning we've no width. Our fullbacks don't offer any width either as Santon is better at cutting inside Very hammy to still be at 0-0, need to sort it the fuck out.

Ben Arfa.

We're so rigid when we play 4-4-2, need to change it tbh.

Ba man FFS, ducked out of the way of that clearance.

Crazy he wasn't in the original 18 if true. We have Obertan and Goslng in there FFS. Not a great sign if he did eave the stadium though, stay and support your teammates.

Fuck off.

Kablah!!

Hard to envisage a good outcome from this.

They can't find Marveaux??

Colo out. Delighted the rest of the lads are good to go though. Come on lads, let's bum these idiots!

Acronyms man, they're the buffer for us lunatics who somehow manage to like the two best team sports on earth. NFL, MLS, HIV... they could b anything, who knows?!

'Soccer' in the thread title. You're a brave man.

Shouldn't send him off in a friendly FFS.

"If the Premier League was the Olympic Games, the Eredivise would be the Special Olympics." Who is that? Feel bad for them in one way, must be shit seeing your top players leave for the money all the time. A lot of the people on the forum seems like tossers mind, so fuck it.

SAHA!! http://dementedmole.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/nelson-muntz_original.jpg

Prefer a another forward to a CB then? Yes. Shola will immediately revert to being shit if we ask him to start games regularly. He's carved out a nice role for himself as a last twenty minutes sub and derby match superstar, but let's not pretend he's anything more. Ba and Cisse coud potentially be gone to the ACON, and Ba looked knackered for long periods of last season and we've even more games to play this year with qualifying for Europe. If Pardew does want two strikers on the field, which seems to be the case, then we really need another one. Obviously a CB is needed too. I believe you can get away with lesser players at CB easier than you can at striker though.

Maybe he means from now on?

Think he's better suited to being one of the front three personally, but yeah he could do a job in the middle.

Any signing that keeps us moving away from a flat 4-4-2 is a great thing IMO. Between Tiote, Cabaye, Anita, Jonas and hopefully Amalfitano we should be able to field a pretty competitive three man midfield, allowing Ben Arfa to play a bit further up. We've got some exciting things we can do with the current squad, if we can get a RB in and add maybe one more attacking player after that then we'll be right in with a shout of replicating last season's league form.

What's taking so long?! The plane has clearly landed, make him sign the fucking contract!! Sick of this incompetence, can see this one going tits up.

Thinly veiled 'I can afford NUFC TV' post. Pathetic.

I don't think it's about being frugal as we agreed a price for him. If his value's gone up since then they have the option to sell elsewhere, but not many clubs want to pay £6m for a 27 yr old full back with no resale value otherwise he'd have been signed already. Agree with this. The longer this goes on, the less interested I am in seeing him here. It might be a good idea to see how young Tavernier goes in the position before shelling out shitloads on a 27 year old.