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Cabaye looks like he'll be a great player for us, but I'm still more excited about Ben Arfa. Both of them paying together is the most exciting thing of all though Makes a change not to be pinning all of our hopes/optimism on the fitness of one foreign gem Isn't that pretty much what we're doing though? Love what I've seen from Cabaye so far, but if he's got two of Ba, Shola, Best and Lovenkrands starting up top ahead of him he's not going to do much damage tbh.

We're due a loss like. Can't believe we've gotten 7 points from how we've played so far.

Gusta. He'll shape our season, one way or another.

All my focus is on the World Cup in 2014 though. Really gonna try and go to Brazil for it... should still be traveling at that point so gonna have to make it happen. Will be immense regardless, but Ireland actually being there would be the icing on the cake.

Jesus we dodged a bullet there. Don't see us getting through though, we're well organized and committed but there's no real threat in our team. Keane and Duff are past it, McGeady is and always has been rubbish (at least at international level, people tell me he actually plays well sometimes for his club) and our central midfield is absolutely shocking... Long and Doyle as a partnership has some promise for the future but I don't know where any sort of service is going to come from.

Ward couldn't cross a fucking road.

Still waiting for him to actually do something in an Ireland shirt.

We're getting raped like. Our central midfield is just fucking non-existant.

Better not want a raise, the greedy cunt.

It's still completely inexplicable to me why the felt that it was a good idea to come out with the whole "it'll be reinvested" shit. Did they just assume we'd forget in six months time? For a lot of fans it was the only thing that justified his sale. It also bought them 6 months breathing space. What's the difference between people being pissed off then and a lot more people being pissed off now? It's not as if they needed to lie to avert mass riots or anything. Time is a great healer. People have had time to accept that Carroll is gone now, all they wanted was to buy some time. We still had the hope we'd spend the money when it came time to renew season tickets as well.

Jon taking time out from his daily threesome with Best and Ba to criticize us for not buying a new striker I see? Treacherous harlot.

The guy who chipped in the 3rd most goals last season for your squad despite only playing 28 games is holding you back..... http://www.nufcblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kevin-nolan-funky-chicken.jpg ?

Better than the "it is a fact" statement at least. Honestly didn't expect anything better from them, look forward to being fed the same tripe again come the end of January.

Rainforest schmainforest. Doesn't even have an avatar!

Spending the Carroll money!! Those letters needed to be changed, tbf.

Think you can ditch Yorkie's surely? Barton wasn't replaced. henke's can probably go, can't see him sticking to it for obvious reasons and Cissokho didn't sign.

How is Carroll not the exact epitome of asset stripping? Sold him for 35m in January, broke even in this window. Barton, Nolan and Enrique's wages must be pretty close to the Ba, Marveaux, Cabaye, Santon and Tiote's raise as well. Still, let's facepalm everything. We'll seem smart then!!

Tiote has been poor this season far though, which counters that point.

Should be having a massive feed just before sunrise at the very least. Does seem a bit daft, he'll be sickened if he ever finds out there's no God like.

Can't believe Lovenkrands fucking started against Fulham after how shit he was against Scunthorpe.

If there's a new student today I'm going to name him Derrick and force him to say "Gulliver's Travels" over and over again until he gets it right, yelling at him for being a useless cunt every time he mispronounces it.

Can you imagine if we'd lost to the Mackems and were in the relegation zone? Silver linings ftw. Good day at work? I'm going to be in some mood.

Aye, got no love for Spurs at all but nice to see a team stand up to a player acting the cunt for once. Pretty sure he'll be off next summer though at the latest. As awesome as it would be to see him rot in the stands and made an example of, that's just not something any team (aside from City or Chelsea, I suppose) can afford to do for the sake of making a point.

It's massively dependant on the health and form of Ben Arfa and Colo. Another bad injury for Ben Arfa could make this a very long, and potentially dangerous, season. He's literally the only creative force we have in the final third, without him in the side we're pretty much destined to just play hoofball as we've nobody who can work the channels and provide a real dribbling threat up front. Cabaye desperately needs someone like that in the side too or we won't see the best of him. It'll be a season full of the performances we've had to this point, only the luck we've had so far won't last forever and we'll end up on the wrong end of plenty of scorelines. Colo goes down and I fear what could happen to our defense. He's an immense player who makes everyone around him so much better, with him we look organised and calm. Take him out and pain will follow. On the flip side, if both stay fit I think we can be pretty decent. So frustrating that this regime just want to get by on the bare minimum, because they do find some very good bargains and the scouts seem to have a good eye for players. Can't rely on just Bosman's and release clauses only though, sometimes you need to show some balls in the marker and they're simply not willing to do that.

Ashley will be fucking thrilled with him. 30m net gain on transfers this year, 3 of our highest earners off the books too. Llambias is doing a great job.