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As said, I think he'll be an improvement over Butt in there. While not a world class player, at his best he's the best CM we have and I think once fully fit and not suspended he'll be in the first team. Still think another CM is essential though. Allow Barton, Guthrie and the new man to battle for the two spots. I'd be fine with that, with Butt as 4th choice and then leaving next summer.

Reads to me like he's trying to light a bit of a fire under the recruitment teams arse. Only 5 days left, this time next week we'll have a much better idea of what our new board are really made of.

My point is that plenty of people will argue that he's not a good little player at all.

I like to imagine junkhead as a complete heroin addict, spacing out 23 hours a day on a manky ould mattress in a rundown flat, with the odd post on N-O from his shitty 20 year old computer his only contact with other humans.

You've no read the thread then? Glad to hear you're coping by the way Jon. Chin up, things will get better.

Going to a festival early on Friday morning and won't be back and anywhere near a computer until Monday afternoon. I'll have someone text me the result of the Arsenal match but that'll be about it as far as Newcastle info goes. Gonna be very interesting logging on on Monday and trying to decipher what exactly has happened over the weekend.

Agreed. nowt spectacular but would be a solid signing. How about Wigan`s right winger, Valencia? I'd take either of those two and be very pleased with getting rid of Milner. Still need a central midfielder and probably a striker after that though.

Larsson from Birmingham would do me, better player with more upside.

Hope Jon is OK, poor guy.

Delighted. On yer bike, ya useless cunt.

No, It's still embarrassing. Give over, we've outplayed them and been unlucky in 90 mins.

Oh yes, you've missed a lot my friend.

Very Spurs-esque team. Midfielders for the win.

We'll sign a full-back and a CM, one before this weekend and the other on Sunday or Monday. The alleged "wow signing" is Berbatov in my opinion, and it's not going to happen. If he hasn't signed for Man U by Monday then we'll come in with a big bid and try and push through a shock deal. But odds are he will have signed for them by then, and if not they'll get their act together when we make our move and get the deal done.

What I least like about him is his lack of urgency on the ball, particularly when he has a bit of space to run into on a counter attack. He's not as slow as some make him out, but he plays at an annoyingly lethargic pace too much for me, which is frustrating considering his best quality is probably being able to beat his man and create enough space to get a cross in. His crossing isn't fantastic, but I could live with it if he'd try and make things happen a bit more when he has a bit of space in front of him to work with. As it is he farts about doing pointless stepovers and allowing to defence to regroup much too much. Rarely does anything particularly positive with the ball until every so often he puts a good cross in.

I'd say the left probably suits Jonas better. He likes to come infield and get involved as much as he can, so coming from the left suits him as he has the ball on his right foot. Though I reckon on the right he'd be a lot better than Milner has in the first two games, so if we can get a proper LB in then ideally I'd want N'Zogbia on the left and Jonas on the right for a few games, think that could be a very good pairing.

Really hoping that when we have a proper LB in there that Keegan tries Jonas on the right and N'Zogbia on the left for a couple of games. Potentially our best wing pairing by a long way, but only if Zoggy actually takes the chance and performs like I believe he can.

I reckon Mike is right, it's Aguero.

Was a tough game by the sound of things. Bolton set out for a 0-0 and with our lack of real attacking quality in CM it was always likely to be a tough afternoon. Thankfully we took one of our few chances, delighted. We need a bit more quality in CM though, Butt and Guthrie are fine and good away from home to teams like Man U but for games like this we need someone with a bit more about them.

Christ, it'd be a kick in the balls conceeding now.

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He must really not trust Enrique at all.

Bring on Enrique for Duff. Play Zoggy down the left, Jonas down the right and Milner just off Martins. Then Owen on for Milner whenever he's ready.