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Excellent news EDIT: actually won't get carried away and accept this as definite just yet. Colin Young does have a history of talking s***.....

Does that mean Ba will get it? Wouldn't mind that really, especially if it meant something to him. Hopefully. Though Ba doesn't mind what number he's got really.

Nope, I don't think so. Think I remember Pardew saying that a striker needs to prove himself to be worthy of the number 9.

Should permanently attach one of those leg collars to Suarez's leg tbh.

Too good to turn down and all of that s****. If Ba keeps on banging them in the way he has, how long before the Tiote rumours change to him btw? It's f***ing horrible that we're even talking about this, but with those in charge, it's something that will always be at the back of our minds. If we want to get anywhere, we need to entertain any ideas that these offers are too good to turn down. Spurs have proven that with Modric - who I think is a class little player, but he's not worth £40 million pound, yet they knew he was more valuable to them than that. That's what we need to start doing. Absolutely.

Me, pretty confident we won't sell anyone in January - it's just a feeling I have. Of course, there will be plenty of rumours in the press but I reckon we'll be fine (just). EDIT: then again, there is that worry of an offer being "too good to turn down". Still, I'm 95% sure we won't sell anyone.

d Cutting words from the man whose team play at Goodison Park. Shut up or he'll pelt you with coins. That's our transfer budget.

sign all of them

Hmmm. Guess that sounds positive. The Maiga news will be him arriving in Toon for a medical; the Tiote camp will probably say Cheik is going nowhere.

Aye....

It's just that I've seen that photo too many times now. It's a disturbing image

Well then.....

The BBC and ITV have revealed their choices of games: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16137701.stm

Hopefully.

Is off to Spurs. Liverpool It's definitely between these two clubs like. Really can't see us being the ones signing him personally.

Think it's Elliot.

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg686/scaled.php?tn=0&server=686&filename=hhovp.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

Was just thinking about this song

Pretty much.

Bloody hell

Money! http://i.l.cnn.net/money/2008/04/02/smbusiness/rising_yuan.fsb/chinese_yuan.ce.03.jpg

You could definitely see that Ben Arfa wanted to come on against Everton when Marveaux had to go off even though it would have meant him playing on the wing.