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Never bought into this view TBH, I'm really surprised how people have gone from praising Simpson's improvement to saying he should be replaced. He's a solid enough RB for where we are at the moment IMO, it would also disrupt the back four to replace him. He's young and has enough time to improve more and correct his weaknesses. Simpson should be our first choice RB next season. Though I reckon a little healthy competition will do him some good like!

The Pardew quotes don't inspire confidence like but I'm not going to panic.........yet. There's still 2 months of the transfer window left so things could still change. We'll see.

So because he is fit, fast and tricky he would be of no use in there? He would shine much more in a position where he would be constantly involved rather than being starved of the ball out wide. Especially this season where it looks as if we are going to have a much more mobile attacking midfield unit than we've had in the last few seasons. With Ben Arfa back and if this Marveaux turns out to be any good as a winger along with Ferguson, then I think Jonas would be ideal in a roaming midfield role where he could buzz around and frustrate the opposition. People seem to be playing far too much Football Manager on here. A player's position is not set in stone in the real world and teams should be flexible. A decent manager should experiment and try ideas such as this. They train everyday don't they? No. He would be of no use there because of the reasons i mentioned. Scroll up cos i can't be bothered to write them again. Well if you're talking about an inability to look after the ball and him being technically poor then you must be talking about a different player to me. Other than Coloccini, Enrique and Ben Arfa there is only Jonas in the squad who can deal with the ball in a tight situation! Oh and Shane Ferguson (class). Do yourself a favour and stop!!!

Turned out to be a load of bulls***.

Yes.

Lille sign David Rozehnal.

What an absolute mong Should send around to sort him out.

Nope, it's still there.

Nice stats there

@Joey7Barton Joseph Barton @KevinAshford7 why would a drop down a league when I can more than hold my own in the premiership??? #dontcareaboutmoneyjusttrophies

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We were one of the top clubs in the league at the time, he had the likes of Speed who he could learn from, and there wasn't any real danger that a much bigger club would come in for him. We were also able to ease him in a bit with having the likes of Dyer as well in that position. Wickham is going to a club where they have one main striker, he'll be expected to hit the ground running, and if he does well, he'll be off. And they'll make more than £8m. Win/win in terms of the fee they've paid. They've lost their main source of goals and replaced him with someone unproven. I wouldn't be happy if Carroll's replacement was another young one who you don't know about. Much sooner have someone who's proven they've got goals in them. Proven goalscorers tend to cost more than £8m, especially if they've proven it in the Premier League. Course they do, but when you need someone who's going to walk into their team and do that for them, is Wickham going to do that? If they go out and get another proven striker of some sort then it's a great deal, but as it stands, I'd tip Ba to get more than Wickham. Me too. All I was saying was that £8m doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me all things considered. If it was us signing allegedly the most exciting young striking talent in England for £8m I'd be pretty happy. If he was their only striker then yes it'd look more risky, but they already have Gyan who is miles better than everyone on here claimed when they signed him. I loved Gyan every time I saw him in international games. I did too. Then he decided that the mackems were a good career move.

@Joey7Barton Joseph Barton Decent t-shirt that. Might grow a tash like the little uns for next season ha ha? What u reckon?? http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg738/scaled.php?tn=0&server=738&filename=33oa.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640 Imagine Barton with a moustache like that

Barton wants feedback on who's dressed the "coolest" Joey vs Puma Representative, Eddy Jennings http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg736/scaled.php?tn=0&server=736&filename=9iza.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640 http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/scaled.php?tn=0&server=615&filename=ot3xh.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640 Think the other guy just wins.

FIFA rankings being bollocks as usual:

Interesting. Especially with the prospect that Lille essentially losing all their attacking options in one transfer window (but Sow being still there is crucial for them.....)

I'd go along with that.