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This Fernandez might play a part in the first team this year. Sounds promising.

Was the Gerrard display when we were booing him after a poor England performance ? Pretty sure he got a standing ovation when he came off that day by sections of the ground. Yeah he did. It was when they completely bummed us under Allardyce and Given got MOM. Did Given not jump ship soon after?

He was about as "Xavi" as any English player has been, except he scored more goals. Hated him, when he was around though.

Spurs are keeping their powder dry and rightly so.

HTT is talking about player types, not comparing their pedigrees, in that sense. Scholes was the best English midfielder of the last 20 years IMO. Of course Lampard and Gerrard were both excellent too.

Given his reputation I'm not sure he should be anywhere near Newcastle, like.

thought they were all discussing expanding the sol to 84k? Bit risky when the North Sea has eaten all their kids. They'll have to bus in kids from Berwick again. If it wasn't for Coastal Erosion, they would be bigger than Barcelona.

Does the fact that most of their players live in Newcastle or live in County Durham but go to Newcastle for nights out etc not tell them something? Morons.

I find it really peculiar that they don't realise that we are a bigger club than them. Do Man City fans argue that they are bigger than Man Utd? Theres plenty of stuff that they could legitimately mock us about, which is fair game but getting all wound up when a player states a fact, is odd. It can't have escaped their attention that their stadium, city and general culture is dwarfed by Newcastle's.

On the club website.

It just makes us want him to succeed more. He has very little pressure on him, as the fans aren't going to be expecting much, and we suspect he will be behind Yedlin in the pecking order anyway. Hopefully he will get plenty of advice from Rafa, a few cameos to get his confidence back and then when he gets his chance, he takes it. Good luck Javier!

That Rolan kid is so desperate to join us that it's taking him 2 weeks to write his name on a piece of paper for Fulham. Wonder if we will cave in and sign him or we are holding on for someone better/ better price.

Not sure Delph will ever regain his form and motivation. I'd have taken him here, like but largely to keep Colback away from the team.

Defence doesn't concern me because Rafa will make us hard to beat and well drilled I'm more worried about drawing too many games at home. I expect us to get a few big scalps though. Rafa loves a tactical battle.

I voted 12th and I just knew it would be the most popular vote. It just feels about right to me. Without Rafa 17th/18th.

Suppose we will find out if he's left the Ireland camp.

How long was his contract btw?

Ganin to Chelsea.

Going to be some canny strikers knocking about this year. Morata, Lukaku, Aguero, Lacazette, Kane, Sanchez (maybe).

Read that, up until Jacobs loan at Coventry, Josh was the higher rated between the pair.

Wonder if we will keep Josh as an option for towards the end of the window. I haven't the foggiest if hes any good but I like the idea of brothers playing for us. What could go wrong?

Masterstroke. We could do with a Murphy signing for the premiership.

Bye Dazza, thanks for the help!

Darlow will join Boro, I think we are driving for a higher price and then it will happen.