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Seems obvious but we need a bigger striker for when Mitro is unavailable. If we're not going to buy I wonder if we can get Crouch on loan as a stop gap, or any other out of favour bean pole

Assuming Mbemba has been overlooked because Smith is 6 foot 8 or something

Gave his all for the clubbing

Bye Swansea

We just don't need him...unless someone is leaving, or they fancy him as a left back

According to this post: 3 hours before the game, 3 hours after the game, within the 'Tyne and Wear' region (i.e. as far south as Chester le Street), and one per season ticket. you can, but that was posted nearly ten years ago. CLS doesn't quite show up on the Network One map (http://www.networkonetickets.co.uk/zone-map) so it's very possible the boundaries have changed since then. When I lived in CLS (going back 10 years or so) it was valid from Barley Mow.

Would you not expect your main striker to get more than one goal in a game if they are dominating near enough every game? Strikers should love scoring goals More important to spread out the goals IMO, wins you more games. Fair enough. I just don't think he's a natural goalscorer.

Would you not expect your main striker to get more than one goal in a game if they are dominating near enough every game? Strikers should love scoring goals

That's absolute bollocks http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/aleksandar-mitrovic/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/51152/wettbewerb/BE1/verein/58 14/15 season. Mick Lowes kept peddling it, probably should have quantified he was looking at one season

He never scored more than one in a game playing for the best team in Belgium, it strikes me that he just doesn't have "it" to be prolific. Still can be useful though, and of course time is on his side

Yes. Kaka's mate

Marvelous Nakamba

Martial is a midfielder, can't decide if that is tempting or not. He's £9.5m so probably not. Jay Rodriguez is also a midfielder, which might be useful depending on how Puel uses him. So many managerial changes I feel like I don't know anything, it seems sensible to pick Man utd defenders because of Mourinho and likewise Chelsea because of Conte but who the fuck knows.

Allardyce gone then? Rumours gathering pace Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Been reading Bellamy's book, his comments on Rafa were that he was basically a control freak who loves to rotate but was very astute tactically, though very stubborn. Nothing we didn't know already but if we sign Hanley, it's naive to think that will automatically relegate somebody to the bench, it just means there will be plenty of rotation which is no bad thing in a 50ish game season Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They're signing Berahino as well

Didn't West Ham have a bid for Ritchie rejected just a month or so ago?

Least we know what Taylor's offer from abroad is

We stupidly didn't keep him on right away so when he did sign, he was woefully unfit for the first month or so. He barely missed a chance from about December onwards though

Yeah but the Rafa masks? Obsessed cunt.

Villa lost last year's final, they aren't in Europe. Palace have to win it to get in. If Man Utd win it opens up Europa to 7th.

Saw people on Twitter discussing us loaning out the likes of Mitrovic, Wijnaldum and Perez next season, presumably to get them back if we get promoted. Seems stupid given we'll probably work under the idea of only spending whatever money we bring in. De Jong has hardly played for 2 years, I can't see anybody keen to take the chance on buying him but a risk free loan which takes his wages off our books seems like an obvious choice. The others you mentioned have played regularly and will presumably continue to do so unless somebody actually buys them.

£6m for De Jong He'll be loaned back to the Dutch league and we'll never see him again.

..and assist for Janmaats He looked absolutely fucking rapid on the build up to Janmaat's goal, don't know if I was just caught up in the madness but didn't realise how quick he was

He's not the quickest and he's obviously not the biggest, but he's very good technically. What is his best position? He's been average everywhere this season though that's not entirely his fault.