Ashley17

A work colleague just showed me a picture of Cabella at Newcastle airport, is he taking the piss? Was on the phone so couldn't quiz him

Think the Dutch will win on pens. Just seems fate that Brazil would play Argentina at some point, may as well be in the most pointless game of them all

He's better going forwards than he is defensively IMO but most modern full backs seem to be that way. £12m for a 29 year old right back (who isn't English) is a good deal, but the money we get is irrelevant when it isn't spent.

I'm not overly sure he is to be honest.

https://twitter.com/dankingNUFC/status/484095560983793664/photo/1 Blue sky in the background and yet they've waited until 10.30pm or so to announce it

Fuck off a second, born in Switzerland!?

This is the article from a few weeks ago: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/siem-de-jong-move-cards-7254692

Blatantly going to be like Dream Team where he says he'll only sign if we bring his brother in too. Then Siem will go missing on signing day and we'll be lumbered with Luuk forever

It'll be somebody with management experience at a bad level as an emergency in case Pardew goes one further and gets arrested. Somebody like Chris Powell

It's ~2 weeks until the first pre-season game and we still haven't replaced Cabaye

If it is to be reduced at all I think it'll be the ban from training and things that gets reduced, the 4 months is basically 2 anyway given when the season starts. If Uruguay were to lose today for example he wouldn't have played competitively again until August 16th, not sure he'll give two fucks about missing pre-season after beating our national team when about 10% fit

I think they had the intention to low ball their way to a handful of players, but Montpellier wised up over Cabella and Lasogga has other clubs willing to pay him real money. They've obviously got no plan B so they're playing the waiting game until after the World Cup and we'll pick up some rejects when clubs buy players and need to shift their shite.

Backup to who? I hope/guess we'll find out but presumably this Lasogga chap amongst others who we've offered peanuts for

By all accounts Gomis was our back-up choice. They've hardly beaten us to him

Threw my last pound on Belgium being 0-0. Could win a whopping £12

Almeida

Brad Friedel likes everyone

Just kick him in the knee, ffs.

Backed Belgium at half time. Didn't think it would ever happen

I need you today, oh Mandi

Capello's World Cup is mirroring his last. 1-1 thanks to a keeper error, 0-0 in a really dull game

Except the 8pm one... Damn said on Google that all the games were on BBC To be honest South Korea vs Algeria could be on any channel at all, it won't help.

Oh what, Thierry & Clarence's last game?

Except the 8pm one...