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He bulked up too much and that exacerbated the weaknesses in his game.

What is Liverpool's spending this window? Must be tallying up.

Shit, my bad. Forgot about that. Guessing it's Anita and Colback in the middle then.

Expected lineup from us? Krul Janmaat Williamson Coloccini Haidara Anita Colback Sissoko Gouffran Cabella Riviere Or Anita dropped for someone else?

Back to Cabella, bet if Arsenal or Chelsea wanted him and he ended up there, he'd never be asked to bulk up. Watch him bulk up and lose his pace, like typical Pardew players.

The Americans gave a Chimp a rocket! The Americans gave a chimp control of their entire nation, they're idiots. Errrr....

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I'm with Wullie. Pardew is pathetic.

Once again any analysis is meaningless without taking into account wages and other commercial revenue. We're getting £8m from Wonga which is enabling us to make more signings but when we pay higher wages - which is the only reason good, young Frenchies want to join us - it constrains our ability to make other signings.

At least show how you've come to that conclusion then. My back of the envelope math says that we've got around £10-15m left to spend with the wages to support that kind of player. If we spend more then it's borrowing from next summer now. If we're able to spend this then we'll have around £10-15m to spend next summer, which ain't bad considering our squad depth now.

So why have you linked net spend with how much theoretical room we have to spend then? It should be net expenditures +/- the changes in wages on a yearly basis +/- projected financial year profits (losses) and then you'll be able to make a reasonable assumption of how much financial room we have this summer, January and next summer. Saying we have no net spend therefore we have £30m in the bank is flat out wrong.

We've brought in more players than any one in the forum predicted. That, to me, is a good news. We need one more striker and then we need to sack Pardew.

It's not about net spend. If Ronaldo is out of contract and comes to us for free, are we going to consider that as no net spend when we'll theoretically be paying £300k/week in wages? That'll be a nice £15m a year on wages. Of course, our wages aren't that high but I'm illustrating the point that it's not solely about net spend. If you look at the Premiership, wages are a greater determinant of finishing position than anything else, even including the outliers like QPR who got relegated. I'm becoming happier with our window because we've made good short term moves and supplemented it with some decent looking long term moves too. If only we could sack Pardew too, that'd be perfect. I'm afraid the squad is becoming good enough that he'll easily scrape 8th, considering how Southampton were gutted.

I could stomach these type of transfers if we're not going to be lavishing out £15m on a striker. It's great for building a squad for the longterm and it's also a way to get young cost-controlled players.

This is a great use of our financial power. Well done to whoever decided to go for it.

"Alan Pardew works well with players, he gets the best out the players he has" He took charge in December 2010 and was named Barclays Manager of the Season 18 months later, having guided the club to fifth and a place in the Europa League. That was Newcastle's highest finish since the 1996/97 campaign, when they were runners-up to Manchester United. Jesus Christ. It was last week that was the 5th anniversary of SBR's passing and this tit has forgotten his whole reign.

What's happening with Valdés then? Thought he was suing Monaco.

I forgot about Gosling. I haven't included De Jong because he was here for a short amount of time and the expense was budgeted but unspent last summer. Jonas is also back so we're paying his full wages again. I'm assuming we're subsiding a significant chunk of Marveaux's wages too, I don't think Guingamp can afford £40k/week. Anyone else I'm missing? I don't mind analysing our finances in full when the window closes to see how much room we have in terms of transfers and wages for January and next summer. An early guess would be £15m for January and £100k/week in wages. If our spending hasn't changed in a year ie. no new contracts to current players, we could genuinely afford close to £40m next summer and another £20-25m the year after. Shola must have been on 20-30k-ish? In the previous post, I took into account Shola's wages.

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I forgot about Gosling. I haven't included De Jong because he was here for a short amount of time and the expense was budgeted but unspent last summer. Jonas is also back so we're paying his full wages again. I'm assuming we're subsiding a significant chunk of Marveaux's wages too, I don't think Guingamp can afford £40k/week. Anyone else I'm missing? I don't mind analysing our finances in full when the window closes to see how much room we have in terms of transfers and wages for January and next summer. An early guess would be £15m for January and £100k/week in wages. If our spending hasn't changed in a year ie. no new contracts to current players, we could genuinely afford close to £40m next summer and another £20-25m the year after.

If we add Ferrara's then I'm guessing we're getting close to paying £10m more per year. That's not a small sum. I like our squad. Obviously we still have financial room. We could afford a £10m £60k/week guy, I'm certain. Maybe it won't happen this window. I'm pleasantly surprised by our business so far, if only we spent some money on an actual manager too.

I don't mean to sound like a club shill but we're clearly forking out far more in wages. Let's do an estimate: Cabaye and Debuchy - £80k/week combined. Colback - £40k/week Janmaat - £35k/week Cabella - £50k/week Riviere - £40k/week De Jong - £50k/week Take out Remy's and Ameobi's wages, add Ayoze's presumably small wages and I reckon we're going to be paying around £7m per year more. All right, it's not spending the extra TV money in one lump sum but this form of analysis is clearly better than adding up the net transfers and making a conclusion on our ambitiousness.

One month before the deadline and I feel our business is 95% done. Impressive. Truly.

Everton and Southampton, what a contrast in management.

Real have the smarter football directors but Barca have the better academy. Real's signings over the past two, three years have all been pretty bang on. They're signing young stars who can play for them for 6-7 years, not oldies that are good for two or three. You look at their front five now and the only one over 26 is Ronaldo. They're going to be set up for years to come.