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The powerhouse Mike Williamson.

So Pardew is going to play Williamson over MYM? Ferguson in midfield or defence I wouldn't exactly s*** myself if he played the odd game at left back tbh. In place of Taylor, yes he probably will.

Can you move Ferguson out of defence in that list. It's bothering me. edit: i'd also say that there is still a lack of creativity in midfield (particularly with Marveux's dodgy injury history) and Williamson isn't good enough given that he will play quite a bit as Taylor is also injury prone and I firmly believe that we will not see a MYM, Colo partnership unless absolutely necessary next season under Pardew.

Yeah, and we might re-sign harper to play up front.

Daniel Storey aka Colin Warris

I sincerely hope not. Who else is? I agree he shouldn't be near that role but who else is there? We need two wide forwards/wingers and a striker. And we can sell ameobi, Jonas and obertan to balance the squad numbers if we need to. Though I think I'd marginally be happier to lose tiote before Jonas.

Backup for cisse is shola, backup for gouffran is Jonas, backup for Ben arfa is obertan. Most of the rest of the team ain't too bad but the gap in those three roles is huge.

Where I say whole I mean shola. My tablet won"t fix the post.

You're right that the squad is not small particularly but it is unbalanced. We have about seven or eight players with av decent amount of first team experience for the three midfield roles but only seven for the four defensive roles and only three of an acceptable standard for the three attacking roles (I refuse to include whole and obertan). And the in the midfielders we have too few in the attacking creative role. So basically we have depth but not balanced and in places not of the right quality.

But they have five specialist centre halfs. All in all they have eight specialist defenders. Given Taylors injury record and williamson's ability we need to either get another defender or a more reliable centre half than Taylor.

I would be very happy with this And Sinclair and Gouffran offering depth in the wide roles ... if only.

Palace fans all seem quite pleased about signing him which I find a bit odd. When someone has pointed out Newcastle fans don't rate him they've just decided we're ignorant. I suppose this is a but like us when Neil warned us about him. Oh well they'll learn. Interesting side point the palace fans pointed out is that Holloway may well know Gosling from Plymouth.

I'm surprised anyone wouldn't.

Norwich really could end up quite good next year. Already have Wolfwinkel and Redmond. Linked strongly to Toivonen. That'd add a lot more quality to that attack that last year. Defensively Hughton is pretty good tactically so with that added attacking quality I could see them doing well.

He can play the wide forward role as well I believe. If he's the only striker signing we make then this is a poor move. If he is to add options, an Ameobi replacement for example, then it's a good signing.

The second point of wanting someone stronger and better aerially is a fair enough point, so I think it could be sensible to pick Taylor ahead of Mbiwa. I personally would like to see how Colo and Mbiwa would work but i'm pretty certain that won't be first choice next season.

I don't think any club is going to get involved until the charge is settled one way or the other. You could easily end up paying big money for a player who then ends up in jail. The trial isn't until September though so he'll either need to leave or be stuck in the championship for six months.

Leicester fans seem sure he's on his way there for 750k.

I can't believe i'm jealous of Swansea.

Weren't Leeds only recently bought out?

Dyer only got an England cap after he signed for us. Ince I think got called up to recent squad (but didn't play).

Personally I don't think we'll be able to sign a better midfielder and will certainly suffer badly for losing him.

He smokes during the summer as well doesn't he?

The whiteboz was because the shirt was designed when Virgin was our sponsor isn't it (given we've seen pictures of the shirt with virgin on it). Assuming we're still with Wonga next year I presume the middle box area will go.

He should quit Barcelona and sign for them and help raise them up the league. He just doesn't care enough though.