SteveMc

#Itk

Said it before but I fing hate this thread. The juxtapose with our rummers thread is tragic

Whatever the reason this is a poor state of affairs that is affecting our supposed new start this season. Nightmare for pardew this

But Remy back earlier than forecast she's earning her corn

One of the three new ones is in ooh bimps you are a skit

He's mad as fook. It's a miracle Remy arrived.

On train at mo. Eta 1130 aka premium lager time

Wasn't it the grass at the training ground under souness? Imagine if pardew said that

Was thinking some knacker would say that about it being her fault. Lose lose situation for her like

At least if Colo or mapou get injured we can bring on Perchinio ......

I'm choosing to believe they did. .com are pretty cautious. they'd have pulled it if they thought it wasn't true

.com have kind of pulled back on that info tbf. They haven't. It's still there

Got to be us. Him tweeting from Croisette in Cannes as our entourage flies from nearby Nice. .com still saying that we were there to complete the signing of 2 players.

Injured isn't he?

Stan Kronke and The Glazers? (rather more literally in the latter case as they're getting the club to payoff the cash they used to buy it) Hicks and Gillett were the same at Liverpool, not sure about the current American owners. Would people prefer we had owners that did that but were prepared to spend more in order to compete? If someone took over and looked to build the commercial side of the club, improve it's image and attempt to grow the fan base, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't be able to be competitive without an owner needing to throw in huge sums of money. We don't even try to grow the club off the pitch at the moment. Other clubs tour the world trying playing to new fans. We can hardly organise a pre-season tour of Europe without it being an utter shambles. Turnover has barely moved under Ashley, despite increased TV money. Sunderland make more than us commercially. Its ridiculous. This

Salaries should bump the figure up not down, considering our wage bill is quite a bit less than it was when Ashley took over. I think you'll find its not Really? No Smith, Owen, Butt, Geremi...they were high earners. Don't think we have anything like their salaries in the squad now...maybe Colo. I'd imagine the average is higher. We had a handful of big earners then but I bet we've got 14-16 players now on between £30-50k, the majority towards the higher end of that. Ashley signed Smith and Geremi

Might be Giggs but Sewelly on Twitter posting pics of Pards, Carr and JFK at Nice airport about to board his flight?

Lowlights more like

When loans work out

So....big game this now.

Yip - in the first half in particular some good one touch stuff in tight situations. It's the positional stuff that gets me. For a team with a dedicated DM we never seem to have one in the right place...

Or that he didn't. We dunno

Swansea, palace, villa, hull, and even stoke........ all teams starting their season against one of the big 6 and all giving a better performance than us and actually threatening the opposition goal on occasion. Yup, that's how bad we are. Ahh but we fretened the goal @pards