Memphis

Team that's just allowed 3 goals to a rudderless Palace team offloads 24-year-old French international defender and former captain of a Ligue 1-winning Montpellier side to an Italian giant in the Champions League. It would be hard to make up something more ridiculous.

This has actually gotten me angry as well; thought I was bereft of emotion when it comes to this club's cluelessness and lack of ambition, but here we go.

Every transfer deadline day, rumours sprout up only to be followed by the terse mutterings of Lee Ryder: @lee_ryder just got word #nufc not interested in (insert exciting, wonderful potential signing here) So the clock is starting. I assume the Nastasic tweet will come shortly.

Torn here between wanting to see common sense signings of a striker and centre back while also wanting to see Pardew out as quickly as possible. Signings that extend his time here are ultimately counterproductive. That said, Nastasic should be a no-brainer signing if available. But then again, keeping MYM would have been, too.

Word from South America is that Man Utd are signing Falcao for 65 million Euros on a 4 year deal. Crazy spending from them. No idea how they'll line up but that's a hell of a front 4.

What's Cacapa up to these days?

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If you lived in a crumbling shithole of a house, and the only way to get the insurance money to buy a lovely new one was to see the shithole burned down, you'd cheer every time you saw a flame. You might even try to burn the fucker down yourself.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastle-manager-alan-pardew-says-4130344 “I think once at ­Sheffield United (Neil Warnock and I) might have had a bit of an issue. But it didn’t take me long to give him the death-stare and he backed off."

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Pirlo must be rolling over in his grave (I presume he died upon reading that Colback was his ginger counterpart)

Notice Aarons seems to have graduated from "in, on, and around the squad" to now "around the first team". Prepositions are hard.

It is really so simple and has been discussed at length. Our purchasing policy consists of: 1. Buying theoretically promising players under the age of 21 for <2m with the hope they kick on and become assets down the line. 2. Buying quality, younger first team players around 25 or younger, but only in specific circumstances (last year of contract, dispute with current team, reduced price, clearance sale, etc) 3. In cases where 1 and 2 don't apply, loans are a useful way to avoid risk and transfer outlay while acquiring talent. In the first 2/3 of the pitch, our policy works well enough and has generated bargains on a relatively frequent basis. But you cannot count on our policy to be able to consistently get excellent strikers. We have been amazingly fortunate with Remy and Ba. We bought Cisse and he's ultimately been disappointing in spite of his incredible start. That confluence of events has led us to a policy that will never lead to a top class forward's arrival. It's like golf. Going from shooting 90 to 80 is simple enough, but 80 to 75 is tough, and 75 to 72 is incredibly hard. At the top end, you have to work hard and spend a lot to get the difference between a 7/10 and an 8/10 striker. We don't have the balls to try.

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"...it might mean we do need to get two or three goals so that's what our focus must be." What a Mickey Mouse mentality on this prick.

If you're a parent, clearly your top priority is taking care of your kids. That is the thing you need to absolutely do. That doesn't mean that you let your dog die. You can also feed him, too. If you had to pick one, you'd pick the kids. But it really isn't that hard to take care of both.

Says Aarons will be "on, in, and around the squad" this season. What a weird turn of phrase.

Milquetoast bullshit performance and a fucking wretched match to watch.

http://www.espnfc.com/blog/espn-fc-united-blog/68/post/1996459/everton-manager-roberto-martinez-on-the-premier-leagueeuropa-league-and-the-secrets-to-his-success Brilliant interview with Roberto Martinez in which he says: Meanwhile, our manager says:

If we sold Tiote, we'd better get someone like Stambouli in or else we'd be completely toothless in midfield. We've got no one in the current squad with anything like the required physicality and destructive potential of Tiote at his best - or even when he's merely average. I still remember the 3-0 against Man United when Tiote just bossed everything in the centre of the park, totally nullified Rooney and frustrated the hell out of him. He gets a lot of stick sometimes but Tiote can be a hell of a player on his day. Stambouli has a lot of similar characteristics, is friends with Cabella, younger, sell-on potential, ticks a lot of boxes. But it's incredibly risky to try to cash in on Tiote now even if Stambouli comes in.

Centimetre of height, fine, but what is a centimetre of muscle mass? Are we measuring bicep size? 24-inch pythons like Hulk Hogan?

Stambouli's big mates with Cabella, too, so that's something, I guess.

"I'm kind of pleased even though we've lost." Another beauty of a quote.

POSITIVES: - Surprised by how much I liked Colback's overall contribution. Typically hard working, but showed some quality as well especially in a midfield three. - Cabella looks like he's going to be the business. Few bad touches but overall excellent workrate, smart movement, promising link with midfield. - Sissoko's better in the center even if he had some very strange and wayward passing decisions. - Riviere looks quicker than expected, showed great strength at times, promising. - Ayoze and Aarons were lively and fearless (though Aarons dawdled on a pass which led to Aguero's 2nd); Ayoze unlucky not to score after that beautiful footwork NEGATIVES: - Coloccino (as David Pleat brilliantly called him) really is a worry especially as it seems like the manager doesn't see his vulnerabilities the way the rest of us do -- and opposing managers will. At fault for both goals and looking as if he's lost more pace than he'd already lost last season. A big, big concern if he's slotted in as an automatic starter. - Pace of play was far too slow for the vast majority of the game until the young lads came on and injected some pace. Looked a bit leggy and ponderous in the buildup which will never work against a side as good as City. - No shots on target tells its own story. - Dummett is awful. LB is a disgrace right now. - Goufftierrez INEVITABLES: - Though the other subs were decent, the first and most influential Pardew sub was idiotic and messed up the entire shape/flow. As per. - Obertan showed that sparkling regular season form that had his bony ass nailed to the bench. - Floated set piece to Williamson over and over. - Lost at home without scoring.