LionOfGosforth

We'll offer that next week and they'll want 75m by then

Not bad for 9m, will be interesting to see how he does

Just telling it like it is, like the flood of Mackems we had on here a couple of weeks back

This stinks of Palace privately letting us know what they want, while we try to negotiate in good faith and then they move the goalposts each time, while leaking everything to their Southern press mates to look hard to their ultra nonces in black shirts fans. Yes, he's their player and they're entitled to do and ask what they want but I don't think they've ever really intended to sell. We've spent enough time on it, been 2 weeks but feels like the whole summer. Go get Raphinha, fuck Palace.

Let's leave this one, enough is enough. Go for a quality RW, Palace have no intention to sell quite clearly. Feel a bit sorry for the player in all this.

Several pages of bad hair and Deuce being murdered shortly, safe to say this one will trundle on a while yet

News I didn't expect to wake up to, thought we were done with this one. Hope it gets done now but i'd guess no RW now unless we move someone out. Hate that our bids keep getting leaked to the press though, assume it's Palace keep doing this, hoping to smoke out another bidder. Creeps.

Is that why they paid 100m for that overrated show pony Grealish

Pretty close to exactly where my old season ticket was before I moved to the US and gave it to my dad

Easily worth double what we paid for him, would have to be desperate or mental to sell him really.

Fuck is wrong with people

Seem to recall playing against Sheff Wed around 94 and he played up front and looked amazing for about half an hour. Then he took a ball full in the face, had to go off and was never quite the same again. Scored a hat trick against Swansea in the cup later on I think.

Lee Payne. Signed from Reading I think around 88ish. Looked like he weighed about 100 pounds soaking wet, probably made 6 or 7 unremarkable appearances then disappeared. Think he cost about 40k and he was overpriced at that. As far as long forgotten criteria goes, hard pressed to think of someone more forgettable Edit - looked him up and he actually signed from Barnet before going to Reading.

Trust me, Paul Moran was worse. Hard to believe as it may be. At least Kenedy was still on the pitch to hopelessly miss the pen, Moran had waddled off mortal by half time.

Summed us up under Ossie. We could play, had decent footballers but no clue how to do even the basics of defending or pressing or anything to make life difficult for the opposition. Even fucking Pardew scored in this game. I walked out after this game convinced the club would not only be relegated to the old third, but that we may even cease to exist. Last season was a walk in the park

Remember the 3-4 against Charlton after being being 3 up? Oxford away getting battered 5-2 in the fog? Those whining about (miraculously) finishing 7th just haven't lived

Agreed but still nobody can beat Paul Moran for me. Literally everyone else in this thread at least scored a goal or did something, despite being unequivocally shite. Nobody else to my knowledge has come on the field pissed, missed an open goal and never played again

Quality player for Swindon, one of their best in 92/93

Didn't he just sign for them

Yes! Both goals at the Gallowgate end. Gazza scored a trademark FK and Beardsley (if memory serves) jumped between 2 Everton defenders and slammed it in. It's nearly 40 years ago so memory might be playing tricks. We were beating them 2-1 and they got a late pen.

Was that the 2-2 game? Brilliant match that, Gazza and Beardsley fantastic

Yep those plus West Ham was a canny game early on but things didn't pick up until the last few games after Ozzy took over. October through mid-April was just depressing, loads of 0-0s and home defeats as well, games where you honestly wondered why you were there. Probably a conversation for a thread about overall seasons. Other than 88/89, 90/91 takes some beating for worst season ever. Pure boredom.

That's a good one. Honestly, i've seen some dreck at the Toon since first going around 83, Rob Mcdonald and Frank Pingel stand out but that Moran performance against Wolves was genuinely and easily the worst center forward "performance" of all time. He was literally stumbling around on the pitch. This lad was a pro with Spurs, not some fat lad that won a competition to play for a few minutes. That 90/91 season was pure dross, loads of shite home games.

Not sure if mentioned. Paul Moran who came on loan from Spurs around 91. Apparently, Gazza took him out the night before we played Wolves at home. He played the next day still clearly half pissed, trundled a shot from about a yard out against the post that most people's grandad's could have scored, dreadful game finished 0-0 and he was hooked early never to be seen again.

Liked Benny a lot, another from the 89/90 squad who deserved a promotion instead of that fucking awful Sheff Utd team or bloody sunderland, promoted from 6th because of the Swindon scandal