Unbelievable

Mbiwa and Douglas would be quite a tasty centre. Not now in January though, much too risky.

Get in! Great signing. Can't believe we've adequately resolved our two most problematic positions that have gone unattended for so long, and for reasonable fees too.

Gouffran

Douglas please

Giggs that

IF all this happens for real he should come over to watch us more often.

Happy birthday Fabricio, now declare you're happy to serve out your contract and lead us to safety please.

Plus the likes of Saylor, Tiote, Bigi and Marveaux on the bench. Not sure Gouffran can effectively play wide left mind.

Not sure any player could.

Seen a fair bit of him, would probably compare him to Lillian Thuram but at LB. He's tall, physical and solid defensively. Does get forward but could probably improve that side of his game. If he develops as he has done so far he will become a top player. For reference, this is the post that compared him to LT

Definitely feels like we're being played

His father again

Right, time to go to bed with all these negative articles coming out..

This is pretty much the perception of Newcastle United in Holland too I'm afraid.. Edit: what I mean is for example when Anita came to NUFC from Ajax, you could read/hear similar derogatory stuff about Newcastle in the Dutch press.

Ouch. Aye, that article isn't particularly complimentary for us..

Two interesting articles in the French press in the last two hours about our popularity with French players at the moment: http://www.footmercato.net/premier-league/pourquoi-ils-craquent-tous-pour-newcastle_99356 http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/sport/20130121.OBS6088/pourquoi-newcastle-n-achete-plus-que-des-footballeurs-francais.html

Better then Lilian Thuram apparently..

Seeing is believing Nut

http://mercato.eurosport.fr/football/transferts/2012-2013/mapou-yanga-mbiwa-tout-proche-de-newcastle_sto3585614/story.shtml

Have a link to that forum?

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