Unbelievable

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Just looked at the main FC Twente forum to see what they think, and the consensus seems to be they would rather keep him for the second half of the season than sell now for a few million. They're title contenders and apparently he has been the rock of their defense this season, so they think it would be risky to sell him now. Personally, I'd still have him here in a shot. If not now, I'd certainly try for a free transfer in the summer.

Been better than last season, best on what my brother-in-law, who is a Twente season ticket holder, says. It's been reported he's holding out for a free transfer to Germany.

Been very quiet this window.

Nah

When did we last get a player from Belgium, unless I'm forgetting somebody obvious? We seem to scout Holland as well, but there is not much attacking talent available at the moment. Graham Carr did mention Belgium in an interview last year. Did he? if so. I'm not sure which player he mentioned, but I'm sure he said he went to Belgium to see someone specific a fair bit. Possibly Cheick before Twente? Aye, I remember them saying they had scouted Tiote before he went to Holland, but that is years ago by now.

Good point oldtype. Can see it becoming a real problem if we go for a French manager one day.

When did we last get a player from Belgium, unless I'm forgetting somebody obvious? We seem to scout Holland as well, but there is not much attacking talent available at the moment. Graham Carr did mention Belgium in an interview last year. Did he? if so.

Also, we seem to be quite well respected in France, whereas our reputation in Holland is still somewhat that of a place where good players go to die.

When did we last get a player from Belgium, unless I'm forgetting somebody obvious? We seem to scout Holland as well, but there is not much attacking talent available at the moment.

15 million

Token offer that, if true.

I'm slowly moving towards the Pardew out camp myself, but to say the football has been dreadful these last couple of weeks is false in my humble opinion. The defending has been dreadful, and the results certainly have, but we've also played some quite decent football recently. The first half vs Reading for example wasn't bad at all. Actually, I think the football itself in recent times hasn't been worse than large periods of last season.

Well yes, that would be the sensible approach. We have gone four windows without that CB we need regardless, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if we pulled out of a deal with Mbiwa the second we convince Colo to stay until the end of the season at least..

I have this lingering fear that this bloke is the contingency plan for the eventuality that we may not be able to persuade Colo to stay. Aren't talks with Colo planned for today? I'd be surprised and elated if we end up with both of them being here by the end of January.

Good post.

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Must not get my hopes up

He was on for a massive 10 minutes and showed more than Torres in 80 before..

Looked a Rooney dive to me..

He's up there in our worries. If he doesn't start scoring soon, we are dependent on HBA or a new signing to keep us up. He's genuinely out of form and has been all season. Big, bad Demba has gone and Cisse needs to pick up the mantle of being THAT guy. Yup. Baffling statement to say he's the least of our worries. If he keeps doing as he has for the last six months we could very well be down. I think he's coming into form since Ba left... I was down at Norwich and he got nothing other than a few high balls to contest... Just needs regular service but at the moment the team are feeding him scraps... As College Dropout has argued far better than I ever could he got plenty of service yesterday and missed a few you would really hope your striker tucks away in a relegation battle. We are hugely dependent on him refinding his goalscoring form and quickly.

He's up there in our worries. If he doesn't start scoring soon, we are dependent on HBA or a new signing to keep us up. He's genuinely out of form and has been all season. Big, bad Demba has gone and Cisse needs to pick up the mantle of being THAT guy. Yup. Baffling statement to say he's the least of our worries. If he keeps doing as he has for the last six months we could very well be down.

I wouldn't touch Bert Van Marjick with a barge pole - he's as non-Dutch as any Netherland's manager i've seen in the top job. He did a Pardew on their n.t., and that he succesfully managed to get a technically gifted squad (with some cracking attacking talent at his disposal) to play junk/anti-football. In this respect he has the Pardew Midas Touch, and encompasses negativity. What a load of crap. During his time at the Holland national team he has broken just about every possible record and had us playing very good football at times. You must have only watched the WC final and Euro campaign and made an argument based on those few matches in isolation to come to such a ridiculous conclusion.

Agreed.