Unbelievable

Howay, considering the team he plays in Michu has done a fair bit better than some of those, notably Yaya and Cazorla.

Yep. Lost the first leg 2-1 away, but scored in the 2nd minute of the game, so it's to be expected Celta will fold badly as the match goes on.

Meh, about on a par I would say. You have to consider Michu is doing it in an otherwise midtable at best team..

Cronaldo makes it 2-0 Game over.

Yes, he's a fantastic finisher but aside from that many players offer more. Fellaini being a prime example. He's quite a bit more than a fantastic finisher though, although best player in the league is pushing it substantially..

Holy jesus Cronaldo. Mou

Somebody better tell Hatem, and hopefully Remy.

Damnit, just made my changes and din't think of including him..

Why wouldn't CL Teams look at him though? If he's as good as his reputation indicates? Don't get me wrong, I'm over the moon that we've got him, I'd have just thought that there may have been more competition. Wait, so in one thread you are expressing your disbelief at getting a good French national team player relatively early in the window without much competition and in another you are expressing your dissatisfaction at not getting another? Have you considered that in Remy's case the selling club and player may be waiting to see if better options come their way, just as you apparently expected Debuchy to do? Don't really have the time to go into too much detail right now but I'm not expressing my disbelief at all, it's more a passing comment. My thoughts on Remy are that the Board should have had the deal tied up earlier to give us as much chance of picking up maximum points over the next few games. Also, Remy is a big fee (if the rumoured £10m+ is true) and not in great from hence a risk for any club. Debuchy is a low fee and has played consistently well for years. Which makes it even more understandable from our point of view that we haven't just gone in and bid whatever Marseille quoted without a second thought. As if our Board spend anything without a second thought . The difference between what OM want and what we'd pay is going to be what? A maximum of £2m? If we meet in the middle and find we've overpaid by £1m........so what? The signing, ahead of winnable games, would give great momentum to both the squad and fans, would give an extra option and would potentially enable us to let him play himself into the team and settle in. If we save £1m but sign him at the end of the month, we may be in the bottom 3 before he starts his settling in period. Your figures are pure conjecture though. Marseille paid 15 million euros for Remy in 2010. If you'd gone to them in december saying we want him before the window starts as you suggest they would have named their price, and you can pretty much guarantee it would have been a hell of a lot more than a 2 million difference with what we are looking to offer. As it is we are trying to manoeuver the player into wanting to come to us whilst hoping no other club takes a serious interest. It's how we do business, and it has merits and drawbacks, but no amount of fan whinging will change it anytime soon imho.

You should have been sat in the Amex last weekend watching him if you think he's on better form that those 3. I only saw parts of the first half of that match, in which he played on the right side at times. I'll take your word he wasn't very good, but from what I've read on here nobody was. He was good vs Man U and Arsenal though, so on that basis I'd start him before the others at this point in time.

Why wouldn't CL Teams look at him though? If he's as good as his reputation indicates? Don't get me wrong, I'm over the moon that we've got him, I'd have just thought that there may have been more competition. Wait, so in one thread you are expressing your disbelief at getting a good French national team player relatively early in the window without much competition and in another you are expressing your dissatisfaction at not getting another? Have you considered that in Remy's case the selling club and player may be waiting to see if better options come their way, just as you apparently expected Debuchy to do? Don't really have the time to go into too much detail right now but I'm not expressing my disbelief at all, it's more a passing comment. My thoughts on Remy are that the Board should have had the deal tied up earlier to give us as much chance of picking up maximum points over the next few games. Also, Remy is a big fee (if the rumoured £10m+ is true) and not in great from hence a risk for any club. Debuchy is a low fee and has played consistently well for years. Which makes it even more understandable from our point of view that we haven't just gone in and bid whatever Marseille quoted without a second thought.

Why wouldn't CL Teams look at him though? If he's as good as his reputation indicates? Don't get me wrong, I'm over the moon that we've got him, I'd have just thought that there may have been more competition. Wait, so in one thread you are expressing your disbelief at getting a good French national team player relatively early in the window without much competition and in another you are expressing your dissatisfaction at not getting another? Have you considered that in Remy's case the selling club and player may be waiting to see if better options come their way, just as you apparently expected Debuchy to do?

Reading the Norwich match thread and the last pages of this one it seems most of us have all but given up on Jonas. There's no denying he hasn't been at his best for us for some time, but he's only 29 and whilst it seems his blistering pace has gone he has been a more than useful player since he signed for us. Anyway, just wanted to point out that maybe he's just having a spell of bad form, not unlike some other major players (notably Tiote and Colo) are having this season? I for one hope we haven't seen the last of the combative if technically limited Jonas who works tirelessly to protect the defense and relieves pressure with his runs with the ball and good protection of the ball drawing fouls.

6 million for those two a bargain

Everton away? When we were utter toss? Aye

On current form I'd have Obertan on the left of a front 3 ahead of Jonas, Sammy and Ferguson.

Everton away?

He isnt out of contract at all

Aye, believe it or not i'd take getting no players in as a trade off Anyway.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9788987/Thomas-Inces-return-from-Blackpool-to-Liverpool-hits-deadlock-as-clubs-fail-to-agree-over-price.html From that article: Didn't Sigurdsson just turn them down for Spurs?

Can't really judge what they did without knowing the details of the negotiation really. His agent hasn't exactly covered himself in glory in the Moses to Chelsea deal either, and it's not like football agents are saints by any description.

Can't play out wide though by all accounts. Also African and only had one good spell in his career..

That North Korean bloke? How did he get on in Germany? (didn't even know he went there )

It's tough to point it out as a failure on our part given the players we later signed (HBA, Ba, Cisse), but signing Moses in January 2010, when Wigan were the only Premiersip side interested, for 2-3 million would have been fantastic business. I've watched him many times since the change in nationality and he's a genuine star. We are a big enough team that he might have stayed as well. He has been horrendous in France and has high wages, but I wanted NUFC to sign Kalou in the summer for that exact role. Turned us down did he not? <- Moses I mean Agree on Kalou btw.

Wiki (I know) has it down as 4.5 raising to 6.5. He may not have set the world alight, but he brings raw pace and decent finishing to the table. Hardly a winger however.