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Recall him!

Lack of Hatem

Would be horrible. Would hate to start the season against Sunderland. However, it might mean that we get one more game of Ben Arfa

Raylor ahead of Barton? Wtf's wrong with you? It's the lack of Cabaye that worries me.

Hopefully this gives me a chance to watch France and wor Cabaye instead

Not at all what we need.

Krul Simpson Taylor Colo Enrique Marveux Tiote Cabaye Jonas Ba Best Bench: Forster, Williamson, Taylor, Obertan, Barton/Vuckic, Ameobi, Lövenkrands Unfortunately, I think Shola will get the nod ahead of Best

Could it not just have been moved to Old Trafford or something? Obviously still give people their money back for those who can't/don't want to go, but better to get the game played. Feel sorry for Krul like, bet he was looking forward to it.

What does that even mean I'm glad I'm not the only one wondering The way it reads to me is that they are low on defenders, but €9m is too good to turn down for him. Pieters is not worth €3m these days. Last sentence doesn't make any sense to me, maybe that it should be reinvested straight away (Carroll situation, anyone?)

As if we're paying €8-10m for a left back EDIT: €5m is mentioned quite a bit later on in that thread. Someone says that that is nowt for a club like Newcastle Also, Dutch to Swedish really doesn't work well with google translate

http://www.nusport.nl/oranje/2585005/van-persie-en-pieters-missen-training.html Van Persie and him missed training on Monday, apparently. Pieters has been injured has he not? Though according to that article (no idea how reliable the source is, obviously), he missed training for personal reasons.

Since van Bronkhorst retired, he's been first choice left back for Holland. Probably not as good as Enrique, but probably a better replacement than what most of us have been expecting.

Hadn't heard of Pieters before today, but (if true) it's positive that we're signing a Dutch international to replace Enrique. Obviously, I'd have preferred Enrique to stay, but I've been set on him leaving for months now, Pieters might be a decent replacement.

Kinnear was a fucking embarrassment man, horrible man and a horrible manager. That press conference is funny as fuck though.

Aye

When I was a kid, I used to know Gary Sundgren (remember him? no? okay) and his kid, as well as current AIK-player Victor Lundberg. My brother used to play with another AIK-defender, Per Karlsson. I've served Kenny Pavey a pint of coke. A lad at work knows Nobby Solanos sisters bloke or ex bloke or something like that, can't quite remember.

Oba Martins

He'll still do the same thing as now man. Run with the ball a bit, then a) fall over, b)misplace the forward pass/cross or c) pass it back to Jose. or d) cross it onto a stiker's head for a class goal or even e) bend it in the corner of the net for a class goal. Basically I love that smiley

He'll still do the same thing as now man. Run with the ball a bit, then a) fall over, b)misplace the forward pass/cross or c) pass it back to Jose.

You know the answer to that question.

Cheers. Still a daft rule IMO.

Btw, how come some players don't get a work permit? Know nowt about the politics that goes on when it comes to work permits, but it seems fairly strange that someone who'd come in and earn shitloads (thus bringing in massive taxes) don't get a permit?

Can't wait to see Tiote and Cabaye together, a farce that they've not played a single minute together in pre-season.

His comments on Cabaye sounds to me like he didn't want Nolan in our starting XI, justifying that sale even more.