Andy

They're bollocks though, considering they don't weigh in the quality of opposition he's started against. Edit: Or what Dave typed about 3 hours before me, basically.

Was good today, especially when asked to play out wide. It seems to help his confidence being the "main man"; he raises his game.

Top player. Can only see him improving as well.

I fixed it ages ago, speed the fuck up.

Americans.

Speculation, then. It doesn't jutify abusing our manager, who happens to have done a bloody good job. Of course it's speculation, but in all honesty do you think it's the wrong interpretation? I think you're smarter than that. He certainly hasn't been dropped for his performance in the last match, has he? I do agree with the second sentence there though. Questioning it is fair game but the abuse is a bit much.

It's really frustrating like... Short-term, I'm still confident we'll win today anyway, but the "overreactions" are because people are looking at the long-term implications of this... Ultimately we're going to throw away a very talented player because he doesn't run around as much in training, by the sounds of it.

Baffling by Pardew that like. Rewarding training ground performance ahead of performance on the pitch, really disappointing.

That's what baffles me, the inconsistency of it. Pardew seems to have no problem with players being shit on the pitch as long as they run around a bit on the training ground.

Urgh. If he wins matches on the pitch who gives a fuck what he does in training? I don't give a toss if it's unfair on the likes of Lovenkrands who put in 100% on the training pitch, if he's producing the goods in the important 90 minutes - which he has started to recently - then he needs to be starting for us. Hopefully Pardew's bright enough to see that despite his comments in the press.

Could he be suspended for longer than 3 games given the nature of choking someone?

One to treasure that like. That's the most cutting comment I've ever seen you make.

Facetime or it didn't happen, Dan.

Meh, we ran with "Joke Enrique" for long enough and it did him the world of good.

That's what I was thinking, you'd think clubs would just do this shit over Facebook chat or something in this day and age.

Can't see Ba wanting to bin the clause altogether or it wouldn't have been there in the first place. I can't see him wanting the clause to be so high that it would repel bids either... If (big "if") a deal's renegotiated I'd expect it to be on the same contract length, with increased wages and perhaps a £15m release clause...

They're not buying out his contract though. A £7m release clause means that if a rival club bids £7m to us (note: not to the player himself), we're obligated to accept it and allow the bidding club to discuss terms with the player...

Aye, if he has to go I hope PSG or one of the top teams in the other leagues snipe him away from the likes of Spurs. Crazy if the clause is so low though. You would've thought we had almost all the power in the transfer considering his knee is fucked and he didn't seem to have a plethora of options. Strange move.

PSG were always the big worry like, for the simple fact that they can throw whatever they want at him and not really have to worry that much about it going tits up with his knee. If this doesn't happen in January I'll be surprised if it doesn't happen in the summer. Hopefully Ba has a desire to continue playing in the Premier League.

What constitutes good business? We'd be making a significant profit. Get the fuck in.

The shitter the team they've got out the more worried I am.

It seems obvious that a clause exists, it's the nature of it that I'm interested in. If it was a simple buy-out clause I'm sure it would have already been activated. It might become active depending on our finishing position or something like that.

Absolutely not, it's a state secret akin to North Korea.

I agree with Dave, he needs to be used for impact. Bring him on either as a second striker or on the wing if we're struggling and the other team are tiring.

If Obertan starts I swear to god I will flip and delete this entire forum.