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Yeah I'm struggling to find any concrete info about him.

He's guaranteed to score a 30 yard last minute screamer against us now.

:lol: Can just imagine the guy ranting to some poor girl in a call centre somewhere about how "they've set the transfer market alight" and how disgraceful it is that Sky aren't showing every minute of Wes Brown's Sunderland career.

There f***ing well better be. We haven't spent anything! AGENT FEES! Come on man. Plus gas and electric is going up by 20% or whatever so that's another £10 million gone I'm sure.

Did we ever find out who the "big name" striker was that Douglas tweeted about a few weeks back? Surely he wasn't referring to Erdinc as he's hardly a massive name? Sorry if it's been mentioned before but I can't be arsed going back through all the thread.

Not all American sports are expensive. You can get baseball tickets from 2 dollars for some midweek games. How much are NFL/NBA tickets like?

Can't see this posted; http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/9420889.stm Pardew saying he's unlikely to feature this season. :-[

Now it becomes clear why Hughton was sacked, we were sitting midtable when he went.

To be fair he wouldn't have been playing today anyway.

and again I swear Sunderland have some forcefield around their goal this season. Never seen teams miss so many nailed on chances than at the stadium of slight recently. It seems that in every game their opposition manage to miss from 2 yards, hit the bar 16 times or have one of the Sunderland players palm it off the line for everyone to see apart from the ref. Really pissing me off now.

Would be madness to go and buy another striker right now. We'd end up over paying and could easily end up chucking £10m plus down the drain on a flop. Think we've still got enough to stay up and we'd get better value in the summer. If we can get a decent loan in however that would be great.

Gutted we never really got to see him and Ben Arfa play together properly.

Undecided over this. £35 million is a stupid amount of money for someone who's only done it for half a season in the premier league but we're not going to be able to get anyone as good even if we splashed the full lot on a replacement. Other players of his standard won't want to play here and even if we do manage to scout a youngster who turns into a world class striker then they'll want away as soon as the big boys come knocking. Carroll seemingly wants to stay and therefore we should be keeping him.

Someone at EA is currently crying into their keyboard thinking of all the commentary that is going to need to be re-recorded.

Has Harry not made any comments about it being the type of stadium they'd be interested in if it was available but it might not be available so he wouldn't want to talk about that.

Just seen the challenge. Will never get overturned, due to height he goes off the ground. Hope I'm wrong like.

Neesy has a a fair point I reckon. We really need to see how Ben Arfa is after this injury before committing to signing him and labelling him as the best thing ever. There's a chance the injury might have affected him mentally. Prior to his injury there's no doubt that on top form Ben Arfa's the better player (on paper) but we don't even know how he'll adapt to the English game yet, I don't think you can tell after 3 just appearances.

Really hope we keep him but what if selling Barton was the only way to afford to keep Ben Arfa. What would you rather?

Eh? Didn't they just beat Bolton the other week away and they got a point at Wigan recently.

To prove the point that a lot of them are more concerned with us doing badly than them doing well... http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=542951

We seem to have lost all our discipline in these last few games. We seemed pretty composed at the start of the season and now we look like we are going out of our way to finish with 10 men each week.

The way Andy Gray says the word "no".

Currently a thread on there comparing Gyan with Carroll. In one of the posts it claims Carroll's not a good header of the ball and it usually just "bounces off his head".