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I agree. It's just the way the premiership has become. It's more and more rare for teams of our stature to sign these relative unknowns. I will always give every player a chance though, as it is only fair. As someone mentioned earlier Keegan has good contacts in Liverpool and could have heard great things about the guy. As things stand he is a football player that our staff feel is worthy of signing and that is good enough for me.

Geremi's got the mobility of my great great grandmother and she is no longer with us. If this kids limbs ar eactually in working order I would rather we gave him a chance before writing him off. Just my opinion but I imagine Guthrie would be one of the youngsters who we bring off the bench who should get the odd number of games for us as he continues to develop. Lets not forget we have extra subs this season so we really need to get some subs in too.

Big Mike is such a tease. Told you the signings would start pouring in. Go get em Mikey!

FYP u r so on it blad! kill'd it!

I was going to start a baseless positivity thread, but looking at that it'd be better coming from you. Big Mike is a world class WUM. We'll start rolling in the players shortly.

Prediction ... Zoggy out and Nuri Sahin in. Remember I told you!

swap deal for bendter so we have the attack sorted.. then i would be ecstatic Bendtner is very overrated imo. And Alexandre Song hugely underrated ... We need a young DM to eventually take over from Butt, plus Song can also play at centre back.

Well he won't get more games at Arsenal thats for sure. Would be one of the carling cup crew at the most. Swap deal for Alexandre Song and I'd be ecstatic.

Jol I thought Bentley was signing for you bums yesterday?! Why do you insist on embarrassing yourself this way? Bentley will sign for Villa shortly.

Between today and Sunday I'm expecting at least two signings. Big Mike is just toying with our emotions he's a tease. He said those things yesterday knowing people would be a bit worried and then he will surprise us with a couple of signings. The Barry transfer is holding everything else up this summer I feel. As soon as that goes through, along with Bentley's move then things will certainly start happening. Rangers also need to sign a centre back so Cuellar can finally complete his move also.

Would take him anyday. I know he failed somehow at Arsenal, but I still think he's made for EPL... He's got most of the core attributes, Stength, Pace as well as a good ability on the ball and for at least a season a good eye for goal. However, i would never play him as a striker, he simply is never going to be prolific enough. I think he would make a craking attacking midfielder though, chipping in with enough goals to satisfy the position. You know what though if we play the formation of last season with Baptista and Martins upfront with Owen just behind, then Baptista won't have to be super prolific. The three combined would get enough goals for sure. Baptista also scored 50 goals over two seasons at Seville at one point so he's got it in him to score a lot of goals.

I love Baptista. Keegan will turn him into the next Les Ferdinand.

fascinating ... it is the 'other clubs transfers thread' tbf. nee need for the dig Just having a bit of fun. It's just that from someone who gives us "itk" information about Villa and Eto'o going to Spurs I was quite dissapointed that the only thing he could tell us about today was O'Hara. Huge letdown.

fascinating ...

This might depend on whether we decide to keep Barton at the club or not. If it did come down to it I would much rather have Larsson who is a better and more skilled attacking player. When are the talks taking place regarding Barton's situation anyway? I think I'm leaning towards a clean break from Barton.

Sidwell is a tidy and sturdy player who will keep the ball moving forward with positive distribution. He was raised at Arsenal overall. He didn't fit into the Chelsea workhorse style. Sidwell is a good midfielder who works well in a 4-4-2, couldn't really see where he could have fit into our new system though so not too upset at losing out on him. I'm pulling for you guys to land Bentley over Tottenham and I think your in with a good chance of doing so. You just need to let Barry go pronto so you can use that money on Bentley while Spurs keep offering their second hand rejects and multi year payment plans. Freakin' con artists.

Build them up and then knock them down ... The media's speciality.

Look ... yes everyone is entitled to their view but not every second of everyday where every thread is hijacked by the Ashley bashers and every ridiculous Sunday paper rumour is used as a stick to flog the owner to death. That is my point. As has been said a million times, your point has been made so wait till the end of the window then we can all look back over things and make a fairer assessment. Don't come crawling out of your holes everytime the Bin Laden boys supposedly show more interest or some American tycoons or Saudia Arabia billionaires supposedly turn down Ashleys pleas to take the club off his hands. This causes you all to start wringing your hands and crying your eyes out over our useless cheapskate owner. Very boring and extremely irritating. Howmany times day after day after day ... No Arshavin! The owner sucks. No Turan! The owner sucks! No Gomis! The owner sucks! No Gomez! The owner sucks! Jonas Gutierrez on a free! The owner sucks! Gutierrez only two international caps! The owner sucks! Sidwell to Villa! Why aren't we in for him! Owner sucks! Sidwell to Newcastle! Not good enough! Owner sucks! Then when the more sane amongst us try to calm down this onslaught of repetitive crap they are hailed as the blindly optimistic Ashleyites. What a nerve.

Very cute. But exceedingly stupid. Bloody good impression of you, then. If you've nothing to add then shut up. Take your corny punchlines somewhere else.

from the dvd i watched, he run with ball but rarely beats his men so dribbling is not his forte. he just runs with ball when there is space in front. he is a typical grafter not the flair type of player we need. also notice he is not exactly comfortable and quick with his feet like most wingers. typical souness type of right side/left side midfielder. as i said, he seems to have less skills than Milner. Very Emerton or Geremi, typical utility player. Maybe you need to upgrade your shitty DVD player.

Very cute. But exceedingly stupid. No one is asking anybody to sign up to anything. Just stop making a new thread every five minutes moaning about the same shit time and time again when we are at the start of the summer and the owner has stated his plans which he is currently trying to implement. The only time the "radical Ashleyites" are ever heard from is when they are trying to shut up the suicidal doom monger's bitching 24-7 about the same bollocks. Also love the way Dennis Wise is claimed to be the director of football whenever anyone wants to critisize the club. Bloody hilarious that.

Never shoots and never crosses. I don't think those spindly little legs of his are able to generate the necessary power to do so.

Fabregas selfish? Now I have heard it all. Hleb is such an idiot.

and how do you feel about the current man u model that was employed to regain their title from chelski and hold onto it? is that repulsive? Man U's success and revenue has been built up over time. They have consistently been in ithe Champions league and at the top of the table for a good while now and are enjoying the benefits of this. I have no problem with their spending which is still only a fraction of Chelsea's. Not to mention Man United's initial success was all built off of mostly their youngsters who cost them nought. When we are in the champions league year in year out then we can start spending like those guys. Way to completely miss the point by the way. Why don't you comment on what I had to say about Everton then?

There are basically just a bunch of Chelsea groupies on here who think they support Newcastle. They just want someone to come in and start throwing absurd amounts of money around like a madman. Personally I find the Chelsea model repulsive and I more than happy with what I have seen done so far and I see no sense in getting upset when we are basically at the start of summer and the new owner has done absolutely nothing wrong. People are always gushing with admiration for Everton who are consistently finishing 5th nowadays, but who has spent less money than them!!! The only big money signing they have had recently is Yakubu and this was just last summer. If we had bought a Lescott, Jagielka or Phil Neville, idiots would have been moaning about not enough ambition being shown and never getting into Europe and all that crap. Well guess what Everton have been kicking our arses now for a good while and these are the sorts they have been bringing in. People need to grow up and just think about things logically for once, they really do.