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Palacios went to Wigan from Birmingham. He's a midfielder, not a striker.

Whats this gotta do with Pandev mate? Quit goofing around.

The rest of the interview (from the uncut version) according to a Macedonian: “Although Newcastle is in crises, it’s a big club. With Keegan’s arrival turnaround is expected. There is another thing. Martins plays for them. We were together with the Nigerian in the youth team in Inter.” So he played with Martins in the inter youth team. Cool. Hopefully they get along and it should help him settle. Considering this news broke just before Lazio paid a pretty big sum for Bianchi, it might be a legit deal. Especially as Lazio don't have much money apparently. Maybe our bid funded the Bianchi deal.

Hmmm ... I wonder who Man City have up their sleeve now they've let Bianchi go. Probably Kanoute rather than Fabiano to be honest.

Wow ... Fabiano for £7 million? That seems an alright price, but will he score goals in the premier league? I'm not so sure. However, with Elano already there they might have some chemistry right off the bat. Not a bad move I don't think.

I heard that too. We can't be going into the rest of the season with Mpenza/Samaras/Vassell....Sven must have someone lined up.....I f****** hope so anyway.....I wonder if we've had a word about Pandev. :parky: You don't need any more behind the striker strikers striking for your team, and you've already got a 'cool left leg' hanging off Petrov. So clear off. Besides ... I hear Baros and Cisse are available and they would look particularly fetching in that sky blue

Read the rest of the thread pal! :parky:

Hmmmmm ... Well if we do sign him then at least Keegan would have looked at how he fared against England, and so will have some sense of how he would do in the premiership. Just from reading a bit about him, it seems he is a skilful player that plays just behind the front man. The kind of player a lot of people on here have wanted for a while. Let's see what happens.

Dude his agent is just leaking our name to get him a better contract. Signing Richard is how do you say ... pie in the skyish.

In these desperate times, yes.

Mort is a sensible guy and he handles all the transfer dealings. I don't think we'll become the next Chelsea or anything. I really hope we don't anyway. That would be quite dissapointing.

also they need to fund the deal for alves because the downing deal is not as likely as earlier thought Yup. They're struggling to raise funds for their targets, so we migth take advantage.

Wheater has been really good for them and Huth is back to full fitness so I guess something's got to give. I imgaine one of Huth or Woodgate might be available.

I don't understand where you are going with this? You think when they got to "where they learnt their trade" they had never seen a ball before? Get real.

Justin Hoyte will do that to you ...

Julio is faster and more athletic too, so yeah, I would roll with Bap over Ashton too. Owen is already pretty slow and unathletic at this stage of his career. He needs some va va voom up there with him.

I know ... not as good as England's Phil Neville, Alan Smith and Michael Dawson though.

Spurs ITKs and their bollocks claims that everyone in the world wants to sign for them, and the only reason they don't is because someone else gave them a billion more in hard cash. Therefore these players are really mercenaries and they never really wanted them anyway.

You sir are quite the ignoramus. I can see where your trying to go, but don't go there! Africa has some very gifted technical players. Kanu? Okocha? Eto'o? Kanoute? Yaya Toure? Drogba? ADebayor? Kolo Toure? Not to mention the majority of the French squad!!! Get out of town pal!

It's how the game ought to be played. Good, hard tackling, but without being malicous.

I just saw we had been linked with Baptista and so I wanted to talk about him a bit and I just read the last post and almost choked to death it made me laugh so much! Adebayor the next Ameobi?!!! How bad does that look now? The last post is basically the reason I think Baptista is worth a punt. He needed more time at Arsenal and a run of more games, but it was difficult for him with the strikers and midfielders they had there, especially as he was on loan. I don't think Wenger really committed fully to getting him involved. I think he would be brilliant for us in the original role he played at Sevilla, where he was awesome, as the second striker in a 4-4-1-1. If we could play him just behind Owen it could be brilliant. He has the presence, power and pace that we need upfront, and with Keegan in charge he will be particularly effective, as the ball will be played on the ground, because despite his physique, he isn't a lump it up to him sort. His game would also allow Owen to stay further up the pitch and finish things up in the box without having to drop back and get involved in general play as much, this is because Baptista tends to drop deeper and get involved in play more. Don't believe the hype about him not liking the weather and all that. He was just a bit dissapointed Arsenal decided not to keep him and was looking for excuses. Keegan will be able to give him the confidence to get his game back to where it was at Sevilla, and with Cacapa here he will at least have a fellow brazilian to samba with, you dig. I'm all for this, and I would love us to try to make a move for him. Shola out and Julio Baptista in. So who is with me on this?

Owen is a small, shorter striker, who doesn't really drop back much to get involved in play. Therefore we really should be looking to partner him with a bigger stronger striker who drops into "the hole" and gets involved in play a lot more, and who can hold the ball up and link up play effectively. Ashton is really good at this and he also scores goals. The main problem with pairing up Owen and Ashton is the fact that our two strikers will lack real pace. However if we play a pair of really pacy direct wingers and two quality attacking fullbacks who get into dangerous positions, and supply good balls into the box, then it wouldn't be as much of a problem. Lets see how it goes.

One good game from Jenas and we should want him back? Bollocks mate, the goldfish bowl is in the lads head and he'll never be a top player.. Amen brother man, AMEN!!! No more Jenas loving! This is driving me insane. One game and we want him back?! (Not to mention I didn't notice him once other than the goal and the pass across at the end!) Get the heck out of town with that mess!

Agent blatantly used our name for contract negotiations. Same deal with Dunne too. We definitely weren't after either of them.

Are people trying to imply Jenas is a great player now?! Please get a hold of your emotions and stop getting over excited If they gave him back right now for free I would pass. Don't you dare go there. He is absolutely rubbish, so don't even bother. End of story.