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Hopefully pardew realises 4-4-2 is not working, we look more fluid in 4-3-3 and create more chances

We need to lift our game, need a cisse goal and cabaye to step up the pace. Would like tiote back

He looked up for it and terrorised the full back, much better when ball played in front of him. Needs to learn to cross earlier instead of hitting byline all the time. We need that variation

Great price for him. That's 2 we've missed out on in Clyne and Van der Wiel, both of whom I reckon we could have convinced to come. Honestly no idea why we didn't go for clyne, how much was he 5 mill ? Bargain for him I think. Thought Zaha would leave Palace and if 4 mill is true for reading, thats another bargain Think Clyne was free? Not sure. Either way it's a bit of a joke. If so then fuck me what were we playing at, young, English and decent

Great price for him. That's 2 we've missed out on in Clyne and Van der Wiel, both of whom I reckon we could have convinced to come. Honestly no idea why we didn't go for clyne, how much was he 5 mill ? Bargain for him I think. Thought Zaha would leave Palace and if 4 mill is true for reading, thats another bargain

Makes you wonder what we have been doing all summer that we still have no right back in. Wonder if the only money we had went on Anita, strange we offered for Carroll and debuchy yet I'm sure Pardew told Ryder that the funds were not there, don't think he will be happy. I will still be happy if we keep everyone n look at youngsters this season, big risk but not as bad as previous years as first 11 is quality

Thought he looked quality, great close control, technique, passing and link up. Needs game time to get up to speed, will be class when he does

Who cares...how many right-footers use the left regularly? James Perch? Aye but Perchinho is different gravy

This will be an awful awful day as usual, nothing changes, we never do anything good on deadline day, just close it now so that we keep tiote and cabaye

Not really Rodgers will probably play Sterling there or another attacker while Downing sits at Left Back (please make this happen when Ben Arfa plays against them)

I honestly don't understand why Clubs do business this late in Transfer window, it all seems a rush at last minute but they have had 3 months since end of last season to sort out what they want and put deals in place. As its not the Manager that organised the finances etc, how come clubs are not putting deals in place sooner that transfer window, only have to register on 1st July. I know there is a knock on effect and players could be injured / you could lose a player or two, but surely could be sorted by return to training. I am a big fan of either doing away with transfer window or finishing beginning of August before season starts, Maybe start transfer window end of May

I go to matches on own for cup games alot of time and never felt out of place. Been to Cinema once on own and felt like a total loner

There is that NO9 bar Steve Wraith has, cheap beer but hot as f*** inside, went in fat as f*** and came out only slightly fat as f***. I could be watching the game in the north pole and I'd still sweat like a beast, especially when Simpson is on the ball. Which isn't for long as he has normally hoofed it or lost it within a few seconds

There is that NO9 bar Steve Wraith has, cheap beer but hot as f*** inside, went in fat as f*** and came out only slightly fat as f***. I was tempted to go at spurs game but thought it would be packed and take ages to get served? How was it to get service at the bar, take a while? Took me about 5-10 mins for first pint, but went back and took about a minute, not to bad tbh

There is that NO9 bar Steve Wraith has, cheap beer but hot as f*** inside, went in fat as f*** and came out only slightly fat as f***. Cheers will give it a go. Basically like a warehouse downstairs (Used to be cosmic on Stowell Street), but loads of singing and they were doing the Ameobi Hokey Cokey when we were in.

There is that NO9 bar Steve Wraith has, cheap beer but hot as fuck inside, went in fat as fuck and came out only slightly fat as fuck.

All much better than what we have. Have you seen Shola's injury record? He's injured now actually. First part is obviously debatable, especially with the players we could play off Shola in comparison to them. Outside of that, you're basking in negativity. Best got injured all the time aswell, would you want a 5th striker then? Lets not consider the injury records of our other strikers in comparison either, because everyones going to get injured regardless obviously & we need to throw money at it. Again, read what I've posted. I've said we need a replacement for best only 2-3M not a 12M striker hardly throwing money around. Basking in negativity, if we go through a injury crisis upfront I'll be reminding you of all of this. Replacement for Best suggests you were happy with Best, a guy who you just said earlier was out for the 2nd half of the season. But to you Shola isnt a solid enough option in comparison as he has a dodgy injury record. Solid talk as always. Do you actually believe that Shola is good enough to be our 3rd choice striker? Don't think anyone is over the moon with it, but is there an option out there that won't set us back 10 million that matches our criteria. I would like to think we could get a young up and coming striker for around 5 mil from abroad but no idea who, in this country they would rip our eyes out, It's no wonder Rhodes has not moved, over 4 million for a Championship/League 1 player is a joke tbh. Carroll for 15 million with 6 goals in 44 games is also a joke, as is 14/15 mil for Fletcher with 10/11 goals per season. For that much I would want a striker scoring 15+ - similar reason I think Zaha has not moved is Palace wanting circa 10 mil for him. I think we are willing to buy players if the price is realistic and weigh everything up on resale, what they add etc. Cisse 8 mil, 13 goals, worth now 15+ - makes complete sense and we scouted perfectly. Maybe they just feel we are not getting value and as its a business it is their right to run it the way they see fit, it's not nice to see and I would love to see us sign a few players - but they have earned the right to be respected in what they have done since we got promoted. I would like to see them improve Reserve/Youth level though as they were going to bring in a few development and only really Bigi/Good came in. We need to start getting at the French/Dutch/Other players at a young age 17-19 and try and get a production line going. I know its difficult but that's our best hope. One thing for sure is we are so much different to the team that went down / got promoted, we have so much more technical ability now. Would like to see us kick on and play more possession football this season.

The fact that we are back in europe should be enough for people to want to go and watch us tbh. Fuck watching it on TV, 15 quid a ticket is not bad. Made me think though (Which is always dangerous), should the club offer Season ticket holders deals for cup games - like £10 or something to try and get more through the doors (keep prices at 15/20 for non season ticket holders). I know this may not go down well for some but surely the club would make more money and ticket holders would more likely take them up on that, a full house, more spending in ground etc. Pisses me off that no one turns up for Cup Europa/League/FA or otherwise. Its a dreadful atmosphere and a full house or circa 40,000 would certainly help our chances going through. I plan to go to all home games (I have watched on TV before when we are at home once or twice over years and hated it) - need to be there if at home tbh

He seems to have been bought for depth rather than play alongside Tiote and Cabaye, the Ajax fans were right Not sure on this, I think Pardew intends to play all 3 personally with Cabaye pushed forward. Think we will end up 4231/433 long term as it would suit our options, but maybe Pardew wants to have tactical options of 442 for some games. We played 433 quite a lot last year as well as tweaked 442/4411 formations. Just looks as if Pards is trying to keep Ba happy.

This and the other quotes don't make great reading... What would the harm be in saying we are still hopeful of 1 or 2 coming through the door if we were anywhere near close to doing something... I'm still hoping we are waiting to qualify for the group stages before pushing the boat out one last time to increase the squad size by improving the first team... The harm would be in press coverage alerting other clubs potentially? - May just be bluffing - although it seems unlikely. If your not naming the club or the player or the position what and who are you alerting?... True, maybe they just want to stop everyone guessing then I guess

Most of those teams play with 1 striker though and they don't have the possibility of losing both their strikers for a month of the season either. That's true and looks like we are looking at January for someone. However we played a lot of games last year with just 1 up front and Ba out to the Left, no difference there and we were better in that formation, I reckon once Pardew realises 4-4-2 is shit he will move back to 4-2-3-1/4-3-3. Acon is an issue but hopefully Ivory coast can sort that out for us - and maybe that's what they are gambling on. They like a gamble

Well we struggled without him for sure So what happens if Ba and Cisse are away in the ACON or both become injured. Shola and Sammy are the only options and they are both injury specialists as well. And unless AC49 explodes like Rooney he's too raw to be put in the mix either. As said, the fact that we have two of the best strikers and the league, as well as one of the best prospects in the country covers up the depth problems we have. Exactly, I just fear an injury crisis upfront and having no suitable backup. Chamakh, Harry Kane, Shola Ameobi, Naismith, Ruiz, Lita. These are the strikers we & those potentially around us are relying on if they lost both their strikers. All much better than what we have. Have you seen Shola's injury record? He's injured now actually. None are better than Shola tbh, Lita/Ruiz/Chamakh certainly not, Kane/Naismith unknown in league

This and the other quotes don't make great reading... What would the harm be in saying we are still hopeful of 1 or 2 coming through the door if we were anywhere near close to doing something... I'm still hoping we are waiting to qualify for the group stages before pushing the boat out one last time to increase the squad size by improving the first team... The harm would be in press coverage alerting other clubs potentially? - May just be bluffing - although it seems unlikely.

How many other teams around us are in better position for Strikers? Chelsea - Torres/Sturridge/? (Lampard/Hazard/Mata also offer goals) Spurs - Adebayor/Defoe (Van Der Vaart, Siggurdsson, Bale also offer goals) Arsenal - Podolski/Giroud (Arteta/Carzola also for goals?) Everton - Jelavic/Mirallas (Fallaini) Liverpool - Suarez/Borini/Carroll (Gerrard/Sahin/Adam) Us - Cisse/Ba/Shola (Cabaye/Ben Arfa/Marveux?) Are we really that much worse off than teams around us last year - excluded Man U and Man City for obvious reasons

We lost Guthrie/Smith/Lovenkrands/Best - none of which are anywhere near the level of this league. We have replaced Guthrie with Anita, Smith -well didn't need to be, Lovenkrands played left wing alot and we have Amal/Marveux/Jonas/Fergie, Best is the one that should have been kept if we were not sure we would get one - I think they have been after one just refuse to panic buy or match stupid prices, think 15mil for Carroll is stupid. It could be Pardew just keeping everything nice and quiet and playing mind games with Liverpool/Lille/Whoever to say we could not give a fuck if we get these players and won't increase the bids. I actually think Liverpool will crack as its clear they don't want Carroll and need to money generated to buy some players, they only have Borini/Suarez other than Carroll I believe, same situation as us really. Although I don't think we should have wasted going after Carroll, not what we need