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But has our squad from last season grown more as players than last year. Depends on Cabaye/Cisse/Ba in second season here. Marveux stepping up, Ben Arfa blitzing the fuck out of the league and Anita adapting. Still have a pretty good first 11, and you would hope a few of our players will kick on from last year and once Cisse/ Ba gets going should be ok. Looking below top 6/7 still don't think any team is as good as what we have in first choice 11. Tbh, wouldn't have sold best necessarily if they were not 100% that a striker was coming in. Would not have kept Lovenkrands though, we have replaced Guthrie with Anita/Bigi. Signed Amalfatino who offers another option (Could argue replaces Lovenkrands as he played left wing alot). It would be nice to go out a sign first choice RB/CB and striker but also as important that we have the same players for next year. I would normally be on this bandwagon of calling names and being furious about lack of activity, but so used to it now I try to look for positives in the team.

Not ideal not getting a striker and right back but tbh not the end of the world assuming we keep the players we have. Don't think Carroll would have been a good signing and would rather we had gone for Zaha or someone similar, young and happy to play second fiddle to Ba/Cisse which I don't think Carroll would have. Right back was main concern and still will be. Simpson is absolute shit but hope that Perch/Tav/Ferguson can force their way into the team at full back to kick Simpson out. We can only hope that Marveux and STaylor stay fit and we don't lose Cisse/Ba through injuries. Will cost us a fortune in January for a striker though if they go to ACON as clubs will know we are desperate. Personally looking forward to seeing Anita/Amalfatino/Bigi/Abedi/Tav/Sammy/Vuckic/Fergie this year, hopefully they all push on and keep the likes of Raylor/Simpson/Oberwank out of team by end of the season

Just booked 3 tickets for this, East stand pretty full, Milburn the same in middle sections. Loads left in Gallowgate and Leazes - reckon 25k max

Qpr seem to be a fucked up club throwing money at any player, don't appear to have any strategy to it, be interesting to see if Hughes can actually make them into a team, suspect not tbh

Rodgers sounds like a fucking idiot like, not from pards school of man management, reckon he has just jumped on Martinez / sousas methods at Swansea and now thinks he knows everything about possession football. I will give him until Christmas. The teams near the top all realise it takes a balance off attack v defence and shape like man city / man utd. He is talking about bringing attackers through n playing them in defence as they can always move back, alot of attacking players can't tackle or track for shit.

Isnt that normally when we sign players. It goes totally quiet and the press are guessing more than normal. Saying that, not confident we will bring anyone in. If we don't I'm not going to get totally pissed off n call dekka, pards and the fat one cunts all the time. Feel they have earned a little bit of respect and do what they feel is right with the blueprint for the club. On the plus side this season we may see a few breakthroughs from younger players and that will boost the squad. Not at all fussed about signing Carroll n would rather sign a younger striker with pace and trickery than him

They just never learn do they, why not let things play out before gloating. I think they truly believe we will roll over and have shit players and squad, whereas we actually have a quality first 11 and enough youth / squad players available, virtually 2 players for each position. Bring it on

Genuinely don't see why we'd need or want him. One of my friends is a city fan, and he says he's nowhere near what he's cracked up to be... "A typical Match Of The Day player"... i.e. does a couple of nice passes, or nice runs in a game, but lacks any real work ethic and hugely inconsistent. We already have good options on the wings anyway. We have two good options on the wings. Johnson and Ben Arfa on each wing would be wanktastic tbh, I know not what we need but would love to see it.

Problem is Bale is going to get in behind him as well. Simpsons biggest problem is his backing off, just confront the fucker. He is our biggest liability in my view

Surprised they could hear him after he had backed off the phone

This bloke has far to much time on his hands tbh coming up with all this shit pure dedication to being not Sam

Don't think I have looked forward to a season as much as this in sometime (No doubt after 10 games I will be pissed off again ). So much to love about our club at the moment and the thought of seeing Cabaye, Tiote, Ben Arfa, Cisse, Ba, Colo, Krul again is quality. Add to that Marveux (Hopefully stay fit), Tayls, Anita, Amalfatino and maybe Tav/Sammy/Bigi and Abeid and could be an exciting season - now please just go and get a frickin right back so that I don't just sit for 90 mins every game calling Simpson a c**t

I hope Anita and Tiote High 5 each other every time they clatter the opposition tbh

Or past Simpson

What the actual f*** Find myself sniggering like fuck at work looking at this

Looks pretty dynamic on paper, be interesting to see if he is thrown in for Sat.

Come on Marty you know he's worth it - well better than Cisse and the mag's will be well jel

I think Pards is just looking for versatility from his squad personally. With Anita it offers him up another formation to play with the 4-2-3-1 with Cabaye slightly forward, We could go 4-4-2 with Cabaye alongside Anita or Tiote and Ba/Cisse up front, we could go 4-3-3 with Cabaye/Anita/Tiote - Ben Arfa/Cisse/Ba. Having another quality midfielder gives us another dimension really which we did not have last year

She whines about different stuff, the football whining is proper annoying when i'm trying to watch for the yellow ticker on ssn

Only have to ask one question. What would you miss more, Newcastle United or your wife whining on yet again about you going out to watch Newcastle United? My answer, would never miss my wife's whining - it's nearly as annoying as a fucking mackem. I don't complain when you watch Geordie fucking shore and I have no interest in walking around Dorothy Perkins or some other shops on a Saturday afternoon lying to you about how great you look in this dress or that top when I am really not paying attention because i'm on twitter checking if we have signed Debuchy

In theory not necessarily, it should be the system we use but we could also play 4-3-1-2 with Hatem behind Ba and Cisse but give him the freedom to move across the front line and use fullbacks to provide extra width. Or a 4-2-3-1 with Cabaye centre attacking, Ben Arfa right attack and Ba left attack

Speak for yourself, bonny lad. think majority of fans thought it was a joke appointment me included, happy to be proven wrong thus far

Well, Marveaux certainly is. True, looking forward to seeing him this season, hope he can stay fit - appears to have a lot of potential to be class for us

Sick of Pards like. All he ever does is give players confidence. I mean, what sort of shitty manager comes out and praises his fringe players? f*** You Pards, f*** you. Class man manager is Pards seems to have shaped exactly the right attitude in the squad since he took over and to think we all hated the smarmy fucker when he came

I reckon Steven Taylor will be like a new signing as will marveux