nufc4eva

I do hope that we have a process in place now to ready the youngsters for our first team, bring them through to development until 18-19, send on loan to Gateshead/Hartlepool/York for a season - move them up to League 1 level if poss, then load to championship before integration with the squad. I say the local clubs because it gives us a chance to look closely at them. We need to try and use the local clubs as well as support their progress, it's good we started sending players to gateshead, if we get them down there or blyth etc at a young age it gets them ready for competitive football. Development squad is ok but the competitiveness will not be the same. I would actually like to see us strike up a deal with a club abroad - probs in france/holland to loan our promising youngsters out to them to get used to technique based football etc

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDDaVYSn_0v617z_Uzzy3FYwH_Ep2cpXLYBL9haWLnJtqpslaJ Seriously man, if this goes through, it will be a major turning point. I have no idea how Ashley manages it, I mean Cabaye for 4-5 million was ridiculous, worth 15-20 mill in todays market, same with players like Tiote, for 3.5 mill he is still worth 10-15 of anyones money. Santon for 5 mill seemed bargain also, as does Debuchy, Mbiwa, Sissokho, Gouffran, Haidara and at 8 million Cisse paid his money back last season

This is it. I think it'll allow him to do the basic stuff well like he used to like breaking play up and protecting the back four instead of trying too much. Agree with all of this, I really don't think he is a bad player, I just think a bit to much has been expected of him. In the destroyer role there are not many better, it's when he is forced to hold onto the ball because of a lack of options or expected to drive forward. With the combinations we can potentially put out now our midfield is millions of years away from when we put Butt and Smith in midfield

Haha, in all honesty he probably won't but you never know

I would keep him around and bring him on in games when we are actually winning, let him learn from Cabaye, Sissokho and Anita. If we did loan him out I would like to see him go to one of the top teams in the championship - also hope Fergie and sammy do as well

Oh he can still fuck it up - i'm just waiting for him to shoe horn Shola/Jonas/Perch or Willo in somewhere - probably turn Willo into a centre forward or some lunacy I'm all for starting Gouffran,Sissokho and Mbiwa against Villa, no doubt Pards has other wacky ideas though

Watched him on you tube this morning and must admit it was better than porn. He really is a big powerful beast with pace, technique and it looks like a footballing brain - oh the possibilities

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players some people know about already but appears he knows how cheap also. we have paid next to nothing for talent that would have cost a hundred mil if British, worth every penny

what does our squad of 25 look like ? under 21 doesn't count does it?

fuckin weirdos

Getting rid of Williamson and Simpson in the same window or concerned about Colo. he any good like? I have just sold Shola, willo,Simpson, Jonas and alien head on fifa.good riddance, also signed thauvin and aubemayang

Whats his positional and tactical sense like? - for example I think Cabs is very positionally and tactically astute and always seems aware of where he should be I'll wait for Mole to pick-up this one, he seems to have the lowdown on Sissoko. He's not like Cabs in that regard who i believe is underrated in his positional sense, its good but he more uses his pace and strength to get back into position after those long dribbles that he is known for. He's basically a poor mans Yaya but that's no bad thing in fact its f*cking excellent ! I should mention something else, he's pretty canny on the wing too but i hope Pardew doesn't use him there Sounds fantastic, can't wait to see him and the rest play, sounds exactly what we need to build up tempo and momentum

Well if that's true, then hats of Mike and company. Something has definitely changed as we have been astute since last week and pushed through the signings with no hitches, unheard of with our lot. This must give our current lads a big boost and shows ambition to improve. If we can get over this rough patch we must be stronger for it

Bargain It's no wonder we don't go british when thats what you pay for total dross. I would love to have a few british lads in there and it looks like we will sign in this country if the money is right (Bigi) but tbh the foreign lads are much better value and are blessed with technique most the time. I hope we can produce our own over next few years and the likes of Campbell, Tavernier, Streete all progress. It would be good to have them as the next generation I think - maybe also include Inman / Newton / Dummett coming through

Happy for him to play right, we have been missing someone there without Ben Arfa, would personally deploy Obertan/Marv on the left. Looking at the squad now there are options for how we play which is great. Potentially you could put Tiote and Sissokho in centre if we needed strength or a combination of one with Cabs and Anita or Marv in there. Could deploy 2 up front with Gouffran and Cisse or Gouffran out right. When Ben Arfa is back we could deploy him anywhere across also without much problems. Also having Debuchy and Mbiwa in defence should mean we can recover from attacks and be countered less whilst also giving support and confidence to those in front

Na, I was told it would be today by someone close to his mam. No doubt they will claim he is world class and a bargain when he signs, lunatics

Didn't they think sissokho was the dogs bollocks when they thought they could get him and now he's either average or just pure shit. Fuck me they don't help themselves do they. Fucking arrogant about a lot yet they have very little to be arrogant about yet they think players like Fletcher, Johnson, Cattermole are class oh and I quote "Ndiaye will be a beast running through the opposition", not a chance a single one of them saw him play previously so what an odd statement

Whats his positional and tactical sense like? - for example I think Cabs is very positionally and tactically astute and always seems aware of where he should be

Debuchy I was really excited about and now I have no fucking idea tbh, I guess MYM really to see what all the hype is about Im getting optimistic and think we may sign 2 more also after Sissokho - unlikely but I hope Very happy right now though that we have what we need to see this season through. I just hope these players gel and we can be a force in rest of the games. From sounds of it the athletic nature of MYM and Sissokho coupled with Gouffrans movement and what we already have in Santon, Colo, Debuchy, Cabs, Anita and Cisse we should be difficult to handle for most teams

good we have been missing that. added with cabs and Anita technique we should be able to control ball now then

so will this guy close up the gaps we seem to always have tracking back as well as driving us forward? is he fast and powerful?

tav should now go on loan again to championship this time

He's kind of fucked if he still can't keep us up, removed all excuses now Can't wait to see them all now.

Fucking mental this week like, from despair to joy