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I always though he looked quality when he was at City, though didn't see him that much.

Not sure whether I'd rather have Malouda or SWP. I suppose either would be good.

I'd actually be surprised if we did buy a specialist LB, seems KK does see Zog as a viable option there. And with Jonas the LW position is pretty much occupied.

Yeah, it's only 10:25 in that article, 12:30 is a much better time to join Arsenal.

He's getting on my nerves a bit now but he's a saint compared to Alan fucking Green

Nah, it can't be turmoil, they're a London club.

I was up in the Leazes corner and it sounded good from there. Not sure about how it sounded around the ground, but there was definitely more singing than your average match. The nervy performance might not have helped at times.

Yep, loving it. Would be nice to get a lead so he can come on and get half an hour without too much riding on it.

I love KK, let's hope he gets his way.

Signing Silverstre and getting rid of Senderos would seem a strange move. As for us, I'd be happy to see him here, often gets judged similarly to Pascal Cygan who he's much better than.

Sorry!

True, we don't have anyone to play the Alan Shearer role, playing nearly every game and getting the goals. Hopefully someone will prove themselves this season, hopefully Owen but maybe Ashton or even Bent. If Rooney plays deep I still think he needs to curb his instincts for tracking back... we don't really need to see him tackling in the left-back position!

Nah, we're talking about a hypothetical way that more people might be able to watch the match in future. Not sure what the deal with Sky would be when they opened up the possibility of showing Saturday 3pm games, I'm sure if the rights were available Sky and Setanta would throw some money at it. There might still be some for the clubs themselves to pick up though I suppose.

not seen enough of young, but he's basically a winger right? system i'm on about here the wider players wouldn't be wingers as such, has young got more to his game? Yeah he's basically a winger but he does have a lot to his game in terms of creating and scoring goals, as well as counter-attacking with pace. Basically I think we often complicate things with England, partly because we're trying to fit in the star players, and partly because everybody wants to be the playmaker. We need less players that get the ball and look to play the killer pass, and more than are content just to pass and move neatly. Everyone wants to be the star, we need one or two of those but far more tidy players.

I'm a bit concerned with Rooney as well, for club and country he's turned himself into the worker that sacrifices himself for the team. All well and good, but we've got less talented players that could do that. I worry that in a year's time we'll be talking about whether Rooney should be an automatic choice or not, which would be a shame considering his potential.

Not a bad idea, but I'm sure Sky TV has the rights to the games meaning NUFC TV can't show them?

They're probably still using staff because the swipe card system is quite new and people have loads of problems with it. At Reading when they introduced the system, they started with people on the turnstiles - then they went to a few roaming people with PDAs that covered a number of turnstiles each. They could check people's cards and help them with any problems, but it takes less staff than keeping the turnstiles manned. I reckon that's the way it'll go with us as well.

It's got to be Ashley Young on the left at this point surely. He might not be the best individual name, but he's definitely the most comfortable and effective in that role IMO.

I thought Robbie Savage was Voronin then, there's one for you.

Jeez Teed If you head over to the 'Doing the double over Sunderland' thread you'll see a number of us showing some respect to the mackems. I don't really hate them to be honest, I just think they're irrelevant. If you came on here to do a wind up job and derail what was a decent thread about our signings, you've done a good job.

Still what about some poor sod who supports Newcastle and lives 500km away? Pretty much gives clubs unlimited power over ticket price too. Well I know, I live 300 miles from SJP after being brought up about 2 miles away, so I'm learning the pain! I only get to a handful of home games now. I still think we need to make sure that putting every game on TV won't damage attendances. Nobody wants to watch an empty stadium on TV.

I get jealous of not being able to watch all the 3pm games in the UK as well, but at the same time I wouldn't want people to stop going to the games in person - the sellout crowds are so essential to the whole sport.

Well I know what you mean in a way. All I would say is that we have to remember how our previous 'success' was attained (reckless with the finances, big risks with players, a lot of expensive flops) and how fragile it was (witness the terminal decline since SBR). We must deal with the situation as we find it, which IMO means a few more sensible seasons of signings of the quality of Jonas/Colo/Guthrie at reasonable prices. Hopefully in 5 years or so we will be back to a position where we are attracting the players everyone else wants. Until then I think we're doing a pretty good job so far.

They've made some decent buys, will be more difficult than it would have been. Still think we can edge it though.