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good skills, Colo. Reckon Jimenez and Wise were in the background when he was on the phone to Colo? "Tell him Newcastle's always sunny and the women are all supermodels..."

i would assume 'cisco' saying as its short for francisco Ooh, conflicting opinions. I hope it's 'cisco' so we can sing something based on the thong song. Personally, I'll wait until I hear David Pleat pronounce it for the definitive answer.

Xisco looks like quite a tough player by those photos on the Depor site, what is his playing style like? Any players we'd know about he can be compared to? Looks harder with the skinhead than the headband like, needs to bring that back (i.e. do the 'reverse Bentley').

Thing is, at least two of Viduka, Owen, Martins and Ameobi are always injured at any one time. And hopefully we'll manage to offload Shola and/or Smith very shortly.

Pop back every 4 or 5 hours, the rest is just mindless jibbering...

Sounds a good prospect from what I've read, but never seen him play. How would pronounce that in English? Would it be 'jisco' like 'xavi' or 'cisco' or 'hisco'?

At least the window concentrates the manic speculation and press nonsense into a shorter period. Once it's over we can actually concentrate on the football. It should finish before the season starts though, so everyone has their squads sorted before kick off. Problem with that would be the different kick off dates across Europe of course.

OK, I'm at work, think there'll be a lot of transfer watching and minimal working going on

Very strange decision again for Capello. We all thought he was going to be his own man and not just pick the same players, then he goes and picks the same players. So then we say he's the same as McLaren and he picks Jimmy Bullard, seemingly to show he's thinking for himself. Weird... Also the ommissions of Agbonlahor and Young are bizarre.

Nah, he's the same player, I just really expect him to score. Then the commentary team can say "And Newcastle could have used that yesterday!" That bit could well happen.

He hasn't suddenly become Ronaldo you know, amazing how people become much better players by not playing or being sold.

Bit confused about Milner vs Guthrie in the press and amongst some fans. So Guthrie, a young English player with a lot of potential, bought for a pittance, shouldn't be playing for us - but Milner, a young English player with some potential (yet had proved he has little effect on the game), sold for an absolute fortune, should have been kept and played in the first team? I don't understand.

That's true.

But we haven't been doing nothing have we? We've already brought in 4 good players. We've brought in two good players and two squad players and we have let 8 players go, 3 of whom could be considered first team players.. I know it's early to judge, but I think Jonas, Colo and Guthrie and good signings and Bassong looks assured. Most of what we let go was absolute dross, we're better off without most of them. Even Milner, who was decent, was a fantastic deal if the money being talked about is right.

Some more shit being talked about Barton on 5Live this morning, basically two second rate hacks saying they thought Keegan had some 'moral fibre' and that Barton should never be in the squad, they hope the FA will 'make an example of him' etc etc. Also that if he wanted to get back into peoples' good books he shouldn't be 'flying into tackles like he did on Saturday'. I actually shouted at the radio in the car, fucking unbelievable how one-sided the argument is.

I doubt he thinks he's got 7.5 good players in the squad tbh Aye, but even so he wouldn't announce it on TV.

But we haven't been doing nothing have we? We've already brought in 4 good players.

He was talking about fitness wasn't he? I doubt he meant he only had 7.5 good players and the rest he thinks are shit!

Could any defence in the world really have conceded less than 3 against the way Arsenal played today? I think when you have that many players comfortable on the ball, confident, in form and playing world class football, you just win. And by a lot. The biggest problem was that when we got possession we were lacklustre and gave it straight away again, inviting Arsenal to play.

I was in the pub by myself and I looked like a mental case coughing spluttering and shouting back at the god awful commentary today! They've got to confine themselves to what is going on in the game and not try to be centre-stage in the great premier league soap opera. Attention seeking, sycophantic wankers.

Can't really assess any of our players on what we saw today, Arsenal are playing a different game to us and it's laughable how far behind them we are. Not many teams would have come out of that with any points though. All I'd say is that we lack dynamism and athleticism, Jonas apart. The way Eboue (who isn't an amazing player), Adebayor and Van Persie were gliding past us was embarrassing. If we bring in any players, they all need to be quick and strong.

You are right. The two clubs involved, the players and agents should all just agree on everything with a couple of calls. I still think we should have asked for £25m for Milner then phoned Villa to agree on it within 40 mins tops. I said ENQUIRE, yes, ENQUIRE!! Not wrap up the deal!! not agree terms, just ENQUIRE!! F****** read my post properly then respond Get you Saying they can enquire is a bit irrelevant though isn't it? Would you be coming on here after the end of the transfer window saying "bravo to the recruitment boys, they enquired about some great players"?

KK thinks every defender can play 3 or 4 positions But if he's with McKay we're in safe hands!

He's just being honest, no player is at a club for life, and every player is replacable. This doesn't mean Owen is leaving though.

Yes, but I've no reason to think what he says is just spin. Obviously he can't spill everything at a press conference, but he wears his heart on his sleeve, that's his achilles heel as well as what makes him likeable.