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I'm in Antalya in the same hotel as FC Zurich Loads of footballers walking around. Wish I knew who any of them were.

Absolutely epic on FM

It kind of staggers me that a professional footballer would be willing to take the time to photoshop that just for some lols

Love random moves like this. Like when Tyrone Mears went to Marseille on loan Nothing will ever beat Julien Faubert to Real Madrid.

Didn't think I'd ever live to regret blowing off my French classes in high school

While it's already been pointed out how the new signings will boost player morale, hopefully it will boost Pardew's morale as well. He's looked like a completely broken man for weeks now. Clearly under massive stress and isn't getting a lot of sleep. After the Reading game you could see he'd just completely gone. "Oh well, this is it then. I guess I'm getting sacked... again." Hopefully this unexpected windfall will put him back on track mentally and he'll remind of us how he used to be a vaguely competent manager at some point.

We're going to be signing a Frenchie every day till the window closes

Really? Do you have a source for that? Korean media. Everything agreed with QPR, flew out to London yesterday. Fulham come in with improved personal terms, player tweets (from London) this morning that the decision isn't final.

QPR getting QPR'd. The Korean international left back they agreed terms with and flew into London has been hijacked en route to his medical by Fulham. Player now claims that he never agreed to sign for them. Karma bitches

Their forum is so depressing. Kinda like this place a week ago.

As much as I think it's a problem that we have too many players of a single (non-English speaking) nationality, it's also probably true that we wouldn't be getting these bargains anywhere else. I have no doubt that this window is the result of identifying France as a promising market and investing several years of focused time and effort in embedding scouts and establishing personal relationships with agents and club officials in the country, shaping the conditions for future good deals. It's a new, innovative effort for a club of our size to be trying something like this. Too long the selection of transfer targets have been dictated by the manager's personal whims and agents hawking around their clients. Hopefully we'll be able to expand this network to other countries in the future.

Your boss just spent 15m on a second chance for you Alan. Please don't fuck it up again.

I was thinking that earlier. Think it gained some people's respect. No doubt. God ... after the way this all started with Remy, it's been a heck of a turn around. Time for Pardew to pull it all together. What was the hotel thing about?

He's clearly joking ...right?

...Huh?

Can we just end the season now? Very much looking forward to what we can do next year with this much quality if we manage to stay up

Holy shit

QPR have signed South Korea's starting left-back from the Olympics. He's a good player, but this is quite random.

I'm stopping myself because it's probably been done a billion times already, but writing out a starting XI for this would feel so good.

Six months too late is infinitely better than "never", which is what I was expecting. Happy days.

Jonas played extensive minutes on the right in his debut season. He wasn't that good there.

Hopefully he won't find a way to fuck up this sudden windfall of players Ashley has thrown at him.

Ashley: "Hi Graham, I think we need some more players. Can I have your shortlists?" Carr: "Sure boss, which positions." Ashley; "All of them."

Laughed out loud just seeing this back on page 1

After five years, Mike Ashley has finally learned how to panic buy