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Let me say "Carlton Cole" and get that out of the way before anyone else does.

He should not be first choice right back ever regardless of how many free-kicks he scores.

I'd probably take that if offered at this point.

I agree Would we ever actually play him as CB given that we have nobody who can play LB in his absence? Or maybe we're buying Cissokho

Oh well, glad he'll get to play in the CL at least.

Love how casually patronizing he is to Scunthorpe in that interview

Man, having youth products that aren't terrible and hopeless feels weird.

Match-fixing investigations conclude in Korea. 47 players banned for life.

He was utter crap man. He's the first player to give it the big hoof under the slightest pressure on the ball. Thank god we got a set piece which he could score from to justify his presence on the pitch. Utter liability otherwise. To be fair, I'd rather he just hoof the ball instead of trying to do anything with it. Probably what he was told to do to begin with.

http://www.subtraction.com/pics/0311/031113_agent_smiths.jpg

Need to lobby the Premiership to introduce a designated set piece taker who just comes off the bench and takes free kicks and corners.

I guess the biggest downside of Ba's shitter today is that we're likely to see Ameobi-Obertan up front again.

Where do we go from here if he actually decides to stay? Burned his bridges pretty effectively.

Okay, nevermind. It was just someone making a backbone joke on Twitter and the guy thought he was being serious.

Someone on the Korean forum. No idea where he's heard this from. I assume he wouldn't be ITK for obvious reasons

Somebody's telling me that he's failed a medical due to a previously unknown spinal problem?

He's 22. Should have plenty of room for improvement. Low expectations should help,

Watch us get reported to FIFA for tapping up his agent tomorrow.

I think Colocho likes the abuse now. Only explanation

He wants to leave for one. Something with his contract? Who knows. We are giving away one of ours. Wants to leave + they're skint + supposedly has a release clause. Sounds like a plan.

Dear god he's gone and reminded me that smith is still on our books. Depressed now.

Excellent news. Good prospect by all accounts and gives us an option for fourth choice cb

I can see the list of last year's Ligue 1 top scorers in my head. I can see us desperately running down it. Seriously, do we have some sort of legal obligation to only sign players from France or something?

Therefore Erik Pieters is now the best left back in the world.

Just how bad was this guy last year anyway?