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Leave NUFC for "bigger club" -> Ruin career. Happens to a lot of people these days

I think him picking Hoilett off the ground in outrage was the first time I've seen him show genuine emotion He's the Steven Seagal of football. Only has one facial expression.

Shot stopping and kicking isn't as good BUT Given did not command his area like Krul does, admittedly he still has the odd moment BUT for a young keeper that is no major concern Given had abysmal kicking. In fact, so does Harper.

Can it really be the wrong position though, if it has saved us a goal? strikes me as exceptional positioning. All his clearances were from set pieces where he's instructed to stand on the line in the first place, so accusations of "poor positioning" don't make any sense at all really.l He's doing his job.

Time to edit the op

Was 100% the correct decision to take him off and strengthen the midfield today, even if it's unfortunate that the best player we could put on in that position was James Perch. We would have lost heavily without that tactical change. Don't know what's up with him these last two games really, been utterly, utterly shit. He's always been a bit erratic before but never quite to this level.

They'd wake up and fire me. They can't do that man. Haven't you heard of affirmative action?

WTF how are they eighth all of the sudden? Where did they come from?

Can we change the topic to Gabrilol Rofltan?

I suspect the club might not be paying a whole lot of attention to this year's league position. There's very little real merit to finishing seventh if it doesn't get us into Europe anyway, and perhaps even UEFA football itself is seen as a hindrance by our regime. They may just feel that they want to use our scouting network and efficient practices to slowly build towards a team that's actually good enough to challenge for something and aren't really fussed about where we finish in the meantime, thus the emphasis on long-term value and rejection of any sort of spending for short-term benefit. (Pardew's mention of "Tipping Point" seems to point towards this as well.) Obviously there's the "finishing higher in the league gets you more prize money" argument, but there's no guarantee that a third choice defender would have secured us more points while it is guaranteed that even a loan would have probably cost us at least 1m in fee and wages until the end of the season, money that could be better invested for long term gain. Personally I wish they weren't so extreme about it, but when you put everything together there does seem to be a coherent gameplan behind all this madness.

Hope we're not actually trying to move him on. Would be devastating if Shola somehow managed to yet again notch up over 20 appearances next season too.

I'm fully expecting Bolton shirt sales in Korea to go down to zero seeing as we've signed the Japanese Messi to (indirectly) replace LCY. Ah well, at least we've opened up another potential marketing opportunity [obviously not being serious, as both transfers were for football reasons] You can't "go down" from zero to zero man.

Pretty sure clubs see Asian footballers as instant upward pointing arrow on a merchandise sales chart. Corinthians have not long signed a Chinese guy and pretty much admitted he's only there as a marketing stunt. Just found the article and the head of marketing for Corinthians advised to bring in "any old rubbish" from Asia to boost merch sales. Should get yourself down to Copacabana beach Oldtype. Could wind up playing for a team in Rio. Well, Koreans certainly aren't going to be buying CSKA Moscow shirts anytime soon as long as they have Satan on their books. Their manager says he's "amazed that he's not playing for the Korean national team." Well yes, that might have something to do with the fact that he's never played in our top flight. EDIT: apparently been registered for their CL squad. Maybe he's actually uh... good?

What the heck is that thing in the title supposed to be

Imagine if this becomes another Tiote-during-the-summer saga where they're stuck in Equatorial Guinea forever. We'd commit mass suicide.

Lee Chung-Yong if Bolton go down. Injury has probably dropped his stock low enough for us to grab him at a fair price. Do it Mike!

CSKA Moscow have signed some random dude I've never heard of from the Korean second division. Weird.

I imagine the club will be reassessing their position on Kadar or looking for a Lamine Diatta type signing on a free.

Dave thinks we'll get him!? http://troll.me/images/astonished-face/what-sorcery-is-this.jpg

Honda's been linked to a west-European club for every window since the 2010 World Cup. Never materialized. His nickname in Korea is "the living transfer rumor"

Deft mind games, trying to get the player to agitate for a move.

No to 3m you say? Fine, 2.5m is our final offer!

So the plan is to sequentially bump the Krul, Colo, Ba, and Tiote threads all day, eh?

Carroll makes 14m for Defoe look like a complete bargain to be fair

They actually bid. This actually happened.