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We're really not in a position to be laughing at Liverpool fans for their Rafa-love.

No one's mentioned that we hope he's not this year's James Perch yet, right?

Still haven't figured out if EthiGeordie is actually Ethiopean or if it's just part of his WUM persona.

Park Chu-Young in negotiations with Spurs. 5.3m.

Does it really matter exactly how much he earned? Either way it was too much.

Joleon lescott? Andy Carroll? Ashley Young? It's annoying that people will ooh and aah over foreign players but automatically treat anyone from the championship like a leper just because they dont have an exotic name. And hell, I'm not even English.

You know what the only thing more tedious than bullshit transfer stories is? People posting about how they don't care about bullshit transfer stories.

well, since we've been considering him as good as gone for months now, if he leaves it's just what we were expecting... if he stays, it'll be just like a new signing!

As if anyone has a clear idea how good either Gameiro or Long would be at this level

Our local press need to make up some rumors too about how Gameiro wants Newcastle over PSG or Valencia. You know, just to make us feel better.

South Korea playing around with a semi-full-strength Serbian side. It occasionally surprises me how good we've become since 2002. Getting to the semis that year was a genuine miracle but now I think we're objectively better than all but about 10 sides in Europe.

Isn't Taylor's agent his dad?

I'd really like some of the overseas lads to comment on this stuff. Is the foreign media really just portraying us as jumped up bad losers causing trouble? Some of the stuff coming out from the likes of Grondona is absolutely mindblowing. listened a bit to Philipe Auclair yesterday on talksport and he mentioned it and how its gone down in France is basically that, jumped up bad losers causing trouble. Can't say for sure its the same elsewhere We're all very supportive of you over here, for obvious reasons. In fact I've been told that our FA is also pretty deep into this whole thing while maintaining a low profile.

Bound to be a newly promoted team(Norwich would be a good shout) If he does sign for one of the promoted teams, I would put money on him to score at least two goals past us next season

Blatantly scared into staying by the prospect of having to go to Newcastle.

All aboard the scapegoat bandwagon. Again.

If the Blatter regime does indeed start to fall apart, it's prime time for MJ Jung to come back in and pick up the scraps... And I'm pretty sure what his stance on a re-vote would be...

Holy fucking shit. Ji Dong-Won, the Korean player who was linked with us last month is joining sunderland What the fuck man.

Yeah he can get out by never coming back to Korea until he's over 36. Wouldn't want to for obvious reasons

Close the forum over the summer I say! In fact, let's just close the whole thing down and only open it for matchdays. That'll stop the rumors.

We "might" be signing the Premier League's top scorer for 7.5 million pounds, and some people are turning their noses up on it. Seriously, just stop. He won't be coming either way, but still, just stop.

Would be a decent coup this. But what is this? For how long would he be missing? "[...]he still has to complete military service in his home country unless he wins a medal at the 2012 Olympics." <The "Park Chu-Young National Service Status" summary> Basically, the guy needs to go to the military. He's got three options. (1) He can go back to Korea and play for our Army team for two years. Our Army team plays in the first division so it's still a reasonably high standard of football. Players can only apply for the Army team before their 28th birthday, so he would have to return to Korea for two years after completion of the 2012/2013 season. (2) Alternatively, he could play for the Police Force team for two years instead. The Police Force team accepts players until their 30th birthday, so he could continue his career in Europe up to the 2014/2015 season. However, the Police Force team plays in our second division so once he's released at 32 years of age he's probably done as a top-level player. (3) The final option is to just sit on it and see out his career, and then go enlist as a soldier for two years just like everybody else. Trust me, you do not want to enlist as a soldier in the ROK Armed Forces at 35 years of age. It sucks. Bad. This isn't really an option. (4) Well, I guess he could just go and win a medal at the London Olympics, securing a legal exemption. Good luck with that. And yes, this situation is ridiculous and does suck.

Basically some people just have a checklist. 1) Plays in England? Check. 2) Over 25? Check. OMG le TERRIBLE SIGNING!

And what does that idiot's horrific managerial ability got to do with Joey Barton? Ronaldo, the archetypal Newcastle fan: Hates Shearer, hates Keegan, hates Shola, hates anyone who might get him some more attention More like the archetypal internet troll. Ronaldo would find a way to cast aspersions over Sir Bobby if he hadn't passed away.

At this rate the entirety of European football will be owned by the Sheikhs within ten years.