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You know what, if Hughton manages to ship Butt out than he has my vote for getting the permanent job.

I don't think it is. Injuries permitting, we're basically one pacy striker away from having a nearly perfect XI for this division. (Yes, in an ideal world we'd pick up a winger and a CB as well, but still)

out of sheer curiosity, why? Because he's exactly the kind of player we need and I think he has the ability to tear the Championship a new one. You weren't expecting me to give you an ironclad 100% proof, were you?

Lovenkrands in = promotion.

I love how I'm so resigned to us signing nobody that I didn't even notice it was Tuesday. For the record, I'm thinking none in and none out.

The club sale thread is probably going to hit 600 before this hits 6 pages.

I'm fully confident that in the not so distant future we'll be marveling at how we've lasted through ten years of Mike Ashley.

That team looks dangerously mediocre, even for this division...

It makes no sense at all for normal human beings so it probably makes perfect sense for Ashley.

It seems we've gone from having a couple of promising candidates back to square one: there are no prospective buyers. Ashley is your owner for life. Bow before him.

Looks like my favorite player finally gets someone decent to play up front with

I wonder if Hughton will still be scouting Lovenkrands 2 months after he signs for Birmingham? That isn't too bad in comparison to Roeder. He's probably still out scouting Dirk Kuyt as we speak. Well, the man's got nothing better to do.

What I enjoy about this is that you live in Korea, and Rick Astley was playing. In Korea. Jesus Christ, yes. Talk about hitting you when you're not expecting it...

This has nothing to do with the takeover, but since this thread is already uselessly long and utterly lacking in substance anyway.... I was rick-rolled in a cab tonight. Damn song started playing literally the second I opened the door and jumped in. Being drunk, I froze for about five seconds fumbling for Ctrl+Alt+Del on a non-existent keyboard. That is all.

Every time I see Arshavin play I remember that we had a 100 page thread on this forum about signing him. And I shed a tear.

Baehng's pal? Yeah, he was in the same Le Havre youth team (Stephane Pelonde), and apparently came across with him to help him settle up here, and found himself a club. Didn't know that. Bit like Freddy Adu at Monaco then. He's absolutely f***ing amazing on FM, before anyone else mentions it

Iranian midfielder, he's scored against Liverpool before IIRC. Never heard of the guy, but surely he's Israeli not Iranian?

Who?

who scored?

Damn you, I just creamed my pants.

You've gotta be kidding. Chopra is like the Drogba of this division

When a rumor sounds too good to be true... It probably is.

Could be a very good signing. It'd be an intelligent risk if they were actually going to spend anymore money. (like Xisco). No idea why Tuncay would even want to go to Stoke. He'll be ridiculously out of place. Perhaps Pullis is slowly working towards making Stoke a side that plays something approximating normal football now that they have some cash to spare? I think he might be a very underrated manager. If nothing else the signings he's made so far have been absolutely brilliant.

I can do the interview for him. "Don't want to lose any more players" "Want two or three more players in" "Up to the owner so we'll just have to wait and see."