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To be fair, no team ever sells their best players for anything other than those two circumstances. (Unless they're in administration I suppose)

Come on man, at least translate that for us stupid people

Try to look at it positively. If the Cabaye sale is contingent on Cabella move, the money men at PSG may have a quiet word with Montpellier's chairman... Or they can throw us more money. In all seriousness they would probably just raise our fee to cover whatever Monpellier demand. "They want 20 mil you say? No problem here's some spare change."

If this is indeed contingent on the Cabella deal it's about as positive as the inevitable departure of Cabaye could be. Getting an immediate replacement and good wad of money left over. I mean obviously I'd prefer that we'd be able to build on players like Cabaye rather than selling them, but that's not the world we live in is it?

The hilarious/sad thing is that I could only see the words "26m" in my preview screen and I knew we were selling somebody because we couldn't possibly be buying for that money

Try to look at it positively. If the Cabaye sale is contingent on Cabella move, the money men at PSG may have a quiet word with Montpellier's chairman...

Still just a rumor, but it makes too much sense to not believe

He's only signed a sixth-month deal with Augusburg and apparently he is set to join Dortmund after the end of the season. No, I don't know why they seem to want him so badly.

Ref would probably retroactively send off five of our players

Good performance but we'll never be allowed to beat these cunts

We're never going to beat city forever

No idea who he is and couldn't even begin to form an opinion. Signings are good I suppose.

As if what Pardew says would affect other clubs' decisions to make bids in any way. "It's a new Pardew sound bite about Cabaye! Quick, ready the chopper!'"

Shola would probably score ten past us in half an hour. While eating an apple.

We're at home, they're only six points better off than we are, and we apparently have the luckiest manager alive. No reason we can't win. Possibly three points off top if we do

Sell more shirts in Korea? Oldtype disagrees. I'm quite perplexed why they'd want him at well given that he can't get in the squad for the worst team in the Premier League and the Korean national team as well. Kid had loads of potential before the Mackems got to him. For his sake I hope he moves and it isn't too late.

It'd be their new 9-1. "2014! Screwed you out of Europe marra!"

Ki is decent, him and Giacherinni are their only decent attacking players/midfielders really. The rest are awful He was doing alright at Swansea. Mostly got kicked off the island due to personality clashes with Laudrup. (Ki has a pretty bad reputation for being a complete and utter dickwad)

(quietly steps away from the thread)

Barely even realized it was almost January. Two or three years back I'd be counting down the days till the window open. (And then again until it "slammed shut" and we signed nobody.) Dialing down expectations helps keep you sane. Like Yorkie, I'd be content with anybody who'll push Shola out of the team. Anything else is a bonus and an extremely unlikely one at that.

Predictably goes into a mini-slump as soon as I put him on my fantasy team.

Ben Arfa is one of the best technical players in the world, but at age 26 I think it's pretty apparent that he hasn't got the athleticism or the mental consistency to be an elite player. We could definitely use him better than we are currently, but we're deluding ourselves if we think he's going to blossom into a dominant player if we just "set him free." He is what he is.

Aye, take Capello and destabilize the Russian team please.

Algeria supposed to be setting up a warmup friendly with Scotland. Not sure if that's going to adequately prepare them for Belgium or Russia

We all know exactly what will happen the second we sell him. No deal.