Kimbo

I've more faith in him regaining some form under the new coaches than I have in Taylor or Williamson suddenly developing talent. I don't think he's a particularly good captain, from what we can see, but the importance of captains is overrated by fans anyway.

It would be a real pain when the ACN comes around though.

Gallas! I label him the new Gallas. There have been a few successful shorter CB's but they seem to be exceptions, we obviously need a tall defender that isn't pigshit.

It's like people have forgotten what Pardew is like, just because you think you can make a decent team out of their squad it doesn't mean that's what he will do. Bamford could find himself on the wing like Cisse, Zaha could be dropped permanently for not being a 2nd fullback, the man could make any number of stupid decisions, and be too much of an egomaniac to acknowledge it. He's an awful awful awful manager.

Definitely need a LB, Haidara has potential but hasn't proved he's good enough to be a regular starter.

Austin doesn't seem very sought after at all, there's just half-hearted interest from us, Leicester, and West Ham, I was expected bigger opposition. The fact Porto are interested in Mitrovic is a sign he's got potential, given their record with strikers, but I feel we're being used to push them into getting a bid accepted. Just fucking sign Austin and move onto defenders say I.

Never listen to anyone with Ronald in their name.

But he's obviously good enough for England, it's just a bit of a closed shop, Hodgson would pick a cow if it had a Man U contract.

£15m is a bit much I agree, why you would care about him playing for England I don't know.

Shawcross is a good player, he hasn't been in the England squad because he plays for Stoke and Hodgson has a stiffy for the new Wes Brown and John O'Shea.

Haven't seen much of either, don't give a shit.

I bet his agent is getting a fortune. The ball will spend most of the time going over his pretty little head anyway.

One day someone will make a movie about this

Get a grip man woman man

That pundit has been crying

Palace are going to be total guff, as Pardew teams always are after the first 6 months or so. Whoever is advising Cabaye needs sacking, he should be doing better than both Palace and Newcastle, joke clubs.

Doing Hernandez a bit of a disservice there like. Cisse's a poor outlet - he's not particularly quick, fairly weak with his back to the goal and relatively static outside of the box. Hernandez, as prolific as he is inside of the box, is fast and can work the channels in a way that Cisse doesn't. He'd be a pretty significant upgrade imo. I'd be happy with getting rid of Cisse for him, I'd just question the need for both.

His all round play is nowhere near Remy, nor would you expect it to be as he's a poacher. The question is do we need a poacher when we have Cisse, I'd say we don't.

I can't really blame players for preferring money over glory and fan respect, money buys you stuff. Choosing to live in China I would question though, players that go there from Europe seem to end up miserable and don't last long.

Typical

Football isn't played on a spreadsheet, if it was Kevin Nolan would have been a better midfielder than Cabaye. For the record though Cabella better sort himself out or he can fuck off, there is talent there though, and De Jong is a lost cause. I was mocked by a Dutchman when we signed him and was told he would be constantly injured.

See how Palace fans like it if this ape turns up there.

It's a shit appointment, we needed someone that would make changes, no someone to work alongside our grunt poundland coaching staff. With the likes of Carver, and Stone, and our shitty physio's, a manager would have to be a miracle worker. This cunt is not one.