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Ok now I'm pissed. Fair enough if they both remained banned, but by lifting Johnson's they are clearly suggesting they thought it was a genuine headbutt? Once again we are fucked over by the FA. When was the last time they did anything that benefited us? Seriously? I cannot remember a single thing since the Shearer vs Lennon thing

Looks class on youtube. To be honest though I'd take almost anyone at this moment as long as they weren't a known to be shit player from the prem.

Youtube tells me he's a good , ben arfa-like dribbler.

Good if we genuinely do have a back up option to Grenier. Would be surprised by that. The face the agent said he spoke to Pardew directly makes me think it's bullshit though

2 cracking goals this season I believe

Class name

Yeah as we only lost twice. Unless you're assuming it's nailed on we lose on saturday, in that case fair enough

Who do Nantes have that we might like?

Wish we had some cheap deals lined up, like the Sissoko and Gouffran deals from last year. These expensive fees always make me think they are never going to happen as we simply won't spend the money.

Fulham SHOULD be far better after the window, but obviously no guarantee the new guys will settle. Still it will probably be a far harder game down there now than it would have been if we played them already.

He has the ability to lift the crowd and in turn lift the rest of the team. Perhaps the only player we have who can single handedly grab the game by the scruff of the neck and drag us forward. I fear though that he will be our only weapon and become quite easy for them to nullify, especially if he's not at 100%

Just couldn't bring themselves to offer the £11m they apparently want

Likely team I expect: Krul Debuchy Williamson Taylor Santon Anita Tiote Ben Arfa Sissoko Sammy Shola At least the midfield looked good against Norwich but we couldn't even score then with Remy. Hope home advantage plays some part!

Nar Debuchy or Tiote will be the ones who get sent off if anyone does.

Ouch. Got to hurt when your bidding for a player and before you can even reach an agreement the player steps in and says "hold on, don't bother I don't want to join you" Still reeks of not really wanting to sign him. Or if we did, they then quite literally didn't even make contact until after Cabaye was sold.

Talented player with a promising future but not what we need. He tends to play in one of the deeper roles in midfield.

So going off what Pardew has said, we approaching in the sense that missing the remainder of that game was enough punishment for the crime and that 3 games would be excessive. Yeah ok good luck with that one.

Taarabt's been pretty poor at Fulham no? What the hell persuaded Milan to sign him?

I fear we would only have got away with this if there had been no contact between the heads. But unfortunately there was and that wanker made a meal of it, but that's all they will point to and it will be upheld When was the last time the FA did anything to benefit us anyway? It's usually the opposite, like our players always getting done on retrospective action (cabaye) or that whole Mcmanaman face last year.

Really did look like he was about to top himself in that clip SSN showed. Perhaps he's finally a bit fed up having to chat absolute bullshit to protect the owner. That or he really is bricking it for the derby.

I'd hate to see us give him away if we don't bring anyone else in.

I hope we have someone good to argue against the red card and not Kinnear.

That will be why we desperately appealed Remy's red card then

Hatem had been ill all week in the build up to the game according to Pardew. That will be why he was fatigued. He simple has to start.

Just watching the press conference clip on SSN. Man the quote sounded good in text form but if you hear him talking about it, sounded like he wanted to kill himself. Very unlikely this is happening at all.