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Was only joking as don't see Ba every coming back anyway but it will piss me off if he eventually goes on loan to like West Ham or West Brom or something and they get a quality striker for free while we're left with fucking Shola probably.

Just bring back Ba. He won't get a look in at Chelsea now. Especially if they get Rooney

Ian. What have you seen or heard so far that is giving you the optimism we will sign players/improve the squad and have a good season? Not meaning to give you a hard time or anything just for me personally there is nothing positive going on at the club at the moment that gives me any hope for the coming season. I suppose you could argue no Europa league but I always believed a lot of that was down to Pardew's bullshit. Club appears from the outside looking in to be a complete mess. With this Cisse situation a perfect example.

I suggest he faked the injury and it will prevent him from moving to any other clubs meaning he remains here. Then Cisse leaves and Shola is promoted to first choice striker as we fail with a deadline day bid for Darren Bent. Everybody wins!

To be fair I have't seen all that much of Negredo as I don't see many Sevilla games. Only times I really watched him was if he was against Madrid or Barca on sky which I know isn't a fair examination. Just remember him having a really off game once and missing sitters and having just a general donkey-like performance. Anyway bet he's glad he didn't end up at West Ham though they bid for him earlier in the summer I think.

The simple fact is we finished 16th last season. While other teams have attempted to strengthen where they can. We so far have let some squad players go and signed zero senior players and according to Pardew are only looking at signing 1 maybe 2 . With doubts cast over the futures of Cabaye and Cisse in-particular also. So we were the 5th worst team, take away the 3 that went down that leaves Sunderland who have completely revamped their squad (good or bad can be debated but they are trying). So 2nd worst team out of 17 with no signings so far and the same manager who oversaw that season and now with the added situation of Kinnear being involved with the club again, we are a mess. So I am praying the 3 that come up all struggle because at the moment I fear for us. Especially as we will need to pick ourselves up after what could be a battering on the opening weekend. Thr funny thing is that all we may require is a 2-3 quality signings and everything could be looking better again. Shame I just can't see it

Agree with this for the most part. Think we're bargain hunting this summer unless we cash in on Cisse, Cabaye, etc. This is just an assumption based on nothing though right? Ofcourse

Seems like something that could have been resolved a long time ago which makes me personally believe something fishy is going on. Whether that be Cisse wants away or the people at the club want to cash in on him and replace with cheaper alternative. Either way just thinking about this shit pisses me off. It's one thing after another with this club. (might be getting a little wound up due to the heat )

As usual, nothing from the club ever since this whole thing began. They are shockingly bad at PR. They took forever to announce Kinnear and even then barely explained anything at all. No comment from Pardew for weeks, this thing with Cisse going on for ages now in the press and they can't even be arsed to launch the kit etc.

Never rated Negredo that highly. Certainly not the price Man City are reportedly paying.

Easy to forget though that he could be on the decline and he looked really poor in my opinion before Lambert gave him the boot completely at a certain point last season.

Yeah I am willing to give Papiss the benefit of any doubt this issue is explained properly. He has earn't that I feel with the way he has conducted himself so far for us. Poor year mainly last year but still came up with some massively crucial goals in the second half of the season despite a criminal lack of service.

Feels obvious to me that there is no cash been given yet for transfers. It's quite clear that when Ashley is willing to spend money then we go out and get who we want quite efficiently. (january signings) So far we appear to be faffing around waiting for someone to be sold before buying anyone ourselves.

Yeah as said before if they are going with a black sponsor box then the blue stripes are even more ridiculous now.

I cannot believe it was allowed to reach a point where he didn't go on a crucial pre-season tour purely over a squabble on wonga. There absolutely has to be another reason (bid has come in, he has requested to leave, injured? etc) At the very least he could have gone away with the squad for morale purposes and to train with the squad even if he didn't play in the games. I'm hoping there is another reason now because if not then this is a total and utter farce which as per usual has been handled dreadfully by the club.

Even if Arsenal were in for Rooney or Fabregas to replace him, I still think it's a big mistake if they let him go. Class player.

Fuck this shit man. I had a feeling when everyone kept debating if Pardew would play Bent and Cisse together something was up. Also, if the issue really is just about wonga and not something else, couldn't Cisse just wear a shirt with the blue wonga box but it doesn't say wonga on it. Then both are happy, Cisse isn't advertising and blue box still sort of tell's you it's wonga.

Yeah I thought that too. The keeper messed up but the set up for the volley was glorious.

isn't that dummet that sets up the final goal? Marv seems to run across and thank for the pass and it isn't vuckic who he's thanking?

Yeah feel like he has scored or done something good in every pre-season since like 2010 or something.

"Support the team........AND the regime"

Showing the goal on SSN so if anyone is interested they should just keep that on for updates and videos. Gouffran should have buried that to be fair

I did have this thought for a second but then remembered it's Shola. The chances of him getting a premier league team is slim to zero, not to mention him scoring 12-15

Holy crap Giaccherini is 28? I thought he was like an up and coming Italian youngster, 19/20 or something, when I saw him play for Italy recently. Shows how much attention to detail I was paying I guess