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Smith was worse purely for the reason that Tooj outlined a few posts back. They were both garbage but Butt never hid or shirked, Smith often did and created that ludicrous 'warrior' persona that had him diving into tackles like a loon, normally as a result of a poor pass or tackle from him. Plus, Butt had a pretty good 12-month spell for us during 2006/07. He was probably the highlight of the Roeder era, along with Martins.

Doesn't sound like a question of a bid 'being accepted', more that we've met his £5m release clause.

No news on Inman then? Sounds like he might be off.

Kone is more like Remy than he is like Cisse or Bent.

Kone for £5m would be an excellent signing. He'll be off to Everton though IMO.

Here's one: Most NUFC appearances without a competitive goal, outfield players only? I dunno who it is btw.

Have to agree with this but if Spurs interest is legitimate then even if the club want him there probably isn't much they can do at this stage. I think he signed for QPR knowing full well it was win-win: stay up and he gets a nice fat bonus and probably a transfer anyway, be relegated and it's not his fault as they were already fucked and he can get a transfer even easier. Both of these whilst being paid through the nose. I reckon he'll have signed that three-and-a-half (or was it four-and-a-half?) year deal with QPR knowing full well he was there for 6 months in the shop window. Perhaps now he'd rather have assurances about playing every week? The gulf in wages between us and Spurs won't be anything as mental as QPR deciding to double our offer out of desperation or whatever. Bit soon to label him a mercenary, or a money grabber, or whatever just yet IMO. I bet Ba was thinking the same thing when he moved to West Ham, it was a similar sort of scenario. I wouldn't be so sure about that. Remy won't be their 'marquee' signing though, he'd probably be our biggest summer buy if we got him in. He'd probably come near the top of our wage bracket and somewhere in the middle of theirs, IMO. Obviously I'm just speculating.

Have to agree with this but if Spurs interest is legitimate then even if the club want him there probably isn't much they can do at this stage. I think he signed for QPR knowing full well it was win-win: stay up and he gets a nice fat bonus and probably a transfer anyway, be relegated and it's not his fault as they were already fucked and he can get a transfer even easier. Both of these whilst being paid through the nose. I reckon he'll have signed that three-and-a-half (or was it four-and-a-half?) year deal with QPR knowing full well he was most likely gonna be there for 6 months in the shop window. Perhaps now he'd rather have assurances about playing every week? The gulf in wages between us and Spurs won't be anything as mental as QPR deciding to double our offer out of desperation or whatever. Bit soon to label him a mercenary, or a money grabber, or whatever just yet IMO. I bet Ba was thinking the same thing when he moved to West Ham, it was a similar sort of scenario.

Get him signed. He's proven that he can score in this league (in a piss poor team at that, much like Ba did) and he's about as good as we're going to be able to get imo, regardless of the money thing in January.

Was anyone else at his debut against PSV in the Sir Bobby 'one year on' tribute-friendly at SJP? He was at right back. Fucking hell, he made this absolutely awfully timed tackle on their lad who was pretty much in on goal after about 15 minutes and you could see the ref basically saying "if this was a proper match you'd be off", he went on to play shit and left for half time in the 'hands on back of head and gutted' pose. I think Tavernier replaced him after an hour and looked infinitely better.

Good signing for Wigan, at that price.

'A Demba Ba style target man' So, a target man who is absolutely not a target man in any way, then?

My 2nd favourite British fighter ever. Where was he, dude? Youth Hosteling in the Norfolk area.

He got banned for being shit. Next.

if he was bed-bound he'd be like Napoleon. Running an empire from the comfort of his Deluxe King Size Tempur mattress.

He'll definitely get a good reception off our fans next time he plays against us, IMO.

Perch out, Matty Taylor in wouldn't be that bad, purely because you'd hope Good can cover as 5th CB, Tavernier as 3rd RB and Bigi as 5th CM/CM, and the places we really need cover are on the flanks, where Taylor would play most of the time. I still would rather we didn't bin off Perch though.

31 minutes. superbly demonstrated.

He scored a wonder goal against the mackems when he played for Portsmouth, get him signed ffs.

We love a loophole like.

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Perch's shooting, when he's had the chance to shoot, is more than adequate, Baba.

By the way, there's absolutely nothing mental about suggesting Tiote should go before Perch. Perch's worst games in midfield have been nowhere near as bad as some of the depths Tiote has plunged to this last season and a bit.

He's good enough for this level in a 20-appearances, a dozen of them as a sub kind of way. Not as a regular starter. You'd think this regime would love him - cheap, versatile, doesn't kick up a fuss when not playing, English.

It's odd. Pardew allegedly asked the board to give him a new deal and Kinnear mentioned him in that interview as one of the ones he knew (obviously from his time at Forest), so I wonder why we've decided to get rid.