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If the club resort to loaning a LB (god forbid), I'd have thought Van Aanholt would come before Bridge.

From 'Le Meme Fred'

At the end of the day, they've got Anton Ferdinand. Even Shola can better him.

Hi, Luke. Everything OK? Please, leave a post or something. Bet you'd be a great WUM.

Went for a mixture. I really wanted to replace Ramsey/Cabaye with a more glamorous choice like Silva, but couldn't raise enough. Besides, I think they'll both do well so couldn't decide who to take out. At least I have a fantastic defence, some set piece midfielders and a prolific striker though! Given (Westwood) Vidic, Kompany, A Cole, Huth (S Taylor) Yaya Toure, Cabaye, Ramsey, Adam (Reo-Coker) Rooney, Fletcher (D Graham)

I actually think with a left back and a striker, this will be one of our stronger Premier League squads. Loads of attacking options, defence is lacking in numbers though.

HA!

It's one thing for Nolan to drop down a division, but Barton is genuinely a good player. He's actually better than good. If Barton goes to Wham I'll.......hmmm. You ok Neil?

Well.. lee_ryder Lee Ryder A proven goalkeeper with 18 seasons experience of #nufc or a Division Three goalie who can't get a game? Ahhh calling it Division Three - he's so retro and cool.

That'd be wicked if I wanted the fucker around for tea at me ma's but I don't, I want the bastard to be Peter Schmeical Mk2.

I'm in no doubt we'll get the left back and striker - they'll most likely be pretty good (Pieters and Maiga perhaps). But that doesn't excuse them fannying around for so long. We've had since February time to prepare and we're still picking names out of a hat with 2 weeks to go.

What a fucking waste of time. A new goalie ffs.

Not sure whether to go for a good squad, or just pick a great XI with a cheap, weak bench.

£2m is a very small purchase price. We won't see him back here.

Are they wanting Kolodziejczak to be first choice LB? He couldnt play last night, but he's meant to be pretty good.

I'm excited at our subs bench. Bearing in mind there were times last season when we had Ranger, Donaldson, Richardson, Soderberg and Ferguson - Saturday can give a bench with 7 from Ba, Best, Vuckic, Gosling, Marveaux, Ferguson, Williamson, R Taylor and Harper. Leaving Lovenkrands, Smith, Guthrie, Perch and Ranger out of sight

Sunderland are the attention seeking kid that stands waving their arms around going "look at me! look at me! oy, over here. look at meeee", but nobody does. We only care about them because of geography, otherwise they're a nothing club that have made no impact on the Premier League. Was watching something on ESPN last night about Shearer and they talked about The Entertainers, spending world record fees etc.......they'll never even get close to that.

Hazard, Cabaye, Gervinho AND Rami in the same summer? Oooh, tough break....

And then we'll get Erdinc, thank you....

The Leeds game did the damage, which is a shame. But Harper could still hang around for 3-4 years (he'll hardly be knackered considering he spent years and years on the bench) so something had to give. The sensible option would involve a buy-back clause.

We're gonna mess this up because of the perfectly reasonable fee, aren't we?

Scored a pretty good 56. Rooney in for Van Persie Reo-Coker in for Ben Arfa Mignolet in for Westwood ....are subs I'm happy with. But unsure whether to do Silva for Downing, when ideally I'd have both.

Just catching up on the last few pages and can't believe you think your midfield is better than ours. I guess we'll see on Saturday, but I reckon thats the one area where we're definitely better. Difference of opinion.

A big indication would be tonight's team news. Then I'll start dreaming. Our biggest obstacle will be stopping a better club getting him, but not for one moment did I consider that we'd replace Enrique with a better player.

I just can't believe he wants to join us and thats he's slapped in a transfer request to get this. Is he mad?