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van Persie arguably would

we're very capable of higher, now that ben arfa is here, but i'll still take the 'safety-first' approach and say 17th would be good.

Wenger is such an idiot. Again.

Very very happy with that squad. Better than most expected and its more than good enough to survive. Big thumbs up from me!

oooooh they've sold waghorn for £3m to leicester

THE CLOCK IS TICKING......THE CLOCK IS TICKING.....THE CLOCK (PAUSE) IS AT 6 god i hate you jim white

SSN have probably known for hours but held it back for dramatic purposes

ITK privileges

its van der vaart

think they said it was a forward.......elia? huntelaar has already gone to schalke.

The Gyan deal is 16m euros apparantly.....which is more than £12m isnt it?

stoke fans getting excited over gudjohnsen

ben arfa is much better than all those players i mentioned and i couldn't be happier with our business - its been exceptional. but ideally, those transfers still wouldn't have happened. as for brum and stoke..... i think anybody not in the top 8 could be perceived as relegation candidates. they're better than wigan and wham, but you just never know.

out of our relegation rivals, birmingham have got hleb, wigan have cleverley, stoke have gudjohnsen and west ham might get babel. none of these particularly please me.

I laughed. This Is The Last Time he'll leave Spurs, surely EDIT: dammit Yorkie!!!

Babel off to West Ham, after all

Ryan Babel in a helicopter now, potential £9m signing for Spurs

no, i felt betrayed when he joined the nWo

So Sunderland have copied the 'bacon sarnies to David Craig' act? Oh, season's greetings to Sky Sports News, as obviously today is their Christmas. STOP SHOUTING!!!!!!!

didn't he have a good pre-season too? they better hope theres no hitches in the gyan deal

Yep, its like the 'Lee Bowyer summer' we had.

Aye. Were saying on SSN there would be a load of loans going on tomorrow - teams trying to get players in for their 25 and trying to get rid of players that won't be in their plans. Reckon we might get one, hopefully two. Yep, paying particular attention to Man City and Spurs. Can definitely see one player coming in.

In hindsight, its turned out ok so far but at the time there was a real danger we'd drop even further. Now we're slightly saner financially and the team spirit has transformed the club. Hughton has blossomed, whereas I doubt he'd be manager if we survived. On 'The Game' podcast, Caulkin said some of Ashley's ideas were arguably ok, its just he picked the wrong personnel for them (Wise, Kinnear etc.). No doubt Ashley has made a howler of things, but as he fades into the background the club seems to benefit. So yes, in hindsight, relegation was good for us. The club has been cleansed.

very dogged

Every time he causes trouble, we can just threaten to send him back to Marseille. Easy.