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He's a physical midfielder with engine and ample technical ability. He'll add a lot to our midfield.

Edgar Davids to Palace on pay-as-you-play deal.

*shudder*

Ffs.

That would go down well. Probably be the final straw for the mentalist. Although I think he's distanced himself enough already

Remy has taken #11, will be ineresting to see if they give Gignac Ben Arfa's #10.

Come on, we're closing in on 300.

Hahah. I always assumed with these phonetic names that you can basically do them however you like. All-Muohamehddeey

So basically we're assuming that we are just playing hardball with them right up until the last day, until they agree to our offer. It would explain the non-story of the Werder rumour, Dassier trying every trick under the Sun to try and drum up interest from elsewhere so he doesn't have to sell to us. However if it gets to the last day and there are no other serious offers forth coming they will have 2 options, to either swallow their pride and just let him come here on our terms or be stuck with a very unhappy player refusing to play and chewing up a large chunk on their wage-bill. If this is the situation at the moment I wouldn't be surprised if we've had a word in his ear with something along the lines of "Just keep digging your heels in son, by the end of the window you'll be a Newcastle player aslong as you reject everything else".

Franco Di Santo. He was on loan from Chelsea, scored 1 goal in like 20 games or something and is now back at Chelsea. His career is probably ruined now because of moving to Chelsea and just stagnating completely.

He's a bit frail for the Prem anyway.

Good signing for Jube.

Might be better sending him somewhere where he will be tested a bit more? I mean, Celtic are likely to stroll through a lot of the games up there.

You don't even have to spend money to fill the massive holes in our squad. We have no pacey striker to play off Carroll. We have no depth out wide, at all. We have no physicallity or energy in midfield. We have no back-up at LB. We have no pace as an option in defence. All of these things will come back to hurt us desperately. Even if they had been filled with adequate loans and bargain signings it would have been much better than not addressing these issues whatsoever. We're an injury or 2 away from being screwed, completely.

FFS man, nothing has actually changed! Were we expecting a load of quality signings? Of course not. We're 2 weeks away from end of the window with a team that is barely Prem quality. I didn't expect big signings but I atleast expected some of the glaring inefficiencies in the squad to be filled.

Hard to be even remotely optimistic about this season anymore.

Samaras is pretty fucking wank.

Aye, shite hosting site.

Tiote is good, he'd improve our midfield by quite a bit. Dunno about the credibility of the links to him, though.

Don't think Xisco is any less limited than Lovenkrands, like.

Silence probably means something is happening. Press don't have a clue, at this moment in time.

s****. I forgot people on here can't let an error go without pouncing, immediately.

I know it's almost certainly bollocks, but I'm pretty annoyed that Keefaz came on and posted that only to dissapear.

Harper Perch Colo Williamson Enrique Routledge Guthrie Barton Jonas Carroll Lovenkrands Is what I'd play. Pretty much what most of us would have called our strongest line-up (disregarding injured players) last season, don't see why we should comprimise that by playing twats like Smith just because we're in the Prem now. It's a home game ffs, we should just go for it.

This place is dead tonight, not enough Ben Arfa rubbish I guess.