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Any idea when this lad's gonna be back then? Was supposed to be out for 2 months so should be nearing a return, gotta feeling he'll get a few more chances towards the end of the season.

That whole article is pretty ill-researched. £6 million for Espinoza? Nah mate, I'm pretty sure it was a nominal fee and he was mainly brought it to be chums with Benitez. He's listed Huseklepp as a Zenit player aswell asmanaging to merge Yebda and Belhadj into one person.

I'd have taken LuaLua back on a free like.

West Brom always seem to make good signings for a club their size. Have been very impressed with Jara (?) this season.

He looked good there against Ipswich. Wasn't exactly the toughest match in the circumstances though.

Klasnic would piss this division like.

Second highest assists total for us this season. That's pretty effective.

Arsenal got a couple of England lads on the bench, nice to see! Eastmond would be nice to see if we get the opportunity looks a really good player! Yerp. Arsenal get (rightly, imo) criticised for their aversion to English players. However, if the likes of Gibbs, Wilshere and Lansbury can come through the Arsenal system it could be beneficial to England in the long term. We might actually end up with players who are technically gifted.

Pompey V Arsenal tonight. No Englishmen in either side for the first time in English football history.

Was so, so gutted after that Sporting game. Possibly the most gutted I've been watching Newcastle, atleast with Villa last season it was almost inevitable.

None of them are good in enough in the long term.

So Huseklepp can play RW? and the other one's a CM? Not gonna happen. Hughton doesn't believe in having/using a midfield.

Never heard of the guy.

That white one is nice (Morocco?). If the away shirt is templated on something like that it would be alreet.

Solid, unspectacular full-backs on the cheap aren't easy to come by. We need to be building a squad, he's definitely worth keeping till the end of the season and maybe as backup in the future. Don't forget he's quite young aswell, there's time for him to improve.

If it's anything like their current national team kits they will be sh*te. Hopefully we'll have a contract similar to our Adidas one where we aren't given their most generic designs.

He's comfortably our best midfielder man. He's been our most creative as far as assists go this season while playing in an unnatural position. Can't tackle to save his life? Because Nolan can? Atleast he is mobile and is actively involved for the whole 90 minutes. He's the closest thing we have to a playmaker and probably the best passer of the ball at the club (ridiculously, Colo is probably the next best passer). He's certainly one of the last players I'd be critising this season, and he also deserves a run in the side playing his natural position.

Willing to give him a few more full games before I form a proper opinion on him. However since his goal (admittedly superb) he hasn't done that much to set the world alight.

One of the best 'footballing defenders' we've had at the club for a while. Love the way he reads the game and distributes the ball rather than panicking. The question will remain whether he'll ever be able to cope physically with the Premier League though. Which is a shame because I like his style of play.

Jenas is just a nothing of a midfielder. Doesn't do anything defensively and offers little going forward. He can pass the ball 5 yards all game like a metronome, but apart from that he's useless.

West Ham supporting mate tells me all the time he's total shit.

Boyd 4 goals off taking over the SPL all-time goal scoring charts. Wonder if Larsson is watching on hoping he gets signed soon. Actually he probably doesn't give a fuck.

Yeah he aint worth that to be honest.

I'm thinking he meant something similar to that of Futsal, where it's passed in from where the ball went out to a team mate. Not that ridiculous an idea tbh.

Because he's the same case as Alfonso Alves, brilliant in the dutch league but has very little to offer actually, the minute he leaves Ajax he'll be f***ed. Disagree there like. He's 10 times the player Afonso Alves was/is ffs. Great dribbler, skillful on the ball, scores from everywhere and assists for fun aswell. He's only 22 and is Ajax's captain and leading light, aswell as being brilliant for the national team. If you watch him on a regular basis you can see he's a far superior footballer to say Huntelaar or Kuyt. Obviously success out of the Eredivisie is not guarenteed but the potential is certainly there, it wouldn't really be fair to right him off purely because of past exports from Holland. As far as being linked to other clubs, Barca and Chelsea have been linked to him in the last couple of weeks alone. He's certainly well thought of.