Football is nothing as a sport without spite and bitterness. He left out the back door to go into fucking Pardew's arms. Generally I'm more miffed that this is the only option we have to bring in despite now having a manager with Rafa's connections.
However, if we are really keen to bring him back, the player fancies it to some extent and Rafa wants him why are we pissing around trying to do a loan deal? We're £30 million in surplus and they're trying to raise funds for Allardyce's rebuilding job. We know he'd tear it up this season and do a job next year too. Tight bastards.