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Apparently Villarreal are going for Perez now they've sold Soldado. Had a feeling that might happen.

Mad how even Depor have more money to offer for him.

Lol @ us.

PCHS representin'

Bury are fielding a Hong Konger in their team. Just turned 18, signed after a trial over the summer. Don't believe there has ever been a Hong Konger play in England before.

i'm pure fed up like, wish we'd buy some cunts.

http://www.sporx.com/fenerbahcenin-chelseaden-istedigi-iki-isim-SXHBQ645874SXQ Fenerbahce?

Ye wha? We should have Shelvey, Hayden, Merino, Diame and Kenedy who all play there or can play there. Kenedy seems like he can play a lot of positions but I'm not sure centre mid is one of them.

Away at one of the grounds I've not been to ideally.

The idea he's hated because he's local is utterly ridiculous He's hated because he's really, really bad. I hated Amdy Faye and Alan Smith with a passion too, because they were shit.

Hope he's being brought in at left-back. Good news in that case. Should hopefully help push Haidara and Lazaar out of the door.

There should be a thread on this in the Chat board. A general thread for new developments and planning in the city/region.

I do agree a bit with HTT about how the city is selling itself. We've gone overkill on being sold as a city for cheap nightlife. There was an article in the Guardian last year where Newcastle was ranked as the best city in the UK. It was a very good article, and was good at selling the city as a hub for the whole region. So good in fact, it made me really wonder why the hell the council and NewcastleGateshead tourist board isn't making more of an effort to sell the city in the same way. I disagree on the traffic aspect though. I think they're making a real effort to pedestrianise the city and get rid of the pollution, despite opposition from motorists (you just need to look at the Chronicle comments section on this). This country has been planning for the car for so long, that trying to change habits is hard and requires are lot of long-term, expensive and brave planning. It'll take a long time to sort that out.

Cracking museum though. The whole area is typical of that 1990s/early 2000s regeneration. "Shit the industry has gone, let's get some office/service sector stuff in ASAP". Not bad by any means, and certainly important economically for cities in the north, but just a bit bland in hindsight.

I was in Leeds for the Bradford game. It really lacks a core centre to it. Also thought the area where the Armories is around the canals is underwhelming; very unoriginal post-industrial development.

FWIW, I also think Newcastle is one of the best walkable cities of it's size anywhere I've ever been. And actually the variety of architecture is one of the things I love most.

That's fair enough like. It's just lazy architecture. Ugly with a load of weird design techniques shoved together. Oversized and blocls off views to St Thomas Church and the Civic Centre, creates a weird shadowy alleyway between it and the adjacent buildings. I mean it's a metro station, so nobody really cares what it looks like or how it functions, so it gets away with. Like you say with having no strong opinion on it.

Yup. I think the Haymarket Metro station is one of the most hideous buildings I've ever seen too, made worse by the fact it's always covered in advertising boards for it's eternally empty office space.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/23/blog/post/3175840/premier-league-chaos-when-backpass-law-invented-in-1992

Hayden is already 22, Sterry and Aarons are still 21 until November, again not sure of the rules but thought is was 21 and under before the end of the window. We'll not be registering Armstrong of course as he is on a season long loan. I'm pretty sure it's January 1st. As long as the player is born in 1996 they don't need to be registered. So Aarons will need to be, Merino won't.

Maybe.

Merino will also not need to be registered.

Depor president apparently saying Perez wants to join them, but they can't afford him. I don't think he wants to come here (or to Fenerbahce), and that even if we were to sign him we may have a Thauvin situation in our hands.

What an absolute mess Inter made with Coutinho. Can add him to Roberto Carlos, Pirlo and Seedorf.