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Howay man this was never meant to be that debate Stop trying to turn it into that

My point wasn't the quality of the top 7 or 8 though or the league as a whole, maybe I worded it badly. My point was how bad the the rest is and how easy it actually is to stay up. We're 12th favourites to go down and we're shite.

I agree with the rest but I'm tired of this 'league is so poor' garbage. Have a look at who's finishing 5th, 6th and 7th in other leagues compared to ours, man. Well obviously I meant from 8th/9thish downwards vs the top end of the table. There's a significant two-tier split and it's actually piss easy to survive. As we proved last season by somehow finishing top half.

It's the football we play as always; just abysmal and its going to get exposed even more now we don't have a powerful high level goalscorer to paper over the cracks. I'm actually hopeful in a way that we have an abysmal start and Pardew finally gets the bullet, a good manager in early on and you'd see a turnaround straight away IMO. Could pull us round. Look at the mackems last season, even if you have a truly abysmal start the league is so poor you can turn it round.

I think they are 5th and 6th best leagues in the world respectively, so "dump" seems overly harsh for either Yeah I'm just trolling, not much between them outside of PSG. Both probably the two most underperforming leagues in terms of winning European trophies over history.

Dunno like

Ligue 1 is dump though, it's a step up.

Dunno what you're talking about Kaka, sound technique.

Apparently he has a special diet because he's lack toast and tolerant.

No

Valbuena's other options were QPR and West Ham, hardly turning down stellar names in favour of the cash.

Honestly, everything that comes out of Pardew's mouth is fucking intolerable.

He's bobbins.

Hahahaha how bad was that.

Garry O'Connor's the bloke who said he hated living in Moscow because it was cold and there's no Sky TV, then a couple of years later took it upon himself to join a club in Siberia.

He was always going to go out on loan somewhere for 6 months. NYC don't start playing football till next season. Guess City took advantage of the fact that they technically own the player anyway. Would imagine its also something to do with their homegrown quota too.

Lampard signing for Man City on loan.

Isla on loan to QPR

Aarons is a winger and seems to have moved ahead of a few on that list in terms of flavour of the month youngster. But yeah, our total lack of wingers considering we have hoof-and-cross Pardew as manager is a bit of a hindrance.

Owen

You're ignoring the fact that putting strikers on the wing is an Alan Pardew fetish

Not in the squad for Germany.