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I'm fairly sure Krul could knock if 15 yards to a fullback if Pardew asked like.

And Lovenkrands, just remembered. Doesn't change much surely though? Vuckic would only play central midfield or just behind a striker, maybe on the wing if we're really pushing it.

Who's injured that wasn't when he went on loan?

West Ham equalise

Rodgers trolling, chairman has to dish out more appearance fees

More so now

Allardyce outside automatic promotion

Yeah, fans will always abuse players. That's the way it is. Professionals should never criticise other players in a public forum. Maybe he'll think twice now before he opens his rent a quote mouth. On another note, I'm not a fan of criticising players. However, we would never have finished 4th if the fans hadn't started to abuse Barton after the Troyes game. So its fine if OUR fans criticise OUR players because that's the way things are. We're fine with that. But one of OUR players criticising ANOTHER team's player (who we don't care about)...that's not right? Don't get any of this logic, I would've thought all of our fans would want us to do well and wouldn't give a toss about other players. Can't see how abusing the likes of Simpson is going help us on the pitch, especially when he plays every game.

Sorry, deleted my post cos couldn't be bothered to get in debate

Is everyone trolling here?

Most be one of the ugliest squads around that like.

Like Wolves?

The Guardian is nearly always rubbish, they come up with some mental ideas.

Maybe we have different ideas of fantastic, Marveaux's English is fantastic.

Aye, don't get what he's trying to do here, obviously it was just two sentences or so in a press conference that's been turned into an article but he still needs to be careful saying things like this IMO. Not saying it will derail our season but it can't help that much. Maybe we should get some language teachers at the training ground anyway, Jonas and Colo still can't even speak English that well!

But that would mean them abandoning their rigid defensive postional instructions. Like when Ameoibi comes on and shouts and points at Cab and Tiote to stay back. It's insane that this side peppered with full internationals is worrying about beating a bunch of potato farmers at home. This is key, its not players who can't, its players who aren't allowed to.

I know, I said no-one can take Tiote's role really. I see Abeid being moulded into something closer to Tiote than Carrick though, as you say Carrick is someone who can dictate the tempo etc. I reckon Abeid has the athleticism to do a bit more and get stuck in more, can't think of a decent example at the moment but I'll get back to you. Edit- there's quotes from Pardew saying he sees him as a holding midfielder

van Gogh?

There's no-one else in the squad who can really take Tiote's role, Abeid seems to be being groomed to do it though. The club seemingly want him as a holding midfielder rather than an attacking one anyway.

That article makes Clark sound like a six-year old

We've already seen him alongside an in form Taylor and we had the best defence in the league (or nigh on, statistically anyway).

He said on Football Focus he had mates in a few clubs across Europe (including Inter ) and so was gonna watch a few clubs, don't think it means much.

Anyone ever watched one of Lee Ryder's videos on the Chronicle site? Jesus christ, had the misfortune of doing it the other day, if you're having trouble sleeping seek one out.

Henderson from Pompey (think we were linked with him?) joins West Ham

Worst player ever to don black and white around the world