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Ba's one of them.

So weird.

I don't know what to think. There's usually no smoke without fire with this lot and managers, but I'll only start believing it if the rumours get a bit stronger than some tenuous stuff on Twitter. FWIW I don't like him much but would be very concerned if he were to leave at any point this season.

He deserves to be part of our squad at the very least. If only there was competition for places in our squad he'd either rise to the challenge or we'd have a better alternative in our first team.

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You're going on like we're quietly building on what we have when in reality we've simply replaced our best players for the most part. When do we spend some money then? When do these pricks run out of excuses? If they've dug themselves into a hole where they have to spend an extra couple of million on 3-4 players that we need to progress then I fucking well expect them to dig themselves out of the hole rather than leaving us short yet again.

You forgot that we made Ben Arfa a permanent squad member. Oh, indeed we did. Positive move as that potentially was, it's hardly something that was going to benefit us in the short-term. In truth, we're still waiting to see whether that move works out, same with Gosling who we signed over 12 months ago now. You fail to mention that most managers avoid the January transfer window due to the poor value it offers. We were wise not to panic buy last January and we were wise not to panic buy this summer. I'd rather see the club stable and secure making well thought out transfers than overspending on rushed deals. Piss off man, where does it all end? £16m for Robert and Bellamy seemed a fair whack of money at the time but it moved us on. It's a whole different ball game now but the principle is the same - make profits every single transfer window and you'll tread water at best, simple as. We shouldn't spend money in January, we shouldn't spend money in the summer ffs. Absolute bollocks.

You forgot that we made Ben Arfa a permanent squad member. Oh, indeed we did. Positive move as that potentially was, it's hardly something that was going to benefit us in the short-term. In truth, we're still waiting to see whether that move works out, same with Gosling who we signed over 12 months ago now.

Annoys me thinking about January tbh, we had the chance in the last January window to back a new manager and sold our most valuable player on deadline day, needlessly got rid of Routledge on loan, recruited known crock/headcase Ireland on loan. Can see it being another shit window tbh, our heads will still be spinning after spending half a million net this summer. If things are going "well" (i.e. we're 3+ points off third bottom) then they'll probably not even feel the need to strengthen whatsoever.

Fuck this thread.

I blame him sitting around in a Jesmond hotel for the last month! If he only plays a handful of games this season then we're a shoe-in to get him on the cheap next summer.

Same as above, when it's sluggish it's really sluggish - I'll usually have a break for half an hour then give it another whirl and it's fine.

This reminds me of when Insomnia left.

As I said earlier on I don't think it's even that important if we bid or not - if we bid in the full knowledge that there isn't a hope in hell it will come off then it's practically the same thing. I do wonder why the Ridgewell bid didn't come off though, haven't seen as much said or written about that. Wasn't it meant to have been a swap deal. No way was that ever getting done in time. Sounds about right.

As I said earlier on I don't think it's even that important if we bid or not - if we bid in the full knowledge that there isn't a hope in hell it would come off then it's practically the same thing. I do wonder why the Ridgewell bid didn't come off though, haven't seen as much said or written about that.

We've got such form for this though, we do it most windows and never get anyone in. If they were that intent on getting a striker in then they'd have learnt from experience and not left it until the last day.

What's the point in a bid if there is zero chance of it being accepted? Story of our summer.

Going SWIMMINGLY this like.

:lol: The last few pages of this thread have been phenomenal.

"Bulgaria's a shithole, I wanna go home", classy that like.

Very tough to get players over the line, selling clubs playing hard ball, very close with a couple of players but just run out of time, we will do everything we can to ensure the right players are brought in January, we need to make sure they were right for us, blah blah blah. Yeah, I still want to hear him actually say it.