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Ah God, if that's the case then it just fits with every other activity in this fucking transfer window. My fucking God!

My God, we're signing this cunt are we? Ferguson appears to have regretted signing him from day 1. This is progress. This is what you can do when you accept £35m for one of your best players and have this kind of money to play with. I'm sorry but I don't want this guy, I've seen him play a few times and he doesn't appear to possess a brain. I'd actually rather sign no-one and give players like Ferguson and Vuckic more time on the pitch. Waste of time, just desperate.

The Chronicle has ALWAYS been on sale in the city centre at 1030AM just the same way The Sunday Sun was always on sale at 9PM on a saturday night in town. Are you trying to tell me off or something? I'm saying that there's a difference now in terms of when the paper is printed. It's now printed overnight and ready at roughly the same time The Journal is, i.e. 4 or 5 in the morning. There's a difference between that sort of time and 10.30am in the morning. They also used to print various versions throughout the day, which is no longer the case. My question was to do with whether they just put it on the shelf with The Journal and the other tabloids early morning now, or whether they're still selling it as an 'afternoon' or 'evening' paper and don't start selling until later on. I know this because my dad works there and has done for over 20 years. It's a recent development so maybe you hadn't heard. Fuck it, I'll just ask me dad.

I heart Otter's fake club quotes.

Piss off, it's Friday.

This.

Both papers are dying a total death and they're laying people off left, right and centre. I know that the Chronicle now gets printed overnight with the Journal. Does it still get released in the afternoon or is it on the shelves in the morning now?

Edwards: Feeling that Pardew wants to keep Barton but the board don't. I thought I was going to be able to make a big list here but he hasn't got a clue and he's just blabbering on now.

Luke Edwards on Talksport about this right now.

Roll your eyes all you like, you can't make any comment on the likelihood of it whatsoever. Neither can anyone then... Erm yeah. People are speculating and worrying for good reason.

Roll your eyes all you like, you can't make any comment on the likelihood of it whatsoever.

Don't bump this thread ffs, I nearly jumped out of the window.

Ah FFS.

kingkerouac's just taking the piss I think.

The majority of Premiership clubs have bought players in, I would say that we are somewhere in the middle of the clubs who have and haven't. Also, we'll only know if we've done well when players start producing on the pitch. Sunderland 10 Norwich 7 Fulham 5 Bolton 4 Liverpool 4 Newcastle 4 Chelsea 3 Man City 3 Man Utd 3 QPR 3 Swansea 3 West Brom 3 Wolves 3 Arsenal 2 Aston Villa 2 Blackburn 2 Stoke 2 Tottenham 1 Wigan 1 Everton 0 * Great formatting there btw. The point is though, how many of those teams have sold 42M+ worth of players in the last 2 windows? I wasn't trying to prove a point. Just posted an admittedly s*** table with the incoming transfers of each team. Everton have sold 35 millions worth and only bought Zog. Villa you mean? They also spent over £20m on Bent in January and have spent considerably more than us over the last few years.

Bloody hell.

This thread sucks.

I know.

Shame he's not much of a CM then. For you lot no he isn't. At city he excelled as a cm and he has the attributes to play that position so i doubt he's suddenly lost the ability to do so because he's been moved to the right at your club. He's shit in CM - his body and mind aren't quick enough.

Punk, as a matter of interest (well mainly to ascertain how big of a nutter we're dealing with here)... ... You still feeling all tingly?

Yep. Bunch of cunts. A cockney bunch of cunts no less. Unfortunately no geordie saviours have got two pennies to rub together otherwise we wouldn't be going through this agony. The only one who had some capital was Fat Fred and he ran out of Newcastle with a 40m swag bag and was last seen trying to buy some Spanish club for £10m. http://www.dsboard.de/phex/pics/nuf/eyes-bleed.jpg

So we ignore Barton's behaviour the past couple of months? You seem to be ignoring the form of the 2 players for the last 12 months, so yeah why not. Where have I ignored the form of our best two players? I think Barton was a very important part of our team last season along with Nolan, Enrique, Colo and Tiote. I really didn't want to think of our team without him for this season, Nolan slightly different especially after we signed Cabaye not that I know much about him but reading reports, the fact he is a French international who helped his team win their Championship gave me confidence that it would be ok to move Nolan on especially if his demands are true. It doesn't need explaining that we should fight harder to keep our better players but people are outraged by the behaviour towards Barton. There are two sides to every story and I would like to think I'm being fair to Barton and the Board. This is a complicated situation. The Twitter things have made things worse, I got a feeling if Barton hadn't joined Twitter they may have been hope of a compromise? I mean Smith and Barton. I'm basically saying I couldn't give a shit about how we're treating Smith in the same way Man City fans won't be arsed about how they're treating Adebayour or Bellamy, who due to the quality of their squad have been deemed surplus to requirements. Most clubs fight to keep their best players and will often give them a bit of leeway, whether that be a ticking off in this situation or assurances about the long term strategy and ambition of the club. The fact is that they can't give these assurances anyway, so they're just binning him.

So we ignore Barton's behaviour the past couple of months? You seem to be ignoring the form of the 2 players for the last 12 months, so yeah why not.