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Brilliant news! It'll be nice this time next year watching him angling for another move when Everton haven't qualified for the Champions league. Well done to NUFC for sticking to their guns on this one as well

They'll still bring on a few more in reckon.

Have you seen the state of Goodison, those who populate it, and the surrounding areas? They're acting like scruffs because they are scruffs.

Think they're going to end up having good a very good day.

Anyone who rates Dummett is clearly an idiot. i'd seel dummet for £4.5m if we had adequate cover at LB & CB already in place that was better than him, i'm not convinced that's the case (yet) so for the fee it's not worth the risk imo that said i went to the huddersfield match and he was the worst player on the pitch, comically bad tbh Nobody came out of that Huddersfield match with any credit. Dummet has looked pretty solid since. He's worth more than £4.5m as a very useful squad player.

Yeah. Wonder if he'll be in the squad for Derby? No chance. More likely he'll go on strike because of our unreasonable demands.

Aye. They won't sell him.

Thing is a competent manager could have that squad challenging for a European place but as long as Pardew keeps them up people will be saying he's done a good job.

They never said he's at the airport Just said he's in Paris as he's left the France training camp I reckon he's sat at the airport like.

He's making a complete fool of himself now like. Hanging round an airport praying someone gets in touch with his agent. As much as I want him gone it'll be hilarious if he's still here tomorrow.

Spurs have cooled their interest. Could be Everton or nowt for him.

Happened in the 1st half on Saturday. Got turned but caught up with their winger and ended up putting a good tackle in.

It's like most of the stuff vented on this player, driven mostly by resentment and lack of reason. This is why it is such a relief to have a class manager like Benitez making the decisions now. I trust his judgement implicitly. Agree. At last we finally have a manager prepared to stand up to this egotistical pr!ck and is making him train on his own. No he isn't, he wants to keep him so badly that he will only accept an offer if it is an astronomical offer. He's a "very professional" player in the words of Rafa He's hardly going to say anything else when he's trying to get £35m for him Compare and contrast to his treatment of Wijnaldum. And he is training on his own, away from the first team. Benitez confirmed this.

It's like most of the stuff vented on this player, driven mostly by resentment and lack of reason. This is why it is such a relief to have a class manager like Benitez making the decisions now. I trust his judgement implicitly. Agree. At last we finally have a manager prepared to stand up to this egotistical pr!ck and is making him train on his own.

Aye never understood it either. Why would he choose for example to have his best game of his NUFC career against Norwich in a random 3 o clock Saturday game? It's clear when targeted by the other team and space around him is restricted that he is severely limited, but it's not to do with not trying. He was put left back in games last season and did well and never complained once and was given the captaincy by Rafa for our most important stretch of the season, not a hope he's a massive disruptive influence as some like to say It was a 4pm Sunday game. Live on Sky.

Pretty good summing up tbh.

Agree with that, his ambition seems to outstrip his actual ability though. He thinks Real Madrid, reality is Real Vallecano-ish. I feel like I really don't have a handle on how good he is tbh. How would you guys describe him? Like a low-rent Yaya Toure? Lots of pace, carries the ball well and can deliver decent quality into the box. Good defensively as well, if I have a criticism it's that he doesn't score the goals he should. I can see why teams are sniffing around, always predicted he'd be worth a lot of money. I wouldn't go off what people say on here, most of them are extremely p*ssed off that he wants to be away.

He's been angling for a move for over 2 years now man. I don't know how much more obvious he needs to make it to you that he really, really doesn't want to be at Newcastle United. Time we got rid.

means f*** all these days tbh Drives his price up. Means sunderland can demand silly money for him which clubs will be reluctant to pay with him only having a couple of years left in him. id love him here tbh, never fails to score the little c*** Aye if we'd signed him last season we'd have stayed up and they'd have gone down. Still, it's turned out OK in the end.

means f*** all these days tbh Drives his price up. Means sunderland can demand silly money for him which clubs will be reluctant to pay with him only having a couple of years left in him.

It's relevant because his performances improved the longer Rafa had time to get an effective system going, before that we were all over the place under McClaren. Well aye, but across the whole season he was fairly s****, which is what people are saying. Everyone was s*** under McClaren because he had no style or method. Personally I think a player like Sissoko would always be better under Rafa, the way his teams set up is ideal for players with some pace. He was nowt special pre McClaren as well. Best off getting rid and investing the money in players who actually want to play for the club. If nobody comes in for him let him continue to train on his own. We're looking good fine without him and we shouldn't be needing him to get out of this league.

There's a lot to be said for team spirit, as Leicester showed last season. Rafa seems to have cobbled together a very decent group of lads who are playing for the shirt and look more than capable of being up at the top of this division come May. Would hate to think Sissoko could come back into the first team squad in a sulk and upset what we're building. If he was as good as him and his agent tell us he is he would be long gone by now but as we know, he isn't that good and it's looking increasingly likely we'll both be stuck with each other come September 1st. If this turns out to be the case I'd far rather he continues to train on his own as he has been doing and is kept away from the 1st team squad.

He was terrible last season. Let's stop rewriting history because he had a good Euros when he put himself in the shop window. If he doesn't get his dream move and ends up stuck with us it sends out totally the wrong message to the rest of the players putting him back in the first XI especially when he isn't really needed. He's totally disrespected the club, manager and his teammates with his actions over the summer.

On the left? Square pegs in round holes again then. Gouffran's a square peg in every hole, though. Sissoko and Ritchie out wide alternating would be just fine. Richie's clearly far better on the right and is arguably our best player. I wouldn't take him away from there to make room for Sissoko. Sissoko would be useless on the left as well and would no doubt take the huff at being played out of position. Sissoko's our best player. In any attacking midfield role he'd p*ss all over this division. Yet was totally anonymous against sh*t like sunderland, Aston Villa, West Brom etc. Don't know why he'd suddenly turn into a world beater against Derby, Sheff Wed etc. If he was anonymous last season he would have been dropped. People are rewriting history here, he might have had the odd bad game, but he was never anonymous. His 1 goal and 2 assists were invaluable to us last season. Was he dropped by Rafa for his anonymous displays? Wijnaldum was, how come Sissoko got handed the armband and singled out for praise by Rafa for these anonymous performances? How many times was Colback dropped last season? You think he played well? That's just it though, Colback has been dropped this season once a proper manager has been installed and he's had time to fashion his own squad. If Rafa doesn't rate Sissoko he could always take the £20m Spurs would happily pay but he won't will he? Maybe he should offer them Colback instead for that money? Well we wouldn't know if Sissoko would have been dropped or not this season considering we haven't even seen him yet. All I know is that his attitude in his time at NUFC has been disgraceful, especially against the sh*t teams. Considering he's already stated on numerous occasions he doesn't want to be here and our opponents are mostly going to be sh*t teams I'd find it rather difficult to put him back in the first XI at the expense of any of our current players.

On the left? Square pegs in round holes again then. Gouffran's a square peg in every hole, though. Sissoko and Ritchie out wide alternating would be just fine. Richie's clearly far better on the right and is arguably our best player. I wouldn't take him away from there to make room for Sissoko. Sissoko would be useless on the left as well and would no doubt take the huff at being played out of position. Sissoko's our best player. In any attacking midfield role he'd p*ss all over this division. Yet was totally anonymous against sh*t like sunderland, Aston Villa, West Brom etc. Don't know why he'd suddenly turn into a world beater against Derby, Sheff Wed etc. If he was anonymous last season he would have been dropped. People are rewriting history here, he might have had the odd bad game, but he was never anonymous. His 1 goal and 2 assists were invaluable to us last season. Was he dropped by Rafa for his anonymous displays? Wijnaldum was, how come Sissoko got handed the armband and singled out for praise by Rafa for these anonymous performances? How many times was Colback dropped last season? You think he played well?