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would love to see Santon on the wing. Basically negates his weaknesses, and he will naturally track back and cover his full back. Looked v.good there against Wigan absolutely rinsed their full back Yep, naturally track back...if there is one thing i associate with Santon, its his tracking back. The speed at which he rushes to track back... I dont mean it in a dickish way tbh, but the one criticism i have is that when he runs forward, he just walks back, even when the opposition is attacking Perhaps, but as he's been played primarily as a FB I'm sure it wont be hard to get him to track back when he's playing as a winger. With more freedom to roam he's at least going to offer more protection than a Marveux though. I take your point but I think he'd be fine. You are right in that he looked great against Wigan there, on the right too as a conventional winger! I guess we will see, but i feel sometime others are a bit too quick to jump on the "convert attacking full back to winger" bandwagon because of Bale. Roberto Carlos and Cafu stayed as full backs and were great

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MACKEM Only time i set foot in cheesey chips land was for a gig 6 years ago

Giaccherini is a great player, but i do think the main reason he looks such a good signing is because we have a shortage of wingers. If he had similar level of ability but was a center-mid (hard to qualify this but you get my point) then I would not be concerned. I hate being THAT person who says these things but Altidore's first good season was in Holland. He has flopped in this league in the past. He may be better but I would say he is unproven with the only evidence so far counting against him. Guidetti could be great if they sign him, or he could be another Bendtner. They all need to gel under a manager with little experience next season. If they get midtable next season, I would begin to worry. As of now, I'm more concerned about us.

would love to see Santon on the wing. Basically negates his weaknesses, and he will naturally track back and cover his full back. Looked v.good there against Wigan absolutely rinsed their full back Yep, naturally track back...if there is one thing i associate with Santon, its his tracking back. The speed at which he rushes to track back... I dont mean it in a dickish way tbh, but the one criticism i have is that when he runs forward, he just walks back, even when the opposition is attacking

I wouldnt have minded Giaccherini myself like as we need width on the left but alot of the others are unknowns at the moment. Altidore is a known unknown (...) i guess as we don't know how he will take to this league THIS time. Huddlestone is a good player but famously unfit, so surely Paolo won't accept it?

Guessing its a Giggs, But everywhere reporting Cavani to Chelsea for £49.3mil? A very beautiful man who is a tremendous player. Guessing Torres will end up at Napoli eventually mind

We could sign a player on February 2nd if we wanted...just it would formally go through July 1st. Even massive players like Ronaldo have it all fixed up well before it goes through.

Can't stand this fucking shit. It's laughable that the papers get away with implying it, never mind someone that used to manage the club. It's total and utter bollocks of course. We hate Cockneys - Rob Lee, Les Ferdinand, Warren Barton etc are all despised. I also like his reasoning that he deserved more credit as he bought the players that did well in the championship... Yep, he bought higher-championship players whilst in a relegation battle...not Premiership players... absolute joke. If only we had Geordie Keegan sign another Geordie Ferdinand or Geordie Albert...

Yep seen this. I repeat my sentiments from yesterday, fuck football.

I dont see why the mackems are so cocky...we have 2 men at the club with a combined 4 PFA Manager of the year awards

To be honest, with the Cabaye money, we should resign Brian Kerr and bring in Phill Babb...atleast then that can be a bit closer to Kerrbabb....

All this before he's even been confirmed!

Apparently the Vaughan article dubs him the "magpie killer"...yep, the 3rd goal of a 3-0 win...

First time im hearing the interview...sounded like Amanobi to me...and he definitely thinks Sammy is Shola's son!

Nope.

This. We will finish top 8 despite him and it will be held up as "look how good a decision it was", fickle geordies etc. fuck football

Imagine if thats the reason why Cabaye, (Sorry, Kebab) decides to leave, You couldn't help but laugh, and I can see it happenng I wouldnt put it past some on here using that excuse tbh Id rather let him go, he seemed like a good idea last night but now Im sobered up and can see daylight, I dont want any part of him...

Trying to figure out how come they're that high up the list, must be something wrong there. Absolute rubbish. Even with Zlatan, Cassano, Nesta, Seedorf etc. I would be surprised if they were above Chelsea and Bayern etc.

I can just see him picking up like 6 goals next season...Terry-esque..

I like Gervinho. I can't say tactically where he should play as I have not seen him THAT much but the impression i get is that he needs a run in his favored position. Had a few good spells last seasons did he not?

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I thought he was 6 He's always been #6. But he's an overrated bruiser that achieved legendary status by lingering around in the squad and kicking some shins in CRUUUUUNCHING tackles to the delight of home fans. http://img.uefa.com/imgml/TP/players/1/2013/324x324/27139.jpg

Throwing money at a player in order to overcome their reluctance to join.... That usually ends in tears. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZYDicBPnTJs/Ta76WEeWr8I/AAAAAAAAD1E/0NJpw5B-shc/s1600/Michael-Owen.jpg

Deffs thought that was Raylor the first few times i saw it...