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The club denying a bid makes me pretty confident we've made a bid.

That's how I feel. I still don't want him though.

What a cunt.

Stop quoting it ffs

Can't imagine how shit it would be to have someone so awful consistently playing on your team.

It wasn't the best movie in the world for either side, but I enjoyed that he came to the MLS, just seemed like he wasted his career. He's still obviously good enough.

I would love him, but not getting my hopes up yet.

When you say he would be a terrible signing for Newcastle United, one would think he was a bit on the shit side for what we are after. Keep grasping. No one's called him shit.

I flipping well hope not. Don't think so, which means most of us would put him on that non-existent middle ground.

Has anyone even said he's shit?

It wouldn't be a very good signing unless we got him for less than about £7m and played him every single week. It's not going to happen anyway, fuck knows why anyone is talking about it. This. The source is terrible, and it doesn't even make sense if what we're told on scouting is true (looking for foreign talent, only buying relatively young players, etc.)

Negatives easily out-weigh the positives, on top of his age and what we'll have to spend on him, there's no reason to go for him unless we're desperate.

But you think Spuds will want £12m for him?.. I don't know what they want. Anything above 5mil and I would feel cheated, and I'm sure they'll ask for more than that.

Almost 29, coming off the worse season of his career. Like I said, whatever we would have to pay for him would be too much. He's shown nothing lately to warrant someone to believe he can score goals if he starts regularly.

A goalscorer who scores 8 goals in all competitions? In a team which is set up to focus on the strengths of Modric, van der Vaart & Bale rather than the centre-forwards. Because they are all mediocre. No matter how a team plays, you're center forward to score goals. There's no reason to pay an inflated fee for someone who had such a poor season.

A goalscorer who scores 8 goals in all competitions?

Defoe would be a terrible signing. All indications so far point to us going to the continent for signings, there's little value in the league.

Is this a Gold Cup year where you send the full team? Yeah, every one after a WC year is the important one. Although, if we don't win this year we might send a full squad to 2013 as we don't have the Confederations Cup to worry about.

Freddy Adu was called up to the US squad for the Gold Cup. I can't remember the last time he was called up, besides being with the B team in the 09 GC.

Best part is no one would be talking about this shit if he didn't pursue this.

This bit has me in stitches How kind of you to mention the bit-part players, Michael. They must be chuffed you remembered them. Wes Brown = 15 apps Michael Owen 16

At the very least, there should be a pay-per-view option for all 3 PM KOs. It's completely unfair to people who live outside of their club's city, or those who can't afford to go to matches.

I have nothing to say as the focus is obviously on the Nigeria comment now.

What is ridiculous about it? He has the most talented squad in the league, and managed to win nothing at all. His team was in complete tailspin for several months. He has not acheived what was required of him, so he will be replaced. Similar to Di Matteo, I cannot see why people think clubs should be so accpeting of mediocrity or make decisions based on the prior season. Please prove the bolded part to me. He also recovered from the tailspin enough to make a challenge for the title, just a season after doing the double. No reason he should be fired so soon after.

Ridiculous decision, but was always going to happen.