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This and the other quotes don't make great reading... What would the harm be in saying we are still hopeful of 1 or 2 coming through the door if we were anywhere near close to doing something... I'm still hoping we are waiting to qualify for the group stages before pushing the boat out one last time to increase the squad size by improving the first team... The harm would be in press coverage alerting other clubs potentially? - May just be bluffing - although it seems unlikely. If your not naming the club or the player or the position what and who are you alerting?...

This and the other quotes don't make great reading... What would the harm be in saying we are still hopeful of 1 or 2 coming through the door if we were anywhere near close to doing something... I'm still hoping we are waiting to qualify for the group stages before pushing the boat out one last time to increase the squad size by improving the first team...

Would be more than happy to see that team out tomorrow. Lots of people seem to be playing this game down for some reason and apparently we've only shifted 17,000 tickets. The great season we had last year, all that hard work put in, well this is our reward. Going out in August, before the group stages would be a disaster in my opinion, maybe not on the same scale as the Partizan Belgrade game, but would make all that hard work put in last season look rather pointless. I just hope Pardew and the players are taking it more seriously than the supporters seem to be. Like i said earlier in the thread... This game should of been free with a ST... Big crowd... Cheer us on into the group stage hopefully... Also the fact that we've a small squad now than last season seems to suggest the club aren't taking it serious either... If Debuchy/Douglas/Remy etc was making his debut I think you'll find a few more thousand going...

If Liverpool bite the bullet and accept £12m for Carroll maybe... Hardly gets the pulse racing...

Just another point of view with some merits... Let's judge the window when it closes...

Good post... All very plausible...

Most of the transfer tittle tattle is orchestrated with betting in mind...

Nothing new... People thinking we'd sell for £10-15m etc obviously will just believe what they want to believe...

Real Madrid are ready to offer €10m which is €2m more than the €8m we thought Lille were holding out for? No... Lille were always hoping for €10m but some on here refused to accept it and insisted they only wanted €8m as fact... We'll find out for sure in next few days if the Madrid interest is genuine... Arbeloa has been in decent form of late but Debuchy has very similar qualities to Contrao so would make some sense having them playing either side... Hang on, no-one knows for sure what the official asking price is / was. Both €10m and €8m were quoted in equal doses off various different tabloids. If Real are intrested they could be offering €10m as they know we havnt got a hope in hell of competing with it. Blowing the competition out the water so to speak. True... No one really knows... Probably a case of €8m gets your name in the hat whereas €10m has Lille packing his locker for him... €6m might be get him if no one else wants him... For the optimists... Ben Arfa turned down late interest from RM to join us... So hope this is true, it would make my love of HBA even stronger "He turned down Madrid... When Marseille wanted rid... That's Ben Arfa..." Can't remember the second verse...

Some sweet strikes in the Forest v Wigan tie...

Not sure it was Simpson turning the offers down or the offers not being as big as the club expected but either way shifting Simpson off the books this window seems intrinsic to the Debuchy transfer...

Carroll & Jose double deal...

That's the word from France also... At least we now know what Mourinho was really texting AP about...

Someone has just tweeted of our interest now... €4m loan fee...

f***'s sake man Missed a sitter at the weekend... lovely chip through by ayew, let's get him instead It was a lovely pass...

f***'s sake man Missed a sitter at the weekend...

Real Madrid are ready to offer €10m which is €2m more than the €8m we thought Lille were holding out for? No... Lille were always hoping for €10m but some on here refused to accept it and insisted they only wanted €8m as fact... We'll find out for sure in next few days if the Madrid interest is genuine... Arbeloa has been in decent form of late but Debuchy has very similar qualities to Contrao so would make some sense having them playing either side... Hang on, no-one knows for sure what the official asking price is / was. Both €10m and €8m were quoted in equal doses off various different tabloids. If Real are intrested they could be offering €10m as they know we havnt got a hope in hell of competing with it. Blowing the competition out the water so to speak. True... No one really knows... Probably a case of €8m gets your name in the hat whereas €10m has Lille packing his locker for him... €6m might be get him if no one else wants him... For the optimists... Ben Arfa turned down late interest from RM to join us... Exactly yeh, the €10m offer is one of a club that has the money and wont hang about in bidding an unrejectable offer. Sadly, we're not in that boat. Hopefully Lille will be out of the Champions League this time tomorrow and we can have one last effort from our board to get him. I'm sure I heard Copenhagen will be taking a massive following so hopefully that will spur them on...

VI: Out of interest how much would the fee be or are we just talking a loan?...

Real Madrid are ready to offer €10m which is €2m more than the €8m we thought Lille were holding out for? No... Lille were always hoping for €10m but some on here refused to accept it and insisted they only wanted €8m as fact... We'll find out for sure in next few days if the Madrid interest is genuine... Arbeloa has been in decent form of late but Debuchy has very similar qualities to Contrao so would make some sense having them playing either side... Hang on, no-one knows for sure what the official asking price is / was. Both €10m and €8m were quoted in equal doses off various different tabloids. If Real are intrested they could be offering €10m as they know we havnt got a hope in hell of competing with it. Blowing the competition out the water so to speak. True... No one really knows... Probably a case of €8m gets your name in the hat whereas €10m has Lille packing his locker for him... €6m might be get him if no one else wants him... For the optimists... Ben Arfa turned down late interest from RM to join us...

Real Madrid are ready to offer €10m which is €2m more than the €8m we thought Lille were holding out for? No... Lille were always hoping for €10m but some on here refused to accept it and insisted they only wanted €8m as fact... We'll find out for sure in next few days if the Madrid interest is genuine... Arbeloa has been in decent form of late but Debuchy has very similar qualities to Contrao so would make some sense having them playing either side...

F***ing cringe. Really sad how he's just destroyed himself. Absolutely loved him during his last season. Avoided controversy, played with grit and passion, was a real leader, was at the top of his game, and genuinely loved playing for the Toon. Maybe until January then we sold Carroll and his influence slowly diminished again... We got 6-8 good months out of him in 4yr...

Kevin Gameiro or Loic Remy or Zaha

Jason Manford. Think more along the lines of our favourite uncle from Sunderland...

Then he got a big comtract... Then Liverpool came in with even a bigger contract... And the rest is history... Or at least it should be in my eyes...