ExiledGeordie

:lol: Fair

Can someone give me a brief update, just got back from Uni? Looking likely he'll sign this window then?

Debuchy picks up a knock - Santon to right back, this lad in at left back Competition for Santon at left back

What would this player go for normally if he wasn't out of contract in the summer? How well rated is he, 4-5m??

Title change I see, where's the confirmation come from?

Who was the last decent left footed left back we had before Enrique?

We'll have mad some great signings if they come off, but will we have enough goals without Ba? That's a good question. Aside from Cisse and the odd spectacular goal from Cisse who else is going to chip in with some goals. Obviously I'd say HBA is a threat when he gets back too but we definitely need another option.

Well lets just wait and see but haven't we been here before, slight delay in proceedings only for the player to go to London

Cabaye is massive for us, him HBA and keeping Taylor fit/new centre half could still keep us up

Is that "another" wind up or real?

"with United facing up to the prospect of losing Fabricio Coloccini today" Am I reading that wrongly or is Ryder saying Colo has played his last game for NUFC. The meeting was today I think so I guess we'll know soon enough

Definitely agree with that. Strengthening the back line is a must which it appears they're trying to do.

Exactly this. It really does look like you're going to get at least two decent players in. The one big problem you still have is the awkward fixture list, and I think getting a win this weekend will mean you're safe. True. I think last season he set us up with negative tactics but the better players came through for us. If you stick a strong centre half in there eradicating the Williamson factor, Ben Arfa and another attacking option and for me thats a big factor irrespective of the nonsense of the manager. Better players creative chances/keep clean sheets. The other thing is we all know that football is a confidence sport like most I guess but especially football. If you get a result from somewhere and confidence builds a bit, teams play completely differently and that leads to wins. This is what I'm clinging onto anyway

:lol: Totally

We need another "leader" type character out there on the pitch to be fair. Someone who inspires confidence in others

I mean as ludicrous as some of the things Pardew is doing players like Williamson at the back are costing us points. Take someone like him out of the equation (Taylor/new signing) and thats a positive start. Throw in Cabaye and HBA and the team has much more impetus going forward. Just seems like with the players coming back plus potential new signings even Pardew should be able to do enough to get us to fucking 17th

7 1/2 for me. After seeing saturday the prospect of relegation is VERY real However if you look at it like this......from an eternal optimists angle We're not in the bottom 3, we're two points clear There's plenty of shit sides down there HBA is still to come back Cabaye is back "If" we sign a new centre half/striker There's still 45 points to play for Surely even Pardew has a "small" chance of staying up?

No

You would have been wrong even if you did go, at least you would have understood the context of watching the team throw 3 points down the drain, 3 points which were ours for the taking as we were crusing through the game. People were getting frustrated because they knew what the manager was doing and most knew what the expected outcome was going to be. Probably everybody except for you and Pardew, that is. isn't he saying that cabaye was injured and the crowd reacted as if it was tactical and the marveaux sub was a mystery to him aswell ? That's pretty much it. To boo the change sends the message "What's he doing bringing Cabaye off!?" when in fact it was 100% clear In actual fact a few around me including myself suspected that Cabaye probably had an issue but were still p*ssed off because then the question became "well why the hell did you take Marveaux first if Cabaye had an issue?" Then to learn that he knew about this issue at half time makes it even more ridiculous.

I'll tell you what, why don't you try sitting in the freezing cold watching the manager throw the game, do that and I might take you seriously. Well said

Might see him on the bench at Spurs the earliest. Be very surprised if he was involved at all for Chelsea

This place is building to a crescendo again :lol:

Yeah this is what makes the Marv sub even more ridiculous. If Cabaye had told Pardew at half time that he was struggling a bit why would you bring Marveaux off before Cabaye?

Was it not just that our passing game wasn't as fluent without Cabaye running it? Before the Marveaux sub we started punting it over his head a little too often. To no effect whatsoever. Yeah I don't understand after playing it around 1st half that we just started knocking long balls forward bypassing the midfield. Bonkers stuff

What you have to consider is that taking Cabaye off just highlighted even further how ridiculous the Marveaux decision was because Marv had already been taken off. It just incensed the crowd even further. He can't have any complaints with the derision that greeted his decisions and tactics on saturday given how patient fans have been this season. He 100% bottled that match and shot himself in the foot. Car crashi decision making