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Me neither, I've lost track of which thread is which. Should have an incoming transfers thread just for the next few days.

'The Winking Wolf'

No idea. Feeling cautiously optimistic though.

Presumably so. They had previous with Robinho, Ibrahimovic and Shevchenko where they knew they firmly had the ball in their court. Those guys are good at negotiating.

Whenever i see his name now all i can read is your put down We are finally seeing some movement regarding transfers, Ikon will be more relieved and the stress and gloom will naturally go. All's well.

Go back to sleep, Ikon.

Aye? 5 Players from the french league? Not really got a clue about french football myself, barely heard of any of the linked players.... Someone do a football manager style post for where they would fit in the team. Krul Debuchy Mbiwa Williamson Haidara Obertan Sissoko Cabaye Gouffran Cisse Shola

Much bigger difference than we thought. Still think we'll be able to make it a goer though.

On the subject of corners, it is interesting to note the number of goals conceded from corners as well. (Data for last season, til April) Team Goals scored from corners Goals conceded from corners Aggregate goals from corners Man City 12 2 +10 West Brom 6 1 +5 Man Utd 7 3 +4 Norwich 7 3 +4 Chelsea 4 0 +4 Everton 5 2 +3 Sunderland 4 1 +3 Wolves 6 5 +1 Tottenham 5 4 +1 Blackburn 8 8 0 Stoke 4 5 -1 Arsenal 3 4 -1 Liverpool 5 7 -2 Fulham 3 5 -2 Newcastle 1 3 -2 QPR 3 6 -3 Swansea 3 6 -3 Wigan 3 6 -3 Bolton 3 10 -7 Aston Villa 0 11 -11 How many have we conceded so far this season? The two from Man U, Reading(?), Ba's derby o.g. springs to mind atm. Defensively we are wank from corners too.

Well arguably, but how many corners did it take? Obviously it's significant in terms of goal total, but it doesn't mean corners are a good way to score goals. Same way as you will argue the % of goals from open play scored from chances created (conversion rate). In fact, if we were to consider the effectiveness of corner goals, we will have to compare %conversion from corners against that from open play to have our verdict. Ultimately, those teams are creating enough chances/corners and converting them to account for a good % of their goals. The fact is even with a fair number of corners this season, we have massively disappointed.

1 or 2 goals from corners if you managed to score ten league goals is significant iyam. Using the average conversion and our current goal tally, it would have meant we would have scored an additional 4 corner goals this season so far.

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9156/cornergoals.jpg Numbers til October this season, with an average of 13.74% which is pretty significant if I must say. I'll try to find more up-to-date data.

Apparently Man City scored 15 goals (16% of total league goals) from corners last season while Man U have scored 13 from corners so far this season. That's a huge number to be considered 'less threatening' than perceived.

People players?

Aye, should be disciplined by the club for that sh*t. You know Pardew will silently let it go though since those are probably what he wants to say too.

What is more painful than our league position is that we are seemingly not getting rid of Pardew for a long time. There's no knowing when the decay will end.

More concerned about him playing the opposition strikers onside. Seen that at least a couple of occasions this season, one of them leading to a goal I believe.

Nah, dun worry about that. Ikon was just trying to distract us from the gloomy mood hanging around this place really. Right, Ikon?

I'm slipping into depression. Transfer window driving me crazy and now a fellow NO user being brutal and hates me. I go sleep some more.

Tell me about it. I get news like Colo wanting to leave and this Haidara story before my last bit of business for the day, and wake up to news like the Remy deal hijack. Nightmares don't end when I wake up.

Please, for the love of God, pay that extra 500k to push it through. At this rate, we will never get any more players in this window. 500k vs 50m, Mike. You know what you need to do.

Those clubs should just hire their own scouts man.