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It's not finished yet, Fatem Ben Arfa is still running.

Owen hargreaves Right I'm off

Is that Rob Stark on the BT panel?

Coleman is not British

I think he's a good asset for the league. Fantastic player and there aren't many with his playing style tbf.

Gylfi Sigurðsson

The last time we were open about the progress of specific targets was the last time he was here. I hated it then and I don't like it now. He was whinging about Lyon leaking stuff to the media, which is just hypocritical. True that.

Christ, that's the first time kinnear hasn't pissed me off in an interview.

Awww

Sake

I still won't believe that Carr is the only person scouting players at nufc lol But stranger things have been true recently

For the record I would prefer to have a variety of nationalities, not just French. I think its highly unlikely that we have just one scout who has been told only to recruit from league un

We signed Anita from Holland and cisse from Germany based on scout reports surely?

It's only got so many good players. Sooner or later you end up scraping the barrell when other teams beat you to the good stuff. Spain? Holland? Belgium? Germany? South America? Balkan countries? why can't we expand our market, there's talent to be found everywhere as teams like Udinese prove by leaving no stone unturned. And with the TV money English clubs have an advantage over more or less everybody. If we've got more scouts then why aren't the finding other players? Why do we keep going back to one small shortlist of Ligue 1 players that have contracts situations we can exploit? I like to think we scout players in many countries, though out recent relationship with the French market is a bit too much . I don't like having too many of any one nationality . Rinaldo...while the likes of hba, sissoko and cabaye are no physical tanks they are all capable of dealing with the physicality of the EPL

Funny how all clubs don't choose their favourite league and limit themselves to that market then. I think the model is limiting them to the market because the french league appears to offer the best value for money...

The French league offers the best mixture of technical ability and physicality at a cheap price. It's not that we only have one fucking scout Although when your club is appointing the likes if jfk you never know...

Gutierrez finally does some work f*** the spider! What about that weird blue eyed alien shadow thing following him! Stalked by death? Whitewalker? Excellent