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Sorry but an unproven young player from the Championship and a player who hasn't played regular football in a long time sounds decent to you? You're right, let's stick with the watertight defence of Willo and Taylor.

Richards is a full back by trade but he's better at CB than either Williamson or Taylor. If MYM doesn't have a future here then a centre back pairing of Lascelles and Richards next season sounds pretty decent to me.

Aye, the quality is so poor it stands out. Fucking rubbish when you fancy buying your teams new top and its a monstrosity.

Aye, or that tracing paper bog roll. Cheap and nasty

Just seen the kit in the shops for the first time. Its shocking and thats being kind.

Only very occasionally, used to quite a bit but not now.

There are aye but thankfully they don't play here every week, these friendlies have smoked them out in force though. Hope they don't make this regular. They do actually carry this 1992 thing aswell

They're playing about 2 minutes from where I live. Seems the mackem plague has spread to my town

Seems like he's just made that up tbh.

The former. One of their better players last season.

Certainly puts a dent in the 8mill they wanted.

Was tweeting Andy Brassell earlier and he thinks that any player plus cash deal involving HBA is unlikely as he'd have to accept a large wage cut and also it would need the ok from Lacazette, which seems unlikely. Reckons the only way Lacazette is going is if a CL club comes in with big money.

Still think 10 mill is to much. Hardly played for ages and an absolute crock. Decent player of course but the definition of damaged goods.

The only thing that gets big players to Sunderland is money, and even then it's almost at gun point forcing them to join. They have no pull whatsoever to players and i'd say that even if I didn't support Newcastle.

Except we were fighting for top 5, had Shearer, Bellamy, Dyer etc. Money aye, but we at least had something Kluivert could say appealed to him.

He'd get a few goals but i'm thinking more along the lines of future planning, would be totally desperate imo. That's why Allardyce was chasing him, glamorous 30+ options who don't really have the stomach for a relegation scrap. ''Who's available? Eto'o … right well lets just pay him what he wants to get him here for a season'', even though he'll be surrounded by utter s****, both in terms of playing staff and location. He looked good at Chelsea but look at the supporting cast he had there.

Eto'o's still got it but if they're after him it shows they are running out of ideas.

Be staggered if Sunderland came up with the wages Eto'o wants.

I'm pretty pleased with these deals as it at least shows a semblance of forward thinking from the club. Not just opportunistic stuff.

Forest getting all the money at once no doubt and getting them back for a year. Deal sweeteners from Newcastle.

Lascelles is highly rated like, not sure on Darlow.

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Nah I think he's just genuinely a quality player. Showed it at every club he's been at, the game comes natural to him. Motivation is the factor here but i'd still love him back at Newcastle.

He's worth 13mil easy.

We can't do better though that's the point. We are utterly useless I'm bringing players in who cost a fair bit.