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none of the pens Debuchy gives away have been penalties.

thats very nice like.

Yellow kit is ok but again Wonga just destroys anything good about it. Think we've beaten Sheff Wed and Chuppa Chups with shite sponsor that ruins rest of shirt look.

Fairly obvious thing to say but whilst Ashley's affection for this club is as low at is the spending will be minimal from now till the day he finally fucks off. This is probably the start of it.

fairly sure they said deals were already agreed for gouffran and sissoko for the summer (on frees) and were brought forward due to the situation. debuchy was a hangover from last summer, not sure where mapou came into it. wey if we're not spending this summer because we were forced to spend relative pittance in order to bring forward what would have been a couple of free transfers then that's even worse The deals were done to avoid the drop. I think Ashley saw Reading game and it forced his hand. If he can get away without spending money he will, if we'd been cruising he may not have felt the need to spend. thats the bit where i disagree with most as i think he would if, like mapou, he believes theres enough value in the deal. Perhaps, but if say during January we'd been something like 7th or 8th and comfortable, it's quite possible MYB wouldn't be at the club and we'd be going through the same tedious stuff now with trying to get him here. It's maybe a cynical view but not unlikely.

fairly sure they said deals were already agreed for gouffran and sissoko for the summer (on frees) and were brought forward due to the situation. debuchy was a hangover from last summer, not sure where mapou came into it. wey if we're not spending this summer because we were forced to spend relative pittance in order to bring forward what would have been a couple of free transfers then that's even worse The deals were done to avoid the drop. I think Ashley saw the Reading game and it forced his hand. If he can get away without spending money he will, if we'd been cruising he may not have felt the need to spend.

imo that money still wouldn't have been spent had we been higher up the table. Ridiculous really.

Still think that our spending was done in January is a terrible excuse.

Oh agreed, its utterly frustrating all the same that we labour. Another depressing thought is a Carroll style late bid for one of our big players and Ashley taking the money with nee time left.

I'll be bewildered if we get two players in now. Look how long it took us to sort a loan deal out.

A shocking admittance from the club this. Basically telling us they didnt plan on bringing anyone in for a whole season apart from Anita.

It's been a shocking transfer window. So predictable with Ashley though.

As much as I'd welcome him he would cost lots. Honestly our lot would probably go for someone like Harry Kane.

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Vitesse out, quite appalling for them. That's them and Utrecht both eliminated by turgid opposition.

You can only judge by results, and the results hardly portray them as world beaters. The opposite, actually. Agree 150% that Pardew is the problem, and he'd make a team featuring the likes of Ronaldo, Messi, Rooney and Bale into relegation candidates, but the players are NOT without blame HBA has gone backover IMHO HBA barely featured last season come on. He's at the very bottom of the players to blame list.

I'm fairly sure that bit is bollocks given that he doesn't even play for France. Where does it say he does?

He never seems to get any flak at the games unless I haven't noticed. Just mainly internet based grief he gets, which is obviously petty. He's a decent guy by all accounts and popular amongst our fans, but crikey he seriously needs to improve everything about his game if he continues to start for us.

easier said than done, spurs last season up front, the mackems for years at left back, many clubs have weaknesses and are short here and there, because we don't focus on them as much we take it for granted they are ok. We could (and should) have strengthened if we wanted to that summer, thats my point.

Immensely baffling Pardew still puts him out there. We need to go back to 4-3-3 imo with Tiote the deepest and Cabaye & Sissoko just in front centrally. An additional plus would surely see the dropping of Jonas but thats perhaps wishful thinking.

Sounds expensive. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/files/2010/12/mike_ashley.jpg

Or we could just get the right players in at the right time. Just a thought.

Personally dont buy this bringing signings forward to January, purely because they should have been done the summer before. It was patently clear we needed players then and the neglect shown imo was shocking. By bringing them forward to January, they club are effectively admitting they had no intention of recruiting for a whole season excluding Anita, which is criminal when you think about it.

I'd like to think we can score past them though.

You mean conceding a penalty that wasn't a penalty? Hardly a 'horror show' imo. He also played rather well in the second half of that game.