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Clubs will wait until nearer the end of the window before placing bids, in the hope that something happens in pre season. As it stands, it's unlikely he's going to be given the opportunity to impress at the beginning of the new season, so no chance of his price going up. Waiting makes sense for buying clubs.

I rated him a few years ago, but it could really go either way for him if he came here. If he's got the right attitude, he's got a chance of doing well. We've seen it before when we've signed bench players from the top 4 in the past, sometimes the attitude isn't necessarily right and there's no hunger or drive to push on from a professional stand point as they're already set for life financially.

I'm not a snitch. But I'll tell you now, it'll shock the world.

Didn't rate Luuk one bit, and I don't buy into the idea that he might play better cos we've signed his brother like I saw pop up a few times in the Siem thread. Alarm bells start ringing when a professional footballer struggles to get any kind of power or clean contact on his strikes.

It's not even as though we play a complex brand of football that takes genuine time and practise to get used to. Our football is about as basic as it comes, de Jong could probably teach Pardew more from what he learnt at Ajax than the other way round ffs.

He played most games for them last season.

I think we'll sell Debuchy and attempt to flog Anita. Can't see anyone else leaving unless we get a crazy bid.

I think we'll sign a striker, we'll sell Debuchy then we'll make do until January. At which time, our spending depends on our position in the league and likelihood of relegation.

One of those signings where you just thought from the get go that it wasn't going to work out. Free transfer so not much of a gamble, had just come off the back of a good season in Ligue 2. Odd move from his point of view but I can see why we went for it.

Why? It's a risk in terms of injuries mainly. You want your better players on longer deals, but with new signings it doesn't always work out. I'd have said 4 would have been fine for a £6m signing, but Ashley has a phobia of letting players go on the cheap or free, and he knows if the player plays well, when it comes to contract renewal time they'll demand a payrise.

I'm sure the forum will get round to the discussion of Cabella vs De Jong, but the reality is we were only interested in the cheaper one. Glad we've replaced Cabaye, but Pardews shit team set ups and reactionary tactics are here to stay for the foreseeable unfortunately.

USA showed huge amounts of heart last night, you have to respect that.

Pardew will always be what holds us back, no matter how many good or great players we sign. We've seen it before, you can only rely on individual brilliance so long. Once managers work out how to nullify the one threat we have, Pardew has no answer.

He nearly dropped Lambert in it in his interview, he said Lambert had been on the phone constantly basically and then backtracked when he was about to say "to get me to move too", and said "errrrrrr, saying what a great place it is."

Colback is off to West Ham, this is his replacement.

Very difficult re-building job ahead of Southampton, but it doesn't always go the way of Spurs if it's done correctly. If they re-invest all the money raised from player sales, then good luck to them.

Where has he got the goal tattoo? Cos that alone might be cool, but not anywhere on his head like the other two.

I'm sure it's wages across the whole deal. It's ridiculous I know.

I'm sure Llambias came out and said at a fans meeting or in an interview that wages are counted into transfer fees?

I'd be unsure about shelling out half that amount for McCormack.

Lovely hair at the moment. Always thought that his old haircut was what was stopping him being true quality.

Rumours doing the rounds that Hernandez has handed in a transfer request at Man United.

Robben has apologised for diving.

You could say Uruguay are lacking a bit of .... bite. carusoyeaahhhhhh.gif

There's our replacement for Debuchy.