Chicane

Personally If he performs on the pitch like last year then I really don't care about anything else. It's not like he did/said anything bad or disrespectful towards the club. Asking to sit out the Liverpool game isn't a massive deal to me considering our season was over, he wasn't even actually our player and he had a world cup coming up. If he was a permanent signing it would be different. Besides, do you really think guys like Cabella see us as anything more than a stepping stone? Didn't Riviere pretty much say exactly that?

Come back to us Loic. We don't mind your dicky heart.

Don't really know what thread to ask this in but, what would your guys early predictions be for our final position this season? I'd probably go with 8th/9th. Kinda depends on Southampton and how well they rebuild their squad, certainly don't think we'll be able to break the top 7

Ferreyra is one of those players I always sign for us on Football Manager. Alvarez Balanta next.

Where is Satka playing? Isn't he a centre back?

Bad miss from wor Jack

GOUFF

I know it's early doors but I like the look of Perez

I think the World Cup showed that you don't necessarily need great individuals to carry out a 3-5-2 successfully. I mean look at Chile, their three CBs individually were seemingly quite poor and yet they were very successful. With the right coaching it could work, but obviously we don't have that I also think you need a commanding CB who can organise the others and obviously we're lacking that as well

3-0 :frantic: This is gonna be our year :frantic:

Should've scored, obviously useless. Too late to get a refund? 28 day return policy right?

Nice touch with the wreaths

Newcastle United FC ‏@NUFC 5m #NUFC v @SydneyFC (4-2-3-1): Elliot; Yanga-Mbiwa, Coloccini ©, S.Taylor, Haidara; Anita, Colback; Gouffran, de Jong, Aarons; Riviere. Newcastle United FC ‏@NUFC 4m #NUFC subs v @SydneyFC: Alnwick, Abeid, Ameobi, Armstrong, Campbell, Dummett, Perez, Satka, Vuckic, Woodman. #FootballUnited14 Interested to get a look at Riviere

Would love to see us sign Grenier but I do wonder how you would make a balanced midfield accomodating the likes of Grenier/Cabella/Sissoko/de Jong. Most people are putting him with Tiote in the holding roles in a 4-2-3-1 but I would worry a lot about how much protection our defense would be getting from that. And let's face it, they're gonna need protecting. Of course you can rotate but I don't imagine us paying the kind of money needed for anything less than a bona fide first team player

Hatem is a beefcake tbh

Yep.

'I love space' http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mind-blown-classic.gif

Pretty scary looking dude Would cross the road if I saw him up ahead on a dark night

How much more activity are you guys seriously expecting to see from us after these two (Janmaat and Riviere)? Not hoping for, but expecting...?

:lol:

Got a bad feeling about this

vom

He'll soon have that hammered out of him

How is it looking like a 4-3-3? If anything I'd say 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-1-1, not that there's much difference between them in practice