Chicane

I don't think anyone knows Seems to have completely disappeared since sometime last season

meh

That Montpellier lot say some weird things about Cabella. I don't know if it's just lost in translation but the way the manager and the owner (Nicollin) go on about him anyone would think social services had just gone and taken their baby off them. I get it, he was a great player for them and came up through their ranks but Jesus Christ, let it go. That's how football works, good players move on to bigger challenges. It's not like we're holding him captive in a basement ffs.

Ivan TOONey

Hopefully Mitrovic is threatening to kick the shit out of someone if they don't step it up

Lascelles is shit. He's just a younger Mike Williamson.

Disgusting. Southampton are gonna kill us.

Achilles problem apparently http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/teams/newcastle-united/9925629/mcclaren-expects-coloccini-to-stay Although he hardly sounded convinced about him staying so probably something else going on

McClaren said after the Sheffield Utd game he's got a niggle/injury, might've been something to do with his calf that he apparently 'always has'

‘If you don’t follow your full-back again I’ll come and beat you up, understand?’”

Mitrovic

How is his name pronounced, 'toe-van'?

Not trying to beat a dead horse here but just thought I'd reply to clear up what I meant. This was the post I saw that you replied to, to which I was replying: To me, that clearly implies someone who can deliver the pass/cross to those in space. And I don't think that is de Jong. From what I've seen, anyway. Of course you can say de Jong is creative in the sense that his movement creates passing/crossing opportunities and that his movement opens space for others to exploit. I agree with that. It's hard for any player to provide service (and thus be what I termed a 'creator') if nobody is moving which is a problem we certainly had last year. I'd actually be quite curious to see Cabella and de Jong in the same team, I can't remember if they played together in the few games Siem played in last year, because I think Cabella suffered partly from that there was nothing moving around him. Not trying to absolve him of any criticism as I think he vastly underperformed but it's something I'd like to see. Similarly though, it's all well and good showing great movement and making great runs off the ball but if you don't have someone with the vision and technical ability to play the right ball into them then it's all for naught.

Nothing I've seen from de Jong so far says to me that he's a creator. He seems like the kind of player getting on the end of balls. His movement off the ball seems to be his biggest asset. No idea really about Wijnaldum yet.

Agreed

Maybe he's been told he won't be captain and went out and got pissed to drown his sorrows

Was he just in the crowd or what?

We're going down

So this isn't airing anywhere no?

Age is just a number, man.

He seems quite honest and straightforward with his comments, no bullshit. I like that.

Pardew or no Pardew I think it's pretty evident by now that too many of these players are just utter pony.

Third tier

Btw, can anybody enlighten me as to why we (and other teams) travel half way across the world to play these friendlies? It's obviously not the level of competition, if we're just looking for a run out then why bother travelling all that way and not just playing teams in this country? To raise the profile of the club in different markets perhaps? To improve squad cohesion/morale? Genuinely curious.