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Cabaye on for Shola & Gouff for Cisse please. Lets go Krul Debuchy Colo Yanga Santon Anita Moussa Cabaye HBA Marv Gouff

Strikers on the bench > Strikers on the pitch

If we could get Shola to drop a bit deeper and be the link man i wouldn't be so down on him starting today personally. Shola seems intent on being the furthest forward no matter who he plays with which makes no sense considering Cisse is the one with the superior finishing skills.

According to .com it is.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

I think If Kinnear did so much in one day he'd have a heart attack.

Speaking of Berba I can't believe we didn't go for him when Fulham did.

Would love this personally, but hasn't it been said it's one or the other not both?

Someone will Dave... Someone will.

I disagree totally Jordan Henderson was 20 million before this new TV deal. Yes Cabaye wasn't at his best last season but nor was any other player. Why some of our fans are happy to see him sold on the cheap is beyond me Henderson isn't as bad as some on here make out. Nowhere near being worth £20m but he's English and Dalglish bought him so that explains that. Yes I agree with you, but we aren't in a position where we have to sell. Their Is no need for any sort of fire sale. I think if you look historically when a premier league club is buying a top player from another premier league club the fee Is always high and in current market 14million is not a high fee. Wigan want more than that for McCarthy

Cheaper to ditch Pardew imo. We have a mid table squad as we currently stand

I disagree totally Jordan Henderson was 20 million before this new TV deal. Yes Cabaye wasn't at his best last season but nor was any other player. Why some of our fans are happy to see him sold on the cheap is beyond me

W1 D1 L0 If we continue to perform in the same manner as the first 2 games in your list, then there will be more "L's" than Welsh Scrabble. I would have thought that you would've seen beyond results. Nothing has changed, yet. Apart from the style of play - fundamentally - which takes time. Really? Unless selecting Shola regularly is a fundamental change to our style. We played a bit of deck football second half against a league 2 side the other night, after being second best first half . Nothing has changed. It is still negative, worry about the opposition instead of bigging up your own team style that we saw the whole of the last season, give or take a game. And if you are right, why didn't he use pre-season to change the style, if as you say it takes time? Tactics are supposed to be fluid & the stream of tactical evolution is a constant flow - Pardew is no genius but he seen a problem on Wednesday & he fixed it with his substitutions & generally in pre season & against West Ham we weren't aimlessly lumping it. In addition though - pre season is mainly about fitness. Long ball has it's uses mind - there's nothing wrong with it if it's working. Why do you think Shola gets a game, ahead of all of the world class strikers Uncal Miikkee bought Pardew? A lack of long ball isn't going to fix our problems, we don't tend to play much of that under Pardew recently, certainly not by design as far as I can tell. The long ball is a consequence of our lack of movement, a lack of movement which is specifically requested by Pardew in order to 'keep it tight'. As long as he prioritises that over scoring goals, we're going nowhere. I think It is partly be design after all every single set piece we get in our own half we lump forward. Also if our keeper has the ball 90% of the time it goes long without any attempt to play out from the back I was more referring to open play, but yeah there's no hiding from the deep dark abyss that is our range of set penises. Aka giving the ball back to the opposition without them needing to make an effort

They are quoting a fee of 14 million. Seems on the low side to me

W1 D1 L0 If we continue to perform in the same manner as the first 2 games in your list, then there will be more "L's" than Welsh Scrabble. I would have thought that you would've seen beyond results. Nothing has changed, yet. Apart from the style of play - fundamentally - which takes time. Really? Unless selecting Shola regularly is a fundamental change to our style. We played a bit of deck football second half against a league 2 side the other night, after being second best first half . Nothing has changed. It is still negative, worry about the opposition instead of bigging up your own team style that we saw the whole of the last season, give or take a game. And if you are right, why didn't he use pre-season to change the style, if as you say it takes time? Tactics are supposed to be fluid & the stream of tactical evolution is a constant flow - Pardew is no genius but he seen a problem on Wednesday & he fixed it with his substitutions & generally in pre season & against West Ham we weren't aimlessly lumping it. In addition though - pre season is mainly about fitness. Long ball has it's uses mind - there's nothing wrong with it if it's working. Why do you think Shola gets a game, ahead of all of the world class strikers Uncal Miikkee bought Pardew? A lack of long ball isn't going to fix our problems, we don't tend to play much of that under Pardew recently, certainly not by design as far as I can tell. The long ball is a consequence of our lack of movement, a lack of movement which is specifically requested by Pardew in order to 'keep it tight'. As long as he prioritises that over scoring goals, we're going nowhere. I think It is partly be design after all every single set piece we get in our own half we lump forward. Also if our keeper has the ball 90% of the time it goes long without any attempt to play out from the back

Depends what happens during match, mate. Nah not the pardew H8RS. I think even the Pardew doubters, In which I include myself want the team to play well and win. People are critical of the man with good reason for the most part. It's up to everyone to filter out what they feel as unjust criticism.

I think if we win and actually deserve to win then everyone will be happy no?

We can't even keep goal keepers fit

The "Yet" makes it sound like we are going to bid. Which makes me wonder why wait? Got to monitor for a bit longer. Wait for Bale to sign on the dotted line, then...THEN we can make our move. How could i forget? Bale, Rooney and Suarez haven't moved yet. Silly me.

The "Yet" makes it sound like we are going to bid. Which makes me wonder why wait?

Germany is the rumour. Not his greatest fan but he scores goals which is almost unheard of in our midfield Couldn't agree with this more.

Is this another Nzogbia bid i wonder? Last minute bid to appease pressure from the fans. It's interesting it leaks out the night before the Fulham game too.

It's hard to know what to believe though. Most of the news we get comes via these unnamed sources.

He'd have to be playing for us to scout him, like. Lee Ryder suddenly becomes a credible journalist when it's a negative story. In fairness, It'd make sense for the club to leak the story of him being scouted to keep other interested parties away.

You all know Mike's Logic. Buy in January it'll be cheaper!