Andy84

Didn't realise Victor Moses is still employed by Chelsea. That club

He's gonna be class

Sky reporting West Ham signing Jelavic and Victor Moses

I think he wil stay, score important goals like he always has done and we won't sign anyone else.

You would think his most likely destination would be Turkey however their window shuts at 5pm today (according to Chronicle)

Wrighty is a joy to listen to like. Palace will get Europe, Pardew is soo tactically astute, Marriner gave a magnificent refereeing performance in the face of those nasty Geordies.

You can bet during the next round of PL games cards will be scarce and blatant bookable/sending off offences will go unpunished. Just no consistency, why are these refs so s*** at this level man? Baffling

Even though down to 10 Norwich are gonna struggle for goals this season like

Aye that's the one. It was totally meaningless as well

Good post. I can't actually remember our last pen in the league. Might be something really obvious but I can't remember it

I forgot how f***ing diabolical that challenge was! Martinez was a f***ing disgrace after that match as well. Not even a yellow, think it got given as a foul so no retrospective action could be taken because the ref saw it. That odious t*** Whealen defended it as well

He let one slip yesterday to the media. Said this was "my best performance" since being manager rather than "our" as in referring to his players. You just know when things go tits up he will throw them under the bus to save his own skin the arrogant c***

Hope they do

Him and Palace are just a good fit at the moment. Be patient

Just so f****** deflating. More positives to take though, most of all our defensive organisation. Also good individual performances from Mbemba and Gini

We need another game ASAP, but no it's the international break

Need a Krul performance a la Spurs away a few seasons ago

The point made was a fair one, we aren't going to dominate possession v Arsenal anytime soon. We need to find a way to get the result and it's true that they do struggle against a packed defence. Think it's pretty likely we will be pushed deep for long spells and then look to counter when the play breaks up. I don't think being at home has much bearing on it, neither does them losing 2-0 against West Ham.

They looked vulnerable v Liverpool against stuff flashed across the penalty area and against direct runners like Coutinho, especially when facing their own goal. Hopefully a combination of Thauvin/Perez with Mitrovic holding it up front will give us some joy. A draw would be a very good result

He's got some nerve saying he wants a Europa spot. Imagine if they qualified? He would be absolutely devastated

Bas Dost scores for Wolfsburg

just received a lovely email from Steve Black We're evolving things together Dear Andrew, I’m very pleased to be writing to you this week as we look to take the momentum of two positive results into the game with Arsenal this Saturday. As part of Steve McClaren’s new backroom team, I firstly want to say it’s wonderful to be back in the North East, to be home. I’m biased but there is incredible passion for sports here and especially football. It’s in the blood. As a coaching team, we are evolving things within the club together. Steve and I have a great relationship and have known each other for a number of years. He has a good mind but first of all, he’s a good person and that means a lot to me. He’s a very good football coach and importantly, he wants to get better. That drives standards. My role is simply to help people to become better at what they do – to act as a supporter, a catalyst, a mentor, a coach, an advisor. On a day-by-day basis, I work with the players, Steve, the coaches and the medical staff to create a winning environment; an environment of excellence. When I first arrived, I saw a team that had a lot more talent than results suggested. That was my first impression. Another was that if we could get them organised, find out what was driving them and get them motivated – which doesn’t happen overnight, we could move towards creating a probability of success rather than just a possibility. To achieve that, we have been talking to players about their personal quality control and team quality control. We ask what they want to achieve and we talk about how they can go about doing that. We want to create good habits. If you use your time wisely and have quality control that ensures you meet your expectations and ambitions, you can’t go far wrong. You need to do the right things and to do them effectively and efficiently. In my career, I have been fortunate to work across lots of sports and with lots of different athletes. The common theme is that it’s about coaching people. I have an obsessive love of sport but a lot of the messages I want to to convey and questions I ask could be applied in sports, in business, across all sorts. ‘How hard have I worked? How high have my standards been? How eagerly have I interacted? Have I enhanced my standing in the group? Have I enjoyed my work?’ You need to glean from sports science how to treat individual players in a bespoke way and gel that to produce team performances. Ultimately, ‘well done’ is better than ‘well said’. We have to walk the walk and so far, our physical statistics are excellent. We’ve seen a group of people who have awoken their desire. Invariably, great teams show incredible ambition when they’re attacking and unbelievable spirit when they’re defending. Against Manchester United last weekend, when we had the counter attack at the end, it showed incredible ambition at that stage in the game and I was delighted we really went for it. That’s a sign of team ambition manifesting itself. We were sharp, bright, alert, we saw things first and we got there first. We smelled opportunity and threat. We did a lot of things well and over time, that will get better. On Tuesday evening, we wanted to give Northampton the utmost respect in our cup game against them and the best way to show that was to go out there and do a really good, professional job. To show ambition and spirit. As the fans who were there with us on Tuesday will testify, we did that. It’s important that we don’t get carried away in victory or defeat. Our professionalism should transcend that, so straight after the game, our focus turned to Arsenal. We have a general strategy of how we want to play but that has to adjust and adapt to each opponent. We obviously want to accentuate our strengths and our opponents’ weaknesses and we’re now working hard on that ahead of Saturday’s game at wonderful St. James’ Park. I hope to see you there. Steve Black Newcastle United

Really promising start What makes it even better is that I don't think any of us imagined his signing would happen this window. Really pleased to have him on board and hopefully that quality he brings pushes us that little bit further.

Seems to be like that coming off the bench Too eager to impress and impose himself on the game? He needs to start every week now like