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NUFC team: Sels, Janmaat, Mbemba, Lascelles ©, Anita; Shelvey, Colback; Ritchie, Armstrong, Aarons; Mitrović. Subs: Darlow, Sterry, Dummett, Gámez, Hayden, Tioté, Saivet, Gouffran, Perez, Gayle.

So glad I don't really care for International football What a terrible appointment. Hilarious for the mackems though, they've been practicing long balls all summer and it's been for nothing. No signings, no manager and the season about 3 weeks away.

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Imagine if he doesn't get it after all of this Same for Bruce too. Sat all summer telling the press and your club that you want to leave to become England manager - then have to return only a few weeks before the season starts to start planning a team that you don't want to be at, who have had no direction or signings all summer.

I'd assume that Rafa doesn't rate Saivet as he didn't even make the bench is some games under him. I don't think he played at all did he, under Rafa?

Sissoko will go to Juve if they sell Pogba, is the latest rumour. Not entirely fabricated I'd say, as it would make sense. Other than Juve - is anyone else actually going to want him?

Aye, sort of They had 13,000 ST holders last year, no idea how many have renewed. The "11" is the number of new ST holders from the first day of general sale. Their ground holds 70,000.

Grant Hanley: Completed at least ten more interceptions (154) than any other player in the Championship last season.

Any chance he could be involved tonight? Sounds like it's been a done deal since this morning but just not confirmed yet.

How many of the £230m signings from those teams could be regarded as a success?

One more defender and I'd be happy, preferably another full back. Still expect Janmaat to leave and all of our LBs spend most of the season injured.

Tickets on sale to all ST holders now, member sale from Monday (if any remain). Bought mine, absolutely buzzing for this now. Just saw that the entire 'neutrals' section is sold out. I'd assume a fair % of that being NUFC fans, so we're looking at having 4-5k there including our 2,700 allocation.

A fairly decent fee too, was expecting us to pay much more than that.

Should be, bar Gini.

*still want Drives me mad as well! I only copied and pasted it from twitter! Sorry!

It is time...

Chris Wilder confirms #sufc have rejected an offer for Che Adams. Believed to have come from a Championship club

Never liked Lucas at all for Liverpool, but that's because I didn't think he was good enough for where they wanted to be. He's miles ahead of the Championship though, would be a great signing.

The Vardy party chant is just as bad at Leicester - "bring your vodka and your charlie". So many different things they could have put in that chant other than that, to see kids singing it is just terrible. Our support (like others) has got much worse recently, probably because the older lot have given up going due to the small minority of idiots. Just go to the game, have fun and have a few. No need to act a knobhead.

Sky Sports: Newcastle are still wanting to take West Ham midfielder Reece Oxford on a season long loan-deal

Reports back that we want Lucas as part of the Wijnaldum deal - The Telegraph

Why did only four people enter?

If you look at it like that we may as well take away all of his goals and assists because none of them were overhead kicks from the halfway line, so they don't count. 9 goals and 4 assists in his debut season in the Premier League is not a bad return at all for a 21 year old. Fully expect him to whack at least 20 in this season (providing he plays regularly), if he sorts out his anger and play acting then he'll be an absolute great player for us.

Email them and ask, or use their livechat if they have one (depending who you bet with). I'd be surprised if nobody gives you some odds on it, you can virtually bet on anything these days.