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Probably worth pointing out Situ appears to have only made two professional appearances in his career so far; 90mins in the French equivalent of the FA Cup in 09/10 and 12mins as a sub in a top flight game last year. I think expecting him to provide any kind of cover in the Premier League at this stage is perhaps going a bit far.

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Holy fucking shit.  I can't believe it's actually going to fucking happen.  Mike Ashley, Fat fucking bastard, had the foundation in place for a fabulous fucking offseason and he's fucking pissing it away.  He brought in 3 players for next to fucking nothing, trims some fucking deadwood (ok we can debate some of that) and instead of building on that fucking success he sticks his finger up his fucking asshole and lets the window drain away while the club faffs about with players who were never going to fucking come and replace Jose fucking Enrique and andy fucking Carroll.

 

Penny wise and pound fucking foolish.

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Probably worth pointing out Situ appears to have only made two professional appearances in his career so far; 90mins in the French equivalent of the FA Cup in 09/10 and 12mins as a sub in a top flight game last year. I think expecting him to provide any kind of cover in the Premier League at this stage is perhaps going a bit far.

 

Aye, massive ask really. Although Bassong more-or-less came from nowhere as far as most of us were concerned I'm fairly sure he had a decent number of first-team games under his belt with Metz.

 

I've been harping on about centre-back since Campbell went, so apologies if it's boring people, but I was pleased to see a tidbit in one of the local rags this week that suggested Pardew had similar concerns now Williamson had been injured. Better late than never.

 

However that's reminded me I also saw quotes from him earlier in the week stating Perch was an option to cover there when he got back to fitness...

 

 

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Probably worth pointing out Situ appears to have only made two professional appearances in his career so far; 90mins in the French equivalent of the FA Cup in 09/10 and 12mins as a sub in a top flight game last year. I think expecting him to provide any kind of cover in the Premier League at this stage is perhaps going a bit far.

 

Aye, massive ask really. Although Bassong more-or-less came from nowhere as far as most of us were concerned I'm fairly sure he had a decent number of first-team games under his belt with Metz.

 

I've been harping on about centre-back since Campbell went, so apologies if it's boring people, but I was pleased to see a tidbit in one of the local rags this week that suggested Pardew had similar concerns now Williamson had been injured. Better late than never.

 

However that's reminded me I also saw quotes from him earlier in the week stating Perch was an option to cover there when he got back to fitness...

 

Ironically enough the Williamson injury is probably helping Pardew to 'convince' them to buy a full back. If it was Pieters he could have gone to centre back if needed with Ferguson or Ryan Taylor at left back; if Santon comes in then Simpson could go to centre back with Ferguson at left back and Ryan Taylor at right back. There are a couple of other options too.

 

All too much square pegs/round holes for my liking though.

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Probably worth pointing out Situ appears to have only made two professional appearances in his career so far; 90mins in the French equivalent of the FA Cup in 09/10 and 12mins as a sub in a top flight game last year. I think expecting him to provide any kind of cover in the Premier League at this stage is perhaps going a bit far.

 

Aye, massive ask really. Although Bassong more-or-less came from nowhere as far as most of us were concerned I'm fairly sure he had a decent number of first-team games under his belt with Metz.

 

I've been harping on about centre-back since Campbell went, so apologies if it's boring people, but I was pleased to see a tidbit in one of the local rags this week that suggested Pardew had similar concerns now Williamson had been injured. Better late than never.

 

However that's reminded me I also saw quotes from him earlier in the week stating Perch was an option to cover there when he got back to fitness...

 

 

Bassong was a first team player at Metz for at least three seasons, and much of this was in Ligue 1.

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Probably worth pointing out Situ appears to have only made two professional appearances in his career so far; 90mins in the French equivalent of the FA Cup in 09/10 and 12mins as a sub in a top flight game last year. I think expecting him to provide any kind of cover in the Premier League at this stage is perhaps going a bit far.

 

Aye, massive ask really. Although Bassong more-or-less came from nowhere as far as most of us were concerned I'm fairly sure he had a decent number of first-team games under his belt with Metz.

 

I've been harping on about centre-back since Campbell went, so apologies if it's boring people, but I was pleased to see a tidbit in one of the local rags this week that suggested Pardew had similar concerns now Williamson had been injured. Better late than never.

 

However that's reminded me I also saw quotes from him earlier in the week stating Perch was an option to cover there when he got back to fitness...

 

Ironically enough the Williamson injury is probably helping Pardew to 'convince' them to buy a full back. If it was Pieters he could have gone to centre back if needed with Ferguson or Ryan Taylor at left back; if Santon comes in then Simpson could go to centre back with Ferguson at left back and Ryan Taylor at right back. There are a couple of other options too.

 

All too much square pegs/round holes for my liking though.

 

Good god I hope not, he was atrocious the last time he played CB.

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I am under the impression that santon will Newark settle but by getting macarda in who is Italian will help him settle

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I am under the impression that santon will Newark settle but by getting macarda in who is Italian will help him settle

 

Newark is a fair way away.

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I am under the impression that santon will Newark settle but by getting macarda in who is Italian will help him settle

 

Newark is a fair way away.

 

He'll fit right in being Italian and all.

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We have 47 hours to bring in three players.

 

Highly unlikely.

 

Especially when our targets are seemingly all based abroad. Obviously there's nowt wrong with that but getting them over here is just another obstacle to overcome.

 

Plus there's the international break; the England players met up today (Monday) for example.

 

The only thing keeping me the slightest bit hopeful is that the likes of Marveaux came completely our of the blue.

 

As did Jonas i recall.

 

 

....and the majority of our transfers under Ashley.

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Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

 

Our main targets were Gameiro, Gervinho and Erdinc. We bid for them but the players opted to join / stay with clubs with better prospects of CL football than ourselves.

 

So what do we do - go for players on the B list, with the risk that we may have to pay over the odds in wages and transfer fees and then find it difficult to shift the players on in two years time if things don't work out. We're not Man City, we're working to a budget and the wrong buy at the wrong cost can block progress further down the line. In that event, a loan signing to cover this season makes some sense.

 

Arsenal are in a similar situation, albeit at a different end of the market. Everyone's shouting 'buy, buy' but you do have to find players who are better than the ones you've got, at a price you can manage. That's not simple.

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I'm thinking Macheda is probably a last gasp backup in case we don't land any of our other targets - still desperately hoping for movement on Maiga or Roux....

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Holy fucking shit.  I can't believe it's actually going to fucking happen.  Mike Ashley, Fat fucking bastard, had the foundation in place for a fabulous fucking offseason and he's fucking pissing it away.  He brought in 3 players for next to fucking nothing, trims some fucking deadwood (ok we can debate some of that) and instead of building on that fucking success he sticks his finger up his fucking asshole and lets the window drain away while the club faffs about with players who were never going to fucking come and replace Jose fucking Enrique and andy fucking Carroll.

 

Penny wise and pound fucking foolish.

 

:fishing:

 

 

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What's going on with Sturridge at this point? He can't be staying at Chelsea as there are too many players ahead of him.

 

Really can't see the point of the Macheda loan. An unproven striker who will need games to get some confidence? Just play Sammy ffs.

 

Would love a random marquee signing. Another Berbatov last day transfer saga, or Huntelaar, loan for Lukaku, Ballotelli something absolutely out of the blue and crazy like that. Even something a bit more realistic like Fletcher, even Dembele's looks good at linking up play at Fulham. Bendtner!!! Not Macheda man, there's no point!

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10 pages on Macheda man? Fuuuuuucking hell. Was getting proper excited we had a few lined up (fuck knows why like). It'd be an underwhelming signing to say the least but it means Lovenkrands is further down the order so it's better than nowt. Would be a massive statement of intent by the club though.

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