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Mind if we did sign Douglas we would need to work around him formally having to live in Holland for another month. I wonder if there would be a possibility of him joining us in pre season. We would certainly need to make arrangements with Twente or get a fitness coach over as he's been put back to the reserve team due to returning late, and if rumours are to be believed overweight, from Brazil.

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Get him and debuchy in, and we are talking about a better back 4 on paper than every club, bar city.

 

If we're talking on paper, don't forget about Sunderland.

 

:laugh:

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There's a video on YouTube of him going absolutely Joey Barton.  Is he liable for a red card?

 

That '3 red cards video'  :lol:. He doesn't even strike one of them. They all just bounce off him. Diving for cover as he strops off. :lol:

 

 

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Guest firetotheworks

Get him and debuchy in, and we are talking about a better back 4 on paper than every club, bar city.

 

Don't be daft.

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Colo signed a four year contract, remember.

 

:lol:. Oh yeah - I forgot about that. The most important signing this clubs made in about 10 years. FFS, read my post.

 

4 years isn't really the "next few seasons".

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If he's as good as many people (including Boro Shteve) would have us believe, I'm surprised Man Utd aren't in for him with the impending decline of Vidic and the already declining Ferdinand.

 

I know they've got Jones and Smalling but I'd have thought they'd be all over someone like Douglas if he's only £5-£6m.

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Colo signed a four year contract, remember.

 

:lol:. Oh yeah - I forgot about that. The most important signing this clubs made in about 10 years. FFS, read my post.

 

4 years isn't really the "next few seasons".

 

It might as well be when we prefer to sell with a year left if they won't renew. See Simpson etc this year.

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Get him and debuchy in, and we are talking about a better back 4 on paper than every club, bar city.

 

Don't be daft.

 

Its all he has though.

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Has anyone actually seen this guy play?

 

Centre half that scores goals, it was on our remit.

 

Sell nobody of note and add De Jong, Debauchy And maybe a back-up holding mid and i'd be totally chuffed.

 

A new central mid is definitely a necessity, along with the other positions. Should other signings bleed us dry, we should sign Carlos Sánchez who's a free agent after he left Valenciennes.

I'll wait for more than two sentences from the Express to get excited about Douglas joining us.

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Hmmmmm interesting. We badly need a centre half IMO and a big fuck off one at that but I'm sceptical at buying defenders from the Eredivisie and I've not been that impressed on the couple of times I've watched him.

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Alright Dave, vague was the wrong word. It just has no detail in it whatsoever, that makes me doubt its credibility.

 

I think when articles appear online that are that short, they're just automatic uploads of those 'at a glance' columns that fill space. Hence this having two authors.

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I don't even know the Express, but somebody said they have links to Lambiass. What have they been right about before that nobody else knew/reported?

 

The Express and The Daily Mail seem to be the most 'reliable' when it comes to NUFC Transfer Rumours/News due to undoubted links to the clubs upper echelons.

 

Even then, there's still no way they get as much from us as they do from other clubs imho.

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Both Niall Hickman of The Express and Charles Sale of The Daily Mail have carried direct quotes from Llambias/Ashley in the past that no other newspaper has, that's why they're believed to be a little more accurate.

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