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Not sure what people are expecting us to sign in the summer like. We're not going to spend £30-40m on a world class centre-back as a newly promoted club, even with Rafa and that sort of money available to spend. A reliable, solid, experienced mid-table level Premier League centre-back is perfect this summer imo.

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Not sure what people are expecting us to sign in the summer like. We're not going to spend £30-40m on a world class centre-back as a newly promoted club, even with Rafa and that sort of money available to spend. A reliable, solid, experienced mid-table level Premier League centre-back is perfect this summer imo.

 

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Exactly. You know whoever it is will probably play the best football of their career under Rafa anyway. You just need someone with the basic solid materials and right approach/attitude. Shawcross would obviously be perfect.

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Shawcross is perfect for us. He'd have been our best defender by a mile every year since 2011-12, and would have been a class partner for Coloccini the 2-3 years before that.

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What, because I think he's a good, not great, defender that would improve us instantly without costing the earth? We've been buying central defenders completely unsuited to English football for over a decade now and he's the attainable antithesis to that.

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I'd actually love to see Shawcross in a Toon top, just for Ron basically. In all seriousness, he's a very good all-round CB at PL level and would be a great buy.

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That's just the bastardised use.

 

It's certainly used in that context in football but that's not the actual meaning of the word.

 

Fair, but the English language exists to be bastardised and there's plenty of terms that exist purely within football vernacular. I've got to say I can't remember hearing the word used in its original definition in my entire life.

 

Even FM only uses in in the context of a player that's played for many clubs :thup: Never heard another use than that in my 27 plus years of life so far.

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Isn't a journeyman boxer someone with an average record? I've always thought of it as both but wouldn't call say Remy a journeyman even though he's played for nearly a different team over the last 5 years.

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I think in footballing terms at least both definitions are required - Steve Claridhe being the archetypal journeyman footballer who has played for loads of clubs at all levels and always been bang average.

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