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I'd sign Andreas Sørgård Olsen, he's looked class for his second division club in Norway this season and today he put up quite a performance against Norwegian top division side Vålerenga. He's got speed, apparently skill and he's still young meaning he could probably become rather good with the right coaching. And the fact that he's in such a low division in Norway means we could prolly get him for nothing and throw him out without any hassle if he couldn't prove good enough.

 

And Rosenborg's Per Ciljan Skjelbred and Daniel Braaten I'd reckon would be good signings as well. And Bjørn Helge Riise, brother of John Arne Riise.

 

Anyways, that's just my biased nationalistic opinion on players as It'd be the happiest day of my life if a Norwegian player put on the black and white shirt :)

 

I do quite like when obscure players are signed and turn out to be class superstar players though, so yeah... I'm actually not too happy with big million signings as I'd rather have the club "create" players that would become players other big clubs would throw money at us for. I reckon that's the way we have to go this summer anyways as the already big and known players would prolly not sign for a non-europe club before we become an in-europe club. 

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Would the people wanting Shorey have been happy in 2000 had we signed Michael Gray?

 

Could say the same about Baines.

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Baines is 22, a regular for the Under 21s and has had two good seasons in the Premiership. Shorey is 27ish, has only played one season in the Premiership with the vast majority of his career being spent in the bottom two divisions.

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Baines has had one good season and one gash season, he was beyond woeful last season.

 

Shorey's come up the leagues and hasnt looked out of place infact he's been one of Readings best players for 2 years has they've climbed into the top half of the Premiership.

 

I wouldn't mind having either here but there's not much between them.

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Guest sicko2ndbest

According to the Actim Index of effective players, the players we should go for, that we have a chance of getting, are:

 

(?) - position in overall top 100

Left Backs

Barry (would be difficult but villa dont offer him anything we dont) (8)

Shorey  (34)

 

Centre Backs

Dunne (46)

Meite (73)

 

 

Right Backs

John OShea (87)?

Liam Rosenior (47)

 

Personally would take Dunne out of that lot as he is Mr Dependable

 

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Baines is 22, a regular for the Under 21s and has had two good seasons in the Premiership. Shorey is 27ish, has only played one season in the Premiership with the vast majority of his career being spent in the bottom two divisions.

Not unlike Rob Lee when he first came to Newcastle then? Havent seen enough of Shorey to form an opinion. Plenty people get out of their comfort zone (as Rob Lee himself put it) when circumstances change. The talent has to be there though, obviously.
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i think we have a good strong midfield and dont need to look at any other players for that department

we just need to concentrate on a left back, right back, centre back

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i think we have a good strong midfield and dont need to look at any other players for that department

we just need to concentrate on a left back, right back, centre back

 

We need another midfielder tbh, someone to compete with Butt for the DM position.

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i think we have a good strong midfield and dont need to look at any other players for that department

we just need to concentrate on a left back, right back, centre back

 

We need another midfielder tbh, someone to compete with Butt for the DM position.

 

True, I think someone in the typical Big Sam mould. i.e. a big strong tackler who will win the ball in the middle of the park.

 

I think defence is the key area we need to strengthen, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be looking at other positions too...

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i think we have a good strong midfield and dont need to look at any other players for that department

we just need to concentrate on a left back, right back, centre back

 

We need another midfielder tbh, someone to compete with Butt for the DM position.

Pretty certain we need more than one. Lots of very average talent in our midfield tbh

 

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A player who's been linked with a move away today, and if we can't get Gudjohnsen would be a good option as our playmaker, excellent set-piece taker too....Nakamura anyone?

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Guest Geordie Boyo

Given     Solano           Dyer           Owen

Harper   Geremi              Milner         Martins

Krul        Taylor            Butt            Viduka

              Huntington    Diarra         Ameobi

              Rozehnal       Barton        Carroll

              Ramage         Emre

              Edgar            N'Zogbia

              Bridge            Duff

 

 

 

 

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The Japanese press are reporting four offers for Nakamura based partly on reports from the Daily Mail. They include two Premier clubs, one of whom is Spuds.

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Can't see Owen staying.

 

Gudjohnsen, Sagna, Geremi, Baines, Diarra.

 

Squad:

 

Given, Harper, Krul.

 

Solano, Geremi, Sagna, Taylor, Ramage, Rozehnal, Huntington, Edgar, Baines, Babayaro, Carr.

 

Milner, Dyer, Barton, Butt, Emre, Diarra, N'Zogbia, Duff.

 

Martins, Viduka, Ameobi, Gudjohnsen, Carroll.

 

:)

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IMO we need the following:

 

2 left backs

1 first choice right back

2 Centre backs

 

1 Attacking midfielder

1 Defensive midfielder

 

Owen's replacement

 

Suggestions:

 

Trenthe/Baines/Quedrue/Emmanuelson

Beye/Seitaridis/Richards/Vanden Borre/Geremi

Chivu/Campbell/Ferdinand/Davies/Kompany/Hyypia

 

Sneijder/Benayoun/G Barnes/Giuly/Nakamura

 

Diop/Mark De Man (in there for comedy value more than anything else. Belgian Defensive midfielder)

 

Defoe/Huntelaar/Kerzhakov

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