Rayvin

On the up side, this will likely be the end of Pardew. We won't win games without SDJ (seemingly according to Pardew himself, given how much stock he was placing on the guy coming back from injury), and Pardew will get the boot around October/November. That still doesn't resolve the fact that our team is chronically under manned though - looks like it's a relegation skirmish this year...

That's just so harsh...and brilliant.

I'm not even sure I can remember being that pleased about anything at the club, weird to think about it. That said, I'm now of the opinion that what I was seeing had more to do with Cabaye than Pardew... You can't deny he fell back onto the route one stuff immediately once Cabaye left. It's not like the other players on our team can't pass... He's also proven to be hopeless at turning games around and retaining leads. If it makes you feel better though CT, I'll admit to being blinded by our good form during a purple patch last year.

Utterly, utterly pointless to support this club. Maybe it's the same all over, outside of the top 6 (then again, look at Hull), but it's beyond me to keep caring. We're nailed on for a bottom half finish this season. I doubt we'll get relegated given that we'll throw money at a recovery in January if need be, but it's absolutely pathetic.

I still think that Chucky is supposed to be our Remy replacement... but that was an opportunistic signing. If he hadn't become available, maybe we would have signed someone else. As it is, I suspect we'll hover around Lacazette for the next few months and sign him from Lyon in January for about £200k less than whatever they were asking for in this window. We'll then call it a success as buying him will pull us free from relegation - obviously can't overstate how important that banked £200k is either. Sure, we may have sacrificed 15 or so points in our negotiation strategy, but think of the saving! For me, the really stupid decision is MYM - otherwise this window would have been about par for the club.

I agree, but have to assume that it's just a matter of getting him up to speed, surely... I thought he was valued around £7-8m wasn't he? Dunno, you could well be right I guess.

Not to defend the club, but have we given up on the thinking that Ferrerya may turn out to be a good striker?

I meant the inevitable end point of an ever diminishing number of options. Eventually you run out of coping mechanisms, I think is the point. Of course, you can arrest that decline before it reaches that point - but perhaps he never managed to do so.

I recall reading that suicide was the inevitable end point once a person feels they have run out of all other options for coping with the problems in their life, as perceived by them. As such, I would argue that they feel that they have no choice. The reality is probably that it varies from case to case.

He might do, I suppose, but I think he's more likely to be the Demba Ba replacement. Ultimately, he's not going to be the number one choice there at any point. If Costa gets injured, they'll probably buy someone else in January.

I hope Nastasic isn't our only option then, given that I can't really see why he'd come to us ahead of the others. And yes, it seems it is a loan deal we're talking about. If we do get him, presumably we'd play him (unlike MYM), which would be a step up on where we are now.

Apparently we've made the enquiry for Nastasic, but so have Spurs and Arsenal... with them being interested, the only way I could see us getting him is if City consider us to be the least threatening of the three to their aims this season.

He does a bit, I guess...? I reckon you might be a tad obsessed at the same time, though...

That is a fairly mental response actually...

Ah so they're going with the tried and tested 'change absolutely everything on deadline day and hope for the best' method. Woodward presumably compensating for the previous summer's window...

£6m to loan a player that they don't need. That team is seriously unbalanced.

Still young enough to have resale though. I'd take him. No question.

I don't know if anyone is watching Chelsea tonight... but Fabregas looks amazing. I'm not convinced that Man City are going to be able to hold them off frankly. Their team looks perfect all over.

I love how the technicality isn't actually that they would automatically go through as a result of the judgement - it's that they would be awarded a 3-0 victory for the second leg, which would mean they go through on away goals I can't imagine how awful I'd feel about that as a fan of LW. I actually think they'd be more embarrassed than anything else, by going through after being this poor.

I suspect there's an element of having replacements in hand for Colo and Krul.

In fairness to them, there's a few on there talking reason. They're mostly being drowned out mind, but still, it's good to see some people pulling against the tide. We have essemmbee for instance, who is kind of like an inversion of the above phenomenon.

QFT.

I fully agree - but for the women involved in it, it's definitely a left wing activity.

Fair point, but I do think the left wing has morphed a bit in terms of goals. The Guardian for instance has a hugely pro-feminist agenda, that I can't think is anything other than left wing. Does neoliberalism align itself with the advancement of feminism?

If Pardew is gonna get the boot, better sooner than later. It'll just threaten our league status if we try to endure for half the season.