Kitman

He was always going to go the highest bidder and who can blame him. I dont know enough about him to be remotely bothered.

Meh x10

Seems rather low considering they love him. Still i'm pleased for him, we'd have finished him.

Hopefully he'll be in spain by then

Gayers?!

We can't make Tiote our captain if he's been sold. Which I think is a realistic possibility.

If the local papers are banned from SJP, how come they're privy to the inner workings of our transfer dealings?

Pardew's so full of shit.

"Meanwhile Alan Pardew is lecturing Roy Hodgson on where he is going wrong with tactics and player positions – you could not make it up." That bit made me laugh - how true. The bloke's got some brass neck tbh...

Pardew's already saying that Colback will be pivotal to the team next season. That's depressing enough without reflecting on whether replacing Cabaye is a pipe dream, or whether we'll lose the likes of Krul and Debuchy.

....and whether a burger and chips washed down with 6 pints of Erdinger has the same effect

I wonder what time they hand out the Prozac in this place....

If they don't pay the going rate in transfers or wages then we'll be told to fuck off by clubs and players alike. Hopefully they'll be realistic and meet the market.

That's still no comfort to me

Fancy that!

The truly depressing thought is that anyone at the club think that tayls and williamson are actually good enough for the next campaign

Probably because they do fuck all until the window is due to close. The paoers always refer to "preparing a bid" but what does that actually mean? Probably that the fat man will let you send a fax with "ok we'll give you 9 million sovs for cabella, squire" scrawled on it

Who the fuck knows how they do these deals. My impression though is that we're low ballers and bargain bin rummagers. So we'll be disappointed more often than not. I suspect the days of a club selling us a cabaye on the cheap are long gone - the likes of montpellier see us coming a mile off

I dont believe we were ever seriously interested in Gomis this time round - he's too old at 29 or whatever to fit our stated profile and I expect his agents would have priced him out of the bargain bucket. Seems to me all the paper talk has been fuelled by his agents but I cant recall a transfer since shefki kucqi thats been near 30 years of age.

Great, another utterly mediocre player for our mediocre manager to put in our mediocre first XI. Kneething to get excited about...

Fuck knows what goes on in practice at the club. It seems to involve faxes though....presumably this in case the carrier pigeons dont arrive...

You're pants and you know you are?

I see Pardew has been crappimg on about Rooney not being suited to the left hand side. Oh the irony of Pardew lecturing anyone about playing people out of position...

Its all academic unless we transfer anyone in or out. What's obvious atm is that our squad isn't good enough....especially given our mediocre manager