Phil

He would be a very good signing. Add Grenier and we'd have a very good team on paper

There's no way we'll buy a first team centre back before offloading either Taylor or Mbwia.

It seems to be rather fashionable to bash Pardew at every opportunity. He was touted for England, so he's clearly not anywhere near as bad as people make out. Keep in mind he's regularly had key players sold. At no point has Ben Arfa said he plans to knuckle down and earn his spot back. All I hear from his agent is how harsh the club is and that he'll see out his final year.

http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20140803/united-complete-ferreyra-capture_2281670_4050398

When Obertan plays in the reserves it's like watching Robben, shame he turns utter dog sh*t in the firsts. He was only 21 when we signed him, so maybe he should have gone out on loan to get games under his belt.

A lot depends on how his return to QPR goes next week. They left Taarabt out of the pre-season, link, so there's a high chance the players will make him an outcast.

AC Milan were quote 12m in the papers

I have to question why Pardew has seemingly froze him out under a cloud of uncertainty. Surely Pardew should sit him or his agent down and make the path back into the first team clear - e.g. assign him a club appointed personal trainer, dietitian and psychologist. I can only assume Pardew has not made it clear because he's in the last year of his contract and he wants him to leave.

Should we be concerned his nick name is chunky?

Southampton have signed Ryan Bertrand on a season long loan. Not a bad replacement for Shaw.

The ambition left Southampton when the chairman, Nicola Cortese, walked. Dont forget he was contentiously spending the Markus Liebherr estates money - so it was never going to last long.

Most teams have three first team centre backs and at least one youth player. Having anymore makes it difficult to run training. Everton for example only have Distin, Jagielka & Stones

Taylor, Mbwia & Williamson are all more than competent to play along side Coloccini. However there has been strong rumours all summer that we are trying to offload Mbwia, so maybe the club agree with you.

I miss the days watching Smith & Geremi in midfield hoping to nick a goal, but losing 1-0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7157373.stm Even the BBC report couldnt hold back....

"Alan Pardew believes Newcastle United now boast some of the best attacking players in the Premier League" Not even Wolfy would claim that one!

It's on the official website. Hopefully this will encourage Grenier to join

As you are using chrome, give IE a test. if it's fine, its the chrome plugin. We rolled Chrome out at work. We had to take it off within a month, we saw this loads.

The USA right back look 10 x better.

There's nothing wrong with being a selling club. We only sell important players for very good fees. The issue is more that dont replace them properly. Cabella and Grenier are both available for a reasonable price, but we half arse around rather than getting them in before pre-season training starts!

Who did you have in mind that we've let go on a whimper? Cabaye went on strike, Ba had a release clause and the rest have been fringe players. Cabaye - 18m Perch - 700k Ba - 7.5m Forester - 2m Best - 3m Nolan - 3.5m Carroll - 35m We dont keep player who want to leave, which I guess is how we get people to sign up to 6 year contracts. Debuchy will leave, but he wont be missed. Santon can play right back and haidara left.

I've seen these symtoms loads in Chrome. If you are using Chroime, it's the Google plugins they rewrote for shockwave etc... there poor coding gets stuck in a loop. try a different browser. If the load fine in IE, uninstall/reinstall Chrome. DNS is cached, so it wont be that. That'd result in all or nothing.

I missed Wolfy's crazy threads first time round. Hope I'm not too late to ask the oddball some questions... I wont cover the "theory of relativity" and how it covers the effects of movement being relative to an object. As that science mumbo jumbo has no place on a foot ball forum. Instead I will opt for questions; Do you feel any movement when you are on a plain flying through the air at 600mph? Why you can buy a telescope at Argos to see the moon (assuming you believe the moon is real) 250,000 miles away. Yet if you stand on the coast of Ireland you cant see the empire state building a mere 3,000 miles away?

Pretty much describes his brother. Kuyt was a bit like that, so it may not be the worst signing we've made. Anything is an improvement in shola. Grenier is the one I'm hoping for.

With him issuing the apology he's defiantly off to Spain.