StoneColdStephenIreland

Thats cos he'd been there and done it though, he'd proved for Chelsea and Blackburn he was a good Prem player but for us he never got near that level, so he was a good cheap option for a bit of experience. But the likes of Jonas, Colo and Enrique, they didnt have a good time that season and never shone, Nolan didn't look up to scratch neither in those 6 months he had with us, Barton was considered a ticking timebomb, Ryan Taylor was shyte, no one really wanted to pay over the odds for an unproven player in Carroll at that time, Ameobi was balls back then too. So i think if a decent offer for any of them had been received i think they'd have been away, theyre was probably a few enquiries but nothing solid or anything that matched their pricetags, which was something that was done with the likes of Martins, Bassong, Beye etc

Just thinking but this Summer really is going to be massive for us and the future and the precendents we set for the coming seasons, as say we dont spend anywhere near the £35 million mark with the money from the Carroll transfer, what will we do with the profits we are scheduled to make in the next seasons were will all that go, surely they should go into building the team? But if the transfer budget we supposedly has doesnt get spent, I dont see the profits we make being put to good use neither

I think keeping our best players in that window was because no one wanted to touch them, if an offer came in for any of them they'd have been shipped out

Kevin Gameiro Seems to be alot of teams being linked with him and has a good scoring record, but would be near the £10 million mark if he was to move anywhere I'd definitely take him here, but I'm not holding me breathe, especially with us going to fork out that amount on Carlton Cole

The running total on occasional gems is two. The pressure is to find them again this year and every year after. If it was easy everybody would do it. Just because Graham Carr hit the jackpot last summer does't guarantee he'll do it again. Remind me how many first team games Vuckic, Ferguson and LuaLua have played for us. There combined goals & assists must be, oooh, none isn't it? These gems you see only come around so often, we arent going to be signing them left, right and centre you know, every club try's to do it every season buying players for a few million and i'd say about 1 in every 10 - 15 turn out to be a Tiote, so we can't be pinning our hopes on picking them up this summer, it's just narrowmindedness if you think it's going to happen I'd rather see Vuckic, Lua Lua etc on loan in the championship than occasionally sitting on our bench and getting reserve games tbh

Gonna watch Catch me if you can on Sky Modern Greats, always fancied watching this but never got round to it, anyone know if it will be a let down or not?

Pretty pissed off, went out in Morpeth last night and managed to spend 40 odd quid and was still sober I divn't kna why we didn't go out in Ash, I can get off me tatties on 30 quid and grind milfs to me hearts content

He's been top notch this past few games like But if he did go he'd be a massive miss, about 60-70% of our attacking play goes down the left and it would be hard to replace him and we'll have to come up with another game plan, but saying that we'll have to anyway with Enrique leaving

Now this is twatful, hopefully Stoke will win the bugger now

Since the Championship has finished apart from the Play-Off's, will we get Routledge back? Surely it would make sense to have him back considering our injury crisis at the minute Anyone know what the situation is?

Fuckin' hell

He's not going to play Richardson

From a neutral perspective, an all Welsh final would be something extra special. Can't believe that slipped me mind actually, totally forgot about that outcome, hopefully that'll happen with Cardiff getting turned over

The only British fighter IMO that has Box Office pull is David Haye, Even when Khan is on Box office I'm always searching for streams online They're bigging them up too early and it's just not working ( I reckon DeGale wll do that other lad oll ower btw )

I hope Swansea do them over 2 legs, can't stand Forest, and I hope Reading turnover Cardiff asweel

Great call by the minesman to flag for offside their mind, alot of them would have missed it

Whats with Sky putting every friggin fight with one fighter who has the tiniest bit of audience pull on Box Office? They'll get bugger all figures for the James DeGale fight. They should just let him build up his rep on Sky and then put him on Box Office

Is Smith fit yet? And unfortunately I can see us starting with Perch CM alongside Barton if Smith isn't fit with R Taylor on the right Be madness to risk Tiote in this game, especially since he won't effect the outcome IMO

Wonder how many were saying the same about Carroll a year ago. Difference being a year ago andy carroll had played 40 odd games in the 09-10 season in a lower league done well was our top scorer and earned a shot, lualua hasn't played 40 in his career let alone in that short time frame or done as well. Well we'll have to wait and see and theres no point going back and forth but this season, until he broke his leg he played 11 times, scored 4 times and provided countless assists. I would be truly shocked if he doesnt feature in pre season on the USA tour. Even if he does get games Pre-Season, it means nowt, Xisco was getting games last year in our friendlies

Our CM's gonna get battered on Sunday without him and Tiote

Joe Cole's just a more high profile Sheqi Kuqi but without the novelty

I hope he's not near the first team next season, because that will mean we won't have strengthened positions we NEED to or spent the money we NEED to Another season out on loan would be best for him and us

Didnt Bothroyd play for Perugia asweel?

Thats what me and a mate were saying how he seems if he did get in the Premiership he'd be like Owen Coyle I wouldnt have minded if we went for him instead of Pardew