Andrew

That will improve when de jong is playing properly I think

We have a cup match against gillingham in which willo will serve his suspension, no Taylor for the PL

That could be said about literally any freekick taker in the world

You can't be serious? Let's take off our line striker for a midfielder to help chase a win

Has Aaron's played for the u21s this week already perhaps?

Think we might start the same as last week and see de jong introduced in the second half. If we play as well as we did in spells last time out we'll win

Absolutely out-fucking-standing

Guardian reckons 20 million for him. Considering Balotelli has just moved for 16 thats a ludicrous price.

I'm not sure, he's certainly not a bad player, I reckon Pardew would like him. Yeh go on.

Yeh fuck raising money for charity right?

Tim Krul, Mike Williamson and Andy Woodman doing the ALS ice bucket challenge

They've revamped the loot system now the real money auctions have gone. And the expansion comes packaged with the new console versions

You planning to pick this up @@JawD? Got it for the xbox one yesterday (having already had the PC version) and spent a couple of hours on it last night, it has ported really well imo, looks good, console controls work nicely and the updates to various systems behind the scenes has made it a better game than when it was released on the PC

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De Jong isn't a centre midfielder tbh, he would be playing off the striker, colback or Anita will definitely play if we have 3 in midfield I hope we don't sell, I don't think we will for the price thats been reported. On the other hand, we weren't overawed by Man City in midfield last weekend without him so I reckon we'd be ok without, just much weaker in terms of depth in midfield.

Debuchy?

Someone should tell the people who own Watford and Udinese

Goat's are like mushrooms, If you shoot a duck, I'm scared of toasters.

He's not had a lot of preseason time to be fair, confident he'll settle and get better as he gets more used to his team mates and becomes matchfit

Santons instinct is to get forward though, gouffran will cover that. Can't see a young winger breaking into the first team doing that sort of job when he wants to run at people all match. This season Aarons should be used in cups and as a sub, if he performs in those instances then give him a start or two I think.

Both did come on, Perez on at the time means we're switching to 2 up front, totally different system. Aarons didn't exactly come in and win it did he?

He's not in the squad...might as well be asking for us to bring Aguero on.

who else could've come on at that time?

We played well today, anyone saying different is just grinding the pardew/ashley axe. Cabella looks to be a class little player, didn't struggle with the physicality of the game which many worried about him. Riviere looks strong and fast, good foil for De Jong when he returns and could become more if he can sort out a bit of composure. Happy to see a similar 433 against the better teams and hopefully a 4231 against others once we're back to full strength krul janmaat willo colo santon tiote sissoko cabella de jong gouffran riviere disappointed with the loss, not the performance today.

Dammit, we haven't deserved to lose today