Andrew

fucking hell, nice work this last month, Joe, Alan, Mike and Lee

Shit, cant argue with that

Dixon saying Debuchy might be surprised to find himself so far up the pitch for that effort hes clearly done his research

Can that be santons last freekick of the day please? Anita showed hes got a good delivery when Cabaye was out before

HOUSE!

Back on apparently

Theres an FM legend if there ever was one, makes sense with Flamini and Ramsey sitting out a few games though

The player himself might talk to Pardew to see what his role in the team would be etc while agents talk to the transfer negotiators

presumably a direct translation from french

it'll need to be a damn good 6 months for a bigger club to suddenly come calling.

The point of the option to buy is surely that a fee is set now, otherwise it's totally pointless so if he is good we can get him for a price we've already said we're happy with

fair enough, I quite like that way of doing things tbh.

Is this a loan or permanent signing?

Not our traditional market but we have dealt with Ajax before, he'll know Anita as well. if the price is right he does theoretically occupy the space left by Cabaye

Not what I wanted to see when getting home from work, he's been. A joy to watch this season. We might get another player in, but they won't be a replacement for that unless we unearth a very rare gem out of nowhere.

Hes not the same type of player but he would occupy a similar position in our squad as the most forward playing member of a three man midfield with tiote and anita behind him

What downside was there for the board when they sold carroll?

Fiasco?

Essien is heading to Milan http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25885925

and I bet hes really cut up about it, quick jaunt around europes top clubs and desperately wanted back afterwards. hes not getting sacked this time

Makes the defensive contribution that Mourinho likes in his wingers though, covering an insane amount of ground in the process. Perfect mourinho attacking mid

Its (probably not) worth noting that Mike Williamson did not score an own goal in this game

though he has become a mainstay of mourinhos first team rather than Mata with him preferring Willian, Hazard and Oscar as that three

In other news stan collymore has deleted his twitter

Very healthy profit on de bruyne also