Monroe Transfer

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10227164/Luis-Suarez-calls-on-Liverpool-to-keep-promise-to-let-him-leave-the-club-this-summer-as-Arsenal-waits.html Most Arsenal fans I know continue to be bemused by their transfer business so far this window. They're the only club yet to bring in a major new face, and the only one they seem to get linked to (even in the tabloids) is a player people love to hate who will be banned for a significant part of Arsenal's season should he join. Got a feeling Wenger will end up panicking and rushing through a bunch of deals on deadline day like he did a couple of summers ago (Andre Santos etc). One thing Suarez might be forgetting though - don't Arsenal still have to actually get past the Champions League qualifying round? All the above and they might well not actually be in the CL...

Pretty sure it's not us, I believe he himself has said that both Lyon and the player have an agreement with NUFC. Plus it's clear he wants Gomis off the payroll and the player himself has been somewhat vocal too.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-distance-themselves-stewart-5668714 Does noone (including the man himself) read Ryder's articles before they get published? "out sister paper the Liverpool Echo" "Jonas, Hatem Ben Arfa, Yoan Gouffran and Hatem Ben Arfa"

Couple of places at least have mentioned it. Think the Northern Echo were one.

This, a thousand times this.

Love this

Got a strong feeling Pardew will be all about 442 next season unfortunately.

Am hoping it's just Liverpool trying to drum up interest/agent-talk. Don't get me wrong, he's not that bad, but for the money I reckon we could do better and I'd love for us to get a younger English player like Ince or Sinclair. Seems like ages since we properly invested in British youth (albeit at 24 Sinclair is pushing anyone's definition of youth).

Read above mate, papers linking us more with Downing now.

Puma kits actually aren't that bad quality-wise if you ask me. I bought the Dortmund home shirt a short while back.

No thanks. He's 29 and will be on silly wages. Would much, much rather we paid a 3-4 million more to get Tom Ince tbh. I'm sure Ashley would be aware that he'll have no sell-on value by the end of his contract too. Just seems a bit unimaginative too if we're after a striker.

Yeah, thought that... for some stupid reason that bothered me. In the article that accompanies that, his quotes come before Pardew's too. Means little in the grand scheme of things I guess, but still.

Pretty sure one of Bent or Gomis will be in. To be honest, ignoring the fact that the guy is a clear twat, I always wanted Remy + one other. Simply because Remy = more options.

Caught me off guard that.

On the extended interview Kinnear says "we've got a second hitlist (of strikers) in case these three (Remy, Gomis, Bent) fall through". Much as going after our second choices is a little unsettling, I welcome the notion that the club won't just go "oh well, we tried, Cisse, Shola and Campbell it is" should we not get the aforementioned targets in. He also mentions another area of the pitch that he plans to focus on when the striker situation is sorted. Hopefully it involves wide players. Still reckon the McCarthy deal won't happen unless Cabaye leaves.

That's the first Kinnear interview I've read/seen that I've not immediately felt angered/embarrassed by.

Come on mate, you'll need to try a bit harder than that.

ALE

Hey come on now, HBA is no Jozy Altidore edit; noone saw that typo, right?

Are you suggesting he should have said "er, actually, Cabaye isn't very good, definitely not Man Utd quality" or something? Plus he didn't say that Cabaye is in the same league as Rooney and Ronaldo, just that quality players are going to be speculated about. Which is true and not controversial in the slightest. To be fair a lot of people like yourself see Pardew commenting on players like Cabaye in the worst possible context, i.e. that he's trying to sell them on. I can empathise with that, sometimes I think he'd be better off saying nothing at all, but other times I think the likes of yourselves are twisting his words to make them sound worse than perhaps Pardew meant them to be.

It happens all the time.

Talks to his bosses' sports 'news' website, and praises said boss on it. What's the big deal? He's hardly going to say anything else in that situation is he?

At 8pm? Been sleeping all day?

An entertaining read... ... but in future i'd maybe suggest giving each club its own thread. Putting the two together like this made the whole thing a little long-winded.

My kind of woman.