Dr Gloom

he got so much stick because eriksson kept bringing him on for ten minuted here and there, playing him out of position and expecting him to turn a game. he isn't that sort of player. he's shown his true class given a run in his favoured position and should keep lampard out of the side on current form. he's one of the few good things to have come out of the eriksson era.

talk of 5th and 6th is pie in the sky with the current squad. we need three or four quality signings before my optimism is renewed

i reckon we should try nobby up front as a withdrawn second striker. he might do well in the beardsley role behind someone with a bit of pace. it would also give us the chance of using a direct, quicker right winger.

nicky butt, scott parker and amady faye are all "tough tackling" we need strikers. why are we so obsessed with recruiting midfielders???

he did more in that game than lampard did for us all tournament

no doubt he'll go back to france and recapture his pre-toon form and his place in the french starting eleven

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decent news that there's no damage to the medial ligament too. he'll still do well to kick a ball again this season

i expect another season of disappointment and underachievment

he might do well alongside someone like defoe. what he does need is an injury free season and a run of a few games. that way we'll know for sure whether he'd dead wood or not.

i wouldn't mind jfh here as a stopgap but it would totally contradict roeder's comments about building a younger squad.

60k i think. st james would be better if we ever finished it off...

i like him. he's the sort of no nonsense defender we've been crying out for. canny distribution too

so he's got a choice between playing alongside henry and van persie or shola and jimmy floyd. i wonder where he'll go...

he's a stopgap. nothing more. hopefully he'll only be on a one year deal. we wouldn't be looking at him if owen was fit. not a bad signing if we chalk up another two strikers of better quality and use jfh as a bench warmer.

italy's route to the final is looking piss easy

i thought he was rubbish yesterday, which could be good for us if we buy him on the cheap now and he ends up doing the business for us. this world cup was his club's chance to add a few million to his price tag but he blew it.

kuyt, camara and hasslebank would do a job.

he's got pace to burn, something we need badly

I certainly wouldn't call Klose "bog standard world cup panic buy". In the end it is his second world cup where he is scoring goals quite a lot of goals. Add to it 25 goals in 26 games (+ 13 assists) in the Bundesliga and a couple of goals in the Championsleague this year. But I do agree, I don't think Newcastle can afford him at the moment and should look elsewhere. 152652[/snapback] you rate him then? i can't help but think he'd be the next guivarch if we signed him. 152655[/snapback] Well he might turn out to be the next Guivarc'h, but I do find it funny when people immidiately start knocking players just because they score at a bigger tournement and aren't the big household names. Klose is far from being a "one tournament wonder", especially as it is his second tournament where he scores quite a lot of goals. Of course the next thing is that it only was against the likes of Costa Rica, Equador etc. Though, why are the big household names not scoring in these games? Klose has a good goalscoring at both domestic and international level, so should a decent tournement add "10m to what he's actually worth"? Especially looking at the inflated prices of the likes of Defoe, A. Johnson etc. 152658[/snapback] i'm no big fan of german football so i can't really comment on his domestic form. it sounds impressive though so maybe he deserves more credit than i'm giving him. i've just never been that impressed whenever i've seen him. i'm sure he's not a bad player. his scoring record is good but he is playing in a germany side that compares poorly with the greats of past decades. that said, england are no great shakes either and they get talked up way beyond their true worth. i just remember germany's route to the final last time round not being the hardest, and weren't all his goals headers? and let's be frank, there aren't that many amazing german strikers around at the moment are there? would klose get into the english, spanish or italian squads? i agree that defoe is probably overrated and overpriced too, but he's a player i'd like to see us go for. would you go for klose over defoe? who do you think would represent better value if they were both priced for, say £10m?

i'm sure you had an inkling as to what i was getting at. ok, my worry over klose if we signed him would be if turns out to be the next el hadj diouf. ie signed for an inflated fee after a decent world cup and then turns out to be shit.

I certainly wouldn't call Klose "bog standard world cup panic buy". In the end it is his second world cup where he is scoring goals quite a lot of goals. Add to it 25 goals in 26 games (+ 13 assists) in the Bundesliga and a couple of goals in the Championsleague this year. But I do agree, I don't think Newcastle can afford him at the moment and should look elsewhere. 152652[/snapback] you rate him then? i can't help but think he'd be the next guivarch if we signed him.

ronaldo was the leading scorer in the last world cup, shirley?

i can see klose being your bog standard world cup panic buy. a good world cup will probably add about £10m on to what he's actually worth. i'd look elsewhere tbh

so you're saying dein's actions makes shepherd less of a twat? genius