S-Clarke

that wasn't my opinion btw! i was quoting it from 606 and agree with your post. i'm actually looking forward to seeing him play if he signs.

''Serie B????? That league is more micke mouse than league two. More proof that AP doesn't know what he is doing. Spending £1m on tosh from the lower leagues of Italy is poor. We could sign two good league one players for that money. Pardew out'' nice one.

but he's been in Italy for 8 years...so surley he'll apply for a dual citizenship?

click on forum in the top right. there's a 2 page thread on him leaving.

When punch plays well we destroy teams. Bristol rovers, Huddersfield, Wallsall - he was unplayable during those games. He's a good player but he has struggled with an injury during pre-season so probably isn't as sharp as he'd like to be.

He will frustrate and delight, you just have to stick with him through the frustrating times as he is still a potential match winner.

They do seem a bit gutted. How are we managing to get a potential first choice Serie A player to League 1? madness. I was suprised with Papa Waigo - but he wasn't involved at his club, by the stats this guy played a key role in getting them to Serie A.

Latest news (from a couple of hours ago) ''Cesena - there is an agreement with Southampton for the transfer of Do Prado 22.08.2010 17:34 di Livio Giannotta articolo letto 42 volte The Brazilian, Prado Do Cesena will move in the coming days, less than sensational plot twists . There is in fact the agreement with Southampton for the transfer of the player but, according to the latest, it expects the response from the committee examine the entry of non-EU players.

''Cesena - there is an agreement with Southampton for the transfer of Do Prado 22.08.2010 17:34 di Livio Giannotta articolo letto 42 volte 08/22/2010 17:34 by Livio Giannotta article read 42 times The Brazilian, Prado Do Cesena will move in the coming days, less than sensational plot twists . There is in fact the agreement with Southampton for the transfer of the player but, according to the latest, it expects the response from the committee examine the entry of non-EU players.

I think that's exactly what Pardew has been alluding to in the past few weeks.

Decent enough, but i find him slow and against real pace i think he could really struggle. Otsemebor wasn't great, but he offered us that pace to recover on the break. Our defence is very very slow now, in fact the team is. We've lost all the pace we had last year.

Probably true. I reckon a draw may keep him in place for another week, but he is really hanging by a thread. I don't agree with him being hung out this early though, but it seems as if Cortese had his mind made up last year.

It's nothing to do with that. He's been very very poor for a while now. The game passed him by yesterday.

been looking into this guy a bit more, it seems to be a really random signing if true. His club have just got promoted to Serie A and according to the stats he's one of their keymen with 11 goals from midfield last season in Serie B. His record before his move to Cesena is a bit iffy though, he had a very very serious injury when he was at Fiorentina and found him self loaned out everywhere for a few seasons, but in the last year he seems to have got over his injury troubles..There were rumblings that Roma and Lazio were interested earlier in the summer. He looks to be well loved at Cesena and they don't want to sell him...so i think it's safe to assume that it will be one hell of a coup to get him to L1..

What i think Morgan needs is a midfielder bombing on in front of him. Hammond and Morgan are always too close together creating a very narrow approach at times, there's no real ''AMC'' in our squad. If we get this new guy hopefully that will give us what we need...

Hopefully the next batch of Bales and Theo's are not too far away, and their emergence coincides with us getting back to the PL.

He was completely rubbish yesterday, in-fact he's been off form for way too long now and i'm not surprised Pardew took him off. I like hammond, when he plays well he's my sort of CM - but that's not been frequent enough for me. Bring in the competition to give him a kick up the backside, he's the captain but doesn't look like one at the moment.

Good scoop saint-lard, looks like it may be happening.

If he has Pace, sign him up.

A truly inept game of football. Not sure what else is to be said really. Good start, out of the blocks early - got the goal then decided to fall asleep 3 mins later from a corner. after that, the game was over. It was so poor.

i would assume they mean papa?

Reminds me of the Papa Waigo deal, came out of nowhere. (actually, all our signings have been like that haven't they?) If it's true, i'd imagine Cortese's contacts have come into play again.

+1. so much will change if we fail to go up, and it won't get easier by any means.

Nice thread CWD - thanks for sharing. I ''think'' he's a defensive player, but i'm not 100% sure.