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You can't have it both ways. If we sign someone for a lot of money its because we can get round it with accounting and we're skint, if we don't we're skint.

Isn't he the one we refuse to deal with?

The reality is we'll probably see all of the formations and combinations described over the last few pages next season. That's entirely the point of singing a right sided player.

Its fast becoming a cliche that every time a Tomkins article is posted it just becomes a means of saying how crap/great he is.

We wouldn't have got Duff for £5M

Unfortunately not. You see, I was very, very drunk at the time.

I imagine he would have been able to move on had he not been reluctant to lose such a huge salary. Some no mark French team would have had him if playing football were that important to him. Therefore I can't help but enjoy what Rafa said.

Undoubtedly. Both are more intelligent players than Baros and Cisse. But I'll be surprised if we don't sign a different type of striker as well

Perhaps - momo also had a big part to play - but put Baros/Cisse up front for all of last season and we wouldn't have done as well as we did, and our inproved defence would have been much more exposed. As someone else has said, its not necessarily crouch mark 2 but someone capable with their back to goal.

Its an assumption based on improved results.

Mourinho doesn't seem to think so. Has already said they are playing 4-4-2 with a diamond formation in midfield, so they are sacrificing at least 1 winger if not 2.

No he isn't. Read it again.

They are supposed to be playing 2 up front with midfield diamond type arrangement to allow them to play Lampard, Makalele and Ballack in the same team

In that case, I think we should all be very very worried.

..........and was a white Englishman called Jamie

I am sure we'll have to pay Charlton something, but lets hope its not more than a few million.

"The 27-year-old winger, who is believed to have turned down Liverpool and Tottenham, signed a five-year contract with the Magpies on Saturday. Duff said on Monday: "A lot of people - Liverpool fans in Ireland - will ask 'why didn't you sign for them?'. "But I just listened to my heart and it told me to come to Newcastle. That's all it is." Link Even Duff says the Irish are biased towards him.

Its from the mirror

Or that it happened on a Friday afternoon when the weather was 30 degrees and no one could be arsed putting up a retraction.

on the match thread someone mentioned he was out for 10 days.

Is Agger injured?

I am pretty sure it doesn't but am happy to be proved wrong.

Looks like you can rest easy. Rafa's evidently not the moron you believe him to be.

Maybe rather than being specifically for the right wing, its because he can play on either wing and up front. i.e we buy duff and a right winger and forego the need for another striker?