Well, when i first heard that we snapped up sibierski, i was laffing my hed off. i thought what the hel is this about. then, as i was watchin the uefa cup maych last night, my views changed. he scored the only goal, and played really well. i hope he can continue this


what do you think??

Shola playes really well against unknown foriegn opposition and usually scores,but heres hoping he will be a usefull squad member to have on the bench when needed

ye shola dus play wel against unknown euorpeans. in a way sib is like shola. good in the air, and a tal attacker. maybe martins and shola/sibieski can be a good partnership

I believe that Sib was bought to play with Shola. Why not, atleast it cant be as bad as Luque, would anyone swap Luque for Robert??

robert was fantastic at Newcastle, i wish we had him bak. but we got zog on the left, so it wud be tuff with him in the team. atm its jus n'zogbia we have on the L wing

Didnt get to see the match over here so cant really judge going off radio commentary. I wasnt too pleased when i found out we signed him though.

But we could play zog in the middle with parker, Duff on the right, and robert on the left, i rekon Benfica might swap him for Luque.

ye they mite, but i dnt c zog in the middle. hes the srt of playa that has to go on wing.

why use Luque in a swap for Robert?
Loads os La Liga sides want him we should look at Martin Petrov at Ath Madrid or Ewerthon at Real Zaragoza

don't use "text speak" mate
the mods'll have you

I wasfurious when we first signed him Ilabelled him a donkey after seing him in the first 2 games against West Ham as a sub and against that europen side I feel like I m the donkey for wronglly critising the lad when he hadn't played a game. he has so far played well.

IMO Nzogbia's best position will be cm as I think he can have a bigger influence in there. i would much rather see him play their than the inept Emre. I would have Robert back but I think our main priority is still in defence and attack remmber Sibierski has only signed a1 year contract Rossi could leave in january and also Ameobi has had injury problems Martins picked up an injury against Villa and Owen is out till maybes next season . Our defence is poor we could do with signing Bridge and a right back and also sign a top quality cm.

What about this for a side for next season
Given
Miguel rb
Bridge lb
Kuffour
Taylor
Milner rm
Duff lm
Nzogbia
parker
Owen
Martins/Beattie
For me this would be aquality side and also we have to keep hold of Milner who IMO hs been one of our betetr players this season. Beattie IMO would be a good signing i would also take a few others the likes of a Defoe Viduka yakubu. We need sto strengthen our attack and deence for me. defence is crucial

I'm not getting into a "who we are gonna sign" debate with you again so soon after the last one

lol ok, il bear that in mind.



i think now that we got martins, we should definalty concentrate on beefing up the defence. but as shola is struggling with his hip, we will need a back up for martins and owen when hes back

haha ok mate

Yeah our striker situation never seems to improve!!
I still hold the view that we are the unluckiest team in the Premiership

the best unlukiest team in the prem that is!



all we need is a consistent reliable goals scorer, like shearer. that will rarely get injured, but wil regularly score

Milner hasnt had a good game in yonks, We should have shifted him to aston villa

In the 0-0 home uefa cup tie he was excellent he was quality for a mediocre Villa side last season he played canny at Vila Park earlier and against Liverpool he did ok at least he had a go. He is a quality player IMO and I am delighted he is staying till January at least Freddy would be tupid to sell him.

yeh hes a great youngster. we need to keep him for the future

I went to the Everton match and Milner was class, So i am proving myself wrong, again.

ye hes looked amazing. obviuoslty had something to prove while he had his chance. roeder was stupid to almost sell him in the summer

The reason why Roeder bought Sib is because he realised we dont really have a Alan Shearer type player in the team, obviously Shola Fits the bill, but can you bank on his fitness?? I would still like to see how Oba and Micky get on as a partnership.
This should be the toon team...
Given
Carr
Moore
Taylor
Babayaro
N'Zogbia
Parker
Emre
Dyer
Owen
Martins

i think sibierski is a good player but not a great player
he is very good at heading but he lacks the pace for premiership i thought it was a smart move as we didnt have anyone to cover for shola when he got injured,

he's already played a lot in the prem with man city its not as if he's moved from a lower league team.

i think that should be the team as well Blane, but the midfield is a hard choice to make. we have a lotof good players in midfield , and i think the mid should be N'zogbia, parker, emre, duff, but thats just my opinion

Blane, just wondering how your Formation would work, N'zogbia on the left, but then Emre, Parker and Dyer play in the middle, you would have to drop one for Duff or Milner.

sibierski he reminds me of ketsbia sometimes a loose cannon but hes got to be given more chances to play