4-2-3-1 (and variations - there's overlap isn't there?) is the system adopted through the rest of the club. So you'd think that there's room to do that. However, playing that way means either Adam or Gerrard sitting out - saw that the past few games where it was Henderson behind Suarez and Spearing partnering Gerrard.
Trying to remember the other lad being spoken of - Boudebouz or something from the French leagues. Not seen anything of him but I know for a fact that we've spoken to his club. Stories of Llorente being a target last season but us not being willing to wait til the summer to get him which is why there's a bit of niggle around the Carroll signing all things considered from some sides. Then again I know for a fact that we were in prime position to sign Mata too, sooooo strange world or something. Will tell you the story about a young lad who agreed a move to one club and at the last moment changed his mind and mysteriously leaked his buyout clause to another one day.
Newcastle have done well. They took a big gamble with a lad whose knees are one turn away from ending his career and it's paid off big time. Their other gamble, Marveaux, is best mates with the club doctor. Swings and roundabouts when making those kind of punts.
See what happens in the summer for me now. Everyone's talking, no-one's really saying much. If we can scrape through the rest of the season and make up some ground on the Geordies, it's been a disappointing one for us in the league but the cups provide a large fat girl to the other side of the seesaw (metaphor courtesy of In Bruges). Fanbase needs a wake-up call (post-2005 influx aren't healthy - but at the same time these are the ones the club are hoping to milk for money for the future so have to be kept onboard) but they're so kneejerky there's not the patienec to go through (yet another) five year plan. We are turning into a mid-table team if we don't get it sorted out now because blunt facts are that there's no sugar daddy able to come in and pour billions into the club.
