Jonty

Stones for 40m would be significantly more ludicrous than the Sterling deal.

Well with both Oscar and Moses out, it means that either one of Ramires or Cuadrado has to start, or Pedro will be getting shoved straight into the starting line-up.

The way United and a bulk of their fans have handled this Pedro deal has been almost, dare I say it, scouser-esque. Next we'll be hearing that Pedro didn't have enough character for United.

ESPN are the only source on that list i'd pay any attention to, and they only referred to the express article about it.

Neither could do it on a cold windy night in Stoke.

As opposed to only United, Real and Barca being able to spend as much as they want?

If he puts in a request, hopefully we can scale back our bid from the absurd to the slightly less absurd.

I want to believe it, I really do. But its just so unbelievable.

Possibly, we'll most likely be in the market for a striker or two next summer once Falcao leaves and Remy has grown sick of being stuck behind Torres 2.0 for a year and also wants out.

55 million euros for a striker i've never heard of? I think its safe to file this one under bollocks.

I haven't been this excited for a signing since 12 months ago when we signed Fabregas and Costa.

I'll also be surprised if they are both here at the end of the window.

I haven't seen anyone else raise this before and I only just remembered, but is it just me or did he look as good as Sanchez when he was at Barca?

I'll be very surprised if Kennedy and Traore are involved in any capacity in our league campaign.

Hazard, Willian, Moses, Cuadrado and Pedro for 5 spots? Willian might also be played in the centre in place of Oscar, so its really only 4 outright wingers for 2 slots, not including youth players. Plus the fact that i'm sure everyone would love to see Cuadrado sold, if only someone could be so kind as to take him off our hands.

We don't have to sell anyone, the whole problem with our squad right now is that we have a lack of competition for places. We're allowed to have more than 11 players in the squad.

Fantastic news, its about time that Cuadrado had an understudy.

If that had been the first season there wouldn't have been a second ordered, and if there had been I certainly wouldn't have watched it. Couldn't have been more different to the first.

If these trends are so evident I don't know why we're only being told about them after the most recent event. It's easy for something to happen and then for every writer to go back in hindsight and say that this was inevitable. It seems more to me as if all the football writers have f**k all to write about between weekends at the moment, so their editors make them write the same story in 5 different ways, and its the same on every news site at the moment.

I thought most on here rated him the whole way through, you're bound to get a few people that will sh*t talk anyone that signs for a rival but given our recent woes with Cuadrado and Salah i think everyone on here is relieved to be signing a right winger that has proven pedigree.

I'd drop Willian provided that Oscar can maintain his typical early season form. Once Oscar tails off in January he hopefully won't start another game this season and Willian can come back in.

and he answers his recent criticism with one of his greatest assists yet:

Is it just me, or have Cech and Valdes been the two best players for us this season so far?

Fantastic news, supported this topic from day 1 and hopefully not the last signing. Hopefully will lift the doom and gloom that has been around here over recent weeks!

He'll cause a lot of problems if he isn't starting every game, and with Costa I don't see how both of them could fit in our system together. No.