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Ignorant numpty - inexcusable stupidity

Serious doubts now being placed on this deal going through. City must be top of at least one PL table - number of rebuffs in any transfer window..........

Perhaps the question should be phrased better for simpletons and pedantics......... If Norwich had just £8m to spend on just one of two players ( as both players are valued around this figure) would you rather it was spent on Gayle or Naismith?

A ''respected'' Italian agent suggesting Norwich City have put in a bid........not accepted. I guess anybody who knows their Italian football would confirm that this would be quite a coup?

There will only ever be one winner in the FA Cup this and every season. In the Premier League, and particularly this year onwards, there will be seventeen ''winners''. The odds are far more favourable which makes the PL of far greater importance. The PL''s midweek matches this season that follow the FA Cup third round games merely emphasise the irrelevance the cup is to many clubs in this day and age. Safe to say that Norwich''s win at Wembley last year in the play-off final was financially more lucrative and equally as enjoyable as any FA Cup final appearance/win could possibly produce over the next few years.

As it is the only home trophy Chelsea have any chance of winning this season, they will undoubtedly stand alone amongst PL teams and play their strongest team in every round they play in. The supporters will turn up in hope and expectation.

The FA Cup is symptomatic of BBC sports coverage. A competition that desperately clings on to past glories but almost totally irrelevant in today''s football world. Once upon a time football fans would be glued to the radio or tv at 4.45pm on a Saturday afternoon eagerly anticipating the big cup upsets. Nowadays the BBC, (&BT) starved of live football, desperately seek a moment of ''glory'' by spreading their Cup wares from Friday night through to Sunday in an effort to replicate the excitement of the PL. There are five matches on Sunday with four different ko times! With even lower league pitches at a good standard, watching non-league teams desperately trying to take scalps on muddy quagmires, is no longer entertaining. The Carling Cup is now more relevant than the FA Cup. Midweek matches, no replays, and no disruption to the only competitions the clubs really care about, the PL and the Championship. The FA Cup has become ''all about its history'', it is merely an incumbency on many of the football clubs today, and seemingly not a prize worth chasing.

There is little doubt that Norwich would appear to be faffing about it he transfer market. It will leave a pretty sour taste in the mouth if Afobe is playing for Bournemouth at a cost of £10m, and Grabban is still at Carrow Road come February 1st. Watford are proving that a striker who knows where the back of the net is can take you a long way. I will be surprised if Afobe doesn''t score on a much more regular basis than Grabban, and it''s galling that it could have cost Norwich merely a nett £3m spend.

''And you could get yet another free ticket you plastic'' What a pointlessly provocative post. Why not think long and hard before you write?

Not wishing to dampen the spirits of supporters that rise at any signing the club makes, but I suspect judgement is best reserved over Ivor. He may be a speed merchant down the flank, but if the interview with the Zagreb-based football writer is anything to go by, someone who has watched his every game this season, then defensively he may well not be an upgrade. And it''s the defence that needs the attention.

A supposed £15m price tag has been slapped on his head by Norwich. All well and good if he stays, good money if he goes.

It is rather a simplistic argument to say that Norwich do not possess the type of players that earn penalties. Penalties can be awarded for handball, goalkeeper rush of blood, and didn''t Turner concede a penalty early in a match a few seasons ago for pushing in the box?!! I am not aware that Norwich have ever earned a penalty from pushing/holding in the box, but than again I have never seen a goal disallowed for an overhead kick other than Jerome''s........

Does the ''all-bar-announced'' purchase of Pinto mean that a part-exchange deal with Leeds involving Byram and Lafferty is a non-starter?

A well written article.

We continue to be linked with Gayle, so if it was a straight choice, who would you prefer....... ...Gayle or Naismith?

Man City''s away form has been appalling of late. Until yesterday''s win at Watford they could barely even by a goal for the last few months. Without Kompany, they are defensively suspect. With a Carling Cup semi-final this week, I would think Pellegrini would attach more importance to that first leg. It couldn''t be a better time to play them in the cup, and I hope the players see this very much as a good opportunity to progress. Man City will want a draw even less than ourselves........

Thank-you, Mane...... ......dropped to bench for disciplinary reasons.....

You get a better idea from the views of fans than reading Wikipedia or taking your point of view, Miggins. The phrases ''slow'' and ''prone to mistakes'' kept repeating - qualities as far removed from a relegation-saving centre-half that we could wish for........

Having read through kirku''s posts, fingers crossed he doesn''t fancy Norwich as a destination......

It has become very nauseating the way Niall Qlown is wheeled on as a co-commentator whenever we have to suffer Sunderland live on Sky. The man is so bias I swear he will break down in tears during one of these commentaries if Sunderland continue with such dire performances.

Everton are under-achieving. With Lukaku scoring goals for fun, Barkley and Stones down the spine of the team, they should be a lot higher than 11th. They were a solid defensive unit last season, somehow Martinez has succeeded in turning that around for the worse.

I used to respect the guy, but he has rapidly turned into a dislikeable toad over this potential Naismith transfer. How many times has he got to '' have a chat'' with Naismith? In two weeks? With his team under-performing, I can understand him not wanting to give a rival a leg-up too early in the transfer window. However, it does appear that he doesn''t value Naismith enough to play him, and isn''t giving much regard to the player''s best interests.

Naismith offers far more than Grabban, Hooper and Lafferty. If Norwich get dragged into and end of season relegation battle, rest assured Naismith and Brady are just the sort of players you would want in the team. Naismith offers drive, determination, work-rate, and an ability to find the back of the net at PL level, something the other three certainly don''t. It will also be a boost to the player to have a manager that is clearly determined to sign him, rather than have a manager that shows little faith in him.

Having watched Watford earn a point against Chelsea thanks to a carefree handball from Matic and a massive deflection for Ighalo. Swansea gaining three points from a freak goal. Aston Villa getting away with a handball by Westwood in the box, therefore finishing with a draw. When did Norwich last get lucky?

On a weekend when six of the goals scored in the Premier League were from penalties, it was disconcerting to discover that the figure is equal to the total number of penalties awarded to NCFC in their most recent three and a half seasons of PL football, and two more than they have actually scored!The two penalties that have been awarded in each of the previous three PL seasons, have seen Norwich regularly near the bottom of the ''penalty award'' table. So far this season, with a score of  -4, (penalties awarded less penalties conceded), they find themselves bottom of the pile.......Coincidence? Bad luck? Or other......?