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Gary Hooper: 28 in 51 What's the comment about Billy Sharp about? Stick him in the right team and he'd easily get 15-20 goals in the CCC.

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Blatent attempt at a bite. You can't be serious?

Yeah Butt's not gonna leave, he'll play a major role next season, whoever's in charge. He played a major role in our relegation. If he plays next season, I'm gonna break his legs.

Is Billy Sharp on the bench?

He's f***ing s*** man. Let's not pretend him doing a passable job filling in at left back recently means he's suddenly not s***. Yeah we'll just go out and sign Ribery. He'd be shit at left back fwiw.

Well done. Bored again, are ya? Calm down, I'm only messing with ya. And yes

Butt. Out of football for good. Having said that, he gives me reason to believe I could still be a professional footballer, so it's not all that bad.

I wouldn't have thought so, but Chelsea's midfield aren't getting any younger and they've changed their policy on spending. I'd hope so, he's a fantastic prospect.

Duff will certainly have. Doubt Jonas/Colo etc have though.

He's certainly looking at another year in the Championship. Spoke to him a couple of weeks back about it. I know you'll be battling with at least one other club. Henri Lansbury would be another, although I think they're both going to the same place for a year Scunny? I hope the Rodgers connection with Chelsea would get us Cork, if not Stoch as is rumoured. Cork loved it there. He told me he wouldn't hesitate to go back on loan if the club wanted him. However, I'm sure he'd go back to you if offered anyway.

He's certainly looking at another year in the Championship. Spoke to him a couple of weeks back about it. I know you'll be battling with at least one other club. Henri Lansbury would be another, although I think they're both going to the same place for a year

Scunny's the right side of the river near Hull by the way

If we haven't got clauses in, we're in massive trouble. There's no way that the Championship TV money will cover wages at the level they're at currently.

About £100k then

Honestly, I don't know why any of those three you've named would join you. Brunt is in a side who'll probably find bouncing back easier than you, seeing as they've got a proven Championship side. Ebanks-Blake gets a shot at the Premiership. And Jason Scotland is playing for a really exciting club atm and is their talisman, it's no more than a sideways step. You'll be able to attract more players than any other team, but the star players of teams you're competing with (unless they hit financial difficulties) will probably be slightly out of reach. The clubs won't want to sell them and beyond money I can't see why players would take a sideways step. Sorry mate, but that's nonsense. I'm the first person to say that Newcastle shouldn't have this "bigger than you" attitude, but players like Brunt would jump at the chance of joining. I personally don't think that if you offered him the same wage he's on at WBA that he'd go. If he would, it'd be for the money as well, and the fee that you'd pay for him would simply not be worth it. You are a big club and will be the biggest club in the league next season, but every team finishing in and around the play-offs this season and those coming down will be looking to keep hold of their best players (Paterson, Eagles, Brunt, Bodde, Ledley etc.) rather than sell them to their rivals. The money you'd have to pay would be excessive and it really would not be worth it. I do think though that WBA are a safer bet on bouncing straight back than you, and that for their players to switch to you wouldn't really be worth it for them unless you're paying silly wages (which you don't want to be doing). Although you really couldn't go wrong signing Paul Robinson. There are some real good players below the 'cream' of the Championship, younger players, but you'd be best off tapping into the foreign market a bit like Swansea have done. Try and find a few more Bassongs. That mixed in with a few players with Championship experience would see you through. I agree that that's the approach we should take. I just don't think we'd have players like Brunt turning us down if we really went in for him, even on the same wages. We're still a massive club in the eyes of players. Scunny have a 15% sell on with Burnley for Paterson, so let's hope they sell him

By the way, I don't think we should be going for Brunt. Not exactly a natural goalscorer is he.

Well done.

Honestly, I don't know why any of those three you've named would join you. Brunt is in a side who'll probably find bouncing back easier than you, seeing as they've got a proven Championship side. Ebanks-Blake gets a shot at the Premiership. And Jason Scotland is playing for a really exciting club atm and is their talisman, it's no more than a sideways step. You'll be able to attract more players than any other team, but the star players of teams you're competing with (unless they hit financial difficulties) will probably be slightly out of reach. The clubs won't want to sell them and beyond money I can't see why players would take a sideways step. Sorry mate, but that's nonsense. I'm the first person to say that Newcastle shouldn't have this "bigger than you" attitude, but players like Brunt would jump at the chance of joining.

No No No No No No and no. He's 33 FFS! There are plenty of younger, fitter, better equipped strikers who would come here and do a job. Cox from Swindon, Keogh from Wolves to name but two.

They've ALL been shit. Even Bassong is only being hero-worshipped because he's young and not quite as shit as the others.

Because the other 23 threads about this aren't going very well?

After Butt, Martins and Jonas are the first two I want out this club (assuming Owen's already gone like)

Said in another thread, should sign Joe Murphy whilst he's still in contract talks with Scunny.

Why not? Some people compare Jonas to Park. Because both comparisons are madness. Park and Tevez are a thousand times the players that Jonas and Martins are. I agree that Park is loads better than Jonas. Tevez is valued at more than 2.5 times what Martins is. My point was is Tevez worth 2.5 times more than Martins? You may think he is, I don't. We'll see where Martins ends up and how he does. Also, to be fair to him, he was injured a lot this year (and his mother died). Tevez is worth about 10 times the amount Martins is tbh