Skeletor

How could you hate this face? http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5985/alanoliverxb2.gif

And people doubted Big Sam's appointment. If all his deals come off, ever weak position in our team will have been strengthened for the price of one Boumsong, fan-f******-tastic. Still need a real right back though.

*Sheds all his pessimism* YAY.

Dragotunovic?

Which is where Dragotunovic comes in.

We can throw him on when we need some legs broken and want to give away silly free kicks in dangerous positions I suppose. I've always felt we needed a player like that to round off the squad.

Depends on who else is available though. Not really. £6m for Smith is still a gross waste of money.

Is it right to call Martins a deputy when he plays far far more often than Owen?

Yes.

A transfer? That doesn't sound right. Must have the wrong club tbh.

Wiki says he has... Wiki sucks! By the way dude ... I admire your patience, but I think you have to accept that some people would rather be negative about things and the more you try to convince them there is no real reason to be yet, the more they negative they get! One main thing has stood out to me regarding our pursuit of defenders. Sam says he wanted prem experienced defenders. In my opinion this has been the focus and I think we have been spending too much of our time trying to secure players who have experience in our league, which is usually very complicated as teams are likely to be less likely to want to give up good players to their rivals. They are no doubt being over priced as you only have to see what has been going on in the transfer market. In the odd occassion where they are likely to be reasonably priced, for example with defenders the top clubs don't want i.s. Man U's heinze and Silvestre they have decided not to come. I really think this has been the min problem and now we are only beginning to look at our foreign options. I think it is very likely that if we are going to be buying defenders from abroad, Sam will look for players that are not expensive but have the potential to be very good for us. Similar to the deal to bring Rozehnal in. There are absolutely no guarantees with foreign defenders so at this moment in time we cannot afford to spend £10 million on a defender from abroad I don't think. Especially, as we have no stability in the position at the moment. Lads just coolrelax it will all be fine. I am expecting at least three defenders in by this time next week, and then we will tie up another 3 players in different areas of the squad and it's showtime. I'll relax when we have a dependable, solid defence (and that includes back ups) rather than the nothing that we have right now with 2 weeks to go.

And that is the whole problem. This isn't June. The season starts in 2 weeks and our rivals are strengthening all the time whilst we're doing fuck all.

Sounds reasonable to me.

The way they've given him no money is disgraceful though regardless of all this other stuff. Didn't Sam also say he hasn't even met Ashley yet?

I think this review is going to put a dampener on any wild spending Big Sam has. It is frustrating for fans as they see Man City and West Ham spending wildly, however the basis of their squads werent there, at Newcastle we have the basis of a good squad so only tinkering is required. Tinkering being a new back line! We have no defence and once again we're trying to fix that problem on the cheap. It's the one area of the team that needs real investment and yet again it's not happening. No-one at this club ever learns from the mistakes of the past.

Ah the luxuries of having a billionaire owner eh?

he would run his nuts off every single game i dont have to much a problem with it tbh So fucking what?

After Geremi's performance and Troisi's emergence I'd say a replacement isn't really necessary for him anywhere in the midfield or up front.

Correct opinion.

Good. Agreed

So is the face above it.

Ramage to start the season then.

He used to have ridiculous hair before. Maybe that's why. Ginger? Indeed.

He used to have ridiculous hair before. Maybe that's why.

Don't think there's much new about it. Don't think people hate him. We just all know he's incredibly shit.