Skeletor

And then what? Enjoy those bank balances.

Loan is a possibility however we have absolutely no chance of attempting a permanent transfer for him. He's arguably the best young forward in the world at one of the richest clubs, they'd be looking for £30m minimum and there would be much bigger and more succesful clubs in for him if he was available. 'We don't do loans'

This is a completely baffling point of view TBH. If we're going to assume that nobody who had a bad season this year can improve then we may as well sell everyone. Exactly. Far too many itching to sell our players when really we only need a few additions on top of what we already have.

I'd say break the bank for Lukaku but we know that phrase doesn't exist to Mike Ashley or Derek Llambias.

Operation Bale

Currently we need two more strikers. If Cisse goes that's 3. In that scenario £20m isn't really too good to turn down at all.

Thought he'd already been loaned to Swansea?

Transfer window set a light again

Yep. Used to slag his players off publicly too.

Watching all these transfers happening so quickly and we're like:

VI? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-fans-deliver-verdicts-4029739

Most of it at a lower level however. When you read previous fan comments from his past clubs they all had the same gripes with him that we do. That for me is the key worry. He has never worked on his failings and judging by his ridiculous 6'4'' comments he isn't going to start any time soon.

So are Pardew and tactics. Yet with regards to the first question they pass it off as 56% being in favour of Pardew and in the second question Pardew as only being 30% to blame when combined with tactics would actually be 45% I know, I said that earlier. It's not really a contradiction anyway, it's possible to think Pardew is (say) 60% to blame for this season but still not want to sack him now. It's more a question of why they'll combine one stat and not another. Comes across as spin.

So are Pardew and tactics. Yet with regards to the first question they pass it off as 56% being in favour of Pardew and in the second question Pardew as only being 30% to blame when combined with tactics would actually be 45%

Think the results would be more accurately displayed as: Sack him now - 43.7% Undecided - 28.5% Stick by him - 27.8% Especially if they're going to separate Pardew and tactics in the other question about who is to blame for the season. Can't really have it one way and not the other IMO.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/big-toon-survey-newcastle-united-4026367 Bit more in depth about Pardew (but not really).

Hundreds of billions.

Last time that springs to mind is when he was papped on a night out having wet himself this year.

Well this has been boring so far. Wake me up when they post the results to the actual important questions.

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If I was a player with no ties to this club I'd choose Swansea over us at the moment.

The primary difference being Pardew had a season where he overachieved. The Sourness area was miserable from start to finish. We had two decent cup runs under Souness. In fact we haven't had a good domestic cup run since that FA cup campaign . We had a good UEFA cup run under Pardew this season and imo were desperately unlucky to go out when we did. Souness also drove out our two best players, had a transfer budget that blew every other team out of the water (iirc, maybe one or two equalled it/spent more) but somehow took a champions league level side and turned them into strugglers. I know things seem worse when it is actually happening but Pardew has a long way to go to be compared to Souness in my book. Disagree with the bit in bold. Leaving yourself twenty minutes to get 2 goals was always going to fail when we're such a poor attacking team. That debate has been done to death any way. And of course Souness was worse than Pardew. I'm sure every one remembers my views on Adolf Mussolini Souness

The primary difference being Pardew had a season where he overachieved. The Sourness area was miserable from start to finish. We had two decent cup runs under Souness. In fact we haven't had a good domestic cup run since that FA cup campaign .