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Yup. Hopefully Oba there. Owen won't work there/will leave. I put those two there together because I believe one of them will leave and the other will stay. Do agree however, Oba would work better in that position

Who says he is though? Just because he won't come out and say "we'll finish top 6 guarenteed' doesn't mean he's not looking at the Top 6. Like GeJon says, although he says we're just looking to improve on last season, I think Allardyce would be dissapointed if we finished outside European places. He doesn't have to come out and say it though, he's just trying to be realistic and say "Listen, it's not gonna be easy but we think we could do it"

Better than making everybody think that we're gonna finish 4th and get in the Champions League. Set your sights low and the rewards will be even greater IMO. If Allardyce said from the beginning that we'd finish Top 6 then we finished Top 6, people would not be as celebratory as if he said Top 10 and we finished Top 6; trying to keep people's feet on the ground. We're not out of the danger zone yet

I reckon it'll be: Barton Butt Emre Milner/Dyer Owen/Martins Viduka

I'm guessing the £300m figure includes the 8000 seat expanison, the two hotels, flats, offices and conference centre

Link I mean I love Bernard as much as the next guy but this is ridiculous

Here it is:

Bridge over the both of them tbh

This. What the hell has Owen actually done wrong? He's not said he hates the club, he's not said he wants away, he hasn't refused to play, when he's played for us, he's scored goals. It's actually quite ironic because people who say 'don't believe everything you read in the paper' have been influenced by what the papers have said about what Owen wants, he's never actually said himself 'I want to go', it's been the papers saying he wants to go.

tbf, he doesn't actually say he was a boyhood fan of Shearer, just that he remembers him

Anyone reckon the Portsmouth bid will be rejected, then? That Bellamy + Riise for Owen deal would be fantastic, probably bollocks though of course. Aye, there's a few good golf courses for them up here.

Aye being discussed in there

Whoever this 'source' close to Mike Ashley is, I think he should stop hanging around with him He tells the bloody Chronicle everything

Absolutely despise Luque and would rather him leave, but fair play to Allardyce for wanting to give him a chance, who knows? he could come good.

Which part? The fee has been agreed, the contract has not

Barcelona spokesman says 24 million Euros fee has been agreed but reports of a 4-year deal being signed is wrong

No decision until the end of the month!

Could this play a part?

having the apostrophe after the s signifies its the park belonging to St James (whoever he is/was/wasn't) Yes, I know, and James not being plural it requires a further s St James's. Both St James' and St James's are right. There are two alternative rules for that, depends which you choose.

"THE GREATEST COMEBACK SINCE LAZARUS! MASSIMO MACCARONE, EL GLADIATORRRRRR!" "THE BORO HAVE STRUCK A STAKE RIGHT AT THE HEART OF DRACULA'S BOYS" As much as I hate Boro, I'd love commentators like that

why?

We wouldn't be paying £300k, City would. 'One means of breaking the impasse might be if Newcastle paid the £300,000 but they are already committed to paying Barton £16m over five years, having agreed to triple the players City salary.' It's fucking £300,000. He's already got triple the salary, you're advisors are there for a reason Barton, listen to them and get over it; you're already gonna get £16m off us if you stay out your contract. Greedy bastard

Fred Shepherd & Soumess both thought so. That wasn't down to ability though, it was down to attitude Brilliant. The Bellamy apologists are coming up with some belters you cant compare him to goalscorers because he is not goalscorer, now we cant mention his attitude because he was rotten & they know it. Elsewhere at a place called "THIS IS" Anfield, Rafa does take into account attitude, goals V speed & working the channels & the result is looking like move on. Whoah, I didn't once say in my reply that you "can't compare him to goalscorers" and I never said "we can't mention his attitude" so don't try and drag me into a Bellamy discussion and call me a "Bellamy apologist". I was simply saying that Shepherd and Souness got rid of Bellamy because of attitude, not because he wasn't very good and we're better off with Shola Ameobi; because the fact is, Bellamy is better than Ameobi otherwise it would have been Bellamy on the bench every week and Ameobi alongside Shearer and it wasn't