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We haven't done anything wrong other than not be flush with cash, there's just a bit of an all or nothing attitude on here. We're either fantastic or s***. "At least we tried" cuts it nowadays, does it..? How the mighty have fallen.. Well yeh! If it's a genuine attempt. What else can you do other than try? You think we will move onto another target now? Or just not bother which is the general theme regarding our transfer policy since Ashley took over. I for one would never defend our pathetic transfer success over the past seasons and it's one of the many reasons I hate the current board. But a genuine attempt at buying someone can't be bettered. It's just not possible. This tbh. I've spent the vast majority of my time on this board slagging off Ashley something rotten and getting stick for unknowingly holding up banners calling him a rapist but this deal is towards the back of The Big Book of Mike Ashley f*** Ups. We negotiated a (very, very good) deal which was satisfactory to all parties until Dassier changed his mind and went mental. I'd love us to swoop in with a bid and rescue the situation but if the money isn't there then it isn't there. We don’t know a deal was agreed. All we have to go on are some vague comments from the OM president and a denial that anything is happening at all from Hughton. What can’t be denied though is that the club have been shopping in the bargain basement for some time now and players like Arfa generally can’t be picked up on the cheap. The odds have always been against us securing Arfa’s services. We might yet get lucky or we might end up getting Marlon King instead. He more or less said a deal was agreed, the press said a deal was agreed. Vague comments or not it's the firmest indication we have of what was going on and considering the sheer amount of guesswork in this thread I think it's the safest avenue to go down.

Just shows how desperate we are for us to sign a half decent player tbh. I think it shows a lot of people, me included, should get a fucking life.

We haven't done anything wrong other than not be flush with cash, there's just a bit of an all or nothing attitude on here. We're either fantastic or s***. "At least we tried" cuts it nowadays, does it..? How the mighty have fallen.. Well yeh! If it's a genuine attempt. What else can you do other than try? You think we will move onto another target now? Or just not bother which is the general theme regarding our transfer policy since Ashley took over. I for one would never defend our pathetic transfer success over the past seasons and it's one of the many reasons I hate the current board. But a genuine attempt at buying someone can't be bettered. It's just not possible. This tbh. I've spent the vast majority of my time on this board slagging off Ashley something rotten and getting stick for unknowingly holding up banners calling him a rapist but this deal is towards the back of The Big Book of Mike Ashley Fuck Ups. We negotiated a (very, very good) deal which was satisfactory to all parties until Dassier changed his mind and went mental. I'd love us to swoop in with a bid and rescue the situation but if the money isn't there then it isn't there.

We haven't done anything wrong other than not be flush with cash, there's just a bit of an all or nothing attitude on here. We're either fantastic or s***. "At least we tried" cuts it nowadays, does it..? How the mighty have fallen.. Congratulations, there is literally no response I can give you which wont involve me getting yet another banning for unnecessary abuse

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We haven't done anything wrong other than not be flush with cash, there's just a bit of an all or nothing attitude on here. We're either fantastic or shit.

I'd like to see them pin that on us Dassier - "He'll join Newcastle by Tuesday or Wednesday" Hughton - "There has been no contact"

There's no perfect way to conduct yourself in the transfer market. This is preferable to Kinnear/Roeder/Redknapp/Levy school of transfers. I'd much prefer the Levy school of transfers thank you very much... I don't think the club could cope with the cost of the investigations into tapping up and fines.

Very few transfers work like that.

There's no perfect way to conduct yourself in the transfer market. This is preferable to Kinnear/Roeder/Redknapp/Levy school of transfers.

I think the complete opposite, it's just about to get interesting. You reckon? I guess this Dassier fellah just seems to regular spout stuff on a whim, whether it has any morsel of truth in it or not. I think tomorrow more will come out definitely, and the severity of Ben Arfa's 'strike' so to speak will become clearer. I just can't see us stumping up the cash, which imo is stupid. The fee that would need to be paid is not a lot in the current market for what is clearly a very talented player. I've got a feeling he'll go somewhere because it appears bridges are burned both with Deschamps and the Board, I just have big doubts we'll follow up our interest any more. It's obvious Ben Arfa wants out of Marseille, he doesn't get on with Deschamps and while he's got form for acting up going on strike is a bit mental even for him. I would've thought as long as he wants to come here we'll be interested just as we were when going after Coloccini. I wouldn't want to guess our next move though, it could go either way. There's not going to be a speedy resolution to this, it'll rumble on until the end of the transfer window but I'm not dismissing it as over yet.

I still thought we were?

I think the complete opposite, it's just about to get interesting.

He's young, likes to party, Newcastle is the 2nd biggest party capital in Europe behind Amsterdam, and I don't think Ajax are interested in. A great place for him to blow all of his money. Nah, it's not like. If you like fat aging charva slags, shit bars that are all the same in a small area and piss poor drinks it might be up there like. It's not me who made the reviews. Anyway I bet half of you would disagree with me if I told that Grey street in Newcastle was voted Britains best street. Infact half of you wouldn't even know where it is without having a look on google maps. What a cocknose.

Must be offered 60k or something i think. Behave. I imagine we've offered him £20k, one of Williamson's hooky NUS cards so he gets into the Students' Union on the cheap and a go on Sandra who drinks in Reflex.

The press in Europe is lightyears ahead of ours to be fair.

It's a moral victory regardless of whether we sign him or not. We've got better cars.

It's not a clause, it's more to do with the fact he'll have one year left on his contract and that'll be the going rate.

We got our man in the end

Wouldn't surprise me if we now put in a derisory offer of £2 million just to wind them up

The Premier League has turned his head, not us.

Because he wants us to up our offer, and is putting pressure on Ashley to do so by ridiculing the current offer in public (IMO). Ashley told DIC to fuck off though, if he's doing that he ain't gonna come. Did he? He did when we were in the prem after we'd sacked Keegan was due to meet them he wanted 300 or 400m they offered half that or something so spent the night getting pissed with Mort in a bar in Dubai apparently. That wasn't DIC, it was Zabeel Investments. They later bid for Charlton and turned out to be right jokers, in all honesty we probably dodged a bullet there.

Hmmmm, they classify our "bid" as "non existant".. Aye, we are really reaping the rewards of our new "transfer policy", aren't we..? It existed on Saturday, man It's brinkmanship - they've now got an asset who has just said "he will never return." This saga is far from over.

And Ashley loved him so much he went back and got Xisco the same transfer window. "You're a cunt...I like that. Who else are you trying to get rid of?"

I think we need to lock Sewelly up like Renton in Trainspotting. He needs to go cold turkey.