BlueStar

Can we repost this every time people say we should follow Spurs' model of acheiving success without having to spend much? As long as it's together with the club accounts and profit/loss details, yes. You mean the extra cash the players they've spent money on earn them from league position, TV rights, european games etc?

Can we repost this every time people say we should follow Spurs' model of acheiving success without having to spend much?

On a positive note I do agree with what Carver is saying about the young players. Sometimes a "crisis" like this creates the space for a young player to step up. Step up, play well, score some goals, be sold in January, yeah.

Defoe's already said he wouldn't come here, the cunt. Finding it rather hard to begrudge any player who doesn't want to join us, if I was a player with no connection to the club then we'd be very fucking far down my list at the moment.

I'd be saying we needed strengthening before we sold two of our most influential players, so claiming the two we brought in were their 'replacements' is disingenuous. It would certainly make it easier to pull the wool over some peope's eyes though. It's like people saying "It's OK, we've replaced Carroll with Ba" forgetting we went into the January window looking for a striker before we even sold Carroll.

If we keep Tiote and Colo we might be OK.

Sure they're devestated at that like. Why don't we just get relegated a few divisions, move the club to Hillheads and hire some part-timers, then we won't need to take any risks spending large amount on players to compete in the league. We could run the club just off sponsorship and £10 ticket sales, it would be so amazing.

All the supposed good he's done for us financially will be undone anyway when he demands his loan back when he fucks off. At least then we can start rebuilding, get an actual manager and some players.

Those are all eminently do-able deals, neither are they big money transfers so I don't really see why they won't be done. There might be the argument that the likes of Long are a risk but if you want to pay low wages that's the market you are in. I can see three reasons why they won't be done, Ashley, Lambias and Pardew. We're more likely to sell Tiote than get those three.

£50m incoming transfer fees in two transfer windows and we can't get any players because of agent fees.

There's no point in him resigning or anyone asking him to resign. The man's an irrelevance.

I would have happily have kept Shepherd and given him a chance to avert financial disaster rather than have had these four years. Ashley didn't sort our finances out because he's got a clue. He started off giving stupid contracts to people like Smith. It happened because he destroyed the club, got us relegated, all our big name players fucked off and we lost a load of money. Wow, now we've got a wage cap? How shrewd.

Liverpool fans must be close to topping themselves like, all these signings, all these wages, fees, debt. Bet they wish they could have a sensible owner like us instead of their Fat Fred alike.

If all our purchases flop, that may be the scenario. But I doubt that will be the case. I think we've been working on finding Barton and Enrique's replacements for some time now, so I guess we'll see some new, young and exiting faces soon.. We've already seen lots of exiting faces, Carroll, Nolan, Routledge, Enrique, Barton...

That's nowt man. You're forgetting about the cost of your phone, your contract, the electricity you need to charge your phone...

Look, we can't afford to pretend to bid for marquee signings any more. You forget we have to pretend we're going to have to pay agent fees and wages as well, it all has to be factored in.

Might have to rename this to 'the first team thread' soon.

Yeah, we have a month to buy players. We also have a month to sell players. Which is more likely?

I doubt we'd even get him to be honest.

It not obvious Demba Ba is supposed to be the Carroll replacement like? We needed a striker before we sold Carroll.

It's OK, any club that needed a striker this bad would have a back up plan in place.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2011/07/18/joey-barton-is-perfect-role-model-beardsley-72703-29073078/#ixzz1Ts9JagAj Such an awful influence on the young'uns he only had Beardsley singing his praises in the local press two weeks ago. Hilarious. Then you have articles like this from Ryder, quoting Pardew, from only a few days ago. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2011/07/29/barton-and-cabaye-return-set-to-boost-nufc-72703-29140084/ Then suddenly "It is a fact that Barton has been a disruptive influence for months and may poison other players with jet black blood It is a fact that he was really mean to Ashley and didn't shake his hand It is a fact that he gave Cabaye a wedgie and kicked his ball over a fence."

So we've been desperately waiting for this transfer window to come because we''re majorly in need of strengthening (after the last transfer window when we went into it needing a striker and came out of it havving sold one). We've brought in four players, one of which is a child. We've sold Nolan and Routledge and it looks like Barton and Enrique are pretty much out the door as well. Which leaves us with... Oh, right, not enough players again. But it's OK, Pardew hopes we might make one more signing. We've been slagging off Erdinc's agent, but in reality if he did advise his player to come here he'd want fucking sacked.

Or that he's clearly unhappy and won't sign another contract with us, so teams know he's available and won't cost very much.

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