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In a field, how much are we getting? Hope he goes down on a murder rap in the next 6 months.

Freddie wouldn't have sold him.

ssn going to take us to newcastle asap for ' developments'

Be amazed if we keep him now sadly, 35m is like dangling a pie in front of that fat greedy twat. I'm just hoping for a report ending ' after failing to agree personal terms'

RT @danroan Reliably informed that talks on image rights and salary (approx 175k/week) are all that remains forTorres deal to be completed #bbcfootball

Emile Heskey has arrived in Newcastle, but don't worry, he was aiming for Middlesbrough.

defoe and rooney must push bent close off the top of my head too and tevez Happy checking. My checking says that the goal he scored for Villa puts him equal with Rooney since the start of the 05/06 season, thanks to the fact Rooney's only got two during this campaign, so it depends what you mean by "Over the last half decade" and "more goals than". Five years to the day? Last five seasons?

It would be nice to have £30m+ to spend on players, but it's a matter of if it would go back into the squad. I doubt Ashley would be as incompetent as Quinn was with the Bent transfer at least, so I'd hope we'd demand it all upfront.

Would any striker worth £30m come to us? No.

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The problem for Newcastle is that, like it or not, players with comparable talent, potential and market value to Carroll would usually be pretty disappointed to find themselves in a Newcastle shirt at the end of a transfer window. We've seen time and time again that players who are unhappy at a club are likely to a) Perform way below their potential or b) Put themselves in the shop window, become a vital part of the team and fuck off as soon as another club notices them banging them in and offers them a big pay day. That's assuming you can get them to come in the first place, when other clubs may be offering them European games or a bigger pay packet. Our current situation is that we're still an unstable team, we can no longer compensate for our lack of success by outbidding everyone with Hollywood wages, there are now more 'big (number)' clubs in England than there have been for a decade and, rightly or wrongly, for some players living outside of London means you need an extra incentive. With Carroll we've got something very rare, a player who's the envy of most of the league to who Newcastle actually has a lot of selling points - his friends and family are here, he grew up here, he's come through the academy, he's number nine for his childhood club. Any replacement we get is going to be a trade-off between talent and ego. Does anyone really think that if Ronaldinho had been dropped into that Blackburn team that the Premier League would have been set alight by crazy samba skills? There's also the cliche of Carroll being the endangered 'traditional centre forward' and I think the kind of player he is is much more valuable, in relative terms, to a team in our situation than it is to a strong team where strikers get a lot of support. I think he suits a newly promoted team better than, say, a Torres type striker would. And that's not saying that he's a better player than Torres, just that we don't have the right style or quality of players that we'd need to support Torres as a striker, whereas a player like Carroll, as long as we can get someone who can wang a ball in, pretty much supports himself.

And you've got no idea how many assists and goals he'd get for Newcastle if we swapped him for Carroll, you don't even know how many he's got for Man U.

Oh right, so "Who would you swap" not "Who would you swap taking into account if they'd actually be any good for us."

Rooney has enough trouble motivating himself to play for man u and england when his mind is on other things, if he was here how much of his time would be spent skulking around with his head down thinking "bah, I'm wayne rooney, what am I doing playing for this lot', ala owen? Carroll's more useful to US because he has natural talent and he has a reason to go out on the pitch beyond his wage slip, when previously we've had talented players who couldn't be arsed because of the recent predicaments the club found itself in.

Is it basically just down to if we sell him now or in the summer?

If Fernado Torres is worth £50m then they want slapped in the face with a cock for even bothering to make contact if they want him for £23m.

Our obese tattooed fan has "NUFC" on his beer belly, their equivilent has "FTM". Says it all.

Tinkered with my team at 6am to bring in DJ Campbell and through my bleary eyes I've accidently spent four points on Varney instead. FML.

Metro this morning has quotes from Keys' wife defending him (using painful footbal analogies) accompanied by this picture of her http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/27/article-1296166181666-0CEFFA17000005DC-583533_223x335.jpg

Wouldn't bode well for next season though, would it? It would mean we'd had a pretty awful run of form, we'd be one of the favourites for the drop next year and we wouldn't be a particularly attractive prospect for players. I'd rather take our chances, thanks.

Stevenage player punched in FA Cup game over girlfriend A man ran on to a football pitch after an FA Cup game and punched a player who had previously gone out with his girlfriend because he had "not treated her correctly", a court has heard. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-12287143

Keys trying to be one of the lads and saying things like "Would you smash it" reminds me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4OMRm2nmcY

My lass had Berbatov as captain, 119 points two players still to play

Better not sell him until I've worn my Ameobi 9 nigerea shirt to at least one match.

HOLY SHIT, SHE WORE A SHORT SKIRT ON HOLIDAY http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1350265/Andy-Gray-Richard-Keys-sexism-storm-Sian-Massey-party-girl.html