thomas

Yeah, brilliant. Man City have confirmed it is completed. Yep, just saw it. http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pageid=115&pagegid={DBD12D53-8346-431D-A04F-5D0F8664DE80}&newsid=6626298&siteid=&pageno=&newscategory=&frommonth=12&fromyear=2008&tomonth=2&toyear=2009

Only if he plays until he's 55.

Fair enough his crossing needs work but how many times was he the only person looking like running at their defense? Taking on 3 or 4 scum and still coming away with the ball. For me, one we can't afford to let go. Slightly pissed at how he seems to be targetted for shitty fouls. Has had almost twice as many committed against him as anyone else.

Fuck me FUCK ME I just about had a fucking heart attack watching him run up

Well done Seba.

Fuck.

Wow shola. wow.

I must be super cynical as i pointed this out a few days ago, until ashley recovers his £100 mi he cant sell I'm confused. So how's he going to recover his £100 million, then? Easy. Every season he sells our best players and buys some inferior ones with the money this generates. The unspent cash goes into his pocket. This season for example we look like funding the £10m purchase of Xisco, Nolan and Taylor by selling Milner, Given and N’Zogbia for about £25m. A possible profit of £15 million on transfers would only cover just over half the clubs yearly losses (based on the last lot of accounts), while reducing the pot of future players who would bring in a profit if they are so inferior. Easy my arse. While not taking a penny, he would still need to subsidise the club. Sounds a great money spinning idea. The question was how is he going to recoup the £100m he lent himself, not the £135m he paid for the club. Ashley needs about £240m to break even. He almost certainly intends to do this by flogging our best players and then selling up. Asset stripping isn’t complicated, you just need a complete lack of morals. He should be able to get £200m for a struggling PL club of Newcastle’s stature. So if he keeps us up for four or five seasons he’ll be quids in. If we go down he’s f***ed. So where does this endless stream of world class players come from that he can make a 20m profit on selling for 5 years running? You said yourself he'd be replacing them with cheap, inferior players ... I said best, not world class. Martins, Jonas, Beye, Guthrie & Taylor would bring in a few quid +any of the young kids we’re buying who actually make the grade. Wouldn't total 100m. edit: you know what, nevermind. You're just a WUM. I'm not wasting any more time.

I must be super cynical as i pointed this out a few days ago, until ashley recovers his £100 mi he cant sell I'm confused. So how's he going to recover his £100 million, then? Easy. Every season he sells our best players and buys some inferior ones with the money this generates. The unspent cash goes into his pocket. This season for example we look like funding the £10m purchase of Xisco, Nolan and Taylor by selling Milner, Given and N’Zogbia for about £25m. A possible profit of £15 million on transfers would only cover just over half the clubs yearly losses (based on the last lot of accounts), while reducing the pot of future players who would bring in a profit if they are so inferior. Easy my arse. While not taking a penny, he would still need to subsidise the club. Sounds a great money spinning idea. The question was how is he going to recoup the £100m he lent himself, not the £135m he paid for the club. Ashley needs about £240m to break even. He almost certainly intends to do this by flogging our best players and then selling up. Asset stripping isn’t complicated, you just need a complete lack of morals. He should be able to get £200m for a struggling PL club of Newcastle’s stature. So if he keeps us up for four or five seasons he’ll be quids in. If we go down he’s f***ed. So where does this endless stream of world class players come from that he can make a 20m profit on selling for 5 years running? You said yourself he'd be replacing them with cheap, inferior players ...

Steven wont be in the team.

fanfucking tastic

bad challenge by SWP on a stoke player, delap revenge kick, red card for delap ... swp uncarded so far

N'Zombiea Could have sworn that second mumble from JFK was "M'Bison" or "M'Bosnia" both of which are also acceptable.

I've got colon polyps with more credibility than The Sun.

If I see the fucking phrase "... before the transfer window slams shut" one more time I'm going to kill a journo.

holy balls

Vital Football is the yin to nufcblog's yang.

Ah, fantastic.

Will Nolan accept it?

allow me to elaborate 1: "exact opposite of what we're supposed to be all about these days" No. Gutierrez, Coloccini, Nacho on loan. All mid 20's. The myth that "the system" was only going to sign under 23's and develop them is ridiculous. It seems people dream up whatever details they like about "the system" when they want to have a pop at anything Ashley/Wise/"System" related. 2: "mike and his asset stripping eh?" What? What does that even mean? Are you saying he's currently asset stripping? Are you saying he has done? What outbound transfers since he's arrived would lead you to believe that? What firesale have we gone through that would qualify as asset stripping? Asset stripping has some very specific connotations going along with it. Just because someone is sold at a profit doesn't qualify it as asset stripping. thanks 1. what i'm getting at i suppose, is that very clearly nolan & taylor have not been scouted and assessed for months on end then moved for as our priority targets to strengthen the squad...the shit has hit the fan and we're panic buying again, surely to fuck the exact thing this "system" was meant to end (we assume) no? because operating like that for years got us here in the first place...no? for your spiderman/colo (one free mind you, who'll be worth millions if/when he moves on) i'll raise you a bassong/guthrie - bought cheap & young...however i agree that it's obviously not the intention of the system to buy players who only increase in value, of course not which brings me to: 2. i'm pointing out that nolan/taylor signings don't fit the asset stripping argument that i don't subscribe to Sorry then, guess I'm reading this board with negative tinted specs, completely misread point #2.

allow me to elaborate 1: "exact opposite of what we're supposed to be all about these days" No. Gutierrez, Coloccini, Nacho on loan. All mid 20's. The myth that "the system" was only going to sign under 23's and develop them is ridiculous. It seems people dream up whatever details they like about "the system" when they want to have a pop at anything Ashley/Wise/"System" related. 2: "mike and his asset stripping eh?" What? What does that even mean? Are you saying he's currently asset stripping? Are you saying he has done? What outbound transfers since he's arrived would lead you to believe that? What firesale have we gone through that would qualify as asset stripping? Asset stripping has some very specific connotations going along with it. Just because someone is sold at a profit doesn't qualify it as asset stripping.

HUH? are you not going to lock this? call yourself a copper? Well it hardly belongs in the Nolan thread.

I'd prefer him getting regularly capped by 50 cent.

Fuck you. (not RM, to be clear)

I'd almost rather not