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Would prefer Vince McMahon tbh

Don't tease.

Really he just has to go. I don't even wish him malice at this point. I just want him to be shit elsewhere.

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Their own boards reckon the following are all out for our game: ----- Carrick Hargreaves Park Anderson Nani Saha Rooney Ronaldo Welbeck Manucho Dong ------- It's still Man Utd and it's still at Old Trafford but that list makes things look a lot better.

microbar and baggio to get a room

What I'm guessing is that Keegan is employing the same kind of tactics I do on FM. I always have a shit preseason in terms of results in FM and it's because everyone's on full aerobic and strength training and not much ball control / tactical / shooting or attacking. Towards the end I switch them over and get off to a little bit of a slow start but that extra fitness training in the offseason does good for us towards the end of the season. I think the quotes will back up the fact he's really focusing on the fitness side right now. We'll pay the price by losing a few meaningless friendlies but we'll be thanking him come February.

There aren't enough 's in the world.

How? Try and answer it if you like lad. Unless you think he would have still broke his leg if he was here? Broken Leg West Ham United Injuries 2007 August 28th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2007 April 10th Flu Newcastle United Injuries 2007 February 26th Gashed Leg Newcastle United Injuries 2006 November 28th Eye Newcastle United Injuries 2006 October 29th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2006 April 23rd Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2006 February 23rd Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2005 August 19th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2005 July 18th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2005 April 8th Groin Strain Newcastle United Injuries 2005 February 16th Knee Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2005 January 7th Calf Muscle Strain Newcastle United Injuries 2004 December 21st Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2004 September 20th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2004 September 18th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2004 August 5th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2004 April 9th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2004 March 3rd Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2004 March 3rd Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2003 October 20th Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2003 August 26th Shin Splints Newcastle United Injuries 2003 May 14th Shin Splints Newcastle United Injuries 2003 March 31st Hamstring Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2003 March 13th Shin Splints Newcastle United Injuries 2003 February 28th Calf Newcastle United Injuries 2002 December 30th Back Injury Newcastle United Injuries 2002 October 14th Shin Splints Newcastle United Injuries 2002 September 3rd

The papers wouldn't print it if it wasn't true mackems.gif mackems.gif No smoke without fire mackems.gif mackems.gif

So now they're suddenly jumping on the anti-child labor bandwagon because Joey Barton kicked the shit out of a fellow scouser in front of a McDonald's? I think they're just pointing out the not insignificant amount of hypocrisy involved in the back-patting and lauding of it as an "act of decency" to terminate the contract of someone involved in a fight while the company itself engages in such indecent practices.

Oh hey we're signing a class defender, let's all get at each others throats about anything else in the thread about him.

He does; he can't run 10 consecutive yards without fouling someone.

Split his sides laughing at Smith already?

I thought he was a center back, not a central midfielder? Well if we're being picky, he's also a power station not a cooling tower

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"The power station would go away in exchange for 11 million Euros. " Babelfish translation of the fucking year :lol:

Would be very pleased with such a high profile defender, don't get me wrong at all, but I hope to hell we've got some midfield depth coming in as well.

I can see it now, a throng of geordies dancing in the street, some lanky piece of work getting up in front of the camera, "We're gannin win the fair play league like!!"

I hope they lowballed him to begin with, knowing he'd ask for more at the 11th hour, and we'd only pay what we valued him at anyway.

I agree, and hope that's the way it's viewed up top as well.

touchy touchy, was just thinking out loud about an idea that occurred to me like they way you discredit it with no supporting evidence whatsoever though by saying it's "daft", as good as my "applecart" one that What supporting evidence do I need other than to show that the idea is untenable, unworkable and unproductive? There's been no club to ever even try to employ a strategy like that and for good reason. It just wouldn't work long term, it would cripple them financially and in the transfer market, the odds of success are roughly zero. And that applecart bit is just more of the same I see on this board from people all too eager to accept any crackpot theory about Ashley as being equally as likely as any other just because hes a "maverick" in the business world.

Vetere is the one with encyclopedic knowledge and mega contacts. Jimenez, who also has some contacts in the footballing world, is more the "closer" for deals. Which doesn't change the fact that this whole theory is a load. How long, realistically, could a club get away with doing things like that? 2 transfers? 3? Chairmen do talk to chairmen. It might fly for one transfer window before we'd be either unofficially blacklisted by other clubs or officially arseraped by the FA/FIFA. The idea that it wouldn't matter as Ashley would cut and run doesn't fly either because, again, no club would buy the players he got at a cut rate. The plan simply wouldn't work and it's ludicrous to think that's what's in place. However, I did like the attempt to lend credence to it with the whole "Ashley is renowned for upsetting the applecart" bit. As though any daft theory is made immediately more probable because he doesn't mind bending the status quo.

Regardless, fuck spurs.

Much like having £40m in TV money doesn't mean it's somehow all available for transfers. If you catch my drift...