Wullie

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article4686705.ece It is becoming increasingly likely that Reliance Communications, the Indian-based telecoms giant, will seek formal talks with the Barclays Premier League club's board with a view to a £220million takeover. However, of greater significance to those furious Newcastle supporters determined to oust Ashley is the revelation that Anil Ambani, the owner of Reliance, has identified Keegan as the only credible managerial candidate capable of moving the club forward.

Why would you need 2 seats, you live in county durham! f*** off you stupid c***, I was taking the piss. Hilarious.

Definitely.

Fuck me, just seen the video. He's being a cunt driving in the bus lane (much as I hate the twatting things, the one is the video is particularly vexing) but he's practically over the line before the light goes to red. What a ridiculous witch-hunt.

No as in itself it's not an imprisonable offence. At worst he'll get a smile fine and possibly 3 points on his licence. EDIT: No idea what a "smile" fine is! Obviously meant small fine. Ta. Cheers as well Liam O'.

To be honest Wenger is a pure master at his job. What makes him successful though is he isn't buying many high profile players and also he signs some of his youth intake not based on what he has seen but on advice from his scouts. That works because he trusts the judgement of his scouts and also partly because a lot of his signings are youth players. His signings are only a small part of what makes him great. He's played the same scintillating football with at least three different generations of players, the only people who've come close to him in terms of Premiership entertainment are Fergie and KK. He doesn't buy certain players if he thinks they won't fit into the system and style HE wants to play. But who needs that when you can have Dennis Wise's signings under a shit manager?

I love how this magic new system is suddenly more important than the manager. Why don't Arsenal sack off Wenger, just keep the chief scout on a massive payrise and get me to manage the team? What a warped view of football. You'd think Newcastle fans more than any other would know what difference the wrong manager can have.

No it couldn't. How do you know that?

Shearer wouldn't take the job in a month of Sundays.

Sned, do you know if conviction of a traffic offence like jumping a red light could activate Barton's suspended sentence?

Watch some of it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/football_focus/7601172.stm

I think we'll see Poyet at SJP before long. With another fucking lip on as Oba demolishes his detestable little club for the fifth time. Fucking arsehole.

That first bloke in the barbers.

Only if the club is on the stock market surely? I don't know like, plus it's nonsense anyway.

Fuck me, the great man himself's just been on Look North.

I want Shearer but only as long as I can be in the room the first time Wise tries to tell him what to do.

I know one thing, the SJP irony-o-meter will blow the roof off the Gallowgate when the players walk out to Local Hero.

But Dennis Wise has? Righto.

What? People identify players. Scouts watch them. The manager ok's it. That's how clubs work. As I say, I don't believe Keegan didn't have final say, apart from maybe one decision on deadline day. I think it was more than one decision (apparently trying to peddle Owen and Barton for a start) and them being in control of deals basically allowed them to take the piss - "Yeah course we'll spend the Milner money and get a left back, don't you worry about a thing Kev... *snigger*"

Exactly. Why haven't Wenger and Benitez put this thing into their clubs? And why did it drive Mourinho from Chelsea? There's three of the best "continental" managers on the... continent, and they're having none of it. Maybe because the bigger clubs like Arsenal and Liverpool can have their pick of players, so they don't have to have people scouting the untapped market? Aye, that sounds like Arsenal alright. Glad you mentioned that. Wenger didn't choose Fabregas, in the same way that he didn't want Overmars to leave. Wenger got to reinvest the Overmars money on his own players didn't he? And what do you mean he didn't choose Fabregas?

What?

Exactly. Why haven't Wenger and Benitez put this thing into their clubs? And why did it drive Mourinho from Chelsea? There's three of the best "continental" managers on the... continent, and they're having none of it. Maybe because the bigger clubs like Arsenal and Liverpool can have their pick of players, so they don't have to have people scouting the untapped market? Aye, that sounds like Arsenal alright.

For the umpteenth time, that appears to be what was happening until the later stages of the deadline when they started going over his head. I've not read your previous posts on the subject, so apologies. Are we to believe that Keegan left the club at this stage of the season over one disagreement then? Fair enough, the place is being swamped. I think he was delighted with Jonas and Colo (his reaction to them suggests that), they scouted them, even if KK doesn't see much of them they can say "Jonas is peanuts, won't affect the budget, Redknapp wanted to pay £8m in January" while Colo's record speaks for itself. When this window shut, not many people were altogether happy with the business that was done. I believe KK was given certain assurances (a LB and re-investment of the Milner money for a start, plus what we should be spending anyway as a very rich Premiership club) and he went with it until the last day when he found he'd been given false promises. I think he trusted them too much to get in the players that he believed he needed - he's the one that has to work with them and he's the one who gets the bullet if they're shit/injuries take hold and we don't have the numbers. If he'd walked on the 1st August, plenty would have said "he should have waited until the end of the window to see what we had, they've got good players so far, maybe at the end we'll have a top six side but he's bottled it again." Damned if he did, damned if he didn't and there is an argument to be made that he could have stuck it out until January, whatever, but at the end of the day, "it's not what it said in the brochure" - that goes for both KK and the fans.

Exactly. Why haven't Wenger and Benitez put this thing into their clubs? And why did it drive Mourinho from Chelsea? There's three of the best "continental" managers on the... continent, and they're having none of it.

For the umpteenth time, that appears to be what was happening until the later stages of the deadline when they started going over his head.