BottledDog

Me too Thank you, but no. Not on your nelly.

LOL

Willing to put the Cabaye one down to a communication balls up. Have no problem with it. It was the Marv sub that got on my tits. I can understand his reasoning, that we needed to get back on the ball as we weren't in control anymore. I still think it was a terrible decision though.

I guess if the Cabaye one was unexpected, rather than a planned withdrawal, then the Marveaux one is a bit unlucky. If Cabaye had lasted we might not be having this discussion. If the Cabaye sub was just because he's generally not up to speed, then the Marv one is crazy. I thought he felt his groin and asked to come off? Yeah, some reports suggest he did. In which case I suppose Pardew was unlucky to have already subbed Marveaux. 'Some reports'? How about from Cabaye himself, in almost every paper.

You're sympathetic towards Ashley. Now that's not quite what I said is it.

We are only going to spend what we bring in unless there is a massive change of heart (something Pardew has clearly been pressing for). Still p*ssed off that the fallout from the Keegan debarcle saw Ashley saying f*** it, the plan was to throw an extra £20 million of my own money a year but I'm bollocked if I'm going to do it now. I'm fairly sympathetic to the reasons for him falling out of love for the project, but christ, think of the difference it would have made to us. Although he has been here 5 full years and, since buying the club, has put in an additional £140 million so that's well over £20 million a year on average....is one way of looking at it. And probably is the way he looks at it. The £140m was his own fault for not getting due dilligence done though. See your point mind. True and I think there's a solid divide between covering the clubs loses with (admittedly low interest) loans and actually sticking in £20m a year on top once we started breaking even/generating a profit. Would make a fucking monster difference to who we could afford and at what level we could compete down the line. Hopefully he'll get his mojo back one day, but looks hella unlikely.

Not sure how it'd work... but £4m Danny Simpson.

We are only going to spend what we bring in unless there is a massive change of heart (something Pardew has clearly been pressing for). Still pissed off that the fallout from the Keegan debarcle saw Ashley saying fuck it, the plan was to throw an extra £20 million of my own money a year but I'm bollocked if I'm going to do it now. I'm fairly sympathetic to the reasons for him falling out of love for the project, but christ, think of the difference it would have made to us.

Still a fan of Mouhamadou Habib Habibou myself.

Can't see it, but HBA my beg to differ.

It's bloody great to have reasonable prices, wouldn't ever want that to change. Doesn't help us to be any more competitive with the richer clubs though.

and how do we show that ? announce to the press officially who we've bid for, how much for the transfer and wages ? Seems to need re-stating every day. We do not comment on potential transfers. The only stuff we hear is media speculation, a player or players agent drumming up further interest, or the selling club breaking the silence (again primarily to smoke out other potentially interested parties). For anyone to base any solid opinion on what we're up to or how hard we're working behind the scenes on what spills out into the public domain is wanton idiocy.

Yeah, can imagine a Southampton reject given lots of time by our support. Like Southampton reject Alan Pardew? Yeah. http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/4-6/rLt36nGSxY-2.png

Do you not accept it though? FWIW I agree it's sad, but the problem is with the league not us. Not long-term I don't, which is what the question is. Might as well not bother. Surely the whole point of football is to try and win stuff? Especially the domestic league. Course it's the point, but the current situation in the league makes it virtually impossible. Whether or not people will start to think of football as pointless remains to be seen. For me, it just about offers enough on a weekly basis to help me forgot how futile the bigger picture is. Obviously it needs to be done in steps, but it can be done. In our current model we'd need to get into the CL first to garner the revenue/status necessary to get the class players in/keep our current ones, of course. It's naturally a lot easier if you've got someone chucking money at it. Spurs operate a similar way and got relatively close to challenging at the top, mind. They're still up there amongst it now despite a rocky period, although of course they're not in the title race right at this moment. I dunno, taking a long-term view I just don't see why a club of this size shouldn't be trying to compete at the top-level and harbouring the aim of winning the PL. Spurs will have a bigger stadium and revenue will go through the roof in a few years too when they've their new ground. They already have around double our matchday revenue don't they? We may have a big stadium, but we are way behind the London clubs in terms of the money generated per seat.

Yeah, can imagine Southampton reject given lots of time by our support.

So Colo's problems aren't that huge according to Pards. Good to hear.

It looks suspiciously like you're taking a positive angle on this. Good luck with that.

Senor Chang - Gay

Worra cunt. Nah. Good words from the man.

What will your reaction be if nothing happens Ian ? Or we bring in players that won't help with our problems at CB and CF ? Again not seeing any answers from you, just happy to criticise others that criticise the club. Is your solution to everything just to sit on our hands don't say a word, let them get on with it and then ho-hum not much we could do given the circumstances, when the envitable lack of investment happens ? If he's backed and we bring in the right players for the right positions, get a break in injuries, and we still play like shit and don't even look like we care - then I'd be astonished if there was a single person on this board that still backed him, including Ian.

Really? That's not what the journo's are saying funnily enough, but there you go.

Can't? Ah go on, at least give it a crack.

We've already signed one, so technically 2 more would make 3. It was 3-4 after Debuchy had signed. No. He's always said they were after a 1 - 2 and has not changed his stance in the slightest. The 3-4 quote was regarding avenues that were hotting up. Contrary to popular belief, we don't just throw all our efforts into exactly the number of targets we hope to bring in, there are always contingencies and ongoing discussions regarding a number of players.

Spot on CP - Ashley and Co are just using NUFC as an advertising vehicle for Sports Direct. They will suck the club dry eventually, and destroy all the loyalty that fans had in it...I honestly believe they are going to be the ruination of Newcastle United by their actions..or lack of them. Suck the club dry? Chance would be a fine thing. He's put in more money than he'll likely see back after 20 years in charge, hell, he's got a job just getting back the loans he's currently not even charging interest on. The only other way to get any money out is to sell, and he'll not get anywhere near to what he paid if he does what you say and slowly cripples the club leaving it hovering between leagues. And hey, fuck only knows why they bother with the charity Foundation, or keep offering some of the more reasonable ticket schemes in the Premiership if they want to maximise profits. Honestly, I can understand people feeling the people running the club are evil incarnate, but they're not total idiots. Not at any cost, but it's in their best interest to see the club doing as well as it possibly can be, just as much as it is in all ours. They have made mistakes, and they may be doing things differently to how some of us would like (much like the government choosing austerity over investment), but to say their aim is run us into the ground is total unmitigated bollocks.

I suspect it has to do with Ashley living down there. According to the last article, it was Remy that requested it be done in London.