BottledDog

They can have him. He's not the one for me, or fatty.

Well, based on no other Premiership club offering him a haven, I would suspect not.

Think it is to be fair.

Also, what on earth is Williamson about to do here?

It's like QPR. Richest owners you could possibly hope for, and Warnock is bleating on today that Routledge wanted to go to them but the couldn't afford a deal. Seriously? Why did they buy the club? To make a profit clearly. I know the only reason people get that rich is because all they care about is the profit etc. But fuck me, if I was in my dotage and 2 other multi billionaire lads said fuck it, lets buy QPR, I like to think I'd have a bit of fun. Christ, we can reasonably complain about Ashley, yet they could buy Ashley a few hundred times over and not even wince, but they can't even buy their manager a Championship winger?

Would be lovely but he seems to be getting a lot of time on the pitch, and seems to be playing wide right a lot so maybe they are thinking of using him differently to Lukaku. Would be the perfect signing for us though and would happily pay through the nose for the lad. Great player.

It's like QPR. Richest owners you could possibly hope for, and Warnock is bleating on today that Routledge wanted to go to them but the couldn't afford a deal. Seriously? Why did they buy the club?

Not going to get into an arguement over it. /was just pointing out that 'why is it only us' is more than likely not to be the case.

And they have. All that was then required was for the player to present himself to the embassy and the Ivorians to do their shit that end. /No doubt Mike was adverse to paying the inevitable bribes mind. //I still have nightmares about getting out of a country by wrangling a dodgy tourist Visa, fucked if I'm going back there. So why does this only happen to us? What are other clubs doing that we aren't to avoid this? No idea about other clubs, but then I certainly doubt many, if any, suporters of other clubs know about Tiotes case. It's not in the national press is it? I bet Wenger knows. And Bruce for that matter. Meh, whatever, let's just hope he's back as soon as possible.

And they have. All that was then required was for the player to present himself to the embassy and the Ivorians to do their shit that end. /No doubt Mike was adverse to paying the inevitable bribes mind. //I still have nightmares about getting out of a country by wrangling a dodgy tourist Visa, fucked if I'm going back there. So why does this only happen to us? What are other clubs doing that we aren't to avoid this? No idea about other clubs, but then I certainly doubt many, if any, suporters of other clubs know about Tiotes case. It's not in the national press is it?

Stil don't see how you can say this when we have no idea when an application went in, or even if it could go in before Tiote presented himself at the embassy. You think this was planned like this by the club? To have our best midfielder training by himself, missing pre-season games while this is getting sorted? It's an admin fuck up. The club should have realised months ago that they had to renew his visa but did nothing about it until he tried to fly back into the country from the US. Its a shambles. He didn't try to fly back into the country though. The plan from the start was for him to fly direct to Ghana post the preseason tour. Why not do it over the summer then? Why fuck up his pre-season preparations to deal with this shit? Doesn't add up. That's the only thing really, and I agree. I presume they had been advised that it would have been a pretty straightforward and quick procedure. And to be fair, it probably should have been. /Once you're there at the mercy of bureaucrats though... *shudder*

And they have. All that was then required was for the player to present himself to the embassy and the Ivorians to do their shit that end. /No doubt Mike was adverse to paying the inevitable bribes mind. //I still have nightmares about getting out of a country by wrangling a dodgy tourist Visa, fucked if I'm going back there.

Stil don't see how you can say this when we have no idea when an application went in, or even if it could go in before Tiote presented himself at the embassy. You think this was planned like this by the club? To have our best midfielder training by himself, missing pre-season games while this is getting sorted? It's an admin fuck up. The club should have realised months ago that they had to renew his visa but did nothing about it until he tried to fly back into the country from the US. Its a shambles. He didn't try to fly back into the country though. The plan from the start was for him to fly direct to Ghana post the preseason tour.

Considering we're talking this window. FYP.

As has been said a new Visa should take 7 days. Apparently not looking at Ochos service standards. Stil don't see how you can say this when we have no idea when an application went in, or even if it could go in before Tiote presented himself at the embassy.

This related to green? I asked a load of the journo's if any of them had asked Pards about a new striker.. he answered said news in tomorrows paper.. I said I could not wait for the surprise.,,, that was his response Ah, balls.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/aug/04/newcastle-twitter-joey-barton Pardew is again bang on the money for me there.

http://www.nufc.co.uk/page/TV/InterviewsDetail/0,,10278~2410379,00.html Greatest. Video. Ever.

ASHLEY!!!!!

Fair enough. Have they stated what this posnan protest is actually er, directly protesting against. Or are we to expect the usual 'fcb get out of our club' bollocks?

When I think of how tactically unappealing, annoying and ilogical I find a good deal of managers, I'm glad to have Pardew tbh. Would love to see a list of these lies people keep banging on about (beyond statements that this player or that player is not leaving, which is pretty standard stuff for any manager imho).

Other than try and bypass this cnut Barry and not be as attractive as Tottenham, I can't see that we're doing owt wrong. If we fail again to sort a deal out with him, fair enough, I'll be annoyed, but as it stands it's good to see we've gone back in for him so quickly.

I've got two die hard Charlton mates, and a Hammer. None of them have ever taken the piss beyond the nature of the appointment, instead, have had decent things to say about his potential, and the way their teams generally played. All three were to a greater or lesser degree dissapointed when he left their clubs.

Love how it's ridiculous, for us to offer him £40,000p/w but if Tottenham offered him it, he'd be off like a shot. Fuck off Barry you massive chub.