BottledDog

1. As an employee off the club do you really think Shearer should be publicly critical of a player that the clubs manager might be considering signing? 2. Stop going overboard. Nobody has said anything of the sort.

Tbf Bellamy caused me very little grief and gave me a lot of pleasure when he played for us. Certainly far less grief than the club (and Souness in particular) caused when they effectively engineered his move away from the club.

True that. The price tag ultimately means nothing.

I'm not certain you realise just how many lemons Allardyce has bought in the past.

Agreed.

Pay no heed to Leazes1986, our defence is indeed cursed. CURSED I tells thee. In fact it would come as no surprise at all if we were to have to forgo one this season altogether.

Very constructive.. Ya what, it was an appropriate response. He was being tongue in cheek right?

Apart from the fact that this is the PSG Chairman rather than Sam Allardyce saying we had made no firm offer yet, or the lads agent who said a deal maybe close but that he slightly prefered Dortmund. Aye, other than those slight differences the article is almost word for word. Look I hope this ITK is right, despite the fact that most of those who have seen this fella don't seem to be overly impressed, and that Allardyce has a rather scattergun aproach to transfers in the past, we need the bodies. Fingers crossed, eh.

And yet PSG chairman Alain Cayzac states otherwise, even suggesting we are by no means the favourites to his signature at the moment.

I think he did actually as we paid the extra £300k which presumably will have went straight to him Glad we're not being played for mugs anymore.

What's he done so far? Michael went to the training ground for a look see.... Hallelujah! Michael bought a controlling stake in a PLC.... Halleluuu uul jah!

Cheers macbeth. I think that your site did a job in at least making some people aware that the club was not in quite as healthy position as many hoped, and it did no harm imho in highlighting some of the less than impressive decisions our club has made over the years. As you say, fingers crossed that Ashley will see us being run in a manner that will not see the need for such sites in the future.

Wouldn't hold your breath...I think its more likely diagram is the "what to do when Barton drops it straight onto the defender at the front post's head - again" tactic. Emretastic. Have to say I hope Barton doesn't get close to taking the kicks going on his time at City, but then we only really have Emre and Solano as alternatives at the mo and who knows whether they will be here or starting come the new season.

Good stuff if true. blueyes.gif

It's based on more than that mate, for me anyway. Understand what you're getting at though. I know there are plenty of traits, past successes, and talk from Sam that can inspire confidence, and I have a fair amount of faith in the bloke. But when I say end product I mean just that. It is still early days.

Come on get in the spirit fella!

Not to piss on everyones chips but so much of this wave of optimism is based on little or no end product just yet. Hopefully these signings will come through (along with a fair few more), and hopefully Terry Mac will at some stage be joined or replaced by a considerable number of competent and proffessional backroom staff, and hopefully Ashley will follow through with the investment and expertise to wield that investment wisely, and above and beyond everything, hopefully we will see this resulting in a improvement on the pitch and start winning games and ultimately trophies. But none of this has happend yet. So no, while I am now more confident in our future than I have been for some time, I'll wait until we are actually playing football again before I decide whether or not I want Sam's babies.

Icnewcastle is back up now. blueyes.gif

Bingo, and we are going to be linked with every fucker under the sun if the takeover goes through. well maybe that is good, it gives us something to talk about and we won't know who we are getting until thay have actually signed for us, just like it was under SBR, keeps you on the edge of your seat. Being on the edge of my seat and gettin all het up over some bloke who very few of us have any clue about is something I think I'm going to try and avoid if possible. The last few transfer periods have worn me out with the constant speculation and inevitable final day frustrations. That said, this time around I'm more hopeful than I have been for a long time, but until someone is signed, until the transfer window is over, I'm going to try my best to put my fingers in my ears and go, na na naaa na nana naaaaa.

Bingo, and we are going to be linked with every fucker under the sun if the takeover goes through.

Agreed on those points. The forum has had a run on poor threads with little or no interesting debate, and I don't see how you can do anything about it other than kill such threads and keep any decent ones alive. I don't see how restricting new users is the way to go as generally if someone starts their first thread they will have put some thought into it otherwise just lock it and move on. Tbf most of the threads just seem to fail because established posters post in them almost simply for the sake of it. Not a lot you can do about that really.

When asked to provide his opinions regarding the postives aspects of the Premier League, Alankhaw was quoted as saying "The speed and physical aspects of the game". There ya go.

I'm excited that after 8 years he has built a depressing team that hasn't even had a sniff of coca cola cup success. Prost!

Gerld.