Dokko

Exactly. These players still have reputations and the fact that we're now in the Championship doesn't mean that we should start scrounging and taking what we can get. If these players leave, they leave on our terms. Not just the first Joe Bloggs who offers a couple of million. And you think thats going to happen with the current owner running the club? Before Given most people thought we were doing quite well with regards to fees received. Given really forced himself out of the club though, threatening not to play and whinging to the press we were asking too much for him. Fuking rat.

Exactly. Fucking the likes of Coloccini and Martins off will be child's play compared to trying to convince clubs to take old, vastly overpaid wasters like the ones you list. Hopefully Barton & Smith will go for some kind of fee to managers like Big Sam again or Megson while i think were stuck with Butt & Duff since their lodged firmly up Shearer's arse. Geremi might attract interest from abroad but i doubt we'll see a fee.

£7m would do, we could get two really good CB's for that who can handle the English game. Let's not look at the loss but at what we get in to our coffers to restructure. Our main problem is getting rid of Butt, Duff, Barton, Geremi & Smith. Getting rid of them and free transferring Owen & Viduka and were in touching distance of a wage structure we can manager in the championship.

Better than Shearer on the pitch, off it won't have the same impact and therefore not what we need right now. Feel we need Shearer to do all the dirty work, i just hope at the end of the restructure he's got enough in him to be a quality manager. Good luck to Martinez, means we've one less rival for play offs next season as well, Swansea without Martinez will be average again.

Miles off from the 1st team. Westwood just got keeper of the year in the CCC, massive gulf in quality and experience.

Give him Barton & Smith for Derbyshire.

No need to sign a young goalkeeper we already have 2/3 ready for a chance. Krul must surely get a go before we sign anyone else. Get rid of Harper. Yes he'd be good in the Championship but really not good enough in the long run, plus he'll be on big wages. I'd get rid of everyone over 27 from our squad and keep it young, fresh and hungry.

Think all 3 would be great signings though Campbell would be a gamble at £5m imo, good replacement for Martins though.

Would like to see us going for Kieron Westwood. (been solid this season, next Shay Given?) Joe Mattock (spunk all the money we get back from Enrique if he goes on this lad) Daniel Fox (we've been after him before, we'd need a LB whether Enrqiue stays or goes) Kyle Naughton (quality pacey RB, would be excellent if Beye left) Rodger Johnson (bit old compared to the rest but experienced at this level and we'd need someone like him to help Taylor) Micheal Kightly (probably too difficult now with Wolves being in the Prem) Joe Ledley (fantastic, would command a big price but would state our intentions) Jordi Gomez (On loan from Espanyol to Swansea, maybe we can hijack the loan for next year?) Fabien Delph (Raw talent, another expensive one but worth it in the end) Simon Cox (Tore up League one, reckon he's ready for the step up and could become a mini Shearer) Jermaine Beckford (not as many goals as Cox, bit unpredictable would make a good partner with Cox)

Thread title right out of FM. So it will either fall through due to valuation not being met or take two transfer windows crippling the managers plans for a year.

Best manager Sunderland have had in decades, massive step forward for them as long as the fans can get past his loyalties, which they won't, and i don't blame them...the fans will ruin this appointment, which should be fun.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1220/fattyg.gif : Dance mike dance, of course its via video conference as its Keith Harris who is in Dubai.

Shame the old greedy ballsack didn't voice his worry over Ashley.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2009/06/03/sir-john-hall-voices-fears-over-foreign-owners-72703-23778491/ Sir John Hall voices fears over foreign owners Jun 3 2009 by Neil Farrington, Evening Chronicle FORMER Newcastle chairman Sir John Hall fears the Magpies will never again prosper under English control. Hall is resigned to the prospect of foreign investors buying United from beleaguered owner Mike Ashley. And whether or not an overseas owner turns the Toon’s fortunes around, Hall regrets that foreign money is set to dominate English football – and create a further imbalance of power in the Premier League. “My fear is it is now very tough for a provincial club to compete with the money being pumped into the big teams by Roman Abramovich and certain Arab investors,” said Hall. “There is no investor in the English provinces capable of competing with their money.” Hall made his fortune in the North East and remains intensely proud of the work done by his family in resurrecting United’s fortunes in the 1990s. But he acknowledges those days are long gone, adding: “There is an inequality at work there, and it worries me. “I know it is an open market place out there, and, as a businessman, I accept there is much to be said for that. “But I fear foreign money – or ‘funny money’, spent by people coming into the game not for football but to raise their own profile – is splitting the Premier League apart. “Abramovich came in and changed everything, and it’s now got out of hand. “It’s up to the Premier League to address the issue.”

Surely if it bothers you so much you don't go spreading it around the net?

Sorry those very valid issues cannot be used to defend him since they cannot be used to defend Steven Taylor a much younger defender who has only ever experienced this kind of environment. Taylor isn't from another country and it wasn;t his first season in the prem and had pretty much been part of our GASH team for the last few years. I'm not trying to make excuses for him but a few factors come into play. The biggest being that he's a load of s***. Can't tackle, poor positioning, lightweight and dog turd in the air. His big hair had many people fooled for a while though. :colo: I still think he is better then what we've seen buty hard to judge this season, yes i know there is some shittness but still think he is better then that. I think his skills are better than what he produced, but he's a heartless bastard and didn't have the mental strength to pick up his game when we needed it the most, basically if anyone believes that Colo has the talent then he most certainly lacks any kind of heart to go with it.

Yeah, the arabs will fucking love fatboy ckming back begging them to buy the club for a fraction of what he originally wanted. I hope they make the fat cunt do a belly dance first.

Sorry those very valid issues cannot be used to defend him since they cannot be used to defend Steven Taylor a much younger defender who has only ever experienced this kind of environment. Taylor isn't from another country and it wasn;t his first season in the prem and had pretty much been part of our GASH team for the last few years. I'm not trying to make excuses for him but a few factors come into play. The biggest being that he's a load of shit. Can't tackle, poor positioning, lightweight and dog turd in the air. His big hair had many people fooled for a while though. :colo:

Sorry those very valid issues cannot be used to defend him since they cannot be used to defend Steven Taylor a much younger defender who has only ever experienced this kind of environment.

So a season of football wasn't enough of a chance for Colo? Considering he only got worse as the season went on i reckon he should be grateful he's not getting another chance to show what he isn't capable of in the Premiership. He got more chances than most ever would, it took Shearer to realise how bad he was.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8081039.stm Owen in career claim damages win Newcastle and England football star Michael Owen has accepted a public apology and undisclosed damages over claims his football career was over. The 29-year-old striker was not at London's High Court for the settlement of his libel action over a story in the Daily Express last month. It followed claims he was verging on retirement because Premier League clubs no longer wanted to sign him. Express Newspapers accepted that the allegations were false. Owen's solicitor, John Kelly, told Mr Justice Eady that the newspaper falsely alleged Premier League clubs did not want to sign him and, as a result of a lack of interest, he was on the verge of retiring from professional football at the end of the season. Mr Kelly said: "These incredulous allegations are entirely without foundation and were obviously extremely distressing, hurtful and damaging to the claimant." Important game Ian Helme, counsel for Express Newspapers, which has agreed to pay damages and Owen's legal costs, accepted that the allegations were unfounded and apologised for the distress, embarrassment and offence caused. Mr Kelly said the back page article, entitled "Unwanted Toon striker at a cross roads, Finished at 29?", was accompanied by another headed "Owen ready for sad finale". He said the player's distress was aggravated by the fact the article was published on the eve of an important game in which his club was fighting to avoid relegation. He said the allegations were not put to Owen or his representatives before publication, or they would have been advised of their utter falsity. After being contacted by the player's legal team, the article was replaced with one entitled "Owen: I'm not finished". After the hearing, a spokesman for Owen said: "Michael is delighted to have won his case and to have set the record straight."

Surely this is what Craig David was made for?

Mint picture.

Do any of them involve his head and a shotgun?

Why's he so happy? You'd think he'd be gutted about it now realising Wigan are a shit club.