James

Its easily found on the PL site, as it wont change til July its hardly useful at all really. Well it tells us for example that (assuming Cabaye is a done deal), we can only sign two players without having to sell. this is useful to keep track of.

Also worth noting that you have to register over-21s out on loan. We had to do this with Fraser Forster.

Is useful to keep track of over the summer to be honest as it gives us an idea of who must stay and how many spaces we have left.

Nolan won't go to West Ham. The quoted price will attract bids from other clubs if he was available. Similarly Parker won't come back here as according to Allardyce when he sold him, Parker wanted to leave as he had an issue with the fans. Anyone remember him and Carr abusing the Leazes End?

My word is this what this forum is coming to, long distinguished posters like Alpal being called a kid and a WUM by a newbie poster with capital letters just for having an opinion?!!?!

It won't be.

We don't have any money. Thank fuck for that, we wouldn't want to risk improving the squad in case it doesn't work out. Better off sticking with what we've got and hoping our great team spirit built by Joey and Kev can get us by. Cabaye is very welcome to come here and challenge for a first team place

NUFC put a message up on Facebook that they were practising putting stuff up onto the website so some things seen quickly then disappearing may not be real.

Who is assuming that? I don't think anyone is. Have neither of you two seen those endless team lineups going about in numerous threads on here? Just to refresh your memory: Cabaye Tiote Gervinho Ben Arfa Jonas Gameiro Of that front six, the two players who have played together most often have never played for Newcastle!

Nplan owes us nothing. He came into a very unsettled team, and didn't settle in his first five months which is really no big deal as that can be expected. Since then he pulled the club back up by the neck, led by example and genuinely contributed to two excellent seasons. That wasn't really expected of him but now he's done it we need to make the most of what he brings the club.

Seems like a lot of people are making the usual mistake of blindly assuming that anyone we sign to replace them will fit in straight away, have the right mentality, get on well with team mates etc etc. We have all this in our team right now. Yes we do need quality, but we are in a situation where it can be infused slowly. We've tried fixing everything that is wrong with the team too quickly in the past, changed too many players and it just resulted in a downwards spiral. The way to improve our team is to retain Barton and Nolan and do our best to keep Enrique. Players that aren't necessary invaluable would be Jonas (likely to be the fall guy for Ben Arfa), the strikers, and the other centre back (i.e. not Coloccini) One striker and one attacking wide player are enough to get us from 12th to 8th. However try to replace Nolan and Barton with supposedly better players so half our first team is different could take us down from 12th to 16th.

The most sensible approaches for any player whose contract takes them to over 31 in my view are: 1. Contract lasts until season end and player is 31. Option for an extra year automatically applied each time he plays 20 games. 2. Wage after 31 gets halved, but the other half becomes a bonus for each week a player plays in.

Appreciate what they do, give them the contract, and have faith that the manager will persuade them to move on if they are no longer wanted. Trouble is the board are scared of another Nicky Butt scenario, where despite being uncertainties over relegation or whether we even wanted him, Butt announced to them all that he was taking an option out to extend his own £50k a week contract, while taking out loads of bonuses. Eh? Hope the manager can persuade them to move on from their 50k plus a week 4 year deal?? How? I know Pards is a silver tongued charmer, but I think you are overestimating his charm. I don't think any sensible business model in the world is built around people being persuaded to leave their highly paid jobs. I trust Barton and Nolan to leave the club if they are no longer wanted.

Yet he made a big mistake by selling and aging Garry Speed. He wanted speed to stay but Freddie wanted the younger nicky butt. Thought Robson wanted Carrick?

Appreciate what they do, give them the contract, and have faith that the manager will persuade them to move on if they are no longer wanted. Trouble is the board are scared of another Nicky Butt scenario, where despite being uncertainties over relegation or whether we even wanted him, Butt announced to them all that he was taking an option out to extend his own £50k a week contract, while taking out loads of bonuses.

People have been trying to justify both, Nolan in particular, being out of the first team for months. Have you not seen the team lineups of loads of unproven players in the midfield?

With Wullie on this one. The board have repeatedly failed to recognise the players as human beings, and don't realise that happy players are better players.

Was this from when HTT was going through his David Hasselhoff phase?

Troisi actually got two goals.

Nothing is going to happen this week that isn't already nearly completed as Llambias is on holiday.

I remember when we had one of our terrible games under Allardyce, might have been Derby, and Allardyce came out and said it was all good because the team were starting to follow his way because Alan Smith had done a good man marking job on an opposing player.

Cometh the hour, cometh the Pavel Srnicek.

For an example Wolves. Hughton 1 - 1 Draw. Pardew 4 - 1 Win. While at the same time still putting in creditable performances (and getting some sort of result) against the top teams. Not meaning to criticise Hughton who did a good job, but I think people are trying to spin things to justify an unjustifiable stance on Alan Pardew.

Bernard and Elliott (also Babayaro and Elliott?)

Third most accurate finisher in the PL last season.