James

Can anyone moaning about Venables answer this question: "You need an emergency manager to come in for one month. Who do you appoint?" If you can't come up with a satisfactory answer then shut it.

If Ashley can only sell the club at a reduced price, he should do so, as the clubs value will plummet with every game. Imagine if he's still here in January, does he try to sell our best players to compensate his losses?

We need a foreign manager just to get rid of Butt.

Geremi?

Is this you? http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/images/320/smiler.jpg

Poor. I know, just as bad as Ar5ena1

We always cane S4u1s in the second half.

I remember when I got blasted some people when I said that I thought Pav would flop in the Premier League. Where are they now?

Nothing is happening(!) Make shit up then. Think along the lines of "Butt just nutmegged Jenas four successive times then." No-one will disbelieve you. Duff had a shot on goal and Smith is warming up and looks motivated. I do not believe you.

Nothing is happening(!) Make shit up then. Think along the lines of "Butt just nutmegged Jenas four successive times then." No-one will disbelieve you.

Newcastle World is still all Terry Mac for me, and can not be arsed to go pub, so please make your descriptions of the match more exciting than it actually is. Ta.

NoNoNoNoNoNoNo

Owen Scored Bale Scored Martins Scored Pavlyuchenko Scored Geremi Scored Modric Scored Duff Missed Bentley Missed Coloccini scored Dos Santos scored Xisco Scored Jenas Missed

We will win this on penalties IMO.

Would have played the following personally: Given Geremi Cacapa Taylor Bassong Coloccini Duff N'Zogbia Owen Martins Xisco

Let us not forget that Man City's owners bought Kompany, Wright-Phillips and Robinho and bid over £30m for Berbatov before they had even secured ownership of the club.

Haven't the Arab lads in charge of Man City said the same? You can guarantee they'll be hoying money about like it's going out of fashion come January. Talk is very cheap nowadays. Perhaps, but we are comparing mega rich multibillionaires to relative paupers who need to publicly announce the fact that they need another £50-100m. Not to mention the blabber about Nigerian feeder clubs and restoring Nigerian pride. There is a lot said about Nigeria in that interview which could suggest that Nigerian football might become an unwelcome agenda at NUFC. People were so welcoming to Ashley when it meant getting rid of Shepherd and look at how it bit them on the arse. No new owners are going to get a similar welcome from me until they prove their intentions, and from what I've read so far, I'm unimpressed.

Has anyone read Nathaniel's comment that the club must sustain itself? What do people think about that considering Ashley said the same.

Not one comment about asking the fans to show their support for the team and the players during the course of the game

I was under the impression that all the selling was due to the massive wage bill they have from signing players like Lucas Neill on insane wages to save them from relegation. Add to that the wages of players like Dyer & Ljungberg (Ljungberg's contract having been payed up to get him off the payroll). The previous chairman was supposed to have been forced out by the owning consortium due to the financial mess that he'd left them in. Perhaps this will be £30m on top of that existing financial mess that will cause them to go into free fall. That was my impression. It was well reportedby West Ham sources that Curbs was told he had to sell 15 players over the summer.

So much for the manager being in charge of who comes in and out, eh? I have doubts about whether this bid is genuine, but if it is, these investors might well want to bring in Nigerian players to make the club more popular in Nigeria, and to add some extra excitement and interest for themselves. "Might" being the operative word. The Nigerian investors are likely to be no different than their European or Arabian counterparts. The only reason why the majority of people on here are anxious is because their understanding of global business is limited to Europe and The Gulf. What strikes me as different about this story is that it's not about a single owner or a pre-existing investment group. It sounds like a consortium of businessmen are being put together specifically for the purpose of buying the club. It's a bit like the Magpie group that Sir John Hall put together many years ago, only with Nigerians instead of Geordies. Now what is actually attracting these businessmen to the idea? I doubt if it's about making money. It's more likely the emotional idea about having a team in the English Premiership with a Nigerian identity. You occasionally hear of these attempts at putting a coalition of smaller businessmen together and they don't seem to come off. I suspect this is actually a very tentative idea at the moment which will struggle when people really have to hand their money over. That's if the story has any substance in the first place. Pretty much sums up my thoughts.

yep, defensive negative football,sideways passing like in the old Dalglish days at NUFC.....we played some of the most boring negative football I`ve witnessed when that muppet was in charge (when he brought in his own players) Sigh..... he completely destroyed that team when all that was needed was 2 decent centre halves :'( If only Sir Bobby hadn`t turned us down that time for his loyalty to Barca how things might have turned out different I was talking about Bernard and his watch.

Just think at how he would solve all our defensive problems.

Thinking about it, this guy would make a brilliant manager: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3cMPCSB5U

If I was able to rewind time (in case things go badly wrong), I'd love to give the job to Ketsbaia and see how that panned out.