James

I think you will find it was post number 608 and his childish editing of posts that changed the tone of the thread Dave. Still, he agrees with you, so its all my fault instead. Yes, good thing you were above that kind of thing isn't it. Well, we can't rely on you to rap his fingers or take note of it can we ? Maybe if he disagreed with you, it would be different. Which you've just proved. You're bonkers. You're biased .......... Mate, I've said this to Mick before, and I'll say it to you, it takes two to tango.

People keep offering Liam Liam Liam O raffle tickets this evening.

I think it is probably because the hoohah was causing too much distraction and it was out in the open anyhow.

We need to sign another Brazilian 'g' otherwise they'll be ganging up on Cacapa. We protect our homies 'round here fo sho. Júlio Baptista? Would be perfect. As I keep saying. Do you think we could persuade Real Madrid to take Smith in exchange? No. Neither do I, but if you don't buy the ticket you won't win the raffle.

We need to sign another Brazilian 'g' otherwise they'll be ganging up on Cacapa. We protect our homies 'round here fo sho. Júlio Baptista? Would be perfect. As I keep saying. Do you think we could persuade Real Madrid to take Smith in exchange?

Case of when rather than if :crazy:

Jonas cant play Computer says no.

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Just to compare the records of a few players pre-NUFC for you NE5: Marcelino One good Cup Winners Cup run, and three decent years at Mallorca playing alongside a better player. No caps for Spain. Goma 2 caps for France, won a few trophies with some strong French teams. Performances were good but nothing to shout about. Pistone Caps for Italy U21, appeared to have a good future in Italy after one season at Inter. Clearly these were three players who were good, but didn't get the television/internet exposure you get these days, so got hyped up by a good write up in the Chronicle. Now look at these two: Woodgate Good performances for Leeds in the Champions League, a couple of England caps. Coloccini Argentinian first teamer with 27 caps. Good performances in Spain for five years. Played in World Cup. Olympic gold medalist. Clearly there is a jump from Goma, Marcelino and Pistone to Woodgate and Coloccini, and Colocinni is arguably the more reputable of the two.

this was the case last year too, which I said at the time, but defenders are cheaper, or better business, or something Seriously? Without the defenders we brought in (Beye, Faye, Rozehnal, Caçapa, Enrique)... we'd have had Carr, Taylor, Ramage and Edgar to choose from. A quality midfield player and striker would have the most impact on the team, this was the case last summer, and we bought how many defenders ? 5 ? 2 of them are squad players, not good enough. Faye, Beye and probably Enrique have played well especially the first 2. Thats above average when you are scouting among the basement transfer fees and freebies etc, but if Keegan has seen fit to spend the bulk of his budget [lower than most clubs ?] on a defender then I only hope he isn't another Marcelino, Pistone or Goma - but at least when we bought them we had good attackers and midfield players. I know that you don't follow the foreign leagues NE5, but this player has a reputation as being one of the best defenders on two continents. Whether it works out is another question, but it is an ambitious move, up there with Woodgate. of course, but so were Goma, Marcelino and Pistone. Lets hope he lives up to it. Bigger picture is that its only one signing, most clubs make one decent signing, real ambition for a club like Newcastle is still bigger than this, especially now when we will be starting the season with Ameobi in the team. I see Bentley has moved to Spurs .......... as well as Modric, and Woodgate ........ Sorry dude, but Marcelino, Goma and Pistone didn't come here with the reputation of Coloccini, although I appreciate you may not realise this based on the fact that you only follow English football. Who is to say we'll be starting with Ameobi? As far as I know, we have three perfectly good strikers, putting him much further down the pecking order than he was in 2004 and 2005. As for Spurs, two things, first you mention Woodgate, well the player we're signing is considered in the world game as being on the same calibre. Besides, there are supposed to be reasons that we missed out on Modric and Woodgate for reasons beyond our control. Meanwhile Bentley had already said he wouldn't ever go to Newcastle because of our reputation for constant managerial change. Besides, assuming Coloccini goes through, our net spend is larger than Spurs, plus we haven't lost our best performing striker.

No Ronaldo.

Many thanks, sorry to take one of your best players, but that is football. Good luck for next season.

Algerian and Lens Left Back

L'Equipe are saying us and Portsmouth are after Nadr Belhaj

According to .com, the story was run on 1st June by the People. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_3637466,00.html

Did he run with it before the Independent? Can't remember who, but someone did run the Coloccini story in June.

My money is on tribal.

this was the case last year too, which I said at the time, but defenders are cheaper, or better business, or something Seriously? Without the defenders we brought in (Beye, Faye, Rozehnal, Caçapa, Enrique)... we'd have had Carr, Taylor, Ramage and Edgar to choose from. A quality midfield player and striker would have the most impact on the team, this was the case last summer, and we bought how many defenders ? 5 ? 2 of them are squad players, not good enough. Faye, Beye and probably Enrique have played well especially the first 2. Thats above average when you are scouting among the basement transfer fees and freebies etc, but if Keegan has seen fit to spend the bulk of his budget [lower than most clubs ?] on a defender then I only hope he isn't another Marcelino, Pistone or Goma - but at least when we bought them we had good attackers and midfield players. I know that you don't follow the foreign leagues NE5, but this player has a reputation as being one of the best defenders on two continents. Whether it works out is another question, but it is an ambitious move, up there with Woodgate.

See Ruud Gullit

Yeah, one well timed flick, and he is able to obstruct the vision of an opposing striker.

He can tell us as many of those lies as he likes as far as I'm concerned. I agree

I don't trust Keegan anymore, he tells us we won't be signing South Americans, and he goes and signs two of the Argentinian XI who started against Brazil. So when he says that he's focusing on full backs, he signs a center back. What other lies does he have in store for us this summer?

can only remember a few of them lol... which current premiership player won the south american player of the year 3 years in a row? who is the chief scout of derby county that was born in newcastle and started his career as a centre half at hartlepool and carlisle, before joining west ham? in the 1995-96 season, which current premiership team was at one time second bottom of the football league? who was the last team to win the league cup back-to-back? which winner of the south american player of the year had 4 spells with vasco da gama and first came to europe with psv before joining barcelona? billy bremner managed two of the clubs he played for, one of which was twice. name them which current championship team reached the quarter finals of the 1960-61 european cup before losing to hamburg? which was the last fa cup final to have both teams scoring, with the winner winning by more than one goal? theres more but i forgot haha oh, and thanks for the nice words Really difficult questions. Congratulations once more.

I am off to bed. Friendly defeat aside, I feel that my positive vibes this morning were completely justified. Good night.

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