James

His sister died as well then RIP Edit: Actually, no, I misread the article.

We have released a statement to be fair, plus I assume people at NUFC had an opportunity to offer there condolences in person to be fair. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2008/07/25/tragedy-for-obafemi-martins-as-mum-dies-72703-21405238/

How have we weakened our squad by 4 players? Diatta came in as a short term replacement for Rozehnal and if you want to include Troisi then surely you should add Frank Dequah who's been handed a professional contract with us as Troisi never made a first team appearance for us as far as I remember. Whatever, if it's 3 or 4, it doesn't matter, my point is we are still weaker, and we were already a thin squad. That's just a waste of your time to write a reply to be honest, and equally a waste of time for me to reply to your reply. Not weaker really when the contribution of the departing players last season was practically nil.

that a serious opinion or am i missing the sarcasm? either way i'd tend to agree, especially if you consider benfica might have an outside chance of a title challenge too... It is an opinion, but it only applies if we have missed out. If so, it is the fault of the previous chairman for playing in a market that was unsustainable in the long term.

To be honest, if I had the choice of being paid a very high Portuguese wage of £30k per week, when I could be paid an average English wage of £40k per week, I'd go for Benfica, as they were clearly pulling out all the stops. Not that I believe the newspapers.

This is my own personal perspective as to whether clubs are better or worse off at the moment: Arsenal - Hard to say what young players are available to step up a level, but the loss of Hleb and Flamini is not made up by Samir Nasri - Slightly Weaker Aston Villa - One loan made permanent, plus a midfielder who is obviously a more inferior replacement for Barry. Friedel transfer is imminent, but Carson did well there last season, so that won't make too much difference. Meanwhile, they have lost their best defender in Mellberg - Weaker Blackburn - Likely to replace a very good keeper with a mediocre one. Replaced four insignificant squad players with an injury prone past it has been. Lost a good manager for an almost unproven one - Weaker Bolton - Elmander is better than what they had at the start of the summer, but isn't going to be as good as Anelka. Guthrie is better than Muamba. - Weaker Chelsea - Makelele will need replacing. Bosingwa might not be the improvement at right back Chelsea are hoping for. Deco is very good but will be replacing a very good player. Scolari should be better than Grant - Slightly stronger Everton - Made Pienaar's loan permanent, but have so far failed to secure Manuel Fernandes. They'll miss Carsley too - Weaker Fulham - Gera excluded, the players coming in are worse than existing players in the same position, or even worse than players who have left. Zamora won't fill McBride's boots - Weaker Hull - Better players, but still not good enough. Should be better than Derby though - Stronger Liverpool - New signings will bolster the squad and provide potential stars for a couple of years time, but there is no stand out immediate quality, and they'll miss the goals of Crouch - Slightly weaker Man City - Despite the investment and reputation, can't say for sure that Jo will provide Citeh with the consistent quality up front that is wanted. Furthermore, there is no reason why Hughes should be better than Sven. They've lost a few squad players who made important contributions last season too - No better or worse Manchester United - No changes of any note - No better or worse Middlesbrough - Rochemback and Digard are like for like, and they've lost a few players who have had important roles at Boro over the years - Slightly Weaker Portsmouth - Added goals from Crouch cancelled out by the iminent loss of Muntari, who really made Pompey tick last season - No better or worse Stoke - Worse than Reading and Birmingham - Weaker Sunderland - No real movements yet, but if they get most of the Spurs bunch they want, their squad will get an important upgrade - No better or worse Tottenham - Modric, dos Santos and Gomes are interesting additions, although I can see one or both of the latter two not working out. Loss of players to Sunderland, Berbatov and Keane would make them considerably weaker however - Slightly stronger West Brom - Better than Brum and Reading, and have improved their team since - Stronger West Ham - Behrami doesn't compensate for important goals from Solano and Zamora - Weaker Wigan - Have oddly signed players that play in the position of their best player - No better or worse So that makes it: Stronger: 2 clubs (and two clubs unlikely to rival us) Slightly Stronger: 2 clubs No better or worse: 5 clubs Slightly Weaker: 3 clubs Weaker: 7 clubs So in other words, four of our 19 rivals have made progress, while 15 haven't or have even regressed at this stage. That pretty much agrees with what KK says about other clubs not ripping out trees in the transfer market right now. With regards to Newcastle, we now have a decent spell under a better manager, we have kept the spine of the team that was both good enough and not always injured, and we have added Guthrie who looks promising, and Gutierrez who was part of the supply line for Guiza's golden boot efforts in La Liga. As such, our team is slightly stronger than it was before which puts us either closer to, or further ahead of most other Premier League clubs. Get that bit of depth and extra quality and we could really steal the gap in the League this season.

It was all very basic numbers only, as seen when players don't have set numbers.

RIP

Quotes are a week old.

He is a bit younger than the others.

It is the virus he had in the summer rather than having mumps right now. It has made him lethargic in the early stages of preseason unfortunately.

I hope you're not picking on James. to you. Does he have Mexican friends who will come at me with bats and blades? :confused: Mediterranean or Mexican? Make your mind up

I hope you're not picking on James. to you.

I agree.

Apologies, the bits in bold were what had my perspective altered. James inadvertedly looking stupid 72 - 1 James looking smart and articulate. Riiiiight, so assuming for a second that I'm not starting a thread just to piss you off, how did the greasy, Mediterranean chap go from being WITH Oba, to suddenly foregoing his self respect and approaching him? :confused: Humidity and tiredness affecting my reading ability. Didn't think you were trying to annoy me for the record. I just get the impression from your evident un-impressedness with the Baptista thread (granted, not one of my better efforts, but still, vaguely amusing to some) that you immediately assume that all of my posts are some sort of hoax - particularly directed towards you - nay. Read Page 1 again. I was completely game. In fact, I was laughing at Heneage for not realising that you were 'talking about me.' I thought Rich was laughing at that too

Apologies, the bits in bold were what had my perspective altered. James inadvertedly looking stupid 72 - 1 James looking smart and articulate. Riiiiight, so assuming for a second that I'm not starting a thread just to piss you off, how did the greasy, Mediterranean chap go from being WITH Oba, to suddenly foregoing his self respect and approaching him? :confused: Humidity and tiredness affecting my reading ability. Didn't think you were trying to annoy me for the record.

Apologies, the bits in bold were what had my perspective altered. James inadvertedly looking stupid 72 - 1 James looking smart and articulate.

I think it is in with the deleted threads. Just had a rake in the bin. Well I definitely remember a thread, hence my reaction to this one. Perhaps it is a false memory.

I think it is in with the deleted threads.

I just assumed it was like his Baptista thread, ie completely fabricated.

Back to the thread, have I completely misinterpreted this thread as one of Stupeedo's joke threads where in this case he has described a fake encounter between myself and Obafemi Martins?

In that case I withdraw my offence

Have you been drinking again? Stone sober. K. I was there wasn't I? What? Greasy mediterranean type called James getting an exclusive interview for Newcastle Online. Who else could it be? Ah right. Midds in totally perplexed at the spacka shocker. Don't appreciate being called spastic thankyou

Have you been drinking again? Stone sober. K. I was there wasn't I? What? Greasy mediterranean type called James getting an exclusive interview for Newcastle Online. Who else could it be?

Have you been drinking again? Stone sober. K. I was there wasn't I?