James

He certainly isn't a back up player. He is easily good enough to start for most teams, and I bet every manager in the league would love to have unfit Viduka come off the bench for the final half hour.

At the end of the day, we aren't going to be a perfect club with perfect players straight away. Almost every player at NUFC will have something wrong with them, be it Martins inconsistency, Butt or Geremi's physical ability, N'Zogbia being all potential. With Viduka, we have a player who despite the injuries and lack of pace/fitness will earn us key goals and win us matches when he does play.

There are two messages from Baggio on the main site.

Was it the Ghost of Baggio?

Haha quality, here mate lighten up im only having some fun, quit yo' powertrippin! Sounded pretty serious to me, would others agree? I bet you were the sort when you were younger and you got bullied you ran straight back to mammy, where you? Its serious/light hearted fun. Get a grip. No, I'd headbutt them. Stop taking yourself so seriously.

How can you make an assumption as to how much we're going to pay this Derdiyok gadgie if/when he signs his contract? No assumption bigger than others are making. Viduka = £75k pw value of £1m Shola = £25k pw value of £2.5m Smith = £60k pw value of £4m Derdiyok on £30k pw, very fair wage for a 19 year old. Probably should have deducted Derdi's £6m transfer fee, but no doubt you will approve of the arithmetic

Haha quality, here mate lighten up im only having some fun, quit yo' powertrippin! Sounded pretty serious to me, would others agree?

Is this another case in terms of wages of only believing the press when it says what you want to think? More of a 'suppose it's true' scenario.

Look at it this way: Viduka + Shola out, Derdiyok in = £3.5m transfer fees plus £3.64m saved wages Smith + Shola out, Derdiyok in = £6.5m transfer fees plus £2.86m saved wages What is better?

Why don't you pull out some pointless statistic to prove your case if it is then? If I wanted, I could pull out a comparison of win percentages with and without Viduka. The difference between the two would imply that Viduka has an impact on results on the pitch, and is therefore worth keeping.

Is this another case of only believing the press when it says what you want to think?

We are not locking this thread so stop asking for it. If you looked at the last few pages, you'd notice most of the posts were bumpages to annoy you. Take the hint.

Better off with than without, B. His wages are exagerrated in my opinion.

Farmers Unions are set to oppose any moves to allow Arshavin to enter the UK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/euro2008/arshav438.jpg

http://www.newcastle-online.com/2008/06/25/dont-panic/

My statement was more under the assumption that he'd move to Europe.

Well for Taylor, what he wants means that we are paying him £1m more per season, while he initially wanted an extra £2m a season supposedly. These things take time, what with the club having to decide what they can afford, and Taylor's agents working out if they can get more from somewhere.

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_3735552,00.html Evening Chronicle, Shields Gazette, Sunderland Echo.

For me, Pavlyuchenko comes under the Euro 2008 star most likely to flop next seson category.

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I will laugh at you regardless of what Arsene Wenger says. Thank you Dave.

People will laugh at me, but I interpret that as Wenger not being interested.

http://euro2008.football365.com/football/euro2008/story/0,23063,13956_3733133,00.html

Probably just a written statement sent to everyone.

What, that we aren't signing players now because we have to pay wages?