James

Gerrard and Rooney are better at the defensive stuff compared to others in their position to be fair.

I'm less worried about chairmen doing the conga, and more worried about chairmen offering to carry star players to other clubs.

If the coach is going through Leeds, I think I will definitely try and use it a few times next season.

sorry to bring this up again but i can se this being something that put Spurs in a better position than us to sign modric. Aye, my understanding was that there was a sell on clause, and if a bid of so much was made within the first few seasons, Spurs have to accept it with Dinamo/Barcelona keeping a larger percentage of the profits. For example: Modric, Spurs sign for £16m. Club X bid £20m. Spurs have to accept. Spurs recoup £16m, Dinamo get £4m. Therefore Dinamo get £20m which is more than our £18m bid. dos Santos,Spurs sign for £6m. Club X bid £10m. Spurs have to accept. Spurs recoup £8m, Barcelona get £2m. Except you seem to have pulled the bit where Spurs have to accept a bid of a certain amount out of thin air. The sell-on clauses with the Barca deal are documented on their site, but there's no mention of a minimum clause in his Spurs contract. Spot on. James you said something about a minimum release clause before, NOT a sell on clause. I've said both before. Unless Modric and dos Santos choose to stay for X number of years, you don't own them and are pretty much a shop window club.

sorry to bring this up again but i can se this being something that put Spurs in a better position than us to sign modric. Aye, my understanding was that there was a sell on clause, and if a bid of so much was made within the first few seasons, Spurs have to accept it with Dinamo/Barcelona keeping a larger percentage of the profits. For example: Modric, Spurs sign for £16m. Club X bid £20m. Spurs have to accept. Spurs recoup £16m, Dinamo get £4m. Therefore Dinamo get £20m which is more than our £18m bid. dos Santos,Spurs sign for £6m. Club X bid £10m. Spurs have to accept. Spurs recoup £8m, Barcelona get £2m. Except you seem to have pulled the bit where Spurs have to accept a bid of a certain amount out of thin air. The sell-on clauses with the Barca deal are documented on their site, but there's no mention of a minimum clause in his Spurs contract. Exact clauses will be kept confidential, but fact is that the pargraph in bold points out that Spurs do not fully own dos Santos, and bears similarities to the Modric deal where there is very strong suggestion that Dinamo retained control of future transfer dealings. "Spurs do not fully own dos Santos" - yeah, it's called a sell-on clause, and it's not like Spurs are the first team in England (or the Premiership, or anywhere else for that matter) to have one of those in their players' contracts. I'd bet that a few of our squad have them from their previous clubs. And I bet some people we sell (Shola perhaps?) have sell-on clauses that will benefit NUFC. It's not uncommon, and it's not worth stating it in a melodramatic fashion that Spurs don't own his full transfer rights - that's correct, but it's just a common sell-on clause. The point I was making is that you suggested that Barca would put a minimum fee release clause into GdS's Spurs contract: now while contract clauses are often kept confidential and we don't know if there is or there isn't one, to say that it's your "understanding" that he does have a minimum fee release clause is just pulling it out of thin air... unlesss you are privy to some inside info, how the hell do you get to that conclusion? There is a sell on clause of 10%, but that is totally independent of the 20% financial rights which mean that Barca part own dos Santos for the next two years and therefore have some say over the dealings for that playerin a manner which is not likely to be made public. Same with Modric.

sorry to bring this up again but i can se this being something that put Spurs in a better position than us to sign modric. Aye, my understanding was that there was a sell on clause, and if a bid of so much was made within the first few seasons, Spurs have to accept it with Dinamo/Barcelona keeping a larger percentage of the profits. For example: Modric, Spurs sign for £16m. Club X bid £20m. Spurs have to accept. Spurs recoup £16m, Dinamo get £4m. Therefore Dinamo get £20m which is more than our £18m bid. dos Santos,Spurs sign for £6m. Club X bid £10m. Spurs have to accept. Spurs recoup £8m, Barcelona get £2m. Except you seem to have pulled the bit where Spurs have to accept a bid of a certain amount out of thin air. The sell-on clauses with the Barca deal are documented on their site, but there's no mention of a minimum clause in his Spurs contract. Exact clauses will be kept confidential, but fact is that the pargraph in bold points out that Spurs do not fully own dos Santos, and bears similarities to the Modric deal where there is very strong suggestion that Dinamo retained control of future transfer dealings.

Harsh on Huddlestone, he is much better in his position than Milner.

sorry to bring this up again but i can se this being something that put Spurs in a better position than us to sign modric. Aye, my understanding was that there was a sell on clause, and if a bid of so much was made within the first few seasons, Spurs have to accept it with Dinamo/Barcelona keeping a larger percentage of the profits. For example: Modric, Spurs sign for £16m. Club X bid £20m. Spurs have to accept. Spurs recoup £16m, Dinamo get £4m. Therefore Dinamo get £20m which is more than our £18m bid. dos Santos,Spurs sign for £6m. Club X bid £10m. Spurs have to accept. Spurs recoup £8m, Barcelona get £2m.

Very difficult because Police request no NUFC derby on Boxing Day, while other clubs state that they don't want their fans to have to travel to us on that date.

Grammatical I think. I think it refers to Gudjohnsen.

I've created a Prediction League as well: Newcastle-Online — Code to join this league: 34220-2304

Thuram usually starts at CB. De Rossi was a disaster for those who had him in their World Cup Fantasy Football teams.

Not going to disclose my team as it is better than all the teams I have seen so far

NUFC player tips: Owen: France or Spain or Spain or France Butt: Spain or Portugal Keegan: I say Holland every tournament Terry Mac: I don't know who's playing only that England aren't in it. Edgar: Holland Harper: Italy Beye: France

Stoke (h) x 38 would be my preference.

Probably a gift for some businessman or other we want to woo, or otherwise some kind of charity or special recognition event. I'd doubt it would have anything to do with our transfer dealings.

That is all a bit random tbh.

May as well look at other targets then.

Perhaps the Turkey coach has banned agents? Would mean that nothing more can currently be done with Emre or Turan.

There are no news. If there is anything new, I will post it here! FYP Stop the text-speak. FYP Stop the text-speak

Who is SundayMonday?

That video pretty much confirms to me that Souness was better than Allardyce.

Probably is Arshavin then.

I thought Turan was suspended for the first two Turkey games?

The main asset I see in Ashton, is that pre injury, he is one of the few English players who can get a team by the scruff of the neck and dominate a game, very much like Rooney and Gerrard and pre-2004 Shearer. He hasn't been as good since the injury, but it was a bad injury, and better players have taken over a year to find their old form. In the last couple of months he has shown enough to suggest that there is a fair chance that we could be seeing something near to the 2006 Dean Ashton by next season. He works the flanks well by the way, and his build up play is excellent, which is why he isn't a typical target man.