James

source ? He's Manchester United ITK

Guiseppe Rossi? yep. Ridiculous comment in that case then. Rossi couldn't get a game here last season when we had hardly any strikers, how exactly would he contribute at all now that we have Viduka, Owen, Shola and possibly Luque in the fold? Not to mention Carroll if he isn't loaned out. Smith can play a few positions and will get plenty of games so he's a worthwhile, if underwhelming, signing. Signing Rossi would have been pointless in the extreme. Rossi prefers attacking midfield to up front, and can play on the left. He prefers to play off the front man. When has he ever played out on the left? For us versus Chelsea. Did well. Did well as in he looked out of place but worked hard? Saying he can play left wing is like saying Ameobi can play there tbh, it should be a last resort only. Was the only player to get in good attacking positions, and didn't give the ball up too easily.

Guiseppe Rossi? yep. Ridiculous comment in that case then. Rossi couldn't get a game here last season when we had hardly any strikers, how exactly would he contribute at all now that we have Viduka, Owen, Shola and possibly Luque in the fold? Not to mention Carroll if he isn't loaned out. Smith can play a few positions and will get plenty of games so he's a worthwhile, if underwhelming, signing. Signing Rossi would have been pointless in the extreme. Rossi prefers attacking midfield to up front, and can play on the left. He prefers to play off the front man. When has he ever played out on the left? For us versus Chelsea. Did well.

Guiseppe Rossi? yep. Ridiculous comment in that case then. Rossi couldn't get a game here last season when we had hardly any strikers, how exactly would he contribute at all now that we have Viduka, Owen, Shola and possibly Luque in the fold? Not to mention Carroll if he isn't loaned out. Smith can play a few positions and will get plenty of games so he's a worthwhile, if underwhelming, signing. Signing Rossi would have been pointless in the extreme. Rossi prefers attacking midfield to up front, and can play on the left. We've Duff, N'Zogbia and Luque who can play on the left. Can't see Rossi as a useful out and out winger either, as he's horribly slow. Soft as fudge as well tbh, would get murdered in CM. Could you really see Rossi getting a kick for us next season? More so than Smith if I'm honest with you. I wouldn't get either, but I'd definitely prefer Rossi of the two.

Thats the BBC for you, taking a story off the net if they've jumped the gun.

Guiseppe Rossi? yep. Ridiculous comment in that case then. Rossi couldn't get a game here last season when we had hardly any strikers, how exactly would he contribute at all now that we have Viduka, Owen, Shola and possibly Luque in the fold? Not to mention Carroll if he isn't loaned out. Smith can play a few positions and will get plenty of games so he's a worthwhile, if underwhelming, signing. Signing Rossi would have been pointless in the extreme. Rossi prefers attacking midfield to up front, and can play on the left.

I'm a bit confused by the double negative in what you said there. Did he say that Smith isn't coming? Or did he say wait and see?

Guiseppe Rossi? yep.

Sevilla are a good team, so hopefully some good players play for them, and hopefully one of these good players is him. Unless he goes to citeh, in which case, hope he's shit

Villareal have signed Rossi for an undisclosed fee. I would have definitely preferred Rossi.

Another DLC. Sam clearly wants a defender who can play both in the left and the centre. Move to 3-5-2?

Isn't Zog's agent one Willie McKay who has to transfer seven billion players per transfer window to make him stinking rich?

This thread: http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=41078.0 has been continuously updated by people including yourself and myself, often on the basis of a 'BBC understands.' Seems like you are happy to accept a news story on the BBC if you personally agree with the content, but now that an article comes along that you don't like, you seem to find it harder to accept that there may be some truth to it.

Articles with named sources on the beeb are a different kettle and fish to articles with undisclosed sources.

Wouldn't like to say told you so mind...

Although at that time, it was no secret that Spurs were leading the race to sign Duff. Even Duff admitted that he'd spoken to Spurs. But we've said we dont want to sell, and the player hasn't handed in a transfer request. Things change, the same could have been said for Dyer last month. Don't see how I've personally moved the goalposts Wullie, the goalposts are always moving in the transfer market. But given that Milner is preferred to Zoggy on the left, and that the BBC are rarely wrong as to what is happenning at that exact moment, N'Zogbia certainly looks on route to a Fulham move, although the goalposts may change, someonemight have a change of heart, or another club may come in.

Although at that time, it was no secret that Spurs were leading the race to sign Duff. Even Duff admitted that he'd spoken to Spurs.

The BBC needs to get hits The BBC does not need to report rubbish, it always has enough content to cover. Aye and thats evident, what with the utter garbage they are putting up BBC full of garbage? League defends owner test Tevez court date set for August Interest shown in Man Utd's Smith Fulham 'target Seol and N'Zogbia' Robinson 'keen on Wigan switch' McManus named Celtic captain Blues apply for Alex work permit Hearts sign four new faces Brazil submits 2014 Cup bid All seem pretty reasonable to me. Of course the Zoggy bit is slightly out of the blue, but these nuggets the BBC come out with are generally pretty true. Can anyone find a BBC football story that is clearly detached from fact. I've never known them to really cock up a story regarding a Newcastle transfer.

Its true that my dissertation was on the BBC. I think we'd let N'Zogbia go. Milner is clearly preferred on the left wing, and we've still got Duff to come back.

The BBC needs to get hits The BBC does not need to report rubbish, it always has enough content to cover.

From a fulham site Which is what SSN's website is reporting. Rumours, that's all but James wants to state it as FACT Zoggy is on the verge of leaving. I'm not saying its fact, but I think its likely. If the article was inverted, and we were the club reported to be signing whoever, I know that the majority on here would consider it likely given the BBC's track record.

With the Seol quotes available, they didn't even need to mention N'Zogbia and have a story. For me, that adds to the credence of the piece.

On the BBC, 'according to reports' is a lot different to 'thought to be close' The truth of this BBC article also increases several times when they are the first source to be running this story.

Looks like he is off given that it is one of those typical 'BBC understands' articles that always come true. Don't take this the wrong way but you're talking out of your arsehole. How can you possibly take a snippet like that and take it as gospel? Editorial standards. Dont BBC always only report these things if they recieve matching info from two reliable sources.

Looks like he is off given that it is one of those typical 'BBC understands' articles that always come true. Examples? Viduka, Joey Barton in both cases the ball started seriously rolling with the 'BBC understands' or 'thought to be' line