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This guy reminds me of a skinny Albert actually.

We've lost a lot of leads in the past. Perhaps Rozehnal is someone we could use off the bench to plug the midfield in those late stages. From what I've seen, he can be very cultured, tidy on the ball, and knows how to deliver a low pass into the feet of a target man.

Hmmm ... First stable season in years? Since 2005 they mean? Or 2004 (6th)? Oh, I should post this on the article comments, really. Ah, thanks for correcting me on that, I can fix that.

Funny that this was written six minutes before this was published: http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/06/25/buying-from-our-premiership-rivals-2007-aston-villa/#more-705 You probably sensed some Taylor27 brainwaves.

1000 This is a very protracted transfer. We are much slower at doing business abroad I've noticed.

All I know is that 100p wasn't good enough, 101p was. It doesn't matter that Ashley upped the offer to 101p, he'd only do that after the initial offer was rejected, Shepherd had to have his 1p per share more than the Hall's. As I understood the Hall's sale agreement, Ashley had to pay them the offer bid. Their deal was only an agreement that if Ashley aquired similar agreements for so many shares, the Halls would accept any offer higher than 100p. Thus the Halls got 101p as well. Though I may have misinterpreted.

Well I certainly wasn't stating it as fact, but I thought it would be interesting to discuss the possibility of the scenario I mentioned. That scenario was the first thing that came to mind when I read the article. You might indeed be right though and it will be very interesting to see what happens in the next week, prior to his return to training. One thing you can be certain of is that Oliver never hints at anything. If he knows something, or incorrectly thinks he knows something, he'll be shouting it from the rooftops.

that's the question isn't it? for example how have owens wages been paid for 2 years? the first injury he got (broken foot) was for us against spurs so we'd have got nothing for that other than our own insurance (if that even applies at club level which i doubt) so his wages will have been paid for a year, in fact just less than a year dunno something fishy there if you ask me - does it include the clubs own insurance for owens wages or just from the fa? too vague to be trusted We took out insurance against Owen's wages that covered everything that wasn't covered by the FA insurers, so it does come to about 18 months of insurers paying his wages. This source was just giving a vague overview of the money collected. I've heard that Oliver's source is a friend of Shepherd who is not a club employee, so he is never going to know the exact details.

KaKa, I think you have over analysed the Chronicle article. It is basically Oliver reciting his Arsenal ITKness, and mentioning that Owen has a delayed return to training (common practice for internationals), before announcing the bleeding obvious fact that we wont be signing any more strikers unless one of our current batch leave. Owen will be here next season, banging in the goals that will put us in potential title race by next February.

Extra rest from the international matches probably. Taylor and Milner will probably have an even longer training break. Also, the club give Owen time out for sponsorship commitments sometimes, so it may be because of that.

Well done Freddy Shepherd.

He became a non-executive director in December 98, as he was forced to resign due to the brothel incident

From the club accounts ... William Frederick Shepherd: Appointed director of the football club in November 1991 and subsequently as chairman in July1998. Appointed as Non-executive director of Newcastle United PLC in December 1998, became a full time Executive Director in August 2001 ands was appointed Chairman in 2002. (NE5 will disagree with me on this as I've taken it from a club publication, but you can probably assume it is okay) So in other words, while he was chairman: Dodgy Dalglish transfers Appointment of Gullit Start of decline under Robson commenced shortly after his second spell as chairman commenced Sacking of Bobby Robson Appointment of Souness Signing of Owen and others. Accused by both Souness and Robson as the man actually in charge of transfers. Appointment of Roeder Appointment of Allardyce And while he was at the club, but not chairman: Appointment of Keegan Signing of Shearer 2nd in the league Appointment of Dalglish Appointment of Robson Champions League Qualification.

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Confirmed by Arsenal

Wouldn't believe any Nigerian authority - they are as corrupt as hell.

You'd be better off trying to go and see Newcastle play someone like Wigan, Portsmouth or Reading.

thus the day is clear?google is shit lol. We want to order tickets before. As we make best. Newcastle vs Liverpool is a popular match for television. Thus, do not rule out the game being on either Saturday at 12, Sunday at 2pm or 4pm, or maybe even Monday at 8pm. May be a difficult game to get tickets for as well if we are in good form.

I thought Juventus HAD to play us this summer?

We'd just be buying the academy, it would have nothing to do with Leeds, it just allows the initial infrastructure to remain in place without too much upheaval required. It would definitely be a dream to have an academy in every football hotbed across the globe. The more players in an academy, the better the players that will 'make it'

Although England are experiencing a decline in standards, it is clear that Leeds have produced the highest amount of England internationals in recent years. Even when falling through the divisions, they seem to have produced the talent, with Chelsea amongst others, sniffing around their 16 year olds. Obviously it may be worth trying to capture a piece of talent from their academy. However, Leeds are spiralling down the divisions, and will be finding it harder to sign up young talent, so such captures could only be a short term measure. This is probably the most arrogant thing I have ever written, but.... Why not just buy Leeds' Academy? (The facilities and staff, not the players) We could have a larger academy network with an infrastructure that is proven to work, and I'm sure the Leeds Academy staff would be glad to see standards return to their initial high level. Alternatively, if this isn't allowed, why not just offer Bates large compo for all his academy staff, and move them all up to Newcastle. Obviously new infrastructure would therefore take a bit of time to be put into place, but it is the people that inevitably cause the success. We have the money, Leeds need money, we need the academy, Leeds already have one - it would be a match made in heaven.

By the way, that cheating dutch keeper needs a real beating. For the record, I'd have him down as only the third best keeper in his whole squad. Krul would have saved Lita's goal.

Not true imho. He plays in a position that England are already well off and theres also about 8 defenders that are currently ahead of him in the pecking order. Young, NRC, Huddlestone and onyohu are all more likey to get call ups imo. Huddlestone who can't get a game for England U21s?

Drenthe just didn't attack the areas that would have made England vulnerable in my opinion. If that could be drilled into him, he would be a very good left sided player for us, but it is a question of if, as many foreign imports have failed to take heed of the directness of the English game.

Cut out the silly immature things, and he is definitely high up in the second tier of England centre backs. The first tier, of course being Terry, Ferdinand, Woodgate and Carragher.