James

All still vastly over paid. All I'm saying is that we cant complain about a players wages until we hear some reliable estimates on the actual pay package.

About half of wages involving Newcastle players is made up and over exaggerated. Owen's £100,000 a week is actually £80,000 Dyer's £80,000 is actually £60,000 Babayaro's £50,000 is actually £25,000 So don't judge wages on what the media say.

I'd wait till January, then reassess the situation.

Which transfers?

Owen played on the right of a 433 for Real Madrid did he not?

Porritt is possible, I'm sure they wouldn't just tack it on to the end of a piece about Middlesborough players getting released if it was a first teamer.

More shortly they said. They were talking about Boro players who were not getting new contracts at the time, which was why I wasn't really listening.

Just been on Sky Sports News Someone has left Middlesborough and is expected to join us. Didn't catch their name though, as I was half reading a magazine and hadn't really been listening. Can someone confirm?

Unfair if so. Beckham had forgotten about how to be a footballer. The spell in the wilderness helped him buck up his ideas, and allowed him to put in the performances that helped Madrid win the league.

I for one, apologise.

Perhaps we are signing him to play in selective games, ie give his knee a regular rest, but call on him in the 20 games a season he really is needed for.

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Just been announced on .cock PSG faxed Rozehnal's paperwork to Barcelona by mistake, so we have gone to pick it up.

Brilliant.

More like: "If you don't give us Messi, Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Henry, Zambrotta, Thuram and Marquez, we'll give you Luque"

HTT sent them a dossier of Spanish golf courses, so they thought they'd go and check some out.

Douglas Hall left the incriminating evidence behind when he flew off to Spain following his resignation.

Certainly the most exciting June in NUFC history.

Allardyce did say earlier today that he was going to ask Arsenal personally if they wanted Martins. Perhaps Arsenal's response wasn't what Allardyce was hoping for?

One thing for sure, if they are in Barcelona, they mean business.

I think Allardyce denied Giuly didn't he?

Already gone to Feyenoord.

My take on things: Oliver discovered this morning that Shepherd was off to Barcelona to make a big signing. Only he didn't know who it was. So he goes on Wikipedia and looks up Barcelona players, and concludes that Edmilson is the most likely candidate. He then makes up some quotes from an acquaintance in Spain to back his story up.

Have to say, we do seem ill-prepared, as a club, in dealing with foreign transfers.