James

I'd put Shola under the uncertain future category to be honest. We have no idea as to whether Allardyce rates him - plenty of people on here don't. And lets face it, Allardyce seems to want to (rightly) replace a significant part of our squad.

Friendly has been arranged.

So lets get this straight. Allardyce is seriously considering trying Dyer out at right back, and told Dyer so. McClaren discovers that Allardyce plans to do this, and then just suddenly decides that it wouldbe a brilliant idea. What a genius that McClaren is, totall his own man, unreliant on others ideas.

The South American clubs play many more matches though, and the better European based South Americans often miss out, allowing worser players to feature.

Last chance to manage a Big Club Sleeping giant Proper players Would like to be the manager to win the fans a trophy and will, as he'sdone so before at Liverpool, Rangers and Galatasaray Cant win anything with eleven Micah Richards. ^Expect the above if Souness takes charge^

Craig Hope doesn't write for the Chronicle any more Gemmill.

Done.

Jury is out for me on this one.

Also, it means that they cant buy their own football kits.

John COLLINS Collins JOHN

More Owen's fault for going to the WC unfit and endangering his career. Name one football fan in the world who would not play in the World Cup despite being passed as fit by both club and country doctors. He wasn't match fit and was why he came away with an injury, it doesn't matter if he was right to go, he wasn't fit, it didn't pay off, and he and the FA are partly responsible for where we've finished in the league and therefore responsible for us not having Europe and why he's in the position of leaving. So you seriously think he would have said no to going to Germany on account of not being 100% match-fit? He should of, hindsight or not he wsn't fit, he hadn't even played a game of football for us since Dec 2005, throughout his ENTIRE career Owen has been known for taking at least 3 matches to get fit and amongst the goals, this alone should of made him realise he was going to be a hindrance rather than an asset at the finals. It was a risk him going, fair enough... but it's the World Cup we're talking about. He was passed fit. Imagine if you were passed fit, but decided not to play, and then went on to see your teammates lift the trophy? You seriously think he'd have passed that up just to guarantee he would be OK for us (and who is to say he wouldn't have been injured in the Intertoto or in a friendly for us, or even training?)? True, but the point being he is more to blame for the current situation of him leaving for a CL club than GR and i firmly believe that. I can see where you are coming from, but as James said, if Roeder was a better manager perhaps we would have been a CL club ourselves this coming season. Not necessarily CL, but high up enough the league to look in a healthy state, with Owen less likely to want to move given that he'd be uprooting his kids once again.

Steven Taylor would have played if he found himself in Owen's situation. Obviously you don't like Owen, and there are things you are entitled tohold against him, but playing in the World Cup is not one of them.

Wasn't it Hansen who said that? Souness just victimised James Milner in particular.

More Owen's fault for going to the WC unfit and endangering his career. Name one football fan in the world who would not play in the World Cup despite being passed as fit by both club and country doctors. He wasn't match fit and was why he came away with an injury, it doesn't matter if he was right to go, he wasn't fit, it didn't pay off, and he and the FA are partly responsible for where we've finished in the league and therefore responsible for us not having Europe and why he's in the position of leaving. Lets put this differently... If Steven Taylor got injured at the World Cup when playing when not fully fit, missed almost an entire season, then activated a release clause to join a top 4 side, would you blame him?

More Owen's fault for going to the WC unfit and endangering his career. Name one football fan in the world who would not play in the World Cup despite being passed as fit by both club and country doctors.

Poor results on the pitch, making a Top 4 club a much more attractive proposition to Owen.

If we sell Parker, I want concrete assurances that this money isn't somehow going to get 'lost' during the takeover.

Fucking hell, thats £53 million they've spent so far this summer.

Furthermore, Owen has often spoken off seing out his Newcastle contract due to him not wanting to move his eldest kid out of his Newcastle-based school. Being a family man first, and a footballer second, Owen is only likely to hop off if a really appealing offer comes through, and if that is the case, then who are we to stop him? It would be the fault of Shepherd/Roeder/Souness if he hada get-out clause, not Owen.

He wouldn't have to bother publicly bigging up Allardyce if he didn't want to stay in my opinion.

We got taken off due to the state of our pitch perhaps? I know we definitely used to be on the list.

Threads might be down because there is nothing new to talk about, so when someone inevitably posts something that is already being discussed, it is quickly merged.

Sunderland at home would be brilliant. All eyes across the county would be on us for two weeks in advance.

I'll agree with Andy, otherwise he might give me a FINAL WARNING like he did to Apisith.

Think I remember being impressed with him at the World Cup.