James

He's got a right to say that he has been misquoted. The main site may be able to put forward a carefully worded comment on this if Mr. Fowler comes forward.

Didn't Roeder say Oba was now worth £20m? Obviously he didn't have a clue about what was going on

I bet Luque also has a £12m clause.

Sam will ask Arsenal soon whether there is any interest.

Allardyce on .cock says it should be done today hopefully - delay isn't down to him or the player it would seem. Says he's signed him for his height, his composure on the ball, and his ability to read the game, and his ability to settle quickly due to his English fluency. May take him a while to be ready to play in the Premiership yet, so may only be on the bench at start of season, depending on how he fares in pre-season.

Do you think it is wise to disagree with someone who has seen considerably more Spanish games last season than you have?[/verlaine]

Allardyce already thinks that the clause issue with Michael Owen is done and dusted, and he'll be here next season it would seem from the initial interview.

His source is a Barcelona based Newcastle fan.

Are we getting paid money though? Or are we paying to sell Carling, hoping to earn some profit from our sales?

I want to see him play one more season with decent strike partners, a decent team around him, and a decent manager.

Newcastle aren't in Austria.

Source?

Yeah, then loads of photos suddenly appeared of him in a Newcastle Shirt the day we sorted the £300k payment, when he was still away. Like Barton, Rozehnal has probably signed, done all the photos holding/wearing the new shirt - but the paperwork probably just needs to be rubber-stamped before they can/will release any of them. I reckon that will be the case. Someone needs to befroend the club photographer so we can have a new ITK.

A variant of the NUFC alphabet teams, lets see the best teams people can come up with using every single player in the world that is currently playing. As the number of players available to choose from has increased, you must use either 442, 433, 451, 532, or 352.

Rozehnal's deal might be 2.7m. 5.8m for barton + 2.7 for rozehnal adds up to 8.5 m. Take off 6.5 from parker and we signed 4 players for 2million. Yes, aboslutely chuffed. At the moment, it is a loss of 5 first team players, and £2m, and an incoming of 4 players whom are a bit better. after Geremi, it will be a case of really tracking down on players that are going to heftily improve our first team. Three of four signings thus far are squad signings. The best is yet to come.

They were the best though because we were a shit team. We want to have a quality team, and Geremi is one of many players needed to form a quality squad.

Everything starts from nothing.

This may reduce the chance of us signing Beye mind, unless Allardyce wants Beye as a centre back.

Or if the source is the press association, it is even more likely.

Football365 were first to this story, they have a very good record in predicting the transfer of African players, for example, the picked up on Faye to Newcastle a week before Sky, the BBC, or the tabloids picked up on it. Thus, if their source is from the same good source that got these other transfers, it is probably happenning.

Up front, we arguably have the best bunch of strikers in the country now (better in depth, although Man U and Chelsea have higher quality first choice strikers), so this season, we can probably avoid spending in that area now. In midfield, we have a good bunch of players, most of whom would get in the squad of most teams, although we could be improved with an athletic defensive midfield destroyer, and with a player who can score goals and create more chances. In defence, we basically have two senior defenders, a centre back with great potential in Taylor, plus Rozehnal who I perceive to be Allardyce's upgrade on Craig Moore. We also have two other centre backs with potential. In my opinion, we are going to need between 3 and 6 new defenders, and that will deplete the budget. I'd say, get three defenders, not exceeding £6m, and then another exceptional centre back if available, like Andrade. That would basically be half the budget then spent. Then it is a straight choice as to whether to burn the other £20m on a defensive or offensive midfielder. I'd go for the offensive options, as Rozehnal, Barton, Butt should be able to cover the defensive position for now.

Using a classic 2-3-5 formation Srnicek Serrant Sansom Solano Speed Sellars Saha Sibierski Shearer Stubbins Stokoe

Knowing the perception of the French workforce, the staff at the PSG player registration department only works on Wednesday mornings during the summer months.

Someone always says that, but that is not correct - wehave done deals on Saturday, Sunday, 10pm etc.

Only development is a new one line quote from Rozehnal in the Chronicle. Can't expect much business to be done today due to the boardroom upheaval.