Leazes1986

Maybe Pardew has seen enough of him in training and matches and has came to the conclusion that overall he's not good enough but see's an opportunity to sell him for more than he is worth after the little good spell he had? His value will be higher than usual at the minute. Theres a good chance he will go back to the Leon Best we will sign and his value and confidence will plummet again. That Leon Best is not Premiership quality. Its not even an issue if we sign Ba and another couple of strikers. Especially if we're going 4-3-3 with 2 wingers more next season.

Pardew must have someone else in mind to replace him. Its a bit different selling Best than it is to Nolan, Barton etc. His hand isnt being forced here because of fee's, wages or contracts, he must have players he feels are better available to sign.

Shola must be on £30,000 after all them years here

Whoesale changes here, anything can happen. I wouldnt worry about the sale of Best.

Yet Ameobi and Lovenkrands are seemingly staying... So was Best until last night. Anything can happen.

Oh howay man everyone, he had a good spell last season but do we forget the rest of his Newcastle career? I would actually rather keep him than Lovenkrands but I'm not gonna lose any sleep over if we sign another 2 strikers. Its a bad move if we don't get more than one striker in. £4m would be good money though. He tries and he showed he can get a few goals but as far as I have seen he doesn't have the mentality or confidence to be a long term player here. His head goes down too often. Id be happy to keep him for some squad depth but people are overreacting here after seeing him knock in a few goals.

Vuckic just signed a 5 year deal while Pardew was manager and he's mentioned him as a big player for the future. I know he's saying "surprising" but that just wouldnt make sense since he's on pennies and we wont get a big fee for him. Pretty certain it wont be him, wouldnt make sense one bit. I'd say Lua Lua possibly but its not a surprise since theres not huge expectation on him and he's stated he wants to join Brighton. Kadar is a decent shout. Forster? (again wouldnt be a huge surprise). Xisco? As in shock that someones took him? Doesn't mean that its a young player just because he mentioned Ranger though although it probably is.

Aye, apparantly he chose Newcastle because we offered him £20,000 a week more

Everton "ITK's" claiming hes getting £70,000 a week here. Obviously trying to justify him coming here instead of going there. There is no way Mike Ashley would break the wage structure for him. It certainly wouldnt make sense after letting Nolan and probably Barton go because of their contract situations.

If we do sign another centre midfielder for decent money who we would probably have to guaruntee to be a first choice player then surely that would confirm that we're going for a 4-3-3 type of system next season. Our midfield and fowards could all be new players bar Tiote if you class Ben Arfa as a new player.

Why would he accept that contract when he would have been on more than that at NUFC and West Ham can't gauruntee him they'll get promoted. If he signed a contract on half money in the Championship he could be on less than £30,000 a week for his whole contract. He'll be on the full whack.

Well at the end of the day if he's on £55,000 a week for 5 years they're bigger mugs than I thought. So does anyone on here think we should have matched that? Is anyone still pissed off that we've sold him? I can't see how anyone can argue with his sale with the financial details that are being mentioned.

How much were people expecting? He's 29 year old, won't sign a contract less than 5 years (apparantly) and he's a player who looks like he might start really struggling in a year or two, he already struggles against teams with a lot of energy who pass the ball around.

West Ham must be offering him a very good contract. Love him for the part he's played in getting the club back where it belongs. Can understand the club not giving him a 5 year contract. But he did have 2 years left on his contract and I'm sure Pardew thinks to himself that there will be no place in the lineup for Nolan in 2 years if all goes well and he will be 31 then so it sort of makes financial sense. I am a bit wary that we are losing such a big influence around the place and our captain, but as far as money, value and the team progressing goes I can see why we're prepared to let him go.

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Theres no way he was offered £140,000 a week like, most managers don't get much input in players contracts, its funny how just for this one occassion KK gets to offer him a wage increase like that. I seem to remember at the time they were talking about a wage reduction on any new contract. If he was offered that money he would have signed it on the spot.

Thing is though, his comments just make him look like a huge cunt, they weren't witty ot anything, they just made him come accross like a knobhead who doesn't care about playing the game anymore and shows no shame for his part in our relegation. His shortcoming in the second part of 08/09 were a huge factor in us going down. We went down by a point. He wasn't good enough to steal us an important goal when it mattered.

I just don't get how we've all been lead to believe he was on £110,000 a week, then I'm fairly certain that Fat Fred done an interview for the Sunday Sun slating Owen before the Man U home match and he said himself Owen was on the wages we thought, yet Llambias comes out with this huge figure out of nowhere. The fact that Llambias is basically slating Owen's record and wages, then saying they offered him a wage increase (with the KK dig) doesnt add up. Don't believe him.

Its amazing isnt it, they are proven liars in court and its clear as a day that the board took all transfer/contract decisions above the managers head, yet its KK who offered Owen £140,000 a week

:lol: at the tattoo Barton is claiming is Savage

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Give him another year to bulk up properly with some more experience here or elsewhere and I think he might be a very good Premiership level player in 12/13.

My thoughts are that any grown adult who even owns a replica football shirt needs sectioning,it's a cringeworthy article and thankfully they are Geordies(from South Shields) and not mackems. So they're not either then... But they are your fans Tyneside = Geordies Wearside = Mackems South Shields = Tyneside The lads in the article are geordies and I'm happy about that. There are more Sunderland fans than Newcastle fans in South Shields, so your point has no logic whatsoever. Don't agree with that like and im not saying that just because im from their. Its pretty much 50/50. Although if you start counting the likes of Whitburn and ourskirts places then that would be true. If you just counted the parts close to the main town centre though then i reckon it would be very much 50/50.

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A well known national journalist has informed me that our wage cap is £50k a week. I'd say that is fair enough with the squad of players we have right now really. If players become available who are top class then we should break it but looking at our squad right now none of them should be getting paid over that. Jose, Colo, Barton, Ben Arfa and Tiote should be in that top bracket. Theres a case for Ben Arfa being worth more than that when fully fit.