Leazes1986

Unbelievable. Seriously, what a fucking moron for saying that.

I do think though that in the summer we are probably going to have to make some sort of exception with a couple of signings if we want real quality. Not daft wages like Owen was on, but I don't think we can put a £40,000 wage cap on Carrolls replacement. How many players can we realistically get in though? The squad as it is now in terms of numbers (with everyone fit) needs another left back and right winger. Thats not taking into account the players ability and situation in the summer. We know that Campbell will be away, and theres a decent chance that Routeledge and possibly R.Taylor and Lovenkrands will be away. I think he will probably keep the likes of Perch, Guthrie and Best as they are cheap squad players who seems to have a bit of faith in at least. I think they'd love to get Smith of the wage bill but I think we're stuck with him. Thats just looking at it from a realistic point of view from Pardews thinking. Personally I think we could do with 2 new strikers just to go into the lineup. This should be priority before anything else. I'd also like to see two new wide players brought in with more quality than Routeledge and Jonas to give us other options with Barton and Ben Arfa. We'll also need another centre half and some backup for Enrique. If Ireland fits in well here he would be a great signing but if he gets back to his best and Villa agreed to sell he wont come cheap unless there was an agreed fee in with the loan. I don't know how much all of that would cost but unless our scouts have something special up their sleeves then a big chunk of the Carroll money will be needed for a couple of strikers.

Because it probably wasnt planned in this window? I don't think the plan was to actively look to sell him, I just think Ashleys head was turned by the transfer fee being offered, but he knew he couldn't accept like that or he would be lynched, but he now has an excuse/reason (call it what you want), with Carroll expecting improved terms, so thats allowed him to go ahead with it. I understand the argument where poeple are suggesting that it would be daft to give him a massive contract with our new wage structure and the effect it might have with negotiating with other players, but at the same time I think this should have been one exception. This is Englands new number 9 for the next 10 years. He was probably gonna score 20 goals a season for us for the next 20 years. Surely the rest of the squad could have accepted that we had a player here who is a one off and he is on another level to most of them.

I don't think we'll spend anywhere near that, but that money should definitely be all available. Surely Ashley was gonna hand over some sort of transfer money to Pardew in the summer, even if it was only £10m, so why not give the manager all of the transfer money and Ashley doesnt have to put any extra towards it.

Its all about how the money is spend now though (if it is all used on transfers, which I highly doubt). If we go out and buy 4 or 5 good players with it then it might turn out to be a good deal. Imagine the money getting wasted the way Souness used all that money in 2005? Does anyone have confidence in Pardew to spend the money properly? Hughton I would have been after the success in his signings as manager. Its pissed me off though because regardless of who he plays for, he is easily my favourite striker around. Just like when Shearer was at Blackburn, I fucking loved his game, and the same goes for Carroll, and we actually had him at such an age as well. He's a monster of a player.

Howay man, he's talking to the official club site. He's hardly gonna tell them he's gutted to leave Newcastle and he's only there because of money or whatever. He probably is happy, he's got a huge wage increase, has signed for a massive club and it is a big opportunity. It is all clear that he was willing to stay now though if he got his new contract. If he was desperate to leave he wouldnt have asked for it he would have just said he wanted to leave. Pardew has confirmed he wanted a new contract.

Reading between the lines of todays comments and reports I'm actually starting to understand why he's left a bit. You can say this and that about hometown club etc, but the fact is Liverpool are bidding for him and probably every top club in England want him and he knows he is gonna double/treble his wages if he moves. He has stated he wanted to stay but wanted a new contract and Pardew has confirmed this. He has every right to ask for a new contract (even with him signing a new one not long ago), if he's on course to dwarf his current salary elsewhere. His stock has increased massively and will continue to do so. If he was on £30,000 a week and he's potentially getting offered £80,000 a week elsewhere and with his ability then we should be bending over backwards to keep get him to sign a new contract again. £80,000 a week is a lot of money but he is a one off, potential world class, and he was the potential new Shearer for us. Why shouldn't he get a contract which shows him the club values him as much as Liverpool do? Its clear that, although the club probably didnt want to sell him, as soon as Ashley seen the pound signs he would have been tempted to sell him, and once he had an excuse to that was it. £80,000 fucking grand a week, for once we would have been paying someone top money who was actually worth it. 22 years old. We will regret.

Sorry lads I don't know anything really It wouldn't surprise me if we signed Chopra though knowing this club.

Chopra is the man in talks.

Theres no way we're gonna get any value for money now. We've lost our only good striker and we've got a few hours to go with tens of millions in the bank. We'd end up spending an absolute fortune on an average striker. The best thing we can do is look at the likes of Strurridge on loan. I'd actually take Crouch but only on loan, which is never gonna happen. Unless we've had something up our sleeves for ages and we've found a striker version of Tiote for peanuts (which we wouldn't have) then the best we can do if we want to look after our money is loan someone.

Carroll leaving won't have any impact on Enrique or Tiote leaving. What will have an impact on them leaving is if a team comes in with stupid money and offer them a better wage then we reject it and they request a transfer.

It just makes you wonder, where do they get this stuff from that he's on his way to Liverpool, then an hour later its said the bid has been rejected. Either we are planning on selling him for huge money at the end of the day, or SSN are fucking clueless (and theres a huge chance of that). If he's still a Newcastle player by tomorrow then we have to offer him a big wage increase after turning down such money. He's worth it though.

Woodgate would only be on loan anyway, he's worth a punt on loan I think until the end of the season.

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Well we have to be realistic in how many replacements we can bring in before we get rid. The players we should be letting go of wont pay for quality replacements really. I'd say we definitely have to get rid of Perch, Smith and Xisco if possible. Them three definitely have no future here. I'd count Campbell as good as gone. Then you've got the likes of Routeledge, Guthrie, R.Taylor, Best and Lovenkrands who all might have the odd good game at this level but none of them are anywhere near good enough. In fact, they are all Championship players. Apart from Guthrie and Routeledge who we might get £1.5m for, the rest of them we'd be lucky to get a fee for or certainly over £1m. In our situation with the owner we have we're never gonna be able to get rid of all the shit and replace it with better players. I'd say next season whichever keeper, Simpson, Taylor/Williamson, Coloccini, Enrique, Barton, Tiote, Ben Arfa and Carroll would certainly form the basis of a more than good enough team for its 2nd year in the Premiership looking to push on a bit. Its outside the starting 11 which is our main problem of course, but we could really do with plugging the gaps in our first 11 as well. A quality midfielder either to go on the right and push Barton inside or a centre midfielder, and of course a striker would make a huge difference. Personally what I'd like to see is Samba brought in with Perch and R.Taylor shipped out and S.Taylor used as a right back. Kadar first team squad. It wont happen but I don't trust ST at centre back and I certainly dont trust Perch and RT. In midfield I think Larsson coming in for Routeldge, with Smith being moved on, Gosling and Ben Arfa back and the addition of another quality midfielder would do us. We have a problem up front as only one of them has any real quality. No way would I see Ranger but he really needs to go out on loan. We can't even contemplate that though without having enough strikers ourselves. Shola is here for life. We really need two new strikers though. So overall, if we can ship a few out, get someone like Larsson in for cheap and how our injured players back to fitness, then I'd look to invest any money available on a bit more quality in midfield and up front. Samba would be nice, but we won't move ST to right back and we wont pay the money for him.

Surely nobody believes that. If we got a bid of £2.5m or over for Routeledge we'd accept.

I'm just looking at our fixtures and trying to see matches I might not be able to make but most of them are scheduled for Saturday at the minute which should obviously change quite a bit.

Could do with 18 months out on loan.

Would love him to released another book one day, from his time at Fulham up to now

I don't know if I can even bring myself to watch this press confrence. Got so much anger and so fucking sick of things and the last thing I need to see is Alan fucking Pardew or Llambias spouting shite.

There should be 50,000 Newcastle fans singing his name at the top of their voices before kick off on Sunday in front of the Sky cameras to give a big fuck off to the press and the bullshit they are printing.

I'm not a violent person but I watched it at my local in Jarra and when the commentator announced Ben Arfa had a suspected broken leg some mackem put his fist in the air and shouted "get in Arfa's broke his leg", I felt like fucking glassing the bastard. Fucking fuming.

We really shouldn't play Carroll up front on his own against these lot. Wigan are fucking crap and they are there for the taking. Lovenkrands can be just as effective as he was last season against their defence and he should start. The obvious thing would be to put him in for Nolan, but realistically thats not gonna happen. I think he'll go 4-5-1 again but I reckon if he went 4-4-2 he'd drop Tiote for this game going with the more attacking minded Barton and Nolan. Tiote should be the first name on the teamsheet as far as I'm concerned now after Carroll, Barton and Jose. Ok the 4th

He is better than what he is showing, in terms of being able to beat a full back, but he doesn't habe the required quality when it comes down to being an effective Premiership winger. He'll have days where he plays well against the lower teams and maybe wins us a match but overall he's not good enough. He's gone from one of the most important players in our team (from January) to one of the players who should be replaced first out of our first choice team. Thats the difference in quality between the two divisions though.

He really is a hell of a find if he keeps on playing the way he has been. I'm really enjoying seeing us being sensible in the transfer market and buying players for good prices and getting good value out of them fora change. I mean, even though some of the players Huhgton has bought might not be up to it at this level, he certainly got what was required out of the likes of Routledge last season when it mattered and we would easily get our money back.