Leazes1986

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.

If we do lose Jose then its a no brainer to go for Van Aanholt imo. Looks a very good prospect.

Theres no way he will go down to the Championship. He's probably gonna end a Premiership medal and possibly a Champions League medal so his ego will take a nice little boost there just with them despite contributing next to fuck all. I could definitely see him going to a promoted club where he would be the main man if they offered him massive money, but he'd sooner retire with 2 of the best medals you can win rather than drop down to the level he maybe should be playing at now. Its clear he doesn't care about playing football anymore since his international career is over. Its all about the money and being at Manure for him now. I wonder if he's still on good terms with Shearer after he dropped him. Its a petty thing to fall out with someone over, but I can only imagine the horror he felt after he got dropped from out relegation threatened team of no hopers at Anfield a couple of years ago. They seemed quite close before that, but since then ive never heard either of them mention each other or seem anything in papers or whatever of them out in public or at any charity functions. Unless im missing something it seems Michael didn't like that at all.

Wonder if Pardew was on about Coloccini when mentioning new contracts. He named the obvious 3 contracts they are trying to sort out then said he had others but won't name them. Think Colo, Jonas and Simpson have 2 years left. Hopefully he's not on about the people with only one year left other than the obvious. Theres Shola, R.Taylor (i think), Guthrie, Lovenkrands and Smith. Also got Kadar and Best with a couple of year left as well going by nufc.com

If QPR aren't punished I could definitely see him going there with a decent wage and being a big fish, albeit a dead one.

He had one good season at Carlisle I seem to remember. I think that was before he signed for Hull. Banged them in and you could see the class in some of his goals just watching highlights. Was brilliant at Leeds though. Shame.

Harper could be out for the season.

Harper might need a knee operation

He might not even play again this season though, they probably don't want to build up any pressure on his comeback. Once a big thing is made that he's back in training then it'll start putting pressure on to put him back in early if we have a bad couple of weeks.

No I can't see it because I and probably most others thought that we had stability under Hughton and there was absolutely no need to change managers, then all of a sudden Ashley decided he was bored and decided it was time to piss the fans off again. I don't think he actually wants stability.

Great news, absolutely HUGE in fact. It ties a top class player down long term, shows a statement of intent to our other players (I certainly think this will be enough to convince Barton), and it protects us if other teams coming now because they'd have to pay top, top dollar now.

Can't leave this one until the summer like. If we manage to win our next two home matches then that is really the time to go up to him when we know we will be safe, and give ourselves time to persuade him to stay. We should really push the boat out to keep him, he is one hell of a left back.

I just think that if we could somehow get £8m for him and taking into account he's probably on £40,000 a week, we could probably get 2 players as effective as him if we shopped around for not much more money that we would get for him.

I'd like to see him in a hole, behind the goal.

I think he's been one of our weakest performers this season. Out of the first team regulars I'd say Simpson, Colo, Enrique, Barton, Tiote, Nolan, Carroll and probably Williamson as well have all been consistenly better.