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He's still one of my all time heroes, don't care how bad of a manager he's turning out to be.

I really thought Pearce would turn out to be a top manager, but things aren't looking good. Think he should go down to a lower level and try and work his way back up.

I didnt see the game. Where did he play? Left or right? He's far more effective when played on the right. Massively so. We started with Milner and Young playing off Nugent. Milner was on the right, Young on the left.

Ashley Young is one of the most promising players out of our U21's. Didn't have a very good game yesterday though.

He's at a good age though. If he has another season like he had last season, then he will have proven he is over his injury's. Lost about a yard of pace like, luckily he can still read the game so well. You reckon? I wouldn't say so from what i've seen of him over the past year. Still looks quick on his feet to me. As you said though he's got the brain. Even when he's 34 (if he's over all of his injury problems obviously) and slow he will still be an excellent defender because of how well he can read the game

I don't think Shearer has a very big role at all anymore though. I remember either Roeder or Shepherd saying last summer that when they go to sign a new player they will just chuck Shearer in the room with them and if he can't convince them to sign for Newcastle then nobody can. Allardyce doesn't need anyone to speak for him when it comes to big players though. Obviously Solano would be useful because he would convince unknown players from Peru and tell the club about promising players.

Would be nice if he spotted the next Solano for us.

If he signs for the smoggies then that is surely a sign that nobody wants him. Boro haven't got much to offer a player really. Half empty stadium, crap team. I can see them being in a relegation battle next season if they don't strengthen their team massively. Southgate was saying only a few weeks back they desperately need Viduka to sign a new contract because they are gonna need to use a lot of their budget to replace him. They might say Tuncay is his replacement if they get him, but as everyone knows it is a big risk going into a season relying on a player to score goals who has never played in the Premiership. A lot hinges on Woodgate staying for for them next season.

Well anyway i agree we could do with Nobby's help with players from Peru in the future. He's one of the few current toon players i would definitely trust when it comes to spotting a good player. He's got a real football brain.

I don't think we need to anyway, i think he would be the first person to encourage a player to come to Newcastle if we were after one from Peru.

Niall Quinn got one at the scum and he didn't play anywhere near 10 years did he? It would be decent of the club to have a match for him and charge something small like a tenner a ticket and give it all to charity but i don't think it'll happen. That way everyone gets to have a good night and a load of money goes to charity. It wouldn't exactly be a non event like Rob Lee's if it was cheap enough and the likes of Shearer, Speed, Lee and Barton got a run out.

8 1/2 seasons at the toon next May then. Just think, if Sir Bobby never sold him he would have completed 10 years.

Fucking hell that is a shite team to be fair.

He's gonna get one hell of an ovation on the last home game of next season thats for sure. He'll back back for Givens testimonial in the future though i reckon

More good news then. Nobby's still a very handy player.

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For Barton, certainly. Could sign for Newcastle to tomorrow but apparently he cares more about money. For Newcastle, not for me to say. For City, not for me. Not embarrased over this one bit. I'd be embarrased if were willing to pay the odious little spacker. In fact I'll go as far to say that if City agree to pay him this, without being forced into it by a court of law, they'll never see another penny of my money again. I don't want you to think you're alone on this forum who think City have every reason to stick to their guns on this one... The actual clause itself implies a transfer request should a bid of 5.5m be lodged. It's like a transfer request written into the contract A contract law specialist would make a better case than me, but I would imagine a decent barrister would make it not so cut and dried as some posters here think. I'm sure I'm not the only Toon fan with a bad taste in his mouth after these "loyalty payments" revalations... Yes I agree with this also, the greedy little c*** doesn't deserve a penny, considering what he'll get from Newcastle, worst thing was to sign this piece of garbage we could much better IMO. No we couldn't.

Totally. Its why i'm liking SA working the current budget. In fact i'd rather him stick to this budget right now and do it sensibly and not over stretch the club. Do you think its just mis communication at Liverpool right now or something bigger? A difference in opinions more like, Rafa feels he can't do a lot more to bridge the gap and wants to bring in 3 world-class players at say 20m each but the new owners aren't going to pump that in, not when they've just forked out 400m or so to buy the club, plan to build a new stadium and Rafa has already spent good money on players in the past who lets be honest, haven't shown good value for money (some of them anyway). I can see Rafa's point like but he's a good enough manager to be able to win the title on 25-30m surely which is still a large kitty by anyone's standard? I don't think they can win the title with £25-£30m. Not because of fat Rafa's management ability though. I just think Manure and Chelsea are so far ahead with the quality of players they have, and they probably haven't finished their summer spending yet. I think Mourinho will probably get at least one top class player in. Liverpool haven't got one top class striker, and they need a winger as well.

Was gonna post more or less the exact same thing but didnt want to hijack the thread. Anyone who cant see that Jenas has improved as a player since joining us is massively deluded. still massively overrated though which i think is the problem ie. the constant England call ups despite him never concievably(sp?) going to play, etc. But other then Gerrard and Lamplard there's not really another English centre midfielder like him who is able to score goals and do hes fair share defensively. Name another midfielder who is energetic and scores a decent amount of goals? Joey Barton Kevin Nolan (ok he didn't have such a good season last season) I would have Barton in the England squad as i think he's the closest thing this country's got to Gerrard in terms of he's all round game. It makes me laugh the amount of people who claim Jenas is overrated yet have the audacity to name Nolan as a good player. Imo he is by far the most overrated pile of steaming crap there is and even Bolton fans dont want him in their team. On the basis of one bad season? He's scored 8+ league goals in 3 of the last 6 seasons. He obviously needs to be more consistent and do it every season, but its certainly not a bad record.

Was gonna post more or less the exact same thing but didnt want to hijack the thread. Anyone who cant see that Jenas has improved as a player since joining us is massively deluded. still massively overrated though which i think is the problem ie. the constant England call ups despite him never concievably(sp?) going to play, etc. But other then Gerrard and Lamplard there's not really another English centre midfielder like him who is able to score goals and do hes fair share defensively. Name another midfielder who is energetic and scores a decent amount of goals? Joey Barton Kevin Nolan (ok he didn't have such a good season last season)

Actually he must of gone well downhill if Spurs fans think Jenas is better.

We won't be signing any more fowards until Owen's gone anyway.

Murphy was actually on good form for Charlton before he moved to Spurs. He'd be a decent squad player if they only want £1.5m for him.

And just as i write that theres another paper mentioning Hyypia at the bottom of an article YOU'RE STILL A CUNT OLIVER