Leazes1986

"and its another...its a hat-track for Asprilla"

Souness signed 12 players while he was manager here. He left in February 2006. If Babayaro, Luque and Owen leave (which are all looking really likely assuming we find takers) this summer then we the only survivors will be Krul, Solano and Emre (with Clark retiring obviously). Even out of them 3 theres only Krul 100% certain to be here next season (and he's not even a first team player). All them players came up to around £50m. Its quite scary thinking about it. We've got back just under £13m from the 6 players who he signed who have since left. Assuming Owen leaves for £9m, Babayaro leaves for free, and Luque is loaned out that comes to around £22m from the players he signed who we have since got shot of. £28m down, and probably only 3 players left to show for it come September.

Spot on about Owen. Was just reading that a few minutes ago.

He was only here for 2 years.

The Collymore and Albert ones definitely stick out. Shearer scoring past Switzerland "Alan Shearer has scored for England. When it matters, Shearer comes good"

This is some of the over-rating bollocks I was talking about. Talk about huge expectations. Which is why i said "in a few years". I'm not saying he is an international defender now. I'm saying he has the potential to be one and i think he will reach his potential now that he is hopefully gonna be playing alongside some quality defenders every week.

I really don't see the logic in selling him unless we got silly money for him. He can improve a lot. He's scored 17 goals and he hasn't even played very well in a lot of the games. If he finds consistency, and improves a bit more then he definitely has the ability to break the 20 goal mark.

I don't really thinks its the best of ideas to bring in a player at that age who has never played in the Premiership and will be on big money. He's a great player though.

Bramble at his best? He has a couple of good games a season. Bramble doesn't have a best, he's awful. Taylor will go on to be an England regular in a few years imo. Bramble will probably be playing in the Championship in 2008/09. Thats where he belongs.

I want to see more performances from Taylor like he played against Arsenal at SJP last season. He was immense that day. If he can find more consistency then he can go on to become one of the best defenders in the Premiership in a few years.

I don't see why people are talking about who should be captain, when its looking like we are gonna be buying 3 more new players after Viduka and Barton, just to go in the starting 11. Possibly 4.

Why have you still got a Scott Parker avatar? Never really took much notice tbh. I'll change it soon.

Sell him and hope he breaks his legs and it ends his career. England need him, but Newcastle need him as well. If he has the audacity to ask for a transfer then he deserves everything bad that happens to him.

Good thing about Dyer, is that with that formation he can fill in about four of those positions. Five if you count right-back. Fill them in aye. Badly.

I've got a mate who was fuming because Rooney went to Euro 2004 and Ameobi didn't despite "Ameobi being better". He was also fuming when Souness got sacked because he hadn't had enough time. What was our first home match under Roeder again? I can't remember who we were playing now but i remember we won and the performance was much better. After the match when we were going for the metro he said "it would have been the same if Souness was manager today". Then he was fuming when Roeder got sacked for exactly the same reason. Bad luck and injuries. He even had in his msn name "fuck off Allardyce" http://images.skysports.com/images/playerpics06_07/Experts/kamaramain.jpg "UNBELIEVABLE JEFF" tbh

Where have i heard that before. Loan him out for a couple of years to gain some experience imo.

I hate the Union Rooms like

I remember earlier this season when Taylor was having a bad time, a few people on here were saying Ramage is better than Taylor after Ramage had a rare good game in the UEFA Cup You couldn't make it up

Viduka is going to be one of the first names on the teamsheet.

We don't need Bellamy back really. Hopefully we keep Owen and Martins. I loved Bellamy when he was here, but we can do without his shit off the pitch.

People who are expecting a top four finish next season are expecting too much too soon. We have money but we are also gonna probably have half a team full of new players. Maybe in a year or two we can push to get back into the top four. Top 6 would be great for now though.

If he's got any ambition though he will want to play in England. The dutch league isn't very high standard. I think we should definitely loan him out for a few years. Don't know if a Championship team will gamble on him at the minute. Given has plenty of years left in him yet though, so if we loan Krul out for 3 years even then i don't see a problem with it. Ideally a year in League One, a year in the Championship, then if he really impresses a year at a Premiership club. He could then come back to us with a load of matches under his belt.

Why would anyone prefer to have Krul on our bench when it will do him no good whatsoever?