Bad Mongo

We don't have a better squad now, we just have lower expectations.

So will Ashley. But he'll also sell Tiote, Enrique or Ben Arfa in August.

Are you Mike Ashley, Derek Llambias or Carroll's agent?

Because it was made clear that he wasn't as much wanted as the £35M.

It makes perfect sense. Now the club can come out of this pretending they didn't want to sell him. It's PR. Sure there's no force involved, but does it really have to be? On the one hand, you're asked to leave. On the other hand, you have an offer to triple your wages.

It fits far too well with Ashley's earlier behaviour to not blame him. He always sells the best players towards the end of the transfer window, failing to replace them.

Another fact is that when he signed the contract, he didn't know the club evaluated him as a £35M player.

100 pages in this thread the last 24 hours. Not bad.

The squad is now significantly weaker. A win for the club's owner, perhaps, but not for the club.

It's a mystery.

His ambition is to turn the club into profitable also-rans.

All 3 handed in transfer requests. And? We're still a selling club.

He's just so incredibly Tottenham in his cuntishness. Selling his highest valued player at the end of the transfer window. Milner, Given and now Carroll.

So Carroll agrees to make himself look the cunt because Ashley says so? How is anyone this stupid? Because he's no longer a Newcastle player.

He's worth more to us than to anyone else, so there's really no point in selling him.

Huseklepp off to Serie A and Bari.

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Almost feels like a loss.

Decent shot, that.

Oh, Enrique being too good for his own good.

Shola, man.

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If someone's willing to pay that (or 24m even), then that's what he's worth. You're confusing price with value. If someone is willing to pay £24m, then that's what he costs, not what he's worth. By your reasoning, Michael Owen was worth £17m or whatever FFS paid for him, which is evidently untrue.

Yes, or WOAT, as they would say (fixed it).

John Carver has been appointed assistant manager. (I know, I know, WOAT, but not of five.)