Bad Mongo

You cant really teach skill, not after the player has hit 18. I saw no evidence of him having the personality to be a coach either

Utter bollocks.

5live saying Shepherd has offered £75m and it could be sorted as soon tomorrow.

 

Just what i've been told mind.

 

Confirmed on the beeb site:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8081039.stm

Hm, it's been denied by the club.

Hi rivals Owen as one of the worst signing we've ever made in recent history.

Luque? Boumsong? Coloccini? Nolan? Ryan Taylor? Smith? All of these have been worse than Barton on the pitch. It's no wonder we're down.

Yeah, but he'd only buy attacking players while claiming they're all for defence. Then he'd have them drilled in formation all year, refuse to let them go to away games, and Middlesbrough and Sunderland fans would start to mysteriously(?) disappear only to show up years later declaring their loyalty to the Toon.

It might work, but I prefer a more traditional approach.

They seem to be basing the story on this:

Arabian business sources say any group claiming to have enough wealth to launch a takeover and fund a transfer spending spree is likely to include the Sultan, who owns the worlds second biggest yacht.

 

Why can't we get the bloke with the biggest yacht; it's always second-best for us...

We will. He's obviously buying the club to set St. James' Park afloat.

Then he'll notice he bought a club with Nicky Butt being the main engine in midfield.

The conpiracy theory rears it's head again. Big bet with say Levy. Mike says I'll take over the toon, drink with the fans, appoint a washed up casino manager as chairman then get them relegated. Levy says 100 mill you fucking don't.

My own pet theory (which is most likely wrong, I admit) has always been that Mike Ashley's plan from the beginning was to turn Newcastle into a profit-making enterprise modelled after Spurs, due to a bet with Levy. The dialogue went like this:

DL: "Only Spurs fans are thick enough to accept the same nonsense every fucking year: We buy some exciting foreign prospect for good money to create some buzz and make those idiots think we're going to challenge for fourth, then sell our best players at a massive profit after the season ticket sale is over. Then, when it doesn't work out, we sack our 'long term' manager and get in a new one. Always new optimism, and nothing ever happens. The only really profitable club in the country, and safe mid-table mediocrity."

MA: "Nah, I bet that could work everywhere. Football fans are all idiots, and so are the chairmen at every football club. I bet I can make any club as successful as Spurs. Even Newcastle!"

DL: "I bet a million quid against."

MA: "It's a bet. I also bet a million quid I can down a pint of lager in less than five seconds."

DL: "That's how you made your fortune, wasn't it?"

Ashley is a total Cunt for fixing Shepherd's mess.

 

He hasn't fixed anything.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  English Definition according to Stupeedo,. Fix: take something that was going well but went a bit off the rails, and fucking destroy it, beyond all recognition.

Perhaps he meant 'fix' as in 'neuter'.

Ashley is a total Cunt for fixing Shepherd's mess.

He hasn't fixed anything.

In my opinion: none of them. The team isn't put together as a team, it's a bunch of decent players who both individually and, more importantly, in combination lack some vital qualities needed to play good Premiership football.

Most importantly, we lack pace and movement. So did Shearer in his later seasons, but he did well as long as he had Bellamy, Robert and Solano.

Still think Messi is a better footballer than Ronaldo.

And Jonas? Bassong? Viduka? Løvenkrands?

If Xisco is on £50k a week then we should be trying to get rid of him.

If Xisco is on £50K/week, we can't possibly get rid of him. There's no way he'll get more than half as much anywhere else.

Actually, he did get a couple of assists vs Middlesbrough.

I'll never admit to ungrammatical statements.

The "system" was bollocks, Ian. What he did was he turned Newcastle into a selling club. He said it was the "Arsenal model", but he really meant Spurs: taking the piss out of the fans by selling the best players. Of course, the difference is that Spurs are also willing to buy good players.

The players we have almost got relegated last season, Ian.

And to add to that, Ashley made sure the squad was weakened in both numbers and quality during the summer transfer window.

The players we have almost got relegated last season, Ian.

yes cos they got in a good replacement and ran the club well, i'd also say zola had a head start with a better more balanced squad with decent youngsters coming through to supplement it, we got kinnear

And why do you think Keegan quit? He had harped on for ages that he needed full backs, he then needed a replacement for Milner (who was obviously sold against his wishes), and the only players he got that he wanted were cheap youngsters; the squad was weakened and even less balanced than it was at the end of last season. Yet Keegan's departure was somehow morally wrong, he should have struggled on. After being undermined by the owner and the 'system'.

Problem is: Keegan wasn't allowed to do his job. Ashley is a fucking fraud, man, why should Keegan support him? This relegation is 100% Ashley's fault.

i never said keegan did (though his timing stank imo) and getting rid of wise to accomodate your one hope is admitting sod all.

Ooh, yes, such a horrible timing. Like when Curbishley left West Ham, and look where they are now.

Doesn't matter if he tries he's fucking shit. I knew we'd given up when I saw him coming on. That ridiculous shot near the end had me tearing my hair out.

The thing is, he creates problems for the defenders. Martin does, to an extent. Viduka, too. Owen? Only when he scores. And he rarely does.

fucks sake, oh well lets see these "consortiums" buy fat mike out then and disrupt this summer too

 

as if the fat cunts gonna write off 100m+

 

fingers crossed though

He just did, man. A championship club isn't worth nearly as much as a premier league club. He'll be lucky if his loss is only £100M.

Game was over when he brought Ameobi on. No actually game was over when they scored. Fuck it. Fuck every single one of them.

Bollocks. Ameobi actually tried. Who else did that in the second half? Apart from the Villa players, I mean.

Shameful lack of effort from the players in most of the second half.

We've been much worse after the break.

The team just isn't good enough to stay up. That's the sad fact.