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I think the questions should be: 1. Should Keegan has the ultimate power to decide the transfer issue and 2. How to balance the power between Wise.co and Keegan While you can say that it's Ashley's fault to give Wise.co too much power on transfer issues, I also believe that it would be ridiculous if Wise doesn't have the power to sign a few players because honestly Keegan doesn't have enough up-to-date knowledges on spotting cheap and youth talents, which are deadly important for a club which doesn't have Euro competition. The fact that we have to pay way too much fees and wages for Duff / Smith etc which are overpriced (and useless) explains that we always tends to use money to attract "proven" players rather than spotting those who we really should rely on and develop at. I can see Keegan may probably targetting these kind of players as well. Colo, Jonas and Bassong has been fucking brilliant and I really cannot blame Wise.co for having the power to sign these players. They spotted them, evaluate them correctly and get the deal done on very reasonable price (in a sense robbery for Jonas).

Considering his cheap transfer fees (2m) I am hugely tempted to try other similar youth players who don't have chances to prove themselves in Big 4.

From what I saw in the match vs Man Utd. Not excellent but do creates some threat.

Hugely depends on Martins' availability. If he's not fit then very likely we can only get a draw at best. Lennon and Bentley both are in good form and I can see Butt concede a penalty again.

All these players jsut cost us totally 10m. Fucking brilliant business tbh. I wouldn't say Ashley's system is better but I definitely cannot see we bring in these kinda "economically efficient" players if Keegan has the say. More likely we will have established players in EPL like Dunne which will cost us a lot more.

JFK has been the most controversal manager I've seen for Newcastle so far.

Joey Barton. I prefer a Diop / Vieira type player. Barton isn't that good enough to cover the defense line. A very all-around player though.

We just need a replacement for Butt and our team will be very balanced. sadly that won't happen.

Incredible. What a shit manager --- and we still have at least 5 months to go. Fucking hell.

I think that explains why he's not valued that high in Real Madrid despite scoring a fair amount of goals.

He's definitely better than Milner.

You can say "fuck off" as a football fans but you could understand his feelings as an human.

You gotta understand JFK in charge =/= he should be blamed. The club's future is still very unclear as Ashley doesn't going to sell the club in short term. You should bash Ashley or the potential bidder (probably another businessman aiming for short sale profits - if the price they offered is ridiculously low). If we didn't hire JFK we must be in relegation zone now. He should be credited, no matter how much you hate him.

I'd rather have JFK.

He is even worse than Milner FFS.

That must be the most painful decision in my life --- Cacapa or Taylor.

This is the worst performance I have seen for Jonas.

If we notch a win again tonite then the short term appointment of Kinnear is definitely a classy move. Not long term though.

.....Certainly if he's not offered a longer contract he will be off soon. He's only 1 month left in his contract right? Tautology.

I think what Ashley did was trying to improve the club as much as he can without making any personal loss

All bullshit tbh.

The reason why he is so error-prone is because he always thinks like Nesta while he is just a defender slightly better than Bramble. If he can get over the illustrious hype, play the ball simpler, he isn't that bad as a EPL defender. However before that he better just fucked off and warm the bench.

Isn't it 5.8m Euro?

To be honest our players aren't that bad. We just need a really good manager.

Bassong has been very impressive.