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I don't think the squad difference is THAT BIG enough. It is fucking obvious that Keegan isn't the same class as Ramos.

Smith is a player who is not talented enough to win you a match. He is an excellent "hole filler" and when needed he can play everywhere you want and warranted a fair performance given his attitude and positioning. However we are not Man Utd and we need players who can win matches, like Robert or recently N'Zogbia. People are expecting the attacking players to score goals desperately and if you rely on Smith to score goals then it's definitely a failure. Smith, in some circumstances, doesn't deserve so much criticism but he also doesn;t deserve a starting place too. It's the case that even Carroll can offer something better than Smith in our relegation battle.

He actually is too good for us now.

I wonder how much we can receive by selling him. 4m at best?

Te be fair for the lad, he played quite well under Allardyce.

Sometimes I wonder whether that rumour is correct - Keegan has no tactics for the players but just ask them to play by natural instinct, like the Brazilians...

Someone mentioned that "he has escaped back to Spain"...so what the hell is going on for him? Or that's just a non-sense wind up? I feel sorry for him tbh, being forced out the team by both managers, probably due to the warranted starters: Duff, N'Zogbia and Milner. The only way to play them all is to drop Enrique into bench.

Carroll should start every game from now on. He is a better striker during relegation battle --- header is what we need.

Just tell me how could we have faith in Keegan please?

The point is whether Taylor should get extra punishment for that. To be honest, I support the idea of banning the players for say 10-20 matches if they caused extremely serious tackle by unsporting tackles. The EPL is reaching a stage that the injuries are getting more and more ridiculous and something must be done to stop that.

The problem Taylor has is his distribution, not his defense.

Spell your player's name correctly before calling Rafa out, please.

True, but the reason why they give up local lads is because they aren't good enough. It's like picking up gems from recognized shits.

He is in the best 11.

Just this season. Not bashing Given though, just wanna point out Krul has too many injuries---his shoulders seems too weak for a professional goalkeeper.

don't see how you come to either of those conclusions. When Keegan signed Soderberg he did mention Given and Harper but not Krul---just like he even don't know Krul is belonged to Newcastle. Check Krul's injury record---it is even more terrible than Given's.

You really believe this quote? Ashley admits that he "just want to give SA a little chance, and if things aren't going well then sack him". And is SA stupid enough to criticize the new boss just a few months after starting his job? You can believe that, I won't. It's purely nonsense as Ashley is a businessman---he won't make such silly mistakes. Ashley should make his mind up regarding SA's future rather than "give him a try, just a try". What sort of thinking is this?

Err...no, I'm not defending, I just find SA's quote interesting. What he said is like he was "cheated" to Newcastle. To be fair if what Mort said is true, Freddy is correct to bring in SA because we must sold some players and bought in a few cheaps in order to survive. And if this is the case, I don't think SA is required to play sexy football originally. And after the acquisition, SA was given a few million pounds (the net spending) to strengthen the squad and now because he was no longer under pressure to sell players, everyone in the club demands attacking football while actually the players are nearly the same. No matter how s*** Barton and Smith were, you couldn't deny they are at the same level with Parker and Ameobi. The squad wasn't improved a lot, Owen and Duff were not available, Given was simply f***** off. There are too much negatives within the squad even after Ashley's acquisition and if we consider what SA did with those few million pounds I didn't think it's that bad. Faye, Beye and Enrique definitely has a future and our defense no longer need critical improvement (Given perhaps). What you can really criticize is his inability to bring in players like Okocha (lots of luck is required) and build up attacking plays. But to be fair SA is get used to defensive tactics so why criticize him for that? It is not Freddy's fault either to employ SA under that circumstances. The whole mess is not purely their fault. It's the timing of acquisition, the decision to retain SA by Ashley WITH NOT MUCH FINANCIAL BACKUP, and the timing of sacking that caused us so much troubles. People are backing Kev by saying major investment is required as the players are too s***---this should applied to SA also right? I am very disappointed by Kev's appointment because he is not the right one, but anyway, even though Ashley has helped us a lot in clearing the debt, he is the one who should bear the responsibility for this mess. One point SA is right---the more we analyzed, the more we think failure is a must. It's no longer the problem of ability, but the strange situation.

Barton is a gamble, Enrique shows he could made it in the EPL while Smith is plain shit---but Ashley's shirt and the captaincy seems to show it's his personal favour rather than Sam's. Not backing SA but together with Beye and Faye, are his signings really that bad?

Just a question, so should we demand excellent players, attacking football together with decent result under Allardyce under these circumstances?

Honestly I wonder how Given can be injured by that deflected shot. My choice would be Krul but seems like Keegan doesn't rate him, and he is too injury prone as well.

We don't need this amount of money. If we need that 5m to buy Barnes then we are finished. You won't disagree with this right? And the problem is our management don't think Barnes worths that 5m. The end of story. You are suggesting we should get rid of Milner first because we can bring in a better one, while what I think is that we are extremely unlikely to bring in a player better than Milner. The best case is already Barnes who is also a gamble and this won't satisfy the fans here ah? After Keegan's poor January transfer window everyone is thinking "we will use 30-40m to build our dream factory this summer" and it ends up another gamble. Actually it's really a "dream factory"---you should also understand the chance of getting in the right players is extremely low, especially after such a pathetic season. To be honest if I am Keegan I will try to dig some gems from South America as there are plenty of good wingers, but he is now going for "premiership proven" players. Suggest someone who is willing to come and better than Milner please. I hope it isn't Routledge. N'Zogbia doesn't deserve to rot in Newcastle---He should play for Arsenal. I wonder how can you interpret this as "Milner is better".

5m? 10m? And WTF we have to measure it financially when we aren't under financial pressure? We are not lack of money---we just aren't able to attract players, and probably end of another few 60k ppw silly signings. His contribution has been Nil? Suggest a players other than N'Zogbia and Beye who contributes more than Milner, please. Rely on who then? Just go on. I simply don't understand WTF is Milner "the first one out of the door". Players like Quaresma simply don't give a damn towards our offer and we even don't wanna pay a few m for Barnes. We didn't go to South America to search Solano the 2nd and players like Young were regarded as a joke here a year ago. Tell me WTF is the rationale behind "Milner the first one out of door".

Enrique has serious positioning problems during offside trap.

According to the fans Milner out and we can become better.