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FOR THE LAST TIME!!! HE HAS HAD IT!!! THEY ALL HAVE!!! IF YOU HAND IN A TRANSFER REQUEST YOU LOSE ANY SIGNING ON FEE YOU AGREE'D WHEN JOINING THE CLUB!! Habib had no signing on fee............ Can you shout louder, I didn't get the point of your post. How would you know the details of his contract anyway?, do you know his agent or something?

Shepherds number one priority is lining his own pockets with our money so personally I'd prefer the Iranian Football motive.

Just not too bothered about Beye anymore, he wants out, he can go. More money brought in to stabalise things until the sale and another 2.5m a year off the wage bill. Ryan Taylor will do the business in the Championship, have faith

Glad he's at least had the guts to hand a transfer request in, means he'll forgo his loyalty bonus (which has to be over 1m), that's more then I expected from any of this lot of money grabbers.

Fine. Tell me that when it comes to the Champions League quarters and Wolfsberg are still there, then I will admit I was wrong. I must have missed those seasons when The Champions late stages were dominated by German teams, instead of English and Spanish clubs, it's getting that close in terms of quality. Sssssh man, as all us Newcastle fans know high attendances and a good set of supporters gets you everywhere. I thought I remembered a report not so long ago looking at attendances and it had the Premiership first, La Liga second, Bundesliga third, Championship fourth and Serie A fifth. Can't remember which season it was but it must have been recentish.

They must have made up the legit persian news company who quoted the bloke and the iranian business news site as well, they're clever like them mackem idiots If this is bollocks it will all be about this bloke trying to use our name for western PR, nothing to do with inbreds.

Its ok I already wanted him to fuck off

Well he's not going to be able to boost Iranian Football by languishing in the Championship and saving his money for a rainy day. Obviously if those are his motives then he'd need to make Newcastle as big as possible in world Football to get the best results.

How is that arabian site rehashing the SUN? you really believe any of those quotes from either source? wake up man! same fooking story mate, written differently,. to avoid plagiarism ofcourse, the Sun mentions an arab in Dubai, that fooking iranian website mentions some guy based in UAE which is where Dubai is in. same fooking sh1t. Are you that stupid? Bollocks, where are the quotes in the sun? They mention the same name, that's the only similarity. I didn't say I believed any of it, I said that article clearly isn't a rehash of the SUN, do you know what rehash means? Do you know how to quote properly?

How is that arabian site rehashing the SUN? same fooking story mate, written differently,. to avoid plagiarism ofcourse, the Sun mentions an arab in Dubai, that fooking iranian website mentions some guy based in UAE which is where Dubai is in. same fooking sh1t. Are you that stupid? Your talking utter bollocks , where are the quotes in the sun? They mention the same name, that's the only similarity.

I emailed ArabianBusiness.com about not being able to find info on this bloke and asking for details of where his information came from. Not much back but I'll post it anyway:

How is that arabian site rehashing the SUN?

Not sure if I can bring myself to celebrate just yet. Weren't there Malaysian sites quoting that Ananda Krishnan about wanting to buy Newcastle until he came out eventually and said he'd never been interested? Or was that all just "sources close to Ananda Krishnan"? I'd love to believe this like.

Fuck off Martins you prick. He's been banging on about wanting to go and now he's acting as if he's being forced out of a club that doesn't want him (if the quotes are true of course), fucking tosser.

I'd prefer Shearer no matter what. I think Keegan could still do the business but he's too volatile, he's proven that too many times now.

No idea how much we still owe on his fee, if anything. He's been here 3 years so I'd expect amost all if not all of it to have been paid off. As far as the accounts go (amortisation) we owe 4m because he started on a 5 year contract (10m over 5 years), but that's not really the same as actual cash, so who knows.

As far as I know there is either barely any foundation too it or absolutely none at all, it might even be someone just randomly brought up his name actually

He's been involved in attempts to buy both American Football and Baseball teams in the past though. Also as far as I remember he was linked to a Premiership club before, though I can't remember which one.

No it won't. We might get some money for Coloccini but forget those others you mentioned. Players who fetch money are those with either some skill or pace who are the right side of 30. That's why despite their being slagged constantly, i always knew we'd get money for Dyer, Jenas, N'Zogbia and now Martins...and will also get good money for Bassong. The ones who are worthless are the "loyal" ones i.e. absolute knackered, tired old shit who no one wants. Well I agree mostly. But a lot of people thought we couldn't get more then 4 or 5 million at most for Martins (I expected 7m). We seem to be playing hard ball despite our position which has given me hope that its not impossible we could get say 6m for Coloccini, 3m for Smith and a million or so each for the rest of them (appart from Geremi)

I'd put Ranger ahead of Donaldson like.. Also its not as if this is the finished squad..

I'd actually be pretty gutted if this turned out not to be true or if the deal fell appart, fingers crossed. Now lets follow it up by getting rid of Coloccini, Duff, Smith, Geremi and Butt for a combined 15m (hey if we can get 9m for Martins it might just be possible )

Indeed. He has no ability on the ball whatsoever. One good header against Stoke and people start becoming very forgetful. Meanwhile other people forget an even better header against West Ham

Did you watch Martins get outclassed by a league one side the game before that? Lets not get into this silliness mate, they're just friendlies. I've seen Carroll play in the Premiership and he looked decent there, excellent in the air and the kind of striker who could do very well in the Championship. Also if this deal pushes us closer to being sold then we can get into a position to bring new players in, players who aren't on over 70,000 a week.

I'm pretty happy with this, its actually lightened up my day a bit Its not that I hate Martins or anything like that, more that I really don't care too much about him anymore and am just glad to see action from the club. When we first went down Martins was one of the players I wanted to keep (though I never expected to even then). But with the club still unsold I was really beginning to worry with the total lack of activity. No matter what happens we can't continue to pay over 1.1m a week on wages and we really need to reduce the overdraft in order to make the club more stable for prospective owners. If this deal cuts 9m off the overdraft and 70,000+ per week off the wage bill then I'm pretty happy with it.

Fucking hell, Parky I agree with you