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Pilko Where does the Modric bid stand in your theory? Keegan still didn't know who he wanted to sell when the season finished so Ashley allowed a £16 million bid anyway?.. We've made two significant bids for players, then afterwards we've sold one and are possibly on the brink of selling another. That doesn't suggest anything like a sell before we can buy policy, in fact it tells us pretty clearly that there is no such policy. At the very most we have a policy of trying to reduce the wage bill, or at least not increase it. But clearly the transfer funds are there regardless.

Exactly. Good to hear more and more fans are as realistic as me. Bet you're a blast in the pub before the match. Well if you'd ever been like. Oh he's been to plenty, at the stadium of shite.

Dunno where you are getting that form considering there has already been confirmed bids for Woodgate in January and Modric. Both were considerable bids. Aye, but he didn't really have much time then did he? And plus, he wouldn't have known who he wanted to sell within the first two weeks of being at the club. Eh?. what's your point?

Seemed pretty clear to me.

I'm not sure, but here's hoping!

I didn't say they weren't in it for the long haul.. I said they aren't going to run the club as a charity, I think they're running it as a business. They'll be hoping that continued success, an even better league finish and new stadium will increase revenue significantly, wether it will or not we'll have to wait and see.

Portsmouth are hardly comparable to Chelsea, they have a wealthy owner, but there's no indication he's willing to run the club as a charity..

The clincher will probably be whether this new stadium they're getting is filled week in week out or not. Ah right didn't realise there was a new stadium coming. No doubt that's what they're counting on then since there current ground is tiny, how much is it supposed to be costing them and when's it going to be ready?

Not really no, more likely it would be Modric coming here because we made the better offer (we offered a higher fee and better wages). Obviously we weren't prepared to take part in the dodgy deal and had Spurs not been prepared to do it either I'm sure his agent would have accepted the best financial package. Having said that, who cares?.. At the time I was excited by the possibility of the transfer, now I'm not that bothered, lets move on to other players. I'm just glad we weren't desperate enough to bend over and take it up the arse from the Mamic brothers.. unlike a certain other club.

I can see what you're getting at. Though its a bit over the top to compare us to Wolves and Sheff Wed My view on Portsmouth is that they're over extending themselves, they've already hit the limit of how far they can go (over 90% of revenue going on wages ) and now they're passing it which is very unwise. If they don't get Champions League Football next year they've got nowhere to go but down IMO.

I agree with Dave, when I saw the thread title I eagerly clicked the link, when I saw £5 million I was ecstatic, then I saw "NOTW" and came right back down to earth. Its a comic, pretty similar to the Beano but for a younger audience.. almost nothing they print is true unfortunately.

Whatcha talkin bout willis?

Yes its very astute to bow to a players agent/owner and let them keep control of the player while he's merely parked at your club before being moved on whenever they feel like it... just so you can beat your rivals to the signing..

Smith and Duff would be prime examples of 'why bother' players.

But obviously in secret Bilic was telling Modric the opposite...... What reason would Bilic have to praise us in public and say the opposite in private.. none what so ever. This is the typical "I came here because this is a massive club" bollocks you get from every player once they know for sure which club there joining.

I'm a bit confused here, you mention 3.5 million per year vs £2 million per year.. what do you mean?, wages?

Not really. Viduka is a luxury we can't afford, Emre isn't a luxury and never has been, we can afford him but he's pointless so why bother..

I don't think anyone's exactly starting a Emre hate campaign. People just have a problem with a certain person here making it sound like Newcastle United have held poor Emre back. He's spent 3 years here and had every opportunity to do well, he's even had the support of the fans despite his constant inconsistency and pathetic injury record (which frankly I don't even believe were all geniune). Its Newcastle United who should feel cheated and be looking for better, not Emre!

We're deluded because we don't agree with you that Newcastle United have been holding Emre back? Is that really what your saying here?

MaetihS, you arent a fan, by definition. You have absolutely nothing good to say about the club. Emre has done nothing for this club but waste his time and ours, well waste his ability anyway, I suppose getting paid £9 million for nothing isn't really a waste of time for him.. He leaves and what do you do, take the side of Emre and put this club down again. Kindly fuck off!

He needs a better club to show his skill?.. you really are a piss taker, have to be. Honestly the very idea that we've held the little c*** back is mind boggling and certainly not something any Newcastle fan would be stupid enough to believe. He doesn't need a better club, we need a better player, preferably someone who can play Football for more then 10 minutes a season.

They're paying him £52,000 per week?

He's a 70 minute man. When was the last time he was effective from the start? Going to make a loss? What on earth are you talking about? The Price being quoted in the Turkish Press is 5.5 M Euro's. That's £4.3 million, basically what we paid for him, I'd be extremely happy with that for the little waster. Especially considering we'll save another £3 million pounds a year on his exorbitant wages.

Slight exaggeration there

If we transfer listed him for 5 million Euro's and sold him for only 3.5 million Euro's I'd be quite disapointed. Of course getting rid of him even for free already saves nearly £3 million a year in wages which we're currently paying out to him for nothing. So overall I'd be ok with it, I just don't see why we should have sold him for so much less then our valuation.