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Emre sign for Fenerbahce? Surely pigs flying is more likely, isn't he a Galatasaray hero and Fenerbahce there hated rivals..

Can get them much cheaper than that I'd imagine if you're willing to go with a used one. Unfortunately I'm not. You'd probably find one a bit cheaper if you kept checking ebay/kept track of auctions instead of just Buy it Now. That was the cheapest Buy it Now I could find yesterday.: Edit: Just found one for £130 that was just listed today. But I get the idea somehow that you won't accept a used box

Yes.

The payment from the FA won't deduct from the wage bill surely, if its included in the 2006-2007 accounts at all then it'll be part of the turnover. The total wage bill including all of Owen's wages was £62.5 million so the wage to turnover ratio was indeed 72%. The reason IMO for the difference in those figures is probably because Deloitte listed revenue figures in dollars at the 2007 exchange rate. So people using todays exchange rates to convert them to pounds are getting slightly higher revenue numbers (in which case just add a few percent to every club in the list getcarter posted).

there was a thread where someone brought up spurs spending in recent seasons but i could never find it again, i was going to ask the spurs resident ITK's how the club can continue spending at such a sustained rate? they balance out to some degree i'm aware but very recently the balancing out part seems to have been forgotten? genuine question like, not a piss take Look at the difference in the wage bill between Tottenham and Newcastle. There's your answer. (It's even worse than it looks because the figure quoted for Newcastle doesn't include £6.7m of Owen's salary, as the club received compensation from the FA for that amount.) yeah i get the wage bill part but what about the actual spend? 16m or so in january on 2 players, 20m on modric or whatever and the indications are they've not finished yet...last summer didn't they spend about 40m on bent, kaboul, zokora etc...? just wondering like...the cash can't come from nowhere can it? They've taken on about £32 million of debt in recent seasons.

Wigan? £3.5 million? mackems.gif The Mirror really are insane.

I don't think they'd get much less, but IMO his value could drop. Right now he's scored two goals on his debut for France and booked a ticket for Euro 2008, with a lot of people already hyping him up and predicting that he'll do very well in the tournament. Put him up for auction now and they could very easily get a few clubs willing to bid silly amounts in order to get him now in case he's out of reach after Euro 2008. If he falls on his arse in the competition those same clubs won't be panicking anymore. Other clubs may lose interest all together or move on to players who played much better in Euro 2008 that they hadn't seen much of before. Though obviously its unlikely he'll have a really poor competition, he'll probably play well in which case they'll end up getting at least what they could now or maybe a bit more.

Same box for only £166, no control though but can't imagine the remote being expensive. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Thomson-DSI8215-Sky-HD-Box-Satellite-Receiver-300gb_W0QQitemZ150252013062QQihZ005QQcategoryZ96971QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I've been thinking of getting a HD box as well. That way I can watch the free HD channels like the BBC/ITV HD ect while I wait for Sky One/Sky Sports and Movies HD to become free (no way am I paying the £10 subscription for them..).

Some clubs might not be prepared to pay that yet though. They'll check him out during the tournament and make their mind up based on that perhaps. If he scores loads St Etienne will demand at least what the figures being talked about at the moment, and I suppose if he doesn't score m/any it will just be seen as him having a bad tournament and they'll probably still be able to sell him for what they're after for him now. If he has a poor tournemant they may actually get less then they could now.

Lennon is a s*** Kieron Dyer and isn't worthy to be mentioned in the same sentence as Bellamy (sorry Craig for mentioning him in the same sentence)..

How can anyone try to claim these rules don't discriminate against nationality?.. Keegan "Right, under the new rules any number of you English lads can play, unfortunately we're only allowed to pick 5 of the foriegn lads here, but don't worry, this isn't discrimination and has nothing do do with your nationality according to FIFA"

Defiantely start what? Being good at International Football.

And he can take whatever attitude he wants about your attitude.. that completely pointless argument can go on forever..

I agree, if your going to have that attitude then I can't see how you can be bothered with Football in general, how many Newcastle players do you identify with outside of the fact that they play for Newcastle? I don't feel anything towards any of the England players, I don't need to as I'm supporting England, not Frank Lampard ect.. I can understand a certain degree of apathy towards England, especially during friendlies. But to want them to lose, and to the Yanks.. that's sick. Do you identify with the American Football.. sorry Soccer team then Jawesome?

This is similar to all the negative s*** going round this forum about Newcastle. Lets all accept we can't compete with Everton and Blackburn mackems.gif Get a f***ing grip, of course England can compete with the teams you mentioned. We have done in the past and we will do in the future. We certainly haven't matched the likes of Italy, France and Germany when it comes to winning competitions, but we can certainly compete with them (and Holland have won less then us as have Spain arguably).

one f***ing season One season?.. what are you on about? Out of the 8 teams taking part in the last four Champions League finals five of them have been English teams! With only two Italian teams and one Spanish!

Like has been said, if we're going to scout players then we have to follow up on that while its useful. Tonight every club saw a flash of the kind of player Gomis is, and after Euro 2008 every team will have caught up on all the scouting we did on him without leaving there front rooms. Its no good scouting if we're not going to act on it quickly enough. Of course this is all assuming Gomis is a big target of ours in the first place.

there shouldnt be a policy at all though, apart from whether keegan thinks the player will improve the team and will give nufc good value for money, thats all that should matter IMO there should be two budgets. One for Vetere/Wise and one for Keegan. Keegan still has to choose/ok the players Vetere and Wise bring in (there's no way any first team player should ever be forced on a manager), but he also has his own budget he can spend on whoever he see's fit.

We are the worst team in the world, we couldn't even sign a Championship player because even those teams are more attractive.. Lets all commit mass suicide!

Now you're scaring me, what didn't make sense?

I haven't posted anything in this thread since then so whatever it is you're talking about has nothing to do with the list I posted in here. You replied in other threads. Stop trying to worm out of it.

I know, he's lost the plot.. Have you gone back in time Baggio? To a time before you became a compulsive liar?

I for one said in a few of my posts to you that one of the reasons I didn't believe you was due to the lists being unbelievable (Keegan wanting Henry ect). You're telling me you just forgot to mention that the lists were only your opinion, your a bullshitter!

Oh now I really think you're on a windup Baggio. Not once did you ever say those lists were just your opinion..

Disagree with you about Riise, but I guess that's just opinions for you. We've put up with the likes of Ramage, Babayaro, Carr, Edgar (amungst other youth or first teamers played out of position there) being played at left back in recent years. I feel Riise is better than all of them and he offers far more going forward. Him and Enrique battling out for the left back spot would be fine for me, and Riise offering cover on left wing would be good too. The main problem with that is that he's going on 28, would command a decent fee and would want to be first choice despite not being as good as Enrique IMO. For all those reasons I think he'd be a very poor buy.