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He's 29 years old, great fact checking there.. wish the story was true though. Selling Duff for £6 million would be akin to turning water into wine.

Agents love to pretend Newcastle want there players don't they.. its so easy for them now that nobody inside the club is confirming or denying any transfer rumours.

No instead he can say to them "Let me go now for 12 million Euro's like you agreed originally or next season I promise I'll envoke Article 17 and go for one years wages (1.6 million Euro's if his reported salary is correct). Also like how they're using that fountain of knowledge The Mirror as their source

Here we go, the first possible negative has been jumped on.. Seems to me he's calling the clubs bluff. They're pretending they don't need to sell the player to get more money for him and his agent is basically saying "well if you don't need to sell you must have plenty of cash, so you'll have no problem offering what Newcastle have offered us". He knows fine well they're fucked financially and can't afford to double the players wages..

What makes you think Ashley is holding back funds? Is it the signing of Guthrie and Jonas? Or maybe the combined £40 million bids (that we know of) for the likes of Modric, Woodgate, Aimar and Coloccini? If we don't spend money today then that means Ashley didn't make any available today?, is that it? You only have to think about it for a short while to realise it doesn't work like that.. BTW the club was worth only £100 million when Ashley paid over the odds for it.

It must be the way he tells em..

To be fair. Which he never did, well done stupeedo

Nine years playing in Europe and 27 starts for his country..

Has Faye played that role under Keegan? Can't remember. Don't think so, just hoping with more time seeing Faye in training and the addition of someone to take Faye's place in defence (hopefully) he might try him there.

I was thinking he'd replace Taylor originally, until someone mentioned the possibility to playing Coloccini and Taylor at the back and moving Faye into defensive midfield.

Common Jol, give us your take on the Coloccini transfer, you have to know about it being ITK surely?

Wouldn't say that Keane is worth Crouch + £9 million like

Yeah if he was 24 then I could see £20 million at a stretch, but for a 28 year old! Next you'll see people being offered 20k appearance bonuses man. No that would be more like if the Spuds wanted £20 million and Liverpool gave them £15 million plus £5 million based on apearances. I'm sure you'd call them crazy for not just paying the £20 million up front "£5 million just because he plays games for them, mental!"

I don't think he's had a better season then Warnock (how could he with the way Allardyce fucked him about). I just think he's got better attributes and with a full pre-season and consistent starts he'll probably be the better player.

Enrique is nothing special yet like. Warnock is probably better. Enrique's the better player IMO and I think he'll show that this season with a full pre-season behind him and consistant first team starts, he's also four years younger then Warnock. No problem with signing Warnock as long as he starts off as the second choice left back.

Yeah if he was 24 then I could see £20 million at a stretch, but for a 28 year old!

He's worth about half that IMO, £12 million would have been fair.

Come on then, what's your spiel on Coloccini?

They've signed two players mackems.gif Verge of signing Diouf and Malbranque and Kaboul remain big possibilities. If they manage to get even 2 out of these 3 signed, they will have over-done themselves for this transfer window. On the verge means nowt as you know, its just hilarious that the likes of shithead are bigging up everything Sunderland do. If they're so much as linked with a player then its as good as them signing him and there team has improved 1000%. They've actually signed two players, we've signed two players. But at this rate they're going to catch us up apparently.. they need not do much catching up to do considering our poor quality of our squad. frankly, will be happier if we swapped signings. ours are very much a gamble while theirs are proven players in the prem league. but what an exciting derby it will be.....can see them signing some more shrewd signings with an ambitious Quinn on helm. Total bollocks, there miles behind us. Also if we'd swapped signings you'd be complaining about Chimbonda and Tianio and wishing we'd signed that fantastic Argentine international you've seen a wonder DVD of and Danny "the next Rob Lee" Gurthrie

It was already rumoured earlier that the Spuds had outbid our initial offer. There's no actual quotes confirming the Spuds offer though, the only quotes I know of are from Depor saying we've enquired.

This forums gone to the dogs. To many negative tossers and wums...

They've signed two players mackems.gif Verge of signing Diouf and Malbranque and Kaboul remain big possibilities. If they manage to get even 2 out of these 3 signed, they will have over-done themselves for this transfer window. On the verge means nowt as you know, its just hilarious that the likes of shithead are bigging up everything Sunderland do. If they're so much as linked with a player then its as good as them signing him and there team has improved 1000%. They've actually signed two players, we've signed two players. But at this rate they're going to catch us up apparently..

for 2.5m i think i was worth it. and chimbonda is also a player which we should have signed especially after KK admitting that the LB,RB positions are the ones where there isnt enough cover. i rate chimbonda and i think he is really good player and he is versatile also. Pitty that we missed on him but nothing new on the front. just typical newcastle united. We need right back and left back cover, not first team right or left backs, we already have them. Brining in Chimbonda on 70,000 per week as a backup would be completely mental. We've missed f*** all here.. So if we sign someone with the potential of Stephen "f***ing" Carr and suddenly Beye is injured for 6 months,then we'll have really adeqaute cover at RB,a? I get your point though and i think you have some right,but it would be very difficult to find someone who will be on low wage,who will be with the potential of newcastle and will be willing to be 2nd choice player. I think the best thing is to have 2 players for every position with no any enormous difference between the qualities of this 2 players. Also Chimbonda can play at every position in the defence so basically we missed someone who can play at RB,CB,LB. I think we need this type of versatile players. If Chimbonda was willing to be a rotation player on decent wages then I'd agree. But as it is he's an arrogant player who will demand to be first team every week (which is a problem because he's not better then what we already have in any position he plays in) and will apparently be on anywhere between £65,000-£80,000 per week at Sunderland. As a player he would interest me, but his attitude makes him the wrong player for us IMO.

They've signed two players mackems.gif

What's that got to do with making money available though? Also to be honest losing the likes of Emre and Rozenhal leaves us needing just as many new players as before they left considering Rozenhal was out on loan and Emre never played. well there is money there, if there wasn't keegan would be out in shot yes, but there we're still our players, so we could of used them next season, we got rid of another 5 players as well, even though i wouldn't of had them in the first team, they could be used for when injuries happen i hope the club isn't banking on clubs to reduce their transfer terms when the end of the window happens, risky business Rozehnal was a player we could have used as backup yes, but he obviously wasn't happy with that role. Emre we couldn't have used next season because the man either can't or didn't want to play for us, he made 8 starts last season... 8!! well it depend's what positions do you think we need FIRST TEAM players for, we have imo a very decent first team, but we need backup as there's hardly none? we need at least 2 more defenders, a playmaker and a striker imo how many do you think? I think we need a central defender, young backup left and right backs, top quality attacking midfielder and a backup striker. That requirement hasn't changed since losing the likes of Emre, Rozenhal, Carr, Babayaro ect. Partly because none of those players actually played for us when they were here, and partly because they weren't good enough (with the acception of 8 games a season Emre ).