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Very probably yes, then again I bet similar things were said before he signed for HSV.

Don't know about Joaquin, final ball is a bit iffy and seems to play in little cameo's rather than sustain a performance throughout the game. He can carry the ball well though and is very skillful and direct which I like. When he's on form though he's great to watch. Highly doubt we could get him though. For me: Bentley Anelka Van der vaart All 3 can score goals regularly and are creative. Realistic man. Not that unrealistic really, considering we're talking about being ambitious and money being no object. He plays for HSV after all, he's a bit of a one man team up there, but if the price was high enough they're bound to sell eventually. My vote would go for: Van Der Vaart Van Der Vaart Van Der Vaart If we couldn't get Van Der Vaart three times then I'd fill the other two spaces with Huntelaar and Quaresma..

Its probably one more pitch then Arsenal have in there training complex. When you live in the shadow of much more successful clubs you have to take success where you can find it you know Or were just building for the future with a new state of the art training facility that should help youngsters such as Pekhart, Dixon, Taarabt, Rose and Dervitte develop faster and better Perhaps, just think if you hadn't bought Darren Bent you could have had twenty pitches and free mental treatment for the likes of Jenas..

I'm betting Arsenal have 10 pitches in there training complex.. I suppose when you live in the shadow of much more successful clubs you have to take success where you can find it

Not yet, but he will be soon. He's got nobody to blame but himself though. He's putting himself under pressure by employing such odd tactics and team selections. Playing with four central midfielders, moving your best winger to left back when the real left back is fit, removing your right back and putting a centre back in his place.. Going to places like Derby and Reading, premiership whiping boys, and playing for a draw... If you do those kinds of things, especially on a regular basis, you better pray to god you win games. Because otherwise it just gives people reasons to turn against you.

It amazes me that people are talking about how Milner and N'Zogbia aren't doing well lately and putting it down to them not being good enough.. Don't you think these recent problems might just be because Allardyce now plays both of them on the wrong side of midfield? Blame the 'master tactician', not the player!

1. His aim is noble but unrealistic. I just hope he does not go crazy in pursuing this dream People with that much money don't need to go crazy chasing a dream, if they want it enough they get it, simple as that. After all he has enough money to buy 10 world class teams.. How the hell can you know that Nobody can possibly be better then Chelsea?, that's why Manure won the title I suppose?...

...and a 5 year one at that. He would give him a new contract wether he wants to keep him or not.. The longer the contract the better the sale price.

So now we should expect to be beaten 4:1 at home against Portsmouth?! What total bollocks! I didn't expect the game to be easy, especially with this strange fetish Portsmouth have for away games. But I certainly did not expect them to end up thrashing us and to be honest if Allardyce hadn't made the moronic mistake (one of many lately) of playing a technical/weak centre back against big strong forwards we wouldn't have been! I think we paid out about £25m, and recieved about £14m through the Parker and Dyer deals. So that's only £11m, which compared to what the likes of Manchester City, West Ham, Portsmouth, Sunderland, and just generally in comparison to the crazy figures paid out this summer - it's quite limited. West Ham spent £10.5 million and Portsmouth spent £15 million, hardly a massive difference to the £11 we spent is it? Fair enough Sunderland and Man City spent £27 million each but Sunderland are hardly competing with us anyway..

Totally wrong mate, people have a problem with the manor of the defeat, not the defeat itself. Had we gone to Reading with our best team out and lost anyway (unlikely) people would be saying "Don't blame Sam, he's only working with the team he inherited, we need better players". Allardyce has brought the critisism on himself by putting out a poor team with no creativity, apparently in order to try to get a draw from the mighty Reading

Allardyce shouldn't need a few seasons to work out that playing a totally defensive lineup with no creativity at all against poor sides is playing against our own strengths and completely in to the oppositions hands. How the f*** didn't he work that out after the likes of Derby? Actually how could he not know that to begin with? When Allardyce was talked about as the next Newcastle managers I actually bought into this whole idea of him being some kind of forward thinking tactician who was just held back by Boltons lack of ambition (or I hoped that was true anyway). A few of games into the season I started to get worried about the teams he was putting out and the kind of Football they were playing, but tried to put it out of my mind. Now I'm really starting to think that he's a one trick poney, with absolutely no idea how to play any different from the way he had Bolton playing. Give him a few years and he could have use finishing in the top 7 regularly, once he's brought in all the right players to make us into Bolton... but what then? Playing that way can only get you so far and we should be looking for so much better then that. Hopefully I'm wrong and I'll still give him a chance, but only in hope rather then any kind of belief.

Haha yeah I was just coming back to change that

Well obviously yes, 2sheds does He would like me to quote each amount of money in the currency where the person made that money. So I'd convert Ashley's fortune into pounds, Abramovich's fortune into Rubles, Shiniwatra's into Baht ect. I mean we would then have a comparison that wouldn't actually be comparable.. but 2sheds would be ecstatic so who cares? EDIT: I'd assumed Russia had changed to Euro but apparently not

No because we are in the UK where the currency is pounds sterling. Besides which the dollars value is dropping like a tarts knickers these days so all those estimates of wealth are undoubtedly wrong. It doesn't matter what country we're in man. What matters is that the comparison being made will be no different no matter what currency its converted into so its pointless to do so. If you feel some need to have everything in pounds for no reason then be my guest, I won't bother thanks

They're all listed in dollars at the sources I've looked at, seems quite pointless to convert them all wouldn't you say?

Well Ashley has about $4 billion. Chelsea definately have a richer owner, Abramovich has a personal fortune well over $10 billion. Liverpool's Gillet and Hicks combined are worth about $4.5 billion. Man UTD's owner definitely isn't richer, neither are West Ham or Villa's owners (though they're all billionaires). As for Thaksin at Man City, he isn't even a billionaire, not even close. So I'd say two clubs have richer owners then Newcastle, but one of them (Liverpool) insignificantly so. Then again Ashley's right in saying it all depends how much each is willing to spend. Nobodies going to spend a billion or more on a Football club so...

Dear me, no offence mate but some of the rumours and 'inside info' I hear from Spurs fans have to go down as the most fantastical jackanory peices of bull I've ever heard. I mean its not enough to rumour that Mike Ashley (who has just paid £133 for a Football club, paid off £80 million of debt, and turns up to every game in a Newcastle top) is going to just up and sell within months in order to try to buy Tottenham... Oh no, he's going to team up with 3 other billionaires to do it. Because Spurs are too good for one man with a $4 billion personal fortune, they need three billionaires to fullfill there massive potential Just about no chance of that happening?, try no chance what so ever of even any part of that happening.. The financial report won't include all of the £28.5 million you spent on summer transfers, not even most of it. As with most transfers some money will be paid up front for players with the majority of the rest of the fee being paid bit by bit over the following year/s. Also I don't know how you get this £50 million figure from..

You know the most pathetic thing about all this is the strange idea the press seem to have that Owen has to leave if any clause is activated. Why on earth would Owen want to move to Man City?? I mean yeah they're on a high at the moment with a new owner buying big, but they're hardly a prestigious club now are they. Why does that stand to reason? There's no reason a clause in a contract has to change as time goes on. It might in this case, but there's no general rule, nor is it even a usual thing AFAIK.

For that matter who is unzogbia?

Capacha??? Who the fuck is Capacha?

85,000 Euro's more like (£60,000).

Why should these foreign business people not come in and buy English Football clubs if they want to?, its there decision. The point is he's mouthing off about people hurting the English game, but he's hurting it as much as anyone.

I've seen you do it, or maybe it was someone else with the same picture, but I'm fairly sure it was you. I don't have to answer to you, it irritates me. Good day. No you don't, but if you can't be bothered to explain yourself then that basically makes your comments completely pointless.