Rich

Aye, would anyone blame him for wanting to move to Arsenal even if he really did want to go? I wouldn't.

Aye but the years we were in Europe, we obviously built our reputation in the rankings. Glad to see these UEFA rankings actually count for something like. On the rankings over the past 12 months, Newcastle are joint 322nd in the world. http://www.iffhs.de/?10f42e00fa2d17f73702fa3016e23c17f7370eff3702bb1c2bbb6f28f53512 Pipe down, 33.

Haven't heard that for ages. Top drawer.

We've had the mighty Alan Shearer, now here comes Aaron Spear-er! Oh my, that's bad.

Aye would be nice wonder if Keegan would still be looking for an experienced defender to play with them Would expect him to be content with them and Faye like There's Cacapa here as well, don't forget. I bet he's a quality bloke to have around the dressing room for the younger players. I still think we'd need another LB on top of Evans (if he came, of course) and being really greedy I'd hope we'd still be in for Cuellar!

Certainly couldn't hurt to have Edgar, Taylor, Evans and Enrique in amongst our pool of defenders - all players capable of giving good service to this club for a very long time yet.

We start Pre Season on monday so expect him by then or later during the week I love how obvious that is. mackems.gif I believe this chap for what it's worth, looking forward to seeing if it comes off.

Poor Ed :-[

Liverpool have definitely been sniffing around the market for a backup GK, being linked with Harps back in April and he's been a Liverpool fan since he was a bairn, so I think it's the only club he'd consider. If he hadn't got that run for us last season then I reckon he'd probably be away, even if it was just to sit on the bench there. As it stands he's got the jersey here, so it would probably be an awful decision for him if it did actually come about. I have had the feeling that one of the two could leave, to be honest, though if the reduced wages policy is right I'd expect that player to be Given ahead of Harper, I'd bet Shay is one of the best-paid keepers in the league.

Harper to Liverpool?

Cech will concede loads next season if he's playing on the corner flag. EDIT: Boo @ LOON's edit.

West Brom have signed Gianni Zuiverloon for £3.2M from Heerenveen apparently, bit of a FM legend.

Aye, because didn't Keegan say the South Americans thing himself, during that interview with Mick Lowes? He never said he wouldn't sign any. "I'm less keen on South American players coming into this country, that doesn't mean we won't get any but it's a big move for them. I would prefer to sign players with Premier League experience. I think there is probably a balance between the two."

TBH I think the more mature dicussion has been coming from those on the 'impatient' side of things. It's the others that have been posting crap like this in response. They even resort to administrators of this very forum starting gloating "i told you so" threads, after 1 signing that no one know much about ! There have been a few very good posts from people such as TT and and mrmajorism (sp?) about the need to break the cycle of panic buying by being proactive in the transfer market and making early moves, if you chose to interperate that as OMG panic panic panic, then so be it. Don't take anything ShiteaM says literally, we all know he's either a WUM or completely insane. As always, I think the more "mature" or "reasoned" discussion has come from those on the fence, who don't give the same type of answer to every single story/piece of news of a similar nature. There's been crap from both sides, from what I've seen... as well as "very good posts" at times, I should hasten to add. dunno like...i've been right all along. Aye, that's a given though mate! nooo. you were supposed to ask what my line was then i'd reply that i'd forgot. I'll try harder next time. It's hard to punch above my weight so much though, you're on another level entirely.

I bet you everything I own that that's not fucking true, for starters. He was acceptable during that run but still was offering nothing special at all.

TBH I think the more mature dicussion has been coming from those on the 'impatient' side of things. It's the others that have been posting crap like this in response. They even resort to administrators of this very forum starting gloating "i told you so" threads, after 1 signing that no one know much about ! There have been a few very good posts from people such as TT and and mrmajorism (sp?) about the need to break the cycle of panic buying by being proactive in the transfer market and making early moves, if you chose to interperate that as OMG panic panic panic, then so be it. Don't take anything ShiteaM says literally, we all know he's either a WUM or completely insane. As always, I think the more "mature" or "reasoned" discussion has come from those on the fence, who don't give the same type of answer to every single story/piece of news of a similar nature. There's been crap from both sides, from what I've seen... as well as "very good posts" at times, I should hasten to add. dunno like...i've been right all along. Aye, that's a given though mate!

TBH I think the more mature dicussion has been coming from those on the 'impatient' side of things. It's the others that have been posting crap like this in response. They even resort to administrators of this very forum starting gloating "i told you so" threads, after 1 signing that no one know much about ! There have been a few very good posts from people such as TT and and mrmajorism (sp?) about the need to break the cycle of panic buying by being proactive in the transfer market and making early moves, if you chose to interperate that as OMG panic panic panic, then so be it. Don't take anything ShiteaM says literally, we all know he's either a WUM or completely insane. As always, I think the more "mature" or "reasoned" discussion has come from those on the fence, who don't give the same type of answer to every single story/piece of news of a similar nature. There's been crap from both sides, from what I've seen... as well as "very good posts" at times, I should hasten to add.

Only 5 assists according to Soccernet! What a useless cunt! Exactly. N'Zogbia and Geremi both managed that much for us man! Get him out.

Only 5 assists according to Soccernet!

That should be the case for any player we sign ever, to be fair. I don't give a fuck what they've done elsewhere, it's all about whether they do it here.

We're due some South American magic like, there's not too much time left in this decade for another cult loon like Mirnadinha and Asprilla to emerge, although I suppose both of them arrived in the latter parts an' all (87 and 96 if I'm not mistaken off-hand.) I know Nobby had his trumpet, but he wasn't anywhere near Jamesy (zany) enough when it came down to it.

Not too sad, but it'd be a travesty if you spelt his name wrong on it.

I have heard that Mark Viduka in particular shares Gutierrez' love of Spiderman, aye.

I'll back our scouting team and Keegan's eye for a player over your dodgy attempt at scouting. You didn't even make the effort to pull up his FM stats so you clearly cannot be taken seriously. Don't give up the day job James. He's good on FM like by the looks of it, I think we're onto a winner here. James, you're snooker loopy mate.