Rich

That squad has gone right down the shitter. No Clark, Fox, Elliott, Howey, Albert, Pav/Wrighty, Bez or Dabizas!

Maybe it's about not wasting that money, rather than what he can do with it. Just prudency. A prudent billionaire. My mam has always told me that the richer you are the tigher you are like, maybe she was right. If the money is put towards a worthy cause then I'm all for it.

I hope some of them take the piss and get really extravagant suits. I could see Martins going for a bling-tastic one, tbh, with "MARTINS 9" on the back in diamonds.

If it is true, then colour me puzzled. Gonna save a whopping £20-50k there, surely no more than that?

1 second later, cos I was fannying on with the formatting... you've skimped on the formatting and won the day. Disgraceful. Dunno what the craic is with that to be honest. He's either THAT desperate for a story or it is actually true, just because of the random nature of it.

Oliver says it's fallen through: Shola move falls through Jun 13 2008 by Alan Oliver, Evening Chronicle

A clean two footed tackle? Didn't look two-footed to me. Won* the ball with his right leg, left leg was trailing behind. Some very dodgy decisions by the referee at the end all in all.

Doesn't look fit to lace Bellamy's boots to me. Hard worker, aye, but there's not much else there at all.

Phil: Won't disagree with much there as far as it pertains to people 18+, but I maintain the stance that for 16-18 year olds it's a big ask for them all to do what you did while that age, which was very admirable really. In an ideal world they would all do that and work while at college, but I doubt there are the jobs/the motivation to do so, for whatever reason.

Think the bigger question is why do students get discount ?!?! I'll still end up paying far more than the price of a ticket with my trips back from Hull every other weekend to watch them. They want a younger average crowd in, it's not just the 18+ students this is offered to, it goes for the 16+ college sorts as well, which is fair enough if you ask me. It'd probably be better if they did just offer it to 16-18 year olds, actually. Why though, if you've left school get a job it's simple really. Still a big ask for 17 year olds like my brother to pay £543 for a ticket, he's in full-time education at Newcastle College, even if he did have a part-time job. Not many kids of that age are going to be sensible enough to save money specifically for season tickets every summer, unfortunately. It looks as though he won't be able to renew, which is a real pity seeing how he's been a season ticket holder since he was about 13. When I was at college I did a Saturday (or Sunday) job that earnt me £25 a week, which was very good money at the time for somebody my age. Even at that rate it would have been 22 weeks (almost half a fucking year) of saving it to pay for a season ticket in the Gallowgate End for next year. Are you arguing that people shouldn't go to college/university here? Or that if they do, they should work as well? I think the student discount is fair craic, personally, especially for the likes of my brother to whom £543 is a huge chunk of cash - I'm not one of these who'll use student discount whenever the opportunity arises (i.e. don't ask for it in shops, etc. unless it's offered) but I am quite pleasantly surprised that NUFC are now offering it - loads of other clubs already do as far as I'm aware. As it stands, I can't get it anyway with sitting where I do, but I don't begrudge others who can get it simply for that reason.

Nah, just the rubbish ones. We'll have nobody left man! Except Wor Habib, maybe.

Seems a ready-made replacement, aye.

If the Pennant stuff is true, and the Larsson stuff is true, then maybe we'll have two. Fallen at the first hurdle? From the Liverpool Echo today, via NUFC.com: "There was no denial however of stories in the national press that Liverpool were interested in signing Milner..." "Couple of the Reds' fringe players" = Crouch and Riise?

If the Pennant stuff is true, and the Larsson stuff is true, then maybe we'll have two.

Think the bigger question is why do students get discount ?!?! I'll still end up paying far more than the price of a ticket with my trips back from Hull every other weekend to watch them. They want a younger average crowd in, it's not just the 18+ students this is offered to, it goes for the 16+ college sorts as well, which is fair enough if you ask me. It'd probably be better if they did just offer it to 16-18 year olds, actually.

Don't think so. Chronicle forums, perhaps?

If this lad signs for us now, I'll eat a hat.

SHUT UP BRIGHT!!! IGNORE THE GOAL!!! Fair play to the lad, he looks a fucking player.

Rather exciting stuff!

Wonder if Seb Larsson is going to be his replacement, more than anything.

He's just had a sip of Yakult man, it's made his day!

You want to punch Alan Shearer in the face

I'll let you off with the quote. Back to Butt, it wasn't just the balls over the top, it was also the passes that were meant for players in space to the side of Butt which went to the opposition players who were yards away from ours but ended up gaining possession and running in on our goal. It happened fat too often throughout last season and I can only see it becoming more frequent. I do know what passes you're talking about, he delivers some cracking hospital balls at times too. But basically, you think it'll become more frequent, I think it will improve if the team is strengthened and we play as we did towards the end of the season, time will tell. I can't be arsed to dig the stats out for his passes/pass accuracy in the run we had that pushed us up the table, but I would expect them to be better, I could be wrong though, obviously.