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Mixu Paatelainen 2/2 6/5

No problem with the feint/stutter, it's just like giving the keeper the eyes, body shape etc to sell him. Beardsley has practically an entire YouTube showreel of feinting keepers and making them look like idiots.

Does give thought for those who thought because we had a profit from transfers last summer that we still have that as cash sitting in a few tesco bags for life ready to splurge this summer. As Benitez was reportedly told he could use the money generated from sales as he saw fit, that viewpoint is as valid now as it was then to be honest.

I don't think it's be far off having paid off most of the £129m loan if we had stadium advertising and naming rights at proper market rate, sure I read that somewhere. Does he want that money paid off tho? If think if we're debt free it takes away a hurdle of a potential buyer, acts as a shield for Ashley to hang on to the club.

I always thought it would be simple to just implement a rule whereby all players must try their absolute best 'within reason' to stay on their feet, no matter what happens. Then every match gets reviewed on video by some sofa-refs and anyone who is deemed to have gone down deliberately easy, 10 game ban. Anyone who hacks a player to death gets another ban, and so on. In addition, each team gets 3 video reviews per game, and they can call it if they think a player has dived or hacked one of their players, if the video is correct, the player is instantly off. Would bring the game back to being physically exciting again and take away all this cheating shit. Good players will still thrive, Hazard gets kicked to bleeding most weeks as it is.

I don't think it's be far off having paid off most of the £129m loan if we had stadium advertising and naming rights at proper market rate, sure I read that somewhere.

Maybe it's time for the club to re-evaluate the pay up front model we've got? It puts us in a serious disadvantage in terms of pure cash. By all accounts, the Sissoko money will be trickling in the next several years, probably the same with Wijnaldum as well, while we will have paid for all our players up front. No wonder our cash reserves are thin like. Yeap, i wonder if any other team does it? I highly doubt it. Another case of the idiots thinking they know best. Fairly sure this is the standard model of transfers all over Europe, just not so much here.

Balls to the wall lads.

I have a feeling a lot of his goals have been the winning goals when we've won by one this season. I don't have the stats to hand, mind.

Always rated Llorente, would be a great signing imo.

BBC - ◾Dwight Gayle has scored 21 league goals for the Magpies this season; the most by a Newcastle player in a single season since Alan Shearer in 2003/04 (22 goals). God how depressing is that.

At the risk of sounding pedantic, the phrase is actually 'Moo Point'. You know, like a cow's opinion, it doesnt matter...its moo. Moot..

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/remarkable-confession-mo-diame-form-12825443 Yeah, fuck you too.

Is Hayden back for this one?

Ok, Mike.

That defense is still horrible. Although they have enough fire power to do what Brazil did in 2002. Struggle in the qualifiers and then win it all. Bit scared that might happen. Oh aye, they've a couple of half decent defensive players full stop. Was reading something the other day suggesting their FA is totally broke too. Messi has been paying for some of the travel etc. and Bauza is managing for nowt (might explain his work). Argies being broke. Quelle surprise Quick, get them to hold up a sign about Los Malvinas next match to distract them all again for a bit about the criminal mismanagement of their country and finances. Worked last time

You don't rate Cairney to do a job for us in the Prem assuming we go up?

Could have really use Sissoko for that run in then, he'd of been in top form for the longest run of games in his life

Self-taught sculptor defends grinning Ronaldo bust http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-ronaldo-airport-idUKKBN1711QX

If he's travelling alone and he takes a window seat, do they have to counter-weight it?

He'll have a host of clubs after him this summer, probably with a view to loan back. Somebody will have had the inside track on him for a couple of years now. I just hope it's us. Problem is, we have Rose. Wish we had that problem

They are playing catch up with the team in 17th who are also likely to pick up points, they just assume that all the teams above them are going to lose every game Bit like our current promotion push to be honest based on our recent performances

South End?

Tha one with the stiffy looks so much like Robben it scares me

Hasn't he still got a load of net profit from the summer sales as well left unspent? I thought he had control over those funds, so of he gave a list of targets to Charney etc and got nothing... man I'd be p*ssed too.