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It's that time of the window. Expect a link to Diego Swarfega any day.

Jason Roberts.

We've got Spurs to play again, so there's three points.

Bar Frank Lampard (fantastic player) and John Carew (done a lot better than I thought he would) I'd agree with most of your choices. Petr Cech. Javier Mascherano. Joleon Lescott (insofar as he's not the key to Everton's team in the way that most neutrals seem to think). He's not rated on this board, but Nicky Butt is criminally overrated in places.

Maybe, but Tony Adams is certainly trying his hardest to make me think otherwise.

Chill out, we'll stay up.

That would have been fucking great wouldn't it, we'd have about 15 points but at least they'd be off the wagebill.

And I need you now tonight.... I fucking need you more than ever.....

I disagree, but he's up there.

Never. He's a Mag. Alan Shearer testimonial

One of the best refs in the prem. Don't give a shit if he had a bad game that disadvantaged everton once, still one of the best of a bad bunch.

Good point. After losing what should have been the easiest win of the season tonight, what can we hope for now. With so many players out and 2 key players having to go off during the game as well. How we didn't win it I'll never know. We've got such a great record at Man City as well. I know. We've outspent them this window too. Fucking simple win, thrown away. I didn't see this coming at all. All down to Llambias and that fucking scarf. I'll bloody scarf him if he's not careful.

Shouldn't your vote be 2.5 then? 7.5 surely Got a C in Maths, see why? Standards must be even lower than I thought.

at least doggo made me laugh

Good point. After losing what should have been the easiest win of the season tonight, what can we hope for now. With so many players out and 2 key players having to go off during the game as well. How we didn't win it I'll never know. We've got such a great record at Man City as well. I know. We've outspent them this window too. Fucking simple win, thrown away. I didn't see this coming at all.

Good point. After losing what should have been the easiest win of the season tonight, what can we hope for now. he's taking the piss Really?

Good point. After losing what should have been the easiest win of the season tonight, what can we hope for now.

Fucking diving Emile! Ruined our season!

Hard to disagree with that. Still think we'll scrape up. Expected a loss tonight, by a more heavy margin, next two games has always been my thinking.

eerr........one or two others among us have been saying this for ages........ The vast majority have said the midfield is the weakest area for about a year min. Personally I've felt this way for ages... ever since I realised Parker/Emre wasn't going to live up to what I hoped it would.

terrified, not to worry, we'll win easily

Was it you who predicted "more than any of us" last year?

I don't get it.... Harry's a wheeler dealer, always has been. Just now he's doing it on a bigger scale... Exactly wheeler dealer, at West Ham barely had any resources except upcoming talent like Defoe, Lampard, Carrick, Ferdinand. To call him chequebook manager, because he is in a position to sign players now is something else. He brings in alot of bargains/free transfers in his career its hardly chequebook style. your right, he spent very little at pompey. oh wait...................... Kanu, Campbell, James all bargains. He has always had to sell to buy in most cases. When was the last big name player he signed that was proven in the Premier League besides Defoe. After all, a chequebook manager signs the top, top players who can cut it in the Premier League usually - aside Defoe? Whooo? Good point. Disagree actually, Harry has left Pompey fucked financially in a large part due to the wages of those 'bargains' he picked up, Sol is on £100k+, Distin and James £60k+, he also spent a lot on the likes of Utaka, Muntari, Diarra, Diop, Benjani, just about every Spurs player he'd heard of. Pretty sure Pompey (with £30m+) were one of the biggest 'net' spenders the summer before they won the cup.

21 (I think) matches is a fair few to go without a win.

what have you got against Tories ? Do Labour, Liberal, BNP, UKIP mp's, or even Mike Ashley, always answer straight questions ? I've told you, the Halls and Shepherd did a great job, they left the club unrecognisable and a million miles superior to how they found it, I wouldn't call that "blame", I would call it a great credit. Sir you are a baboon then. If you believe perilously close to bankruptcy through bad management and mortgaging the club beyond belief with a bank which needed to be bailed out by the government itself was a fantastic thing then you are just mad. I cannot disagree that the football was great, but had Shepherd remained in charge we would have been bankrupted. Your head in the sand attitude and deluded belief that Freddy Shepherd was not a bad apple who was stinking out the barrel at Newcastle is astonishing. Sir John Hall had a vision for this club, which his son and Freddy Shepherd distorted and abused to make their own financial gains. While we are certainly miles away from where we were prior to Sir John Hall's intervention, it is laughable that you continue to stand up for Freddy Shepherd, a man who most others lost any respect they had for him when he was caught out by the NOTW with his contempt for his peers and his customers. rubbish. mackems.gif Did you see many protestors standing up for their principles a few months after that "contempt for his peers and customers" when FA Cup Final tickets were being dished out, for the first time in 24 years, I may add. When do you think the automatically better board will reach another Cup Final or even qualify for the UEFA Cup ? Under Mike Ashley I don't think we will. But you keep on telling yourself that Freddy was a top bloke, and wasn't bothered first and foremost with lining his pockets from the money he could make from Newcastle United. I think Freddy Shepherd has a nerve telling anyone how to run Newcastle United as a successful business. you find a post where I have said he was a "top bloke". Apology accepted. None given. So will you now please answer my question. Is Freddy Shepherd (at least partially) responsible for Newcastle's financial state? Why can you not answer this yes or no? Why can't you stop waffling on about other things? What are you talking about ? The saleable value of the club increased from 1.25m to anywhere between 100m and 200m quid while they ran it ? Maybe you should go back to the financial statement thread and re-read it if you cannot understand what I am asking you about. I think you should look at the league positions I posted and the history of the club if you don't understand exactly how much better off the club became while the Halls and shepherd ran it. Thank you I know exactly what happened with the club when Sir John Hall came in. I can remember what it was like before he came in. And I know what happened when Sir John Hall and Freddy Shepherd were here in regards of football. I also know that Fred Shepherd mortgaged the club to the hilt and he was lucky not to financially ruin the club. I know that Mike Ashley was not the only person to look at the books with a view of taking over the club, but the mess Freddy Shepherd had made with the finances put everyone else off. I don't need a history lesson, but you need a reality check! So, it's a mystery to you that the top 4 have massive debt?? man utd's is dropping dramatically, chelsea are fucked should abramovic walk away,arsenal have had to redefine their plans and liverpool are trying to sell up. So you admit it takes massive expenditure and debt risk to gain a chance at success? And when massive expenditure and debt buys only a steady decline until there's nothing left to borrow against? Not as simple as that is it. People come into these threads (not you) saying FS is a cunt, KK is a cunt, Wise is a cunt etc...it's more complex than that (as you know). Sometimes little things go against you (Luque's career threateing inj or Boumsong being half decent) and history can be re-written. And sometimes throwing money at the problem only makes things massively worse, if there's consistently poor decision-making in other areas. And that ain't that simple either. What was Coloccini? Youth? Or a cheap buy? I agree just throwing money at it is no good without a proper strategy in place and football men running the club (Ashley has failed here totally). Actually keeping KK in place with even a reasonable spend of say 25m net would have seen us having a respectable season. Collo is a reasonable buy and one tiny step in the right direction, but then you have to weight Xisco and Nacho against that. Let's not foget who ok'd the silly wages of Smith, Crappa et all either....Ashley and Wise oversaw all that debacle as well. Now their last hope is to throw mud at the previous regime and make out high wages etc is a Newcastle problem...It's a PL problem. It doesn't even seem to me like MA has learn't anything over his time here. Bit pedantic, but Wise came in just after KK, nothing to do with Smith, Cacapa on high wages. Maybe they are part of the reason he did come in? Other than that not much to disagree with, apart from the fact I think our wage bill is disgraceful for the quality of player we have. Had we managed to turn that round a bit I'd like to think a bit of spend would have seen us well off.