OzzieMandias

It's a shame, really, that they didn't feel they had to stick with Grant, as I don't think he'd be the ideal manager for the rebuilding job Chelsea now have to do.

This.

Closet Chelsea fan tbh

Gawd.

Need more than one How many will it take to shut you up? in fact I'm trying to put up an objective and fair point of view. mackems.gif

Need more than one How many will it take to shut you up?

He's a cockney wanker.

boooooooo, you're not welcome here son! I'm an expert on 14th century crop rotation, though.

I'll believe NE5 wants Ashley to succeed if he acknowledges that people have legitimate reasons for being glad to see the back of the last lot.

Whereas the security in Moscow...

Sell him to West Ham.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/20/premierleague.chelsea All this talk about the big 4 clubs having huge debt is nothing really. Many successful modern institutions run on deficit spending. Any of the big 4 going under is just about as likely as the United States of America going bankrupt due to their ginormous national debt. ie, it's not impossible, but not damn likely any time soon. The difference being top football clubs can't start wars. Or global recessions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/may/20/premierleague.chelsea

Of course not. He would simply have marched Modric to the nearest boot room and explained that Newcastle broke the world transfer record back when the player was ten years old. Problem solved.

there's a question mark at the end of the sentence But you're missing a capital letter and a full stop from that one.

Sorry.

No, no. Modric going to Spurs was entirely down to Ashley forbidding Keegan from taking him to the boot room and explaining that Newcastle qualified for the Champions League about a quarter of the player's lifetime ago.

If you say so.

It would be a total giggle actually if you look at the top 4. Liverpool and Man U would be well fucked. Abramovich would have to write off about £500 million worth of investment as unrecoverable. Arsenal would probably be OK, as their debt is all to do with the stadium, and I can't see how they can prevent clubs borrowing to improve their facilities -- unless Platini wants no new stadiums, ever. And of course, we'd have been fucked too if Ashley hadn't paid off the debts Shepherd ran up.

I think the next thing a chairman is supposed to do after a year in charge is slag off fans and players to the "cockney media" in a Spanish brothel.

Modric wasn't at the negotiations, so it wouldn't have made a blind bit of difference if Keegan had been there.

Platini's plans to restrict debt would, if introduced and enforced, make a hell of a difference.

Spot On. It's refreshing that a player moves for his career ambition and the chance of European football and a better coach, rather than moving to the club that offered him the better salary. Even if it is annoying that it's Spurs he is moving too. I don't agree. We have played in europe more than Spurs over the last decade and a half. And I don't accept that Newcastle can't be sold to a player as being bigger and better than Spurs. We ourselves have a bigger fanbase, a better stadium and also a well known high profile manager. The ONLY area where they score, is that they are in London, and not every player would see this as the be all and end all. I think it is in fact defeatist to accept that we lose out to such clubs like Spurs. This is why Keegan wasn't happy, see the article by bobyule on the main site which I read this morning. If this attitude is good enough for Keegan, it should be good enough for supporters of the club. They are just making excuses for failure to land a target. This defeatist mentality is something that is unacceptable, such an attitude smacks of the way we used to be. That won't go down well, but its the truth. incorrect no, it isn't. Its correct. That is why Keegan was unhappy about it all. Im pretty sure you're incorrect. Your first paragraph is atrocious to be honest. but its absolutely correct. It's bollocks. Players won't look at where a club was five or 15 years ago. They look at where it is now.

load of steaming bollocks imho. Berbs wanted to add this clause when he was negiotiating a new contract and Levy straight away rejected it, so i fail to see why we'd agree one for Modric. Aye, it's perfectly obvious that Modric said to himself, "Keegan didn't take me to the boot room for a one-on-one, so I'll go somewhere else for half the money that doesn't have any of this director of football type nonsense, like, er... Tottenham."

We're also lacking any evidence at all that Keegan actually wants to be part of each and every transfer negotiation.