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4 goals guaranteed then

I wonder if they will sell Berbatov in this transfer window. If not then it doesn't look good for them having a uinhappy player in the squad. And if they do sell i doubt they have time to sign a player even near as good as him. Keane and Berbatov sold then. Those two were the best players for them last season and without them i can really see them struggling for goals as many has mentioned before. They have no balance or stability at all in their team atm. Good for us, enjoyable to see them suffer if they are going to

Well not for that price anyway. And i think he could be a risky signing. Might not turn out to be as good in the EPL as many think..

I hope Chelsea rape Spurs tomorrow...

Reid really does look like a meatball

Well i hope we dont get "smashed" And i dont think we will get. Im still optimistic about this game and hope we can get something from it. Even if we loose i hope there's alot of positive stuff to take with us for next game. Playing our own game and showing confidence as we did against Man utd. And to be able to say "we could of drawn or even won if we hade some more players fit" and some more luck. I can survive that i think (well my remote probably still wont survive) Come on Toon

IF Beye is Unavailable as the times say then i would rather play Colo and Bassong and put Taylor at Rb instead of Edgar..

Again, not completely correct. He has signed on loan. Well he has still "signed" hasn't he?

Ever Banega has signed for Atl. Madrid from Valencia..

How's it going with Barton and his possible ban?? Is it decided yet how's it gonna be??

Expecting too much for someone who hasnt even been in the country for a month yet. If he has a competent performance, I'll be very pleased. Give it two or three years and then hope he'll be the rock in our defence able to hold us together against top sides. It's not like i demand or expect him to have a SUPER performance. But i have a feeling we will see the best of Colo in this game. Even if he might get even better in the future when he gets used to this league. But Playing against Arsenal is like playing against Barcelona when it comes to playing style, not many long and high balls. So i think this game might suit him. But of course the whole team has to defend well also..

I haven't read through this hole thread tbh, but i think this might be a game where Coloccini shows his class, i hope he does. His positioning will be vital for us i think, and im confident he will do well... COME ON NEWCASTLE!! He has showed class before. But in this game i think we will see even more of it...

£12M :celb:

Quaresma has gone to inter It never actually went through I don't think. I actually think it has went through now

Ricardo Quaresma has signed for Inter..

Doesn't sound too bad, maybe someone like Javi Martínez But there's more creative players out there, But he's young and tall 6ft 3 or something i think..

The panic thread will now change to the Optimism thread probably

Atm i think we need a right footed player more than a left one...

So we've just sold Milner for £12 million, and of all the players on God's green Earth the best you can come up with is Lennon?! That's frightening! Wouldn't we essentially be back to square one? A player who flatters to deceive but never actually produces an end product? Just in this case Lennon is a bit quicker. No thanks. Knowing Tottenham they would demand £12 million and all! There are much better payers out there who are rumoured to be available this summer and would cost less. Prime example is Seb Larsson. We could even go abroad and bring in someone like Jaroslav Plasil or even Joaquin. Agreed. But Joaquin would want very high wages probably and is very inconsistent. Only class when he's in the mood. And om not sure he would like to move to the north east either. Would rather go for other players than him, But who knows. Could be a good signing. But a risky signing imo..

£9-12m? YES PLEASE. I just hope that we have some players lined up. If there´s time enough it shouldn't be too hard to get a player who´s alot better than Milner for that price..

For that price it "shouldn't be hard to find a better player to replace him with..

He was very good against France last week and scored one hell of a nice goal. It was a friendly btw...Very intelligent player who's still fit and in good shape. Not that i would try to get him if i was the manager, But if we did sign him it would be a good signing for the short term, but i hope we look for the longterm option instead..

He would gladly take the wages Milner is currently on, as he certainly won't be on anythng close to that. So we could potentially get a player who is clearly better and just as good a pro for less money and less wages, who is also prem experienced. Hopefully this is what we have been working on in the last week with Birmingham. Their signing of Owusu-Abeyie gave me huge hope, and thankfully they are going pretty well at the moment. I think it is a very good possibility, and I would be ecstatic. Milner would be an absolute afterthought if we signed Larsson. i don't think it's clear. Neither do i...

FYP

£500k I think. Ok, cheers, so it's not THAT much then..But say we end up in a UEFA cup place and we do pretty well in the cup next season, say that we reach the quarter/semi final, then i guess that would give us quite alot more money? I wonder WHY we cannot get quality players in, is it because we cant attract the players that are good enough? Or that we refuse to budge for the clubs asking prices and are keeping our money a little bit too tight when it comes to spending. Of course i dont want us to pay silly prices for a player that isn't even near worth that sum. Even if we dont get the quality players that goes straight in to the team i think we should at least be able to get better squad depth. Im not VERY worried about our team atm, and when our other players get fit we have quite a good team tbh. But there's no cover at all in some positions, not cover of enough quality. I would be pretty satisfied with our curren team for this season if we just had better squad depth. IF we get injurys as we probably will get, especially if we play the same players each game we will certainly get a few injuries. IF the window closes and we haven't even got any decent squad players in then i will panic because over the season we will get punished with quite a few points due to us not having a squad that is strong enough. Maybe we dont get as many "real quality" players in like Colo and Jonas, not as many as we would want. But i will not complain about that as long as we get a strong enough squad to make it to January without loosing too many points because us not having decent enough of cover for injured players. It will take time and im patient and with time we will get more quality players in like Jonas and Colo to name two players. PLayers that make a real difference in the quality of our team.. But there's still a few days for us to get a couple of decent players, hopefully 3, but im not that confident about it so im a little bit nervous, but not in panic. Yet anyway