magorific

Can I have a shot of whatever you've been injecting? He had to go..Although the club probably has not been competent, a line as to be drawn. He's a professional, earing more money than most dare dream of. If he disagrees with how the club is run, use the proper channels, instead of posting stupid tweets .. "The club probably has not been competent", "barton's replacement"... admit it, you're mainlining. Either that, or you have battered wife syndrome: "Mike will change, I know he will."

I was actually in the thinking that he may be trying to model us on Arsenal who clearly are the only PL club to turn a profit, that's what thinking does for you eh He's a business man. He sees success as his company making a profit I think he's clever enough to realise that he'll never make a personal profit from NUFC though, he's just trying to limit the amount he has to spend on us. And in so doing, he has already cost himself a shedload of cash by overseeing a relegation. As things stand, he risks doing the same again.

Looking back over the last few pages of this thread is proof of how much certain people exaggerate the significance of pre-season friendliest. Raylor a better rb than Simpson indeed...

Aye so much so they accepted a bid from us. Said who? Nixon......

Not sure why people should be on their high horse re Bassong when N'Zogbia - who most on here wanted back - behaved no better.

He hasn't deleted it, and he is still satisfying his dellusional mind with bullshit that some people believe. He had the front the other day to ridicule someone who reckoned they had a contact at the jesmond Dene House hotel. That's Colin, who pretended to be out with Kenneth Shepherd and his girlfriend a couple of weeks back - and she tweeted it was utter bollox. The night before, he'd tweeted a pic of Kenneth Shepherd's car. It wasn't Kenneth Shepherd's... Truly pitiful that people are still asking him for info. I'm still waiting for the player he said we'd signed almost three weeks ago to appear.

Jesus wept..

Old news that, I think. Be surprised if Douglas wrote it.

No shit Sherlock...

Chelsea also linked, along with Malaga and a few others? Sounds like it might be an auction...

Thailand knock-offs of the home shirt available now. Quality looks decent.

Bangura already knocked down?

A bizarre mish-mash. Trying too hard.

Just cannot begin to imagine why Sturridge would come here on anything other than a loan spell.

This. The only thing which would make Upson worse is if you gave him Woody's hamstrings.

They all have names on their boots these days. Kids in my sons' teams have their names on their boots. Or are you being ironic?

Martin Samuel is a hugely talented writer. Sad to see him trot out such lazy journalism.

N'Zogbia acted the c**t at Newcastle from when Boumsong - who had been a big influence (off the pitch rather than on it, obviously) - started getting stick off press and fans.

Disappointed, but nobody should be surprised he's gone - or to West Ham. As well as Nolan and Big Sam being close, Mark Curtis - Nolan's agent - is, er, a preferred business partner of Allardyce. As for Nolan himself, given that he persuaded Andy Carroll to switch agents to Curtis (why do that other than for a nice little earner?), I've no doubt he asked the club for a hefty pay rise, but how many players are going to ask Ashley for a pay hike/longer contract (or both) before they realise he will never be strong-armed? He's never bowed to other people's wishes at any time during his business career. He doesn't play by rules - business rules, football rules or otherwise.

Agreed. Nobody who saw him at first hand regularly for the first 4-5 months of last season can possiblty argue he is a one-trick pony. Yes, he particularly thrives on one form of service, but which forward (other than an immortal like Messi) doesn't?

Absolutely spot on. Also - a more minor but still important point - he's also up there with the likes of Shearer in terms of defending set pieces in his own box.

If Erding/Erdinc was that good, why have PSG bought Gameiro?

The club, or his source inside the club, will be happy to leak things to him in the future. this Utter bollocks. If he knew who it was, he'd say. He doesn't.

Didn't Douglas "reveal" the Cabaye deal exactly a fortnight ago - 24 hours after it was in the French papers (and even Twatter Warris had it)?

The white Shola...