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Milner's blinder against Coventry has become the equivalent of Luque's YouTube video

tbf i think 15 out of 20 premiership clubs would call this transfer window a failure for themselves, so it's not like we are the exception, clubs don't want to sell TBH i don't give a fucking shit what the how the other clubs think they have done, I care about what goes at Newcastle. And when we are fielding Alan Smith up front on his own and some reserve kid in the the middle of the park away to Wigan, what portsmouth did in this transfer window will have no relevance. took the words right out of my mouth so ur saying martins, viduka, owen, carroll are all gonna be sold or injured before that situation then injuries happen at all clubs, look at man utd they are still desperate for a striker and they are the best team on the planet and what do you want, another carl cort, luque, viana, boumsong then if u do then fucking support chelsea or someone that can applease you and your desired trophy signings that you crave for sorry mate, nothing personal. Your comment about ManU shows the desire to remain the best, so why not take your lead from them in terms of the need to keep changing, you can't stand still in this game. Simple truth is, the only striker we have, who is likely to stay fit and perform for about 25 games, is Martins. Owen hopefully will, but his history says he won't. Viduka won't. Carroll is a kid. Ameobi is crap. Smith has not been a success. What is that left ? As for the "trophy signings", I will tell you that its trophies that I want, and for Newcastle to sign the sort of players who win these trophies. If you want to ridiculously label them as "trophy players" then you have a lot to learn, but I suspect that you are just regurgitating the bollocks cliches that are spouted around by other people who's views change like the wind. Having supported this club since 1964, and seen a damn sight worse than this, I'm not going to change now. I suspect people like you would be sorely tested if you had even a slight taste of real mediocrity, if you really think you have seen it at this club in the last decade and a half. Having seen such shite (which it undoubtedly was) I'm surprised you have now turned into a prawn sandwich eating Man U - type supporter demanding we compete with said club without any of their resources or wealth.

I like the club's maths equation better: Milner @ 2x wages or £10m = fuck off to Villa

Few more "It just wouldn't be transfer season without th skunks stealing a player. At least it was him!!" That's so funny. sI think someone should tell them, stupid Moyes tried to get Tiago after we'd done all the spadework to set up a loan deal.

When Milner leaves I wonder if his taxi will start then stop...swerve left then right away from the oncoming traffic...before finally arriving late in the wrong destination?

Seconded. I don't think we are after him though unless it's a stop gap thing.

Milner tried to play the club and lost. He's history and can now fuck off to Villa. Thanks for the service and £10m. Next.

None of those are as good as Milner on the right wing. Ashley is a fucking idiot, and he's apparently populated his Board with fucking idiots. Keegan woudl be well off out of this shambles. Big club?? Don't make me fucking laugh. We're going to struggle to remain an avergae sized club with these arseholes. Keegan wouldn't be in a job if it wasn't for these "arseholes" so I don't think he'll be running back to his soccer circus just yet.

i don't think Milner's done anything wrong in trying to get more money, and I don't think we've done anything wrong in deciding we'd rather have £10m to buy someone better.

What exactly do you regard as a shit job? Buying Guthrie, Coloccini, Bassong and Jonas? Negotiating £8m for Dyer, £4m for Shola and possibly £10m for Milner? Seems pretty competent work to me so far. Where did we finish last season? I can remember you panicking before we turned things round and saying something like "Fuk Keegan" so I thin k we finished quite well considering your suicidal state at the time.

What exactly do you regard as a s*** job? Buying Guthrie, Coloccini, Bassong and Jonas? Negotiating £8m for Dyer, £4m for Shola and possibly £10m for Milner? Seems pretty competent work to me so far. One year my school report said . . . "Could do better, should do better" Was that in the middle of the term or at the end? Because Ashley still has till Monday to "do better".

What exactly do you regard as a shit job? Buying Guthrie, Coloccini, Bassong and Jonas? Negotiating £8m for Dyer, £4m for Shola and possibly £10m for Milner? Seems pretty competent work to me so far.

I'd be more worried if I was a City supporter wrt something not being right. They are spending big mind.

it is if they can secure a replacement in 4 days, otherwise we'll be throwing lua lua in or relying on geremi/smith We could also play Zog, Duff or Jonas there if pushed. Our best run of form last season was when Milner was out of the team. I don't think he'll be a massive loss.

That's fair enough, but from what KK has said in the past, it seems Ashley's expectations are of challenging for the top 4, which will need some investment. FWIW I'm pretty sure that we will still buy big if the player is right. Selling Milner for £9m is just good business IMO.

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. I think that part you highlighted could be ,but might not be...

Having watched him under-perform for Chelsea and England I have doubts about his desire to step up a level. Big fish in a small pond syndrome seems to suit him nicely.

I don't think we value him highly enough.

SWP moving back to the comfort zone...speaks volumes for his lack of ambition and self belief. Not the type of player we want tbh.

He's a good squad player and I'd like to keep him on that understanding. Can't see him being happy on the bench though so best to get good money for him now and buy a quality player who commands a first team spot on performance week in week out.

No, we needed 6 or 7 before we let Carr, Roz, Faye, Emre, Ramage etc go. OK, they're not very good, but they're numbers. Carr was dogshit and made the team worse. For Ramage see above. Rozehnal was already gone. Emre was always injured. No loss at all. Faye has been replaced by Bassong (though I'd have kept him tbf). I see your point, and I still think we need three, but honestly numbers don't mean anything when the players are that useless. Carr and Ramage are no loss at all. Rozehnal/Diatta needed replacing as 4th choice, together they made something like 23 appearances. I'd assume Bassong is their replacement, not Faye's. Taylor, Bassong and Cacapa should ideally be reserve players for us. Faye was our best centre-half before Coloccini and selling him put us back a step as ideally we still need a partner for the argie. Emre made 14 appearances last season and that was his worst season for us in terms of fitness, and i suspect at the end of the season when he was fit enough to play for Turkey but not for us, that it was simply a case of us knowing he was leaving and his head being elsewhere. the fact he was creative midfielder makes his absense more acute. perhaps Guthrie is seen as his replacement but i'm sure most of us (and Keegan) would like a more experienced creator in midfield. Then there's Milner who is now likely to be on the way out. taking that into account i'd like us to bring in another 4 or 5 players (forward, a replacement for Butt, a creative midfielder/winger, centre-half, left-back). the fact that we still need this many with 5 days left is a bit of a joke to be perfectly honest. It will be a joke if that's still the case in 5 days time. I know it's cutting it fine, but a lot of moves are dependent on others going through and if you look at the other clubs like Everton, Mna U and Spurs for example, many are in the same boat. I'll wait to see what happens next few days before I pass judgement.

I think a couple of people discussed this as an option a while back. Might look better than we think, but Barton needs to look a lot sharper than he has so far in his time here.

KK has already said although he's kept informed of what's going on he's not fully in the loop. So it's quite possible there could be signings getting lined up but he's not aware of what stage we are at.