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You do realise that defender was Gavrancic and the deal broke down, so there will be no new signing in the next few hours.

Don't like this at all. > Although his 4 linesman idea is a good one.

Aye,you are completely right about the academy players.There seems to be alot of talented young boys out there The only thing that can develop is like someone said on the board,we can bring some young international talents here although it would be difficult as we all know Newcastle its not London,but you have to start from somewhere. Right now the only two academy boys who are black are Ameobi and Kazenga.If we bring more international players to the academy it will only going to be for the good of the academy.Look at Arsenal.Wenger can play in the Premiership with his academy kids and im sure that he will not get relegated O0 Frank Wiafe Danquah is also black. Plus I don't really think it matters how many black players we have, lol.

Must say this current crop of academy players are looking rather impressive at the moment. Just look at the reserves last night - 15 year-old Donaldson started, so did 16 year-old Kazenga, 17 year-old Darren Lough and Alex Francis started in central defence, 16 year-old Mark Bertram started at RB, 17 year-old Cowan came on for Bernard and then 17 year-old Godsmark came on to score the equiliser. On top of all these kids playing for the reserves they managed to get a away draw against a team fielding much older players and with six players who have started for there first team. Think in a few years we will start seeing some of these kids come through.

Brazilian season runs over our summer so Mascherano played for Corinthians this season.

Not a bad result for our kids considering it was basically our U18 team v there reserves plus some of there first team.

From what I've read atleast 3 or 4 of the papers say it is Oguchi Onyewu.

Errr, Joe Harvey?? Being 17 and only really having a very basic knowledge of NUFC history pre-1990 I have no idea who Joe Harvey is.

Downing.

So he was better ten years before, and there had been another manager less than five years before him who was better. That would kind of contradict the idea of him being a legendary Newcastle manager. He was better ten years before compared to what he was at the end. By the end of his reign I think it's well documented he had lost control of some of the more unruly players and was starting to show his age. Had he been 50 whe his reign at Newcastle started I truly think he'd still be manager now.

Nah. Don't think he would be good for more than a year.

Legendary Newcastle manager for me. I'd say he's the 2nd best manager we have ever had after Keegan and if he had been 10 years younger when he joined us I truly believe he would have been the best ever.

Hopefully he'll be able to play against Villa.

Don't think he would want to come back after his experience last time.

Quality just isn't there in the Championship and prices are going sky high there as well, for instance Preston rejected £6m for Nugent. Also why would we sign Giles Barnes in this window when we have 2 right wingers already.

People natter on about Luque being given a chance, well take this into account. From out 24 league games this season Duff has started 12 and in just 7 of them has played in his prefered left wing position, also in 2 or 3 of those 7 we were only playing one striker, thus limits the teams attacking ability. I wouldn't exactly say from that he has been given a fair chance.

What are you smoking? Or am I about to get whoosh'd.

No way. I'm confident he will come good in the next few months, just been unlucky so far. Also I don't think we are that strong on the left wing anymore. Zog has been off form, Pattison has looked shit, so has Luque, O'Brien doesn't look anything special, Emre gives very poor cover to his left back and drifts inside too much and Milner is decent on the left but restricted by the fact that Nobby can't play 90 mins on the right wing anymore. Also selling players is really gonna help our stength in depth. :

Lucas Neill is a right back and Anton Ferdinand is centre back. That should answer your question.

I bet there were a few people saying imagine what Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole and Aaron Lennon will be like in 3 years time.

Let's be honest who has actually watched him for a full 90 mins more than once? I have watched him several times and he is a VERY good player, even better when you consider he is only 17. Going forward I don't think there is a better left back in the championship and I'd say he is better going forward than several Premiership left backs. Defensively I will admit he is not the complete package, however I would say he is easily better defensively than Huntington or Edgar. Not to mention his free kicks are absolutely sensational. He looks to me like he could easily cope with the Premiership and he is only 17, just imagine what he could be like in 3 years time.

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Would love him here regardless of price. Will really show our intentions to be a top club if we did somehow managew to get him.

Don't have a season ticket, as I can't get to every game but if I could get to every game I would definetly be renewing. I agree we are definetly in a dip right now but I'm confident we will get out of it and be challenging for the Champions League places in a few years.

Portsmouth did the same last season and ended up staying up. West Ham are signing players who will improve there team and probobly keep them up.