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Really poor overall performance. Smith and Amoebi need getting rid of ASAP. Milner has no place on that wing until he learns how to cross the ball. Butt was really poor tonight I thought, didn't track back for the goal and offered nothing oging forward. Cacapa also looked very suspect again.

Poor game so far tbh. Jonas had been our best player. Smith and Amoebi have been woeful, although Smith's made Amoebi look like Pele. Milner still can't cross.

No. The island of New Guinea is contentious, some say it is Asian, some say it is Oceanic. Basically one of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea is in the wrong federation, but which? Just been having a check, lol. Indonesia is more contentious than I first thought, but Papua New Guinea is DEFINETLY in Oceania.

Also are we talking continents or region. Because a whole load of countries class themselves as Middle Eastern rather than Asian but are in the Asian federation.

Indonesia is officially part of the Oceania continent but is in the Asian association.

Faroe islands? Wouldn't say they belong to Europe with them beeing so far away.

Nope, fee agreed, terms agreed and medical done but it said on the official website it still wasn't complete, awaiting international clearance I presume. Also in the abscence of Keegan quotes the Shields Gazzette could just be putting words in his mouth about Bassong already being signed.

I reckon it's going to be Bassong. Hope it isn't like but I'm not gonna get too excited just yet.

We should have a sweepstake on how many months of this season Viduka's going to miss. My money's on 4 months.

There is almost an attitude that Ashley's own money is the clubs money. Fact is that Ashley doesn't really have cash in his pockets and under his mattresses to throw around at a whim. The majority of his £1.4bn is tied up in his own businesses. Shinawatra and Gaydamak probably have more money available to invest in their clubs right now. I'm not saying he should go throwing it around. But if he isn't willing to spend around £2 million extra to get our first choice target (IF Coloccini is that) then he really has no business running a football club. While it is about trying to run a more effecient business and have a smarter transfer policy we shouldn't be pinching pennies over important deals such as this one. While I am in favour of letting this play out and negotiating, if in a week or so we find out the deal is completely off I will be very dissapionted.

Says what exactly? Half way down it says something about us and Coloccini Just says he has stayed in Spain to try and get his move to Newcastle.

Will be criminal if we let him get away over a couple of million when we have a billionaire owner.

Says what exactly?

Pretty pleased to hear about Pavlyuchenko. He scored a few at Euro 2008 but the amount of chances he was given he should have scored a lot more. I've said it before when we were linked with him, if you don't create him a plethora of chances he won't score because he'll miss a lot more than he'll score.

Inler has already rejected a move to us. No he hasnt Yes, he has. Wise met with Inler's representatives in Switzerland and they were presented with an offer which was then turned down by Inler's camp as he was not interested in joining Newcastle. Was very widely reported in the Swiss media. Feel free to provide a link. Link Translated on page 6 on this link below: Link That's not the original source but it's the first on google I could find that reproduced the quotes.

Inler has already rejected a move to us. No he hasnt Yes, he has. Wise met with Inler's representatives in Switzerland and they were presented with an offer which was then turned down by Inler's camp as he was not interested in joining Newcastle. Was very widely reported in the Swiss media.

Inler has already rejected a move to us.

One thing I'd say is all their signings this summer are significant improvements over what they have got.

You have to invoke Article 17 within a period of days after the end of the season so he can't do it until May 2009 at the earliest.

Lets hope that's the agent trying to soften Depor's stance, because it would be criminal if we let our preffered target get away because we won't pay an extra million when we have a billionaire owner.

Basically, yep. well, the story with that one was, ashley was in a casino down london and he heard the west ham directors say they could of paid more for dyer, so then ashley cancelled the transfer I thought it was because they found out West Ham had spoken to him before we accepted the bid. No the casino thing is correct, the West Ham directors didn't recognise wor Mike and were bragging in front of him at the blackjack table about how they were ripping the Toon off over Dyer Link? Never read that before.

Basically, yep. well, the story with that one was, ashley was in a casino down london and he heard the west ham directors say they could of paid more for dyer, so then ashley cancelled the transfer I thought it was because they found out West Ham had spoken to him before we accepted the bid. We asked for more money because we re-valued him. We accepted the initial bid but then Mort (who had basically no previous football negotiating skills at this piont) was told he was worth more.

Basically, yep.

Why? Just showing our hand to our transfer rivals. Also it's no help to our fans if we admit the interest and are unable to conclude a deal for him.

£1.5 million I think.