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He'll fit right in here. I can't recall seeing him play so I won't pass judgement but the lack of assists could be down to the fact that Bolton scored a pathetic amount of goals after Anelka left.

I suppose he's not too bad for £2m.

Hopefully we've paid £2m at an absolute maximum.

Right now we can't afford to sell as we only have Duff who can play on the left wing and at the moment N'Zogbia is also our backup LB.

Best shape of his life my arse

Fingers firmly crossed.

Wise in Dubai is turning into the new Keegan in California. Depending on who you listen to he's been in Dubai for weeks.

Sidwell has completed his move to Villa.

"people from Newcastle, not some cave in afghanistan"? sounds a bit of a dodgy quote to me! Why would Ashley tell a local paper in the London area anything? If he was going to talk to a local paper it would be the "Newcastle Evening Chronicle" not the jellied-eeels "London Evening Standard" Grief!!! it was part of a wider thing to do with sports worlds results. on that note i understand his holding is up to 72% But, why would he speak to a L O C A L evening rag in London?? His company is based in London. He lives in London. Just a thought. Plus who in their right mind would want to talk to Oliver I agree about Oliver!! BUT, if he wants to talk to a LOCAL paper (about Newcastle United) he would not talk to a local from way down there. He would talk to the nationals, or to a local here in Newcastle. Some people (who quote from it) do not realise that the Jellied Eeels Standard, is a LOCAL RAG (because it is based down there!!) . . . . It might be "local" but it has a massive readership, including people who work in the city which makes it an ideal place to talk about the Sports Direct stuff. Also as mentioned before these quotes haven't just been given to the Standard they are on the websites of a few broadsheet papers.

Gokhan Inler, Udinese to Newcastle - Insider says: 4/5 The Italian club have offered the promising Swiss midfielder improved terms but Newcastle's executive director (football) Dennis Wise has reached an agreement with the player's agent. A deal in the region of £4million will be done. Link

Shields Gazette are saying he is out today as well.

I'm pretty sure the guy who does the website is just an employee of the club and isn't kept informed on our transfer dealngs. Therefore he's probobly just told to go through the papers and put what he sees on the website. Then when deal is done he'll be told to post it on the website.

Wouldn't want to sign anyone that we automatically class as backup or squad player. Our team is below average, our squad is small, so anyone we do sign has be on a par or better then what we have & have as good as chance as the fella he competing with to play. In a perfect world I agree but if we can't get the quality we still need a player in who can play that position. The last thing we want is signing nobody and then having Enrique break his leg on September 1st and having play a midfielder or youngster at LB until January.

Was just having a look and we stil need a lot of new players. Backup RB CB Backup LB Atleast 1 CM Another Striker So that's atleast 5 new faces we need in, assuming we don't sell anyone else. Can we get them and more importantly can we get the quality?

Link Agent confirms we have made an offer but he hasn't heard from us in the last week.

Makes sense with Aragones going there as well.

On a non-NUFC related note I can see MON turning Sidwell into a very good player.

Should bid £15m just to see how far we get. Surely worth a try.

There was talk a while ago that Forecast and Joe Martin were Southampton targets but not seen or heard anything since. IIRC, they were being touted for season long loans but Joe Martin (Alvin's boy) was sold last week to Blackpool. TF from what I've seen of him has decent potential but not great, maybe Championship standard. I think David Button, the England u19 keeper has far more potential than Forecast, but that's not saying he'd necessarily make Premiership quality either. I'm hearing that Forecast will be signing for Southampton this week. Confirmed. GG is officially ITK.

Exactly what was needed.

Absolutely crazy. Any club would be mad to pay anything near that.

This.

That's what the BBC's South American reporter Tim Vickery had to say about him.

Doesn't seem to have done Frasier Campbell any harm mind. You've hit the nail on the head their. Frazier Campbell has done well but he is 20 and those 2 years older than our youngsters will mean he is much more fully developed physically and more able to withstand the physical nature of the Championship.

Gomes? Dodgy keeper? I'd say Gomes is definetly not a dodgy keeper. Certainly a VAST improvement over Robinson.