Mick

I've just seen it in the other thread, I missed it for some reason.

I don't know if it was a piss take, it probably was, I remember somebody saying that was the one we thought we were getting when we brought the one we got from Portsmouth.

I'm not starting a new thread for this but we're supposed to be after Faye. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=471958&in_page_id=1779

More old shite cobbled together and put out as something new. http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2138162,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=5 Sam Allardyce yesterday had a clear-the-air meeting with Chis Mort, the Newcastle United chairman, after relationships became strained at St James' Park. Already dismayed by what he regards as a lack of investment in new players, the manager was concerned by Sunday newspaper reports suggesting that Mike Ashley, the club's new owner, was poised to replace him with Alan Shearer in a move that would also see Kevin Keegan returning to Tyneside as director of football. That scenario, however, is highly unlikely to unfold. Shearer is currently "very happy" working for the BBC and Keegan remains fully occupied running his Soccer Circus business in Glasgow. After Newcastle defeated Juventus 2-0 in a friendly on Sunday, Allardyce appeared distinctly unimpressed by talk of Keegan's return. Potentially more seriously, Allardyce - who was appointed by Freddy Shepherd, Newcastle's former chairman, only days before Ashley bought the club - is unhappy after being told that his transfer budget is considerably slimmer than he had anticipated. The manager recently suggested that starting the season with his present squad could constitute "a disaster". He has so far brought in Joey Barton and David Rozehnal, for a total of about £8.5m, and Geremi and Mark Viduka on free transfers. Speculation yesterday suggested a bid had been made for Manchester United's Alan Smith, who has already turned down a move to the north-east with Middlesbrough and is coveted by Manchester City and Everton. Meanwhile Scott Parker has been sold to West Ham United for £7m and several other players have left for nothing. Newcastle's net spending so far this summer is only £1.7m. The resultant squad is, in the goalkeeper Shay Given's words, "the lightest we've had for years" and Allardyce is hoping to sign another four or five players, starting with the Paris St-Germain left-back Boukary Dramé. However, it is believed he has been told he has only another £10m to spend and that this must cover salaries as well as transfer fees. He is hoping to generate cash by selling some high-earning players such as Kieron Dyer. Mort, a lawyer with one of London's top firms, is said to be "applying the brakes" after his strategic review of the club's finances revealed the full extent of Newcastle's debts, which were recently estimated at £80m.

Read what Baggio has posted, it goes totally against the other shite and it contains quotes.

Oh Shit.

At this rate we'll be through the full squad by the middle of August, they must be taking the shot gun approach, name them all and we might get one right. Wankers, the lot of them.

That would be doing them a favour, you're better off leaving them to show themselves up.

What's "a typical NO c***"?

At the minute I'd prefer to see N'Zogbia playing left wing but he has pace and a shot that would work well in the middle as long as he was going forwards and not having to defend. For now his strengths are running at the defence and either crossing the ball or shooting from range with power. Defenders will hate him because he's so direct once he gets into his stride. He's not one-dimensional which will keep defenders thinking about how to stop him and he should be able to make that work for him as long as he keeps his head up. N'Zogbia has been one of the big plusses for me so far.

Re: The weather and news reporters, the weather has changed for the better since we started to use them so don't complain.

Mort & Allardyce hate each other and I've got proof. http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/7784/allardyceandmortot0.jpg They're trying to laugh each other to death.

What a pile of shite, you forget to mention that Allardyce is going to resign, he'll be replaced by Souness with Roeder as DOF.

If we didn't discuss non-stories we'd have nothing to discuss as nothing is coming from the club.

You prove that we could have qualified for the CL without Asprilla scoring against Wimbledon and I'll accept that it's bollocks.

Loads of Keegan quotes about why he left http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/1824074.stm Kevin Keegan insists he had "no option" but to resign as Newcastle manager five years ago after being offered a contract ultimatum. The former Toon idol returns to St James' Park on Sunday with his Manchester City side for a fifth round FA Cup tie. Keegan is still held in high esteem by the Newcastle fans after his rollercoaster spell in charge from 1992 to 1997. After returning to the club where he starred as a player, he lifted the Geordies from the depths of the old Second Division to within touching distance of the Premiership title. But Keegan revealed the manager's job lost its appeal after the club decided to float on the Stock Exchange, prompting his shock decision to quit. "When anybody leaves their job, it's rarely the way you want to leave," he said. "I know it was my choice to leave. I had no option but I was forced into a corner. "When the then chairman Sir John Hall first rang me to bring me back to Newcastle, he said `We are the two people who can save Newcastle'. "On the last day, he was nowhere to be seen. I felt that was bad. In fact, it was the one bad day I had there. "I was sat in the boardroom with Freddy Shepherd, Freddie Fletcher and Douglas Hall, men I had worked with. "But they said nothing as some finance man floating the club told me I had to sign a new contract or go. "I said `You don't know me. These people do. Thank you very much - goodbye!' "It was becoming a plc and I felt the focus of the club had changed. It just wasn't as enjoyable as it was."

That is the way it happened, I'm sure the reason he was going at the end of that season was because he didn't want to work for a PLC, he said something along the lines of not being able to manage because of the constraints that would bring.

Keegan walked because he was against the club becoming a PLC and refused to extend his contract bacause of it.

Why did Keegan walk away?

Did Keegan walk away? Maybe we should discount him because it doesn't suit your argument, it wouldn't be the first time that we had to ignore something because it didn't suit you.

Excellent, you'll be able to start again when you get banned for spamming, I like your style, you'll have the pleasure of getting to 100 posts for a second time.

So when you judge Asprilla you do so by taking out some of the games he played in, OK, I'll remember that when making judgements in future if it suits my argument, as for him doing very little for 18 months, you do realise in that time we qualified for the CL but we wouldn't have done so if it wasn't for his league goals in the qualifying season, do we count those? I don't think so. He only scored 4 league goals in that season. Keep ignoring stuff that doesn't suit your opinions though, its a hoot. If you like, you can answer the question about Ameobi then, are you going to judge him in the same way, as he scores goals in europe but is s*** in the league ? As usual, you will be slow to answer things that don't suit your "opinion". We qualified on the same number of points as Arsenal and Asprilla was the only goal scorer in games where we got points, your opinion doesn't come into this, it's fact. Stop trying to bluff your way out of this and just admit that you're wrong again, we all make mistakes and you've just dropped one almighty brick. If Asprilla hadn't scored against Wimbledon we'd have finished behind Arsenal, instead of in front of them.

So when you judge Asprilla you do so by taking out some of the games he played in, OK, I'll remember that when making judgements in future if it suits my argument, as for him doing very little for 18 months, you do realise in that time we qualified for the CL but we wouldn't have done so if it wasn't for his league goals in the qualifying season, do we count those? I don’t know why I’ve bothered mentioning the CL, it doesn’t count. Well, that makes the record of another person at the club look worse.

If you get your way then I want the voting reset again because I want to change my vote.