Mick

A benitez quote from earlier in the year: "They have to reform or die, to spend or fail."

I know Benitez was moaning about a lack of money or something like that.

No list, I thought not.

you obviously preferred the decades where we sold our best players, played in the 2nd division, and - eeerrrrr - almost went bankrupt as a result. Still, every club in football is in the black except us aren't they mackems.gif Jesus wept, you must even copy and paste the smiley these days.

Thanks for that list, how many followed Souness and how many had failed as often as Roeder?

That is a nightmare, it doesn't reduce our problems.

Here's a comment by Luke Young after doing an interview with Chris Mort: Newcastle United’s debt is larger than many people first thought and one of the first tasks for Mort is tackling that issue. Had they not taken control, I dread to think what direction Newcastle were heading in financially after years of brave, but ultimately foolish spending.

That doesn't make any difference, we still didn't have the money and would have still needed to increase our debt.

The debt for the re-development might be manageable but it's less than half of the £80 million we were supposed to have been carrying, we don't know if Ashley was even aware of the debt, I am guessing that they may have been a bit surprised having seen a comment about it from Mort although I can't remember an exact quote.

Good chairman don't appoint Roeders.

We didn't have the money in the first place, I'm sure an £80million debt has been mentioned which would suggest that we were just going further into debt.

We keep hearing about clubs spending the new TV money, I would doubt that they've seen it yet so they must be spending it before they even have it.

The clubs money is his money because he owns the club, for the first time in our clubs history we have a sole owner.

I don't agree with Baggio but he's got every right to be concerned at this stage as none of us know for sure what Ashley wants from or for the club, we'll probably not know for at least another year or so, actions speak louder than words and we'll not really see how things are going to go straight away.

What was he called?

The only good to come out of this is it's pre-season so he'll not miss as many games as he would have done during the season and we've got time to bring in a replacement although that will now probably get in the way of other transfers.

Who is Mark A?

We should have more technical players, I couldn't care if a player doesn't run around like a headless chicken if he can spread the ball around without running with it all of the time. It's easier to defend against a runner then it is to defend against somebody who can find his own team mates with a good pass.

He might have lost a bit of pace but he's still the best footballer at the club.

It's about time our luck changed for the better, I haven't seen anything being reported about the injury yet so it must be less than certain.

Didn't Bolton say they has signed contracts for 12 months so they had to work until the contracts were up?

Ameobi?

I agree about something not being right and it goes back years, did we have this many injuries when Keegan was here because we've had them ever since?

I don't see what the club doctor can do to prevent injuries, all he can do is try to get them back as soon as possible after injury.