Mick

It's not and you shouldn't need telling that, he's a class player and football is about watching his type of player.

Didn't Golfmag say he gets a cut of the transfer fee?

Pardew was the one who let it out, wasn't he?

I have a feeling he's scoring today, he's been quiet for a few games.

That's because Taylor doesn't have the turning circle of an aircraft carrier.

I'm sure that's what I've just said, or at least tried to.

Gary Lineker only played with Beardsley for England and claimed that Beardsley was the best partner he'd ever played with.

Seeing them suffering shit football is so

He should be playing further forward and he should be more involved when we're trying to get at the opposition. I would be happy to never see him in our half as defending isn't his job, we have plenty of others in the team who can help out on defence but offer very little at the other end of the pitch. Ben Arfa is our most creative player by a mile and we should be maximising his potential, Keegan would have been brilliant for him.

The voices in his head.

We didn't get him, he got us which is even more of a puzzle.

I've personally got no expectations of him as I have nothing to base any expectations on, at most I hope he comes good and just feel that he has time on his side to turn out to be a good signing. I have no idea whether he's capable of pulling that off or not and can't judge him this early.

I think even our own younger fans underrate him now.

A central midfielder shouldn't have been our first and only major signing during the last transfer window when we were crying out for defenders and a forward. Spending £8 million on midfield and nothing on defence and attack has already cost us and I bet we make the same mistake again because we'll be looking for what we think is value rather than what we actually need. On that basis the signing of Anita was madness and should have been way down our list of priorities. Having said that, he shouldn't be written off after so few games.

Beardsley along with Keegan was also a great signing for Arthur Cox and I think Beardsley is one of the most underrated English footballers that I can ever remember. I was lucky enough so see him play most of his games for us starting with his original debut at Barnsley and I have no idea how he didn't gain more than 59 caps for the national team because we didn't have a better player in his position.

The only negative thing I can say about Coloccini is that he'll not be here forever. He's overtaken Nobby as my favourite ever foreign player.

Watch the power Beardsley can get out of a snap shot at close range, Ben Arfa does exactly the same. In a blink of an eye the ball's in the net. It's like "is he going to try and, s***, it's in the net." With both of them you are just starting to wonder what they are going to do and they've already done it before you've got through your thought process, with both players the reaction speed is amazing and few players can react with such speed.

Obertan played well and I'm pleased for him, after Ferguson he was the player that stood out for me.

I watched a bit of Beardsley earlier and it's amazing how much of him I see in Ben arfa and I never thought that I would ever see anything like Beardsley at Newcastle again.

They wouldn't have got away with the way they went on a few years ago.

Go on youtube and search for Peter Beardsley newcastle goals, the first search result lasts for over 9 minutes, the picture quality is poor, the rest is class.

He could do things Rooney couldn't dream of doing.

If I had the choice of Rooney or Beardsley at his best I'd go for Beardsley every time.

I'll be pissed off if any of our players join a black players union, I don't like or dislike anybody for his colour and I don't think having different players unions for different coloured players will help put a stop to racism.