Mick

Rubbish, we're not a prison.

That's not a fixture list.

Sturridge is streets ahead of our forwards.

I agree to a certain extent, if we do spend the Carroll money and bring in good players then we have a good chance of progressing next season. We'll have a better chance if we spend more on good players than we will if we spend less on good players. Spending a lot on shite isn't as good as spending less on quality and I don't think anybody is arguing any different.

I think you have a fair point and was thinking the same when he came back after his 3 match ban.

Not this season.

He didn't say that he was satisfied with the bench, he actually said that he didn't play as much as he would have liked.

Tiote increases his options after spinning as he comes out with the ball and moved forwards, Parker rarely did that so was stuck with playing the ball to somebody who wasn't being marked and usually behind him.

That would be as bad a transfer window as we've had following on from January.

So after saying that, do you accept that Jonas is more effective than Duff?

I was a fan of Parker but he wasn't in the same class as Tiote. Parker was spinning to play the ball backwards or sideways, Tiote does it and takes his marker out and is always looking to get the ball forwards, I don't see that changing.

There's no discrepancy. http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Newcastle-Andy-Carroll-sale-Andy-Pardew-admits-players-disillusioned-disappointed-but-says-35m-fee-will-be-spent-on-new-faces-article687347.html If we're spending on fee's and wages then our net spend will be a negative. Even if we spend £35 million on fee's and wages we'll save money as we would have had to pay Carroll a wage.

The Spurs equaliser looks better every time I see it.

Coloccini plays far more games so is better by dafault.

I've posted all of the finding on page 195 with an edit to another post, you might want to jog your memory.

From the tribunal: 16. First, we do not consider that it was implicit in the proposed structure of the Club, or the model being used (the Continental model) as it was explained to Mr Keegan and as it was explained to us, that Mr Keegan would not have the final say. On the contrary, we note that Mr Keegan’s successor, Joe Kinnear, asked for and was given the final say yet the structure and the model remained the same and Mr Wise continued in his position as Director of Football without any change to the terms of his contract. Moreover, the evidence which we heard shows that the Director of Football and his responsibilities can come in many guises and those responsibilities may differ from one club to another. 17. Secondly, none of the Club’s witnesses were able to identify any of the scenarios relied upon, let alone identify a scenario from which it would have been implicit that Mr Keegan would not have the final say. 18. Thirdly, we do not believe that Mr Keegan would have accepted the job as Manager if it had been implicit in what he was told that he would not have the final say and we unhesitatingly accept his evidence on this point. Indeed, it seems to us to be inconceivable that he would have done so having been told, according to the Club’s witnesses, that it was likely that Dennis Wise would be appointed as Director of Football given his inexperience as top flight manager. (Mr Keegan had picked him as a player in the England team when he was its Manager). 19. Finally, the Club’s own witnesses themselves seemed to be unclear as to what was the position as to who would have the final say and we had, and continue to have, real difficulty in understanding the Club’s position on this point. The Club repeatedly stated that Mr Keegan did not have the final say but in the letter dated 4 September 2008 from Mr Llambias to Mr Keegan setting out the Club’s proposals for trying to dissuade Mr Keegan from resigning, Mr Llambias stated:- “It will continue to be the position that no player will be bought for the first team without your approval, save of course for commercial deals (which we refer to as financials) which will remain within the sole discretion of the Board”.

I agree that every player at every club has a price, our club said that Carroll wasn't for sale when they could have said what you've just said.

Managers do have final say to a certain degree and that is no longer the point.

There was something in it this time and they denied it, the denials were pointless.

We were at first but it seems to have moved on since then, even that was not necessary as they could have said nothing.

Give over, you're going to extremes now.

Where would you draw the line? I don't think anybody is expecting them to be 100% honest but the club shouldn't lie to build peoples hopes up, only to go against what they've said and piss people off.

I'm sure you know what the lies were, it was about Keegan having final say on transfers.

You're seeing things which haven't been said, I haven't a clue what you're on about.