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I'd have Lescott but his wages would be sky high. Blatently has no future at City.

Spurs will be in for him in the summer.

Agree with the valuations, but do we wan't to become a selling club, simply becoming a conveyor belt for talent. No doubt, that is Ashley's plan. I hate to sound like one of Ashley's PR men but Arsenal could be considered a "conveyor belt". The difference is that their quality coming through completely eclipses ours. It's stating the obvious but we won't be over this until Ashley leaves.

Wouldn't swap Enrique for anyone. He's our jewel, always has been.

Yes but we will buy new players for cheap prices. I mean we got tiote and Ben Arfa for only 8 Million comined. I'm sure we could get more like that plus the deal came in very late on the deadine day, as others have pointed out, NOT buying a player may have helped prevent us from a panic buying like Luque. We sold one player 4 35 Mil bloody hell, its not like we're selling anybody for just any old bid. The only player who has gone for less than he should have was Given. Trust me Tiote won't go for less than 15 mil and the Carroll bid may actually be good news as clubs will realise that we will only acceept big offers for our big players. So what are you getting at? It's not like we have an abundance of class players. Selling the few we have basically is hopeless. Yes but we got HBA and tiote for 8 MIL COMBINED. That is a bloody good deal. The only reason we didn't but anyone new for Carroll is cause it was like 6 hours before the deadline. Bloody good as well cause our history of panic buys (as people have mentioned before) is pretty s***. Just wait till the summer as we'll get some new good young cheap players in. Plus selling players who were FREE/COST NOTHING, for over fifteen million isn't stupidity. It's brains/ I liked sibierski! I had have Sibbers up front now TBH, would love Barton's crossing.

Ironic that our most loyal players of recent have been foreign, Colo/Enrique/Jonas etc. Would like to see Ben Arfa and Tiote to follow suit. Fair play to Barton and Nolan too mind, not that anyone would have wanted them

In all seriousness it's what we should be looking to do. If Samba had not signed a new deal, he would be on the "list" too. Might have his head turned if a bid was put in though.

10m? That would be the going rate for a player of his quality IMO but after recent transfers who knows? Certainly worth that if we were prepared to bid 13m for N'Zogbia.

It's all about the replacements. I can get over any player leaving, if we bring in someone to cover them. How much did Essien go for, that should be our bench mark? He's no worse than Essien, in fact dare i say.... na i won't

Aye unlikely though. Would be the perfect combination.

Simpsons improving by the game. It would be a real shame for us to spend alot of money on a right back to displace him (even though i could understand why).

Should Mike Ashley do the unlikely and give us the money to spend... i'd love to see Hangeland alongside Colo. That would free up Taylor as a cover for both centre half and right back.

That's a fair shout, something I've wondered. Surely could've grabbed one or two players from them to help us for the rest of the season. There isn't one player in their squad who i'd have taken. Might as well hike up the price

And decide that our poor owner was caught offguard by the whole thing. The poor guy obviously wanted to keep Carroll till he wanted more money. He wanted him out of the door man. We werent rejecting anything, it was all negotations & manipulation. Do you blame Mike Ashley for wanting to sell Carroll for 36m. There's not many clubs in the world who would have turned that down, in fairness. It's all helped by Carroll's actions and the fact that he is "trouble".

Because it was made clear that he wasn't as much wanted as the £35M. But you don't need to submit a transfer request to be sold, you just need to agree to leave. (I won't post this again, sorry, I know it's going round in circles) There's two reason's why the club may have wanted him to formally hand in a written request though. 1. For any outstanding loyalty bonus to be void (which could be significant). 2. As a PR exercise (to avoid a backlash).

I've said it before and i'll say it again... i would have sold him for 36m... but i'd be putting it back into the first team.

I'm interested to hear what Pardew has to say. The word from someone close to the first team is that Carroll was an absolute cunt and that we were lucky to get so much money for him.

We got 36 million, the 8th biggest transfer fee ever recieved, 10m more than Rooney, 11m more than Beckham. We've lost a very good player but there's plenty more fish in the sea. Less than a year ago Carroll wasn't good enough for the championship and we would have sold him for 5m. I will save my outrage for when Ashley doesn't significantly reinvest that money back into the first team. Life goes on, Andy Carroll was a cunt and certainly not bigger than the club. In Liverpool there will be no Nolan to look after him.

Starting to lose faith in Newcastle fans after reading some of the posts in this thread, seeing all the conspiracy theories. Luckily this forum doesn't represent the view of the average fan. Personally, i was pleased to see the club are prepared to reinvest in the squad.

That they're leaving the transfer window far, far stronger than they were on Jan 1st? Yeah, livid. Clueless. Whereas we are leaving it far weaker - currently 3 players down an dour best player gone. And virtually all of the lower half teams have strengthened. It's Jan 09 all over again, but worse. And some are actually defending Ashley. Laughable. Your posts are laughable.

People jumping on Ashley's back aren't looking at the facts. We are getting 35m for a 21 year old, you won't find me many chairman that wouldn't have accepted that.

I'll ask again, why would Carroll go along with it? Or is that too naive of a question for you to answer? Money up front. Agent pressure. Who knows. Exactly. How come everyone is so eager to believe the official line in this story? Look at all the major things that have happened to this club over the past 3 years, look at the official line and tell me that it's been an accurate narrative of what actually transpired. Look at KK's firing. Look at the Milner s***. Look at Hughton's sacking. Look at Pardew's appointment. For f***'s sake, Golfmag had posted that it was planned for weeks in advance, yet the official line never mentioned it. Ashley might seem dumb but he's not. Because Andy Carroll handed in the transfer request, Andy Carroll is on his way to Liverpool to discuss terms. Yes we probably could have done more, but the suggestion that the transfer request was anything other than Carroll having his head turned is madness. He ultimately made the decision to leave, not Ashley. Totally agree Jonny. Unless someone shows me proof that Carroll didn't hand in a transfer request, we have to assume that the club did all it could to keep Carroll. I'm not worryied about being a selling club, if we are then so are Man Utd and almost every other club in the world, it's just a shame to lose a local lad.

If i owned the club, i would have accepted that bid. Stupid money. Life will move on, it always does.

What's Mr Ireland said like?

Not fussed about the whole female linesman/cheeky sexual joke nonsense. I'm just happy that two people who have massive influence over football fans have gone. Time for new ideas and new people IMO... even if Jamie "fucking" Redknapp is his replacement.