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Well aren't you full of shit? Modric has a good reputation but the premieleague is a huge step up on anything he has played in before. Dos Santos, as some have been saying, is far from certain to be a great player because of his physique. Woodgate, albeit a very good defender, has injury problems so is a huge risk too. Add to that the fact we have not signed anyone yet to compare against and i come to the conclusion that you talk out your arse.

At a guess, i'd say he went for around 4/5m. Because of his status in turkey it's not like most transfer fees.

He allegedly turned down spurs, same as Dunne.

If we could sell Emre and bring Turan in for the same price that would be great buisness. I suspect if we were to sign him it would be for more than what Fener got Emre for.

I'd love Crouch here, he'd become a cult hero.

Ignore him, he's the joke of a forum and has been for a long time.

One of the stupidest things i've ever read. Sad to see someone who did a good job get sacked but thats football these days, ruthless as fuck. As for who will replace him, my guess is Mancini.............. who will fail miserabley.

You taking the piss like? If we REALLY wanted that Vokes lad i think we would have had a little more pulling power than fucking Wolves mate (since the ability to attract players seems to be the hottest topic atm). While Wise and Co are looking around the world for the best young talent, your worried about missing out on Sam Vokes? Seems your thread was based on the fact that we have not signed anyone yet, which means nothing this early in the window.

Apart from Woodgate, Weir for Everton was a better player than anyone we had at centre half. Not a massive endorsment though is it?

I'd love us to sign Zarate.

What if he comes back, doesn't play, and no-one else wants him, and we have to pay however many thousand a week? This possibility of this must be considered. He will comeback and KK will put him back into the squad IMO, i'm 99% sure of that. Even if we got say 2m for him we would make up the vast majority of those wages. Sadly in this buisness sentiment doesn't come into it. Other clubs won't be put of because of previous, in the same way that we were not. Sacking him is just silly IMO.

Money, money, money is all that matters to me. Bartons a cunt, we knew that before we signed him, nothing has changed now. Just because he's going to jail for a couple of months doesn't mean we should cancel his contract... that's just madness. We lose out on a 5m pound investment. We don't lose money while he's in jail so it's no loss, if anything we are making a profit out of the time he would normally be on a beach in barbados. I agree wholeheartly that we shouldn't have wankers at the club but we have to be cleverer than that. If/when someone puts a bid in for him.... then we can get shot but not until then IMO.

He shouldn't be sacked because it's bad buiness sense. Those who want him gone should be saying "wait until he gets out and then sell him"

Bundesliga player of the year last year --- and you never heard of him. Come on, I couldn't imagine a better prospect than Modric will choose a club who even cannot play in UEFA cup. Counter this statement please. I'm glad you challenged me Counter No1 In case you hadn't noticed the standard of the Bundesliga is terrible. Not bad, not quite awful but terrible (barring 2 perhaps 3 teams). However, i do understand that it means he beat players such as Podolski, Klose etc which is commendable but winning Bundesliga player of the year does not automatically make you a great player. On the same note, i'm not going to allow anyone to use the "well he's scored this many goals in this many games". The reason why this doesn't make you a great player is underlined by the failures of, Shevchenko, Kezman and Kuyt (as a goalscorer) in this league. Counter No2 In your opinion, he's a better prospect than Modric but this sort of statement can only be built on opinion. However, i agree it would be in his best interests to join a club that is playing in europe but i will never accept that if he had to choose between us and Everton (example) he would choose Everton (only because their playin in the UEFA cup) especially when we have so many overriding qualities on them. After all that i do want to point out i think he would be a very good addition to our squad and a success in this league. I'm just sick of hearing "we don't have the same attraction anymore" something i've been hearing for the last 4 years.

I will be firmly in the Croatia camp. If i was to bet on a side winning it, i'd pick Germany.

Honestly I don't know where this talk saying he won't come to us becuase he'd walk straight into the Real/Arsenal/Liverpool first team is coming from. Like I said, I see him as having about the same stature as Huntelaar or Berbatov/Eduardo prior to their moves to England. It's a bit of stretch but if he wants consistent first team football in a top tier league aren't us/Spurs/Everton/Villa about as good as he's going to get? Fair enough if he prefers slowly breaking into a CL squad, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility that we could get him. Exactly, i think to myself, Thierry Henry wouldn't walk into any of them sides but Mario Gomez is a dead cert, it's ridiculas. I understand that our stock has fallen and i understand that there will be other good clubs in for him but to say it's undoable is just stupid. Are people forgetting we are still the 13th richest club in the world and statistically the 5th best overal performers in the premierleague (which is the best league in the world).

you or vokes (wouldn't be surprised with either) Spurs enqiured for about 5m, however they got their facts wrong. I said i was a member of a Newcastle board not a member of THE Newcastle board. Turned them down regardless.

Funny the way a player is either not good enough to play for us or we are incapable of attracting him. I'd never heard of Gomez until we were linked with him, now i'm not doubting he's a huge talent but "too big" for this club.... fuck off. Every year the same drivel about how we can't attract big/good players anymore.

MJ and KD who post on here made me hate them. We first encountered MJ on this board and i couldn't work out whether he was taking the piss with all his ITK bollocks, but he persisted and over the years it's become the laughing stock of this board. Then came along King Dawson, who's name tells the whole story. I'm sure i saw a post from him the other day saying that every time he sees Dunne play he's "shaky", which is laughable considering his name. Mind you i do admire his sheer blindness to the Spurs cause. Reminds me of the way the Germans were convinced that Hitler was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Which is another piece of irony considering the racial background of a large part of their fans. The only other Spurs fan i have ever come across was a bloke down the road, who i didn't even realise was a football fan until they won the carling cup..... funny that. and then there's this whole transfer buisness.

Linked with Spurs today.

Isn't that what ITK stands for? Informed Transfer Kitty?

I asked mine and he said we are signing Robin Van Puuurrrsie. I'll get my coat.

It's just good buisness. This is the one situation where you can really afford to let a player leave, when you have a replacement lined up. If they want 12-15m and we give them 8 plus Emre we've had a pretty good deal, considering Emres value to us. I've never seen the lad play and have never signed him on FM but i like the idea of signing young foreign players for the future.

Spurs fans are wankers

Well i don't want Harry Redknapp's team to win anything but on the other hand im not too keen on a welsh club winning it either. Prediction 2-0 pompey