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Im not sure about him anymore, He was good a few years back but i think he's kinda gone down hill. Im not sure he'd handle the pace of the premiership tbh

Wife beating twat. No thanks

I'd rather get Benni McCarthy than Anelka.

Dude ... I LOVE Yaya Toure. Would make my summer if we got him. I can't believe he moved to Monaco for £3.5 million without any premiership clubs stepping in. Would love it. Would absolutely love it ... I dont hate Parker im 1 of his few fans on the message board but if we sold him for £8m i'd use that money to get Yaya. You'd think his brother would encourage him to come to the premiership.

Yaya Toure i'd like to see us go for but he moved to Monaco i think.

Campbell next to Taylor would be great imo. All we need to do now is get rid of Babayaro and Carr, Both are shite and both on high wages but 1 day at a time im very happy Bramble and Co are gone. It really does feel like a start of a new era.

Im glad FS has stated that SA has his fully blessing to bring in who he wants, I hope to god he sticks to his word.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2080393,00.html Sam Allardyce arrived for his first day of work at Newcastle United in a helicopter. It is a machine with symbolism on Tyneside, having been Kevin Keegan's mode of departure from his role as Newcastle's player-messiah in 1984, and Michael Owen often uses a helicopter to scurry to and from the club to which he is lucratively contracted. Sadly, again perhaps symbolically, Owen was not at the Newcastle training ground yesterday morning to welcome Allardyce and that is one of the clouds the new manager flew into on his way north yesterday. "It was raining, wet," Allardyce said. "I thought: 'How long is this going to take?' But the weather got better." His sun-shined face broke into a smile. It did so a few times yesterday and there was no overbearing rhetoric to accompany that, merely a couple of jokes and then some solid common sense. Optimism has a tarnished reputation at St James' Park but if Allardyce gets his way with transfers, backroom staff and a word he used yesterday - "culture" - then this could be a long-needed turning point for the club. The big "if" concerns the willingness of the chairman, Freddy Shepherd, to invest in and support ideologically the science and sociology Allardyce is committed to and which was so productive at Bolton Wanderers. Promisingly for Allardyce, Shepherd appeared belatedly at the back of the room yesterday, one hand guarding a rib somehow fractured playing golf, to say: "I'm sure if Bolton can afford it we can afford it. "He [Allardyce] has got my blessing to implement the same sort of system he had at Bolton. That's the whole idea. It would take an idiot not to realise the problems we've had with injuries this season. The stats are something like 340 player days lost to injury at Newcastle; at Bolton it was something like 72. We lost five to one to Bolton in terms of injuries. We've got the Premiership record for injuries, which isn't the best one to have. So of course he's going to bring his medical staff in. They're going to look at me first. "That type of system takes time to bear fruit so we have to be patient. On the medical staff, it's very much a preventative thing rather than trying to cure them afterwards. He's been very successful at that. You can't get away from the stats and they tell us that he's had the least amount of injuries with one of the smallest squads in the league. There you go, there it is." Injuries are not the only issue at Newcastle. Nicky Butt spoke on Monday of dressing-room unrest, and a deterioration in more than playing standards is mentioned everywhere at St James'. Now it will be addressed, and probably in a smarter way than when Graeme Souness walked in talking the talk post- Sir Bobby Robson. "I have been given reassurances," Allardyce said of the club's commitment to cultural change. "I want to recreate an atmosphere that is a pleasure to come to. So I will look around the training ground quickly and improve that facility. It is a fantastic facility but there is always room for improvement. It might be a picture here, a window there, it might be a personal touch. "I am sure if they start working with me they will start enjoying what they do. They will get up in the morning, look forward to training. I don't want a miserable environment. I want a happy environment with smiley faces." There have not been many of those on Tyneside of late but, surprisingly for a club who have not won the league title since 1927 or the FA Cup since 1955, a lot of fans are concerned about Allardyce's alleged style of football. This may seem frivolous but Kenny Dalglish lost his job here in part because of dour play. Ruud Gullit, Dalglish's replacement, mentioned sexy football on day one. Allardyce plumped for neither but offered a compromise: "If we can be undefeated at St James' then that is a great start. But I think we will have to be a different team away from home - here to entertain but, away, we go to win. If that means spoiling the opposition then that is all that counts. Winning and entertaining is great, but we have to win." Another good read. The more i read the more optimistic im getting that SA is the right man.

That would be a shame really

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2007/05/16/sfnnew16.xml Sam Allardyce's first day as Newcastle manager ended with England striker Michael Owen's days on Tyneside starting to seem numbered with his future looking more uncertain than ever. Allardyce, 52, said he had begun his reign at St James' Park by meeting some of his new charges "without other commitments" and yet to start their summer holidays but the supposedly restless Owen, who returned from injury only recently, was conspicuously absent, having left for a break in Ireland. The former Bolton manager insists he wants the club's record £17 million signing to stay at Newcastle but is not planning any dramatic gestures in a low-key charm offensive, relying on a phone call rather than face-to-face chat to ascertain Owen's intentions, with Liverpool and Manchester United said to be waiting in the wings. Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd, who last week called on the striker for a demonstration of loyalty, now wants Owen - who has two years left on his £110,000-per-week contract -to decide on his future sooner rather than later. "He's under contract here until something else happens and I hope he stays," Shepherd said last night. "He wouldn't have signed in the first place if he didn't think this was the place to be. If 20,000 people coming to see him that day when he signed didn't make his mind up, nothing would. "He's a great player and I've got no problem with him. He's done nothing wrong to me \u2026 but like any player, he has to make his mind up. The ball's in his court." More diplomatically, Shepherd has dropped his opposition to Owen representing England this summer amid a compensation row over his knee injury with the Football Association. "Not a problem, not a problem," he added. "We're still talking to the FA and I'm sure commonsense will prevail on that one." Speaking at a press conference which the BBC were allowed to film only at the 11th hour due to the feud over the Panorama documentary into 'bungs', Allardyce, who has signed a three-year contract worth £9 million, said Owen and Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins were "very much a part of the future here". "I will be asking him, 'does he want to stay with us or go'? When I speak to Michael we'll find out what he's thinking and then we'll react and move on that. Obviously, I'd like him to stay because he has that rare commodity of being able to score goals. What I think Michael needs is more time to get on track for us and hopefully he will decide to take that time." Allardyce is setting his sights on winning silverware and pushing the club back into the upper reaches of the Premiership by overseeing a cultural revolution. Allardyce, who rejected Newcastle's previous overtures because he wanted "make sure I broke history before I left Bolton" by guiding the club into Europe, is also hoping to strike a blow for English managers. "We have a bigger job than we have ever had before by competing with these foreign managers as well as our own in this country," he said. "For me, this opportunity is not only to manage at a big, big club but also to break into those areas which seem to be untouchable. At one stage this season, we almost managed it at Bolton. "With the right resources and the right foundation and backroom staff and players, there is no reason why Newcastle in the near future shouldn't be able to challenge some of those top-four boys." As for the cultural revolution, he would be "looking at the whole caboodle", with psychological profiling and eradicating Newcastle's lamentable injury problems via "a very intricate system" that involves tackling the issue "from a scientific point of view" on the agenda. "I need to look at the training programme, at the strength programme and look at nutritional values of the players and get them to buy into the system we had at Bolton," Allardyce said. "I only want to do things my way. I know this way works and I will put this way into Newcastle as quickly as I can. We have to try to get the club stable and move forward slowly but the right culture must be in place to ensure that happens. I have to grow everything. Hopefully, it will grow into a culture behind the scenes that works for everybody and towards one goal, and that is for every Newcastle player to walk over that white line when they're asked to play and have the capabilities of giving their best, from fitness and strength point of view and also tactical and team point of view." Much of the same but im happy with the bit in bold.

THis.......But I am very confident we're going to be challenging faster than people imagine. Me too, Tbh take out the top 4 and the rest aint all that good, Spurs and Everton aint bad and Villa seem to be getting better but i dont think he'd take 3 years to get to where they are. Last season Portsmouth were lucky to stay up and this season they were up there fighting for a european place, I think we'll be up there fighting for a uefa cup place next season but still a country mile from 4th.

Hard to say, Looking at the size of SA chin it would be hard to miss it but then looking at Keane i think he one of those people who act hard around their mates but catch them on their own and they beg for mercy.

I dont just look at Juventus they were awarded the title and had that stripped and then sent down.

Tbh i think with this new money coming in clubs will get over charged for players. Its great to see this forum in such optimistic mood i cant remember the last time it was like this. I cant wait to see a fit well organised newcastle side, I'd love to see SA bring in a nobody for pennies and after the 1st season he's worth £££, For to long we have been over charged for players who'd end up being shit for us and then down the road a team like Rovers spend £400k and get a better player, I do get angry sometimes because we go out and spend £8.5m on someone like Boumsong only to have another shit player who ends up going for less than half we paid for him. Over the past 2-3 seasons the mood of the newcastle fans has been very pessimistic and going to the games has stop being fun but now everyone seems optimistic and with SA taking over i think next season is going to be cracking.

Im sure you would care if it was Nufc in Sheffield position. West Ham cheated and should of been deducted points.

Give it a week and SA will have a restraining order against HTT

Premiership yes World No watch many champs league games do you he's been fantastic this season Yea ive seen him in the champions league but i still dont think he's the best in the world

Premiership yes World No

Fucking over the moon, Sam is the man to bring us into a new era.

Why is Benni McCarthy getting over looked? He's been awesome for Blackburn.

Viduka Bridge Campbell Distin Ben Haim SWP Tuncay Young Papa Bouba Diop Aldo Duscher Barton Appiah Ljungberg Heskey Sheva (Loan) I was getting bored sat here thinking of names so i thought i'd add an unrealistic name

I still think Butt has a season or 2 left in him and with other areas needing strengthing i think we should keep Butt.

I dont think there is a source, He just listens to the voices in his head and claims to be ITK

Im not sure it would tbh, He needs a quality expierenced defender next to him someone he can learn his trade off and forget about making sure the other players are doing there job. Today thou the captain arm band is just a bargin chip to try and keep a player at the club so i fully expect Owen to be offered the captains arm band in an attempt to keep him

He's to young, A captain should be given to a player with expierence and is respected amoung the other players, Imagine Taylor trying to bollock a senior player on the pitch, They'd tell him to f*** off. Load of bollocks about senior players needing to be Captain these days. Nolan, Reo-Coker, Davies, Richards and Downing are just a few of the players who have captained aged under 25. Yea but who said they are any good?