Colos Short and Curlies

Given Beye/Edgar - Taylor - Colo - Bassong Geremi - Butt - Nacho Owen Xizco Zoggy Not sure what I'd do if Martins is fit re Zoggy.

If we are going to get another member of the global plutocracy who wants to play our national game of Premiershipopoly, it'll probably be him. I'm worried we don't find a buyer at all, and are stuck with a disenchanted Ashley. There will always be a buyer for a Premier League club at the right price. It just depends on what price Ashley is prepared to go to

Have you seen that video of her warming up and shit? You'd have to put a pillow over her face, and that would potentially lead to a crime. There are other means of shutting her up. We have the tools

But the question is.... Would you?? As long as she doesn't sing, probably

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/7616034.stm was just on ssn as well saying he was in dubai, hope he's not on the piss again Is that even allowed?

I want someone in. I want someone who we can be looking to to drive the lads forward. I want someone with a growing reputation and strong enough will to implement his ideas onto every player in the squad. I want someone who can work with the other players in the club, be it Wise, Shearer, Ashley, Jesus Christ. Whoever they are. I want a team who trust eachother. Could that be Keegan? Things would have to change but maybe a tweak here and there would be a good thing. Could that be Poyet or Ince. Unlikely as they would immediately have a weakened position with the fans and some players due to their links with Wise. Who else could it be? Martinez? (my choice if not Keegan) Zico? Terim? whould the final 2 be able to work alongside a Director of Football. Its time for the board to draw a line under the past 2 weeks and make the bravest decision in their professional career

You really are. What part of the job description does it say 'work with players you don't want, no final say. shut up and get on with it'. he's put his ego in front of the club, rightly or wrongly. for what its worth ian dowie is doing the same thing, as is zola. maybe they shouldn't put up with it, but i can tell you right now, if they do it will benefit the club more than if they dont. Owen and Barton for sale on the last day. How can he possibly work in that environment. After all his public defense of Barton. He was constantly being undermined. Lets ignore that. Friday before deadline day. Keegan interview. 'Everyone in the club has a price'. It was known prior to the 1st Sept what the score was. The media conveniently forget this point.

He's f***ing s*** tbh On a par with Gui'Varch. We lost 1-4 that day iirc. Owen Hattrick, after I had asked him to go easy on us. Bastard!

Well said that man, it hurts like hell, but it's not the end of the world. You see thats the thing, I'm not sure that it does hurt. Collymore at Anfield hurt, as did Cantona. Wolves in the FA cup hurt, so did Poyet at Wembley. Bobby getting sacked had me in a rage, Souness going had me being estatic. The only feeling I have now is that Xisco can get us back in this game then we claw back a credible draw and then bring Keegan back next week

ditto

I might start supporting England again. The Toon has finally slumped to the pointless depths of our National Team. I need a big pick me up early next week. And I know who I want that to be!

I've read posts by others recently saying that something inside them has died. Its taken today for that to happen to me, but I couldn't look anyone in the face after the past fortnight and claim to be proud of the club I support

Apathy. Anger can get things done

Based on that, could Keegan effectively motivate the players if he was to come back?

I'm numb to it tbh. As soon as Keegan left it was inevitable that this sort of performance would be made

You'd expect a centre half to be worse at crossing than a winger tbf

Precisely. I hope (but doubt) that when the dust settles we get an explanation. However for now I can see the club and Keegan's stance of not directly speaking to anyone, it would just result in more mud slinging. But similarly I can see why people feel frustrated in not hearing anything.

The tyne corridoor has a population of 880000, liverpool has 430000 Yes, Liverpool as a city is 430,000. Merseyside is 1.4m Newcastle as a city is 190,000. Tyneside is 900,000. Where are you taking Merseyside too? Tyneside is a strange connurbation too, would you include South Tyneside in there? Do you go up to Morpeth (Northumberland)? Likewise Merseyside, do you stop at St Helens and the Tunnels? Do you go to Southport or stop at Aintree? Newcastle and Liverpool are difficult places to compare population wise as the geography around them are completely different, and places associated as being in Newcastle's 'sphere' spread much further in all directions than Liverpool, due in no small part to Liverpool being bordered by a Sea and having Manchester and Chester in close proximity

Not in the squad Is Gonzales?

I didn't know my ramblings would get people putting their hard earned cash on the bloke :colo:

But if say Deschamps comes in and personally checks on Baheng's progress from injury then gives him a first team chance his opinion will soon shift. Human nature

It wasn't your boss who said we had £100m to spend in the Summer was it? No, it was my boss who said that there was no set budget but if Keegan could identify the player and we could convince him to come then the money was there. Same thing I suppose!

I've posted it before, but I've had it told to me by a source I trust that we had a bid for Deco accepted both in January for a loan deal and this summer for a permanent transfer but the player turned us down. I think its fairly well accepted that we had bid £16m+ for Modric but lost out to Spurs. This would suggest that money was available for the right people. I'll assume that the Colo deal was due to us missing out on Woodgate in January - but Colo was more expensive. We got a bargain for Jonas based on what Pompey were bidding in January and this has probably saved us £5m+ In addition most people think we ovr achieved on what we got for Rozenhal and Emre before Milner was even mentioned. I would say that our incomings from these 3 probably overshoots what we would have thought we would have got by another £5m at least. Of course I would have loved a Turan or Arshavin to have come in, but from what I saw of Gomis at the Euros, Xisco can't be any worse and cost anywhere between £5m and £10m less than Gomis would have. Guthrie also looks neat and tidy, would spending another £3m on Inler give us a significantly better player? I don't know. So its not necessarily a bad thing that we have a 'net' spend of close to 0 if the players we have bought in are good players. Its been good negotiating on both the sales and purchases (for prices).

emotionally?

If the club is being run not to spend money outside of a rigid budget then any monies paid upfront for next season will not have been touched this summer, it would be too much of a contradiction. Imo the three year deal wasn't to get more cash upfront (aren't there periodic direct debti schemes set up which would support this) but simply to lock in and guarantee the income streams. The small reduction in price if you take the three year option is just a cheap tool to do this, like a clubcard is a very cheap and effective tool to lock customers into buying there and to give them all the marketin information they need.