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Like Bellamy wasn't good enough for Coventry. Sometimes its the wrong club for the wrong player. Haven't seen enough of Nugent to say whether he would stand a chance up here, or be a 'Bellamy type catlyst' for us, just making the point that sometimes a club and player just aint good for eachother

So we've gone from privacy clauses in takeover talks to openly flouting the (different) takeoveree at match days. All in the space of a month

But he blatantly said batman in the interview

Was talking about this with my boss earlier. Fair enough if it was Barca, Man U or similar. But this guy is on strike over a move to SPURS! Nuttier than David Blaine

Rather Nugent than Healy (if its a straight choice)

He hasn't had his medical mate, no transfer can be completed without that. has anyone failed a medical with newcastle? NO this after, babayaro, owen, woodgate etc Salako

Sums the man up nicely

Whoever he is, if he is a new signing lets all hope that he ends his first interview with the immortal word... Awooga!

I think you'll find that Left Back (in the changing room) is his least worst position

No disrespect to Sir Bobby but there's plenty of people who deserve something named after them at this club before the great man. Our current manager for example. are you being serious??? Yes. Why? I just think Robson is on an another level all together than keegan, both in footballing terms and as a person. That may be, but in terms of contribution to the club Keegan comes above Robson

Was it this guy perchance http://www.cuatro.com/multimedia/recorte.php?id=XLCO&type=Ies&xref=20061113ctoultnot_14

Reckon Harper gets 90 minutes this time around

Thought Refs were on a retainer of £33k and could make about £15k in match fees?

Who was it before Boumsong? Woodgate?

Any association between him and the club is frightening. Given? Solano? Mutual association between Kenny and NUFC

I think so too. No too good to be true would be a double swoop involving Duff and Smith

Not bad for once.... F365 Odds on championship: 300-1. Odds on relegation: 16-1 Manager: Kevin Keegan (since January). Odds on first out the job: 4-1 Last season: 12th, 43 points; FA Cup fourth round; Carling Cup third round Ins: Danny Guthrie (Liverpool, undisclosed), Jonas Gutierrez (Real Mallorca, undisclosed). Outs: David Rozehnal (Lazio, £2.9m), Emre (Fenerbahce, undisclosed), Peter Ramage (QPR, free). The biggest mistake with Newcastle fans is to assume that the handful who gurn for the cameras on the sports news - who seem to spend their lives outside St Jamies' Park, to judge by the pictures - are the only kind of supporters the club have. Newcastle may be mad, but not all their fans are, by a long chalk. The image of Newcastle as a club was transformed in the first Keegan era. KK took the club from the brink of Division Three to the brink of the title in four years. No one can seriously deny that this was an achievement worth getting excited about. The biggest Newcastle cheerleaders are not those in the stands, but those in the media who were along for the ride. Keegan is an amazingly charismatic figure in person, by all accounts, too; their fervour may be irritating to outsiders, but we have not been subject to that spell. The euphoria that greeted Keegan's return was made the greater by the God-awful experiment with Sam Allardyce that preceded it. Yet despite Keegan's second coming, despite the joy that greeted Mike Ashley's earlier arrival after the Fletcher-Shepherd years, there is a lot to be downbeat about at St James'. Keegan's words about the impossibility of breaking into the top four sounded odd coming from such an optimist, but were as effective a douser of hype as the earlier struggles to secure his first win. Joey Barton's stupidity continues to leave the club in a dilemma and a source of unwanted headlines. The weird structure and geography, with Dennis Wise based in London, is a source of disquiet. Ashley's brand of populism is wearing thin and Last season's chairman, Chris Mort, is gone. The personnel are little changed and there are not enough of them. They kick off away to opponents that the old Newcastle famously hit five against in Keegan's first spell, but Manchester United humiliated his second side last season. So, too, did Arsenal, who are the hosts for Newcastle's last game of August. In between is an eminently winnable match at home to Bolton, though. Hull and Blackburn are visitors in September, games separated by a trip to West Ham. Newcastle have goals in them, as you would expect from a Keegan side - it was once he had the courage of his attacking convictions that the climb to safety began. KK has a reputation as psychologically weak after his serial resignations and outbursts, but handled the potentially awkward relationship with Michael Owen well, bringing out goals and leadership. His problem has always been with dealing with a downturn. The fixtures have been unkind, with those two heavyweights to face in what is an unusually brief opening before the international break. But if he can avoid or dismiss any sense of early-season crisis - say by beating Bolton and avoiding humiliation at Old Trafford and the Emirates - then there is enough quality to challenge all but the best of the mid-table sides. The glory days on a nationwide scale will be as elusive as ever - but at the very least Newcastle should be north-east champions again and by a much bigger margin. Fifty points achieved in as attractive a manner as possible won't be riches but would be a step in the right direction.

See Barca have won the case re Messi and the Olympics

From F365... Julio Baptista's switch to Roma could fall through due to the price tag Real Madrid have put on his head, according to the player's agent. Baptista has been linked with a move to the Eternal City since June, despite making over 30 appearances for the Spanish champions last season since his return from Arsenal. In July, Madrid sporting director Predrag Mijatovic declared he would listen to offers from Roma for the player. But Baptista's agent, Herminio Menendez, revealed a deal may be stalling as Madrid are asking for too much money. "Julio is not happy with the situation at Real Madrid," he told Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport. "He's a Brazil international and he's looking for a team which will play him every game. "Roma are a prestigious club who play in the Champions League. Everyone aspires to be in that position. "But it's not just down to the player, it depends on the club. I don't know if Roma can pay what Real are asking for the player." Reports in the Italian press last month suggested Roma were keen on a loan deal similar to that which took Baptista to Arsenal in 2006, whereby the Giallorossi would pay three million euros now with the option to shell out another 10million to secure his services permanently next year. However, Roma's interest in the player may have subsided, after coach Luciano Spalletti spoke on Tuesday about possible targets his club were chasing but failed to mention the 26-year-old Brazilian.

Could Dr Speccy actually be Thaskin? Would explain his absence.......

so we dont need to replace him for that reason? Dave we need someone in that midfield with something about them. Someone you could describe with words other than tenacious and determined. We've got precisely nobody that teams dont want to play against If I was a centre back I would hate to be up against Smith, just incase he scored - imagine the shame!

Another point (possibly defending Ron and Jimmy a bit here) Who in the team would you fancy to get on the end of crosses? With Robert delivering there was Shearer, Dabizas, O'Brien, Speed. All decent and better in the air. Now we have Owen, Oba, Taylor a sour main threats - and 2 of those are midgits with good leaps. Therefore rather than being able to put a ball into the mixer we are looking to hit a man - a lot more difficult to get right. HOpefully Colo will be good in the air and we can develop Faye in an attacking sense

He got one against Sunderland last year if im correct. The one where the goalie didnt really dive for it? EDIT: Nah checked, it wasnt a free kick. Didn't he crack one off the bar vs Deportivo in the Intertoto? Not a goal, but as close as I can remember him getting

Its all well and good saying that. But I pretty much guarantee that if Smith and Shola are on the bench people will be complaining that they make nil impact and we should be having Lua Lua/Carroll there instead

What's so bad about nufcblog? If "professional" journalists get to make up their own rumours on the back pages of tabloids then why not some random blogger on the internet? If he has decided that a mystery midfielder is on the verge of signing, then fair enough. At least his imagination doesn't hide behind imaginary "unnamed sources" and ulterior motives. The truly woeful part is that his bullshit gets laughed at while the next SWARFEGA TO TOON??? headline in the Sunday Sun will somehow merit a 10 page thread, complete with optional 5 page meltdown about the inadequacy of the board and Dennis Wise if and when he signs a new contract (or for Spurs). ok... i've been lurking around these parts for a good year or so now, posting occasionally for the last 6 months, and i see constant references to this Swarfega character. It's obviously a long running gag but could anyone enlighten me as to how it came about?? Brazillain legend