Martin Lol

My one reservation about Ramos is that he has done wonderfully well with the players at his disposal, but he never bought them, Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo did. A lot of logic in taking the pair of them out of Sevilla, they are both very highly rated. Ramos was lined up to be Jol's replacement if he had opted to take over at Ajax and Arnesen's replacement was a straight fight between Comolli and Ramon Rodriguez Verdejo. Both Ramos and Monchi were happy to move to the premiership.

But in the article at the top of the page, it was saying about Parker moving later today and Barton being finalised later this week. If Parker does go to the bingo club today, what would stop them going after Barton as well, or am I missing something here? With all the talk of them having more than £50m to spend and salaries all at the top end, they could get all the players they want if the players are only interested in the moey and nothing else.

Being widely reported in the media. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/6721577.stm Ramos tipped to manage Man City Ramos has been at Seville for almost six years Seville coach Juande Ramos has emerged as a leading candidate to become the next Manchester City manager. Claudio Ranieri was the favourite for the post but he is out of the running after taking over at Juventus. BBC Five Live correspondent Jonathan Legard said: "I am told the man that City could now concentrate on is Ramos. "He has guided Seville to the Uefa Cup for the last two years. Other names will surely be mentioned but Ramos appears to find most favour." City are nearing a possible takeover with ex-Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra set to gain control of the club. But any move for Ramos would have to wait until the end of the league season in Spain as Seville are still in the hunt for the La Liga title. "They are doing well as well in La Liga and are two points behind leaders Real Madrid and Barcelona," added Legard. "There are two more fixtures to go and nothing you would think could happen until they were out of the way. The last game of their season in on 17 June." Shinawatra is believed to have wanted Ranieri, who steered Parma to safety in Serie A after arriving as their manager with the club precariously placed late on in the season. Ranieri admitted he knew of the prospect of assuming the City helm but that the length of time over takeover negotiations proved a stumbling block. "There was a project to start from scratch at City," said the 55-year-old Italian. "But they haven't yet been bought by a new owner and the weeks were passing by. "The Juve negotiations came about in a surprising manner. It was like a bolt out of the blue as I didn't expect it. "You simply can't say no to a club like Juventus and I didn't." I would guess the Doc would be very happy!

The radio this morning said Barton and his agent will be talking to WHU today as they try to get Barton and Parker together in a new look midfield. Barton's agent said they want to know what all the interested parties have to say. Sounds like footballing reasons fall far below monetary ones.

There's no doubt Ashley is thick with Dein, but he is equally thick (or possibly even matier) with Paul Kemsley, who's a director at Spurs (and one of the interviewers from hell on the Apprentice this week). Dein would be exactly the sort of person Ashley would want to front up Newcastle for him, but whether he could get Dein to give up all hope of getting back with the scum I doubt very much. I wouldn't say that was invention, just highly unlikely to happen.

Bingo club ITKs on KUMB are agreed Curbishley wants both Parker (for holding MF) and Barton (for the Gerrard style action man). With the money Egghead is throwing at the transfer market, I can see this all ending in tears pretty quickly. I'd be gutted to see the bingo club go belly up!!

Drink-driving. Wasn't it Ashley Cole's Benz that he crashed? No, Anthony Gardner's. He weren't too impressed as he didn't know Pennant had it but never complained, those 2 are best mates!

Hell of a difference though in the abilities of Roy Keane and Joey Barton. Indeed, but the people slagging him off for his (admittedly somewhat mardy-arsed) temperament might want to reflect on what they prefer, a team of losing nice guys, or a team with a few nasty c***s which wins things. At the end of the day, Fat Sam wanted him, you've got to put trust in his judgement. We do all have faith in Allahdyce to sort this character out. I agree with your general point too. big sam in religous conversion shocker :lol:

I'm sensing a bit of bitterness here. I know quite a few Tottenham fans wanted him at the Lane next season, especially after Parker told you lot where to go. Aaaaah well at least you'll have Harry Kewell soon enough. You're not sensing any bitterness from me, I wouldn't want him anywhere near WHL and whilst I know there were some Spurs fans who would have been happy to sign him, almost all of the ones I know felt the same as me. IIRC, SBR never signed a player who had put out a cigar in a teammate's eye.

More money than sense! On KUMB, it's widely being mentioned that Bent was being offered £80k and they had given him the ultimatum of agreeeing terms in a week or they move on to AJ. If Bent does go to Spurs, the offer is £35k. Egghead has been jacking up the wages ever since he bought the bingo club, Calum Davenport was on £8k with Spurs, he's now on £33k!! As you say, utterly f****** mental.

Alan Shearer.................Peter Beardsley.......................Les Ferdinand.................Joey Barton Sad day for the beautiful game in general and Newcastle in particular imho. Can't believe SBR would ever have signed him.

Word. Honestly can't believe there are some people here who wouldn't want Dein, he would be the only one who was with the scum that I would be happy to see at WHL. No matter what I think about him, I would accept that he is the best around at what he does, Kenyon went to Chelsea because Dein refused to go. Dein is far better than Kenyon. Sadly for you, I don't think it will happen. I can't imagine him moving out of Totteridge and I think he will be back at Al Jazeera sometime in the future with Kroenke.

The bingo club are said to be not finalising any transfer until the independent arbitration panel give the result of their findings in a couple of weeks time. There is increasing speculation in the media that they may still yet be relegated.

............ and Sky still have Football First as well. Hard to think of good reasons to sign up to Setanta tbh.

Gill and Quieroz were pictured today at Lisbon Airport. Fair to assume Nani will be on his way to Old Trafford sometime soon. http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2717/210ti9.th.jpg

Yes, in the 5 star ranked stadia list.

Completely different player to Oba and most definitely a poor man's Michael Owen, I'd say. Definitely wouldn't be an improvement on Owen... well hold on a second, if he played more than ten games then he probably would be, but you get my general point. Certainly wouldn't upset me, but I would rather see Martins be given a chance alongside a suitable partner if Owen is to leave. Let's hope he doesn't, though, if he stays fit or even just manages 20-30 games he'll probably be more valuable than either Oba OR Defoe would be playing more matches goals-wise. Thing with JD is, he won't be coming anywhere to sit on the bench and that wouldn't bode well for either him or Martins if it happened. I'm not sure if we can afford to be signing players of his standard who want that in their careers when we already have two strikers who are arguably as good, if not better than him, on our books. I understand that this is IF Owen leaves and he's probably the next best English thing. Bit of a wideboy though and I'm not sure if he's got the right "mentality" to be the top man at a big club. Completely different player to Oba and most definitely a poor man's Michael Owen, I'd say. Definitely wouldn't be an improvement on Owen... well hold on a second, if he played more than ten games then he probably would be, but you get my general point. Certainly wouldn't upset me, but I would rather see Martins be given a chance alongside a suitable partner if Owen is to leave. Let's hope he doesn't, though, if he stays fit or even just manages 20-30 games he'll probably be more valuable than either Oba OR Defoe would be playing more matches goals-wise. Thing with JD is, he won't be coming anywhere to sit on the bench and that wouldn't bode well for either him or Martins if it happened. I'm not sure if we can afford to be signing players of his standard who want that in their careers when we already have two strikers who are arguably as good, if not better than him, on our books. I understand that this is IF Owen leaves and he's probably the next best English thing. Bit of a wideboy though and I'm not sure if he's got the right "mentality" to be the top man at a big club. Completely different player to Oba and most definitely a poor man's Michael Owen, I'd say. Definitely wouldn't be an improvement on Owen... well hold on a second, if he played more than ten games then he probably would be, but you get my general point. Certainly wouldn't upset me, but I would rather see Martins be given a chance alongside a suitable partner if Owen is to leave. Let's hope he doesn't, though, if he stays fit or even just manages 20-30 games he'll probably be more valuable than either Oba OR Defoe would be playing more matches goals-wise. Thing with JD is, he won't be coming anywhere to sit on the bench and that wouldn't bode well for either him or Martins if it happened. I'm not sure if we can afford to be signing players of his standard who want that in their careers when we already have two strikers who are arguably as good, if not better than him, on our books. I understand that this is IF Owen leaves and he's probably the next best English thing. Bit of a wideboy though and I'm not sure if he's got the right "mentality" to be the top man at a big club. Pretty well sums him up imo. Movement isn't as good as Owen, finishing isn't as as controlled, constantly offside, JD's only plus point over MO over the past 2 years is his injury record. That said, given the right team set up, I could imagine him doing a lot better than he does for Spurs. Villa are interested and I could imagine him playing well with Carew. I find it hard to imagine him playing well with Martins, I don't think JD is a realistic option for Newcastle tbh.

Are you called archibald? Or have you always just stolen other peoples info and claimed it to be your own? No, not from Archie, I heard from my sister in law as usual, as you well know. One of the few times she volunteered some info. So why was your post word for word the same as Archibalds post, including exlamation marks in the same place!!!! Easier to copy and paste rather than typing it all out myself. Keyboard skills are not my strongpoint!

Would love to hear where you got the information from? I don't think they are the 2nd highest spender after Chelsea, and the make a lot of money selling players too. My own research 2006/2007 In Didier Zokora - 8.2M Dimitar Berbatov - 10.9M Mido - 4.5M Steed Malbranque - 2M Pascal Chimbonda - 6M Ben Alnwick - 900K Ricardo Rocha - 3.3M Benoît Assou-Ekotto - 3.5M Total - 34.8M Out Stephen Kelly - 750K Gregory Rasiak - 2M Michael Carrick - 18.6M Andy Reid - 3M Marton Fullop - 500K Calum Davenport - 3M Total - 27.85M 2005/2006 Out Simon Davi Pedro Mendez es - 4M Noe Pamarot, Sean Davies, Pedro Mendez - 7.5M In Danny Murphy - 2M Lee Yong Pyo - ??- 2M Teemu Taino - Free Paul Stalteri - Free Jermaine Jenas - 7M Aaron Lennon - 1M 2004/2005 In Paul Robinson - 1.5M Jermaine Defoe - 7M Pedro Mendes - 2M Sean Davies - ?? Noe Paramot - 1.75M Michael Dawson + Michael Brown - 8M If it's being said that Spurs are the 2nd highest spenders over the past 3 years then tbh I wouldn't argue. I haven't got any specific details but your list, especially for Arnesen's first year is nowhere near complete. Off the top of my head, there's Ziegler, Defendi, Naybet, Davenport, Routledge, Atouba, Dilevski, Halfreddson and Davids missing. Almost everyone from that time has gone or is on the verge of going and we never made a loss on the vast majority of them, so the outlay was recovered, but 2nd highest spenders, yes, that's probably accurate. Rasiak for £5m was it as well? The last minute of the last day of window last option? No. Bought for £2.2m, sold for £2m. Bearing in mind how useless he was, we came out of that almost smelling of roses.

Are you called archibald? Or have you always just stolen other peoples info and claimed it to be your own? No, not from Archie, I heard from my sister in law as usual, as you well know. One of the few times she volunteered some info.

No, he's in the Dorchester tonight, the medical is tomorrow...........irrespective of what BBC Wales said.

Not the exact breakdown on the media. Possibly it could be £11m (if we get CL football) plus the sell on when we all know that he wanted to go to Man Utd, it's a big gamble Levy is taking. The next one they're putting the work in on is Wesley Sneijder. If we get him, I think it would be a bigger coup than getting Bale tbh.

I just got the nod.......... £6m now, £1m for next 3 years plus 2m if we get in Champions league in next 2 years plus sell on! A lot of money but best we could negotiate. Pre agreement has been signed - we have a few days to tie it up! And Taarabt has now signed permanently, he couldn't before because he was under 18. And may be news of 2 more after Sunday. Levy seems to have let Comolli have a bit of freedom.

I suppose it is possible he could have been signed to cover missing personnel during the ANC but that's once every 2 years. I thinks he's made a big mistake putting Chelsea infront of a club that would offer regular first team football. Chelsea may pay him more but he wouldn't be poor irrespective of where he went.

Because no-one ever bothers to mention the performance-related bonuses that are added on. Admittedly, the total package doesn't come up Newcastle's levels but is still better than generally quoted. It was also going to be reviewed this summer by Levy but that review may now be deferred The source for this rumour was Ward who used to contribute regularly on the 606 forum.........that says it all really. I stick by what I said previously, Spurs bid £8m rising to £10m (which was reluctantly accepted by Charlton) and Egghead has bid the full asking price of £15m. Bent doesn't want to go there and has gone on holiday. One looks to be coming to fruition. I did speak of Younes Kaboul about a month ago (http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=39258.25) and that should be finalised after the final French league matches this weekend. This is now widely being reported by the media. I am also more optimistic about getting Gareth Bale now than at any other time, even if he is still trying to get a guaranteed starting place. On the downside, Chelski have bid £10m for Chimbonda and Levy is seriously thinking about it. Good money for him but not so easy to think of a good quality replacement. Beginning to fear the worst with that. Would be a disaster tbh. First time we get this right back position sorted since the Steven Carr days and were now going to off load him. Doubt we would accept tbh but if Chelsea offer silly money then its bye bye Pascal :'( :'( :'( :'( The one who was being looked at as a possible replacement was Bakari Sagna, also at Auxerre, but their president is now saying Sagna is under contract and will remain for at least one more year. I'm pinning my hopes on Levy doing what he says, Spurs are not a selling club blah blah blah. He's got a whiff of takeover in his nostrils and he's intent on making Spurs as attractive as possible to a potential buyer by having it as cash rich as possible.