Unbelievable

Don't be so hasty, hold out a while longer and you might get £590 out of them.

Of course it does. Why wouldn't it?

What was the number in previous seasons? Around the 40k mark?

It's the club's fault he's on stupid wages. It's the club's fault he's not been sold. It's the club's fault he's not got a mandatory pay cut in his contract. It just sticks in the throat that he contributed to us going down and all he's interested in is his cushy wages rather than helping us come back up. As I said before, it's just absolutely typical of modern-day footballers. They don't give a f*** who they play for or where, just who pays the best wages. I work as a contractor and sympathise with the attitude. Why would he be loyal to us after the shit season he's had here (not absolving him for playing more than his part in it)..? He's still a highly regarded player on the continent; he's one of the prime candidates for being sold for a reasonable price (as is somebody like Smith), yet somehow people are quite happy with the transfer embargo as the club sale drags on and on and on (and might not even happen at this rate). Probably the same people moaning about players staying on their cushy conditions.. Can't have your cake and eat it too..

Spot on s'all in the semantics. were the bids of 100mill window price but we'll give you nowt for the debt etc. the press haven't helped in the lack of clarity in their reporting whilst the fans have jumped on every word as a literal truth (when it suits). Any interested parties have signed a NDA... The press don't know anything and are just guessing... The supporters are bloody nervous and cling onto anything tangible like a quote... Who gives the quotes and could make it all clear if he wanted to and, as before, is absolutely shit at managing our expectations? You guessed it.. Can't believe Ashley hires a professional PR man (apparently) then lets this idiot run riot with one of his biggest assets..

I'm not sure which scenario fills me with more dread: fat Mike staying or being taken over by the Profitable Group.. Where's an exentric multi-billionaire when you need one..?

Has nobody else noticed this bloke is referring to the blocking of an outgoing transfer of fucking Alan Smith?! This might entail these clubs sniffing around will move onto other targets, and we will be stuck with this underperforming abortion of a player on huge wages. Has to be bad news surely? I have absolutely no problem with them letting go of players of this ilk now, quite the contrary..

It's all a big deja vu to me..

Top lad, hope he gets a fair crack at the No. 1 spot next season.

Yeah baby!

Wow

Spain are under the cosh here..

Dear me, that was a nice bit of play by the USA.

Seconded. I wonder if all the people calling Given a cunt would stay loyal to their employer if they'd been dicked around and were presented with a significantly better offer from elsewhere..

Including jumping ship when we needed him most When we needed him most? When we treated him like s*** once again more like.. I wish someone would pay me £50k a week and treat me as bad How about 80k+ and being treated well, with a team full of stars, manager and ambition? Whatever the reason? He had a chance to dramatically improve himself. I know most of us would jump at the chance of moving jobs if we could do so. Why would Shay Given be any different? He owed us nothing; year after year he had been critical of the club's lack of progress and year after year he got all talk and no action from his owners and managers. He only has a few more years in him at the highest level. There were no guarantees a chance to improve yourself and be in with a chance of winning something would ever come by again. When the chance presents itself, you take it, simple as.

Including jumping ship when we needed him most When we needed him most? When we treated him like shit once again more like..

He seen what was coming and went, in a way I don't blame him in another I do, had he stayed we may have stayed up and he could have left in the summer. But he stayed for a very long time and year after year he saved our arse he earned the riight to go for glory elsewhere. That was his job and he was paid alot of money to do, its not like its was a charity and he was doing it for free, Newcastle made him a wealthy boy and when the going got tough Shay walked away to another fat pay day Absolute nonsense of the highest order. Newcastle did not make Given a great goalkeeper; he would have been great without us. You could argue we kept him from fulfilling his potential rather than the other way around. He was brilliant for us, a club legend.. He saw what Ashley was doing to our club and wanted out. Can't blame him.

How refined..

Surely he wasn't to know that a struggling billionaire who had no knowledge of running football clubs or this area was going to fail?....oh wait... It amazes me that people are having a go at SJH for selling up, do you have such short memories? At the time of the takeover, Mike Ashley was one of Britain's wealthiest persons with an estimated net worth of 2bn, and there was no sign of the credit crunch whatsoever. Iirc, the vast majority of fans, including the ones on this board, supported the takeover and thought MA would turn the club around, why would've SJH thought otherwise? Most of us were fed up with FFS and welcomed the prospect of a new owner with resources to strenghten the declining club. As it turns out, we were wrong, but I fail to understand why should SJH take any kind of blame, when at the time everything indicated that it would be a good move for the club (and for him as well). I guess he and FFS would've been f***ing lynched had they refused to sell. As for selling the club to someone with no football knowledge, it's not like Roman Abramovic had any kind of knowledge of running a footbal club when he took over Chlsea, nor did SJH when he took over NUFC back then, yet both of them were successful. Good post. I wish more would accept and admit they were wrong. Suppose the problem is the naive belief that : a) Ambition is a given b) Challenging for so long but not actually winning owt is total and abject failure and no different to relegation c) nobody can be worse than the current lot. Most fans fell into this trap with Ashley, and I'm afraid we may be doing it again with Fred.. Not really. What's needed right now is to get back into the PL as soon as possible. That means making funds available for rebuilding the team. The risk of not doing that is failure to win promotion next season and the task becoming increasingly difficult year on year after that. It will not be easy to win promotion as it is. The previous Board with Fred as Chairman was far from perfect but they had the ambition to make funds available for team building. Any group taking over the club with Fred installed as Chairman is almost certainly going to fund team rebuilding, it is then down to the manager to make something of it. As always. I don't believe Fred would be involved in coming back to the club without that intention of making funds available for players. If that's naive then so be it. Mmm, I would rather we move forward with a new owner willing to move us forward. We just need to leave the past five years behind us and look forward to a better future. Of course, there are worse options than Shepherd, Profitable Group being a prime example by the looks of it, but I would hope there would also be better options.. As always though, we should be careful what we wish for and remain critical of what any new owner actually does with the club. As many learned with Ashley, talk is cheap..

Surely he wasn't to know that a struggling billionaire who had no knowledge of running football clubs or this area was going to fail?....oh wait... It amazes me that people are having a go at SJH for selling up, do you have such short memories? At the time of the takeover, Mike Ashley was one of Britain's wealthiest persons with an estimated net worth of 2bn, and there was no sign of the credit crunch whatsoever. Iirc, the vast majority of fans, including the ones on this board, supported the takeover and thought MA would turn the club around, why would've SJH thought otherwise? Most of us were fed up with FFS and welcomed the prospect of a new owner with resources to strenghten the declining club. As it turns out, we were wrong, but I fail to understand why should SJH take any kind of blame, when at the time everything indicated that it would be a good move for the club (and for him as well). I guess he and FFS would've been f***ing lynched had they refused to sell. As for selling the club to someone with no football knowledge, it's not like Roman Abramovic had any kind of knowledge of running a footbal club when he took over Chlsea, nor did SJH when he took over NUFC back then, yet both of them were successful. Good post. I wish more would accept and admit they were wrong. Suppose the problem is the naive belief that : a) Ambition is a given b) Challenging for so long but not actually winning owt is total and abject failure and no different to relegation c) nobody can be worse than the current lot. Most fans fell into this trap with Ashley, and I'm afraid we may be doing it again with Fred..

Surely he wasn't to know that a struggling billionaire who had no knowledge of running football clubs or this area was going to fail?....oh wait... It amazes me that people are having a go at SJH for selling up, do you have such short memories? At the time of the takeover, Mike Ashley was one of Britain's wealthiest persons with an estimated net worth of 2bn, and there was no sign of the credit crunch whatsoever. Iirc, the vast majority of fans, including the ones on this board, supported the takeover and thought MA would turn the club around, why would've SJH thought otherwise? Most of us were fed up with FFS and welcomed the prospect of a new owner with resources to strenghten the declining club. As it turns out, we were wrong, but I fail to understand why should SJH take any kind of blame, when at the time everything indicated that it would be a good move for the club (and for him as well). I guess he and FFS would've been f***ing lynched had they refused to sell. As for selling the club to someone with no football knowledge, it's not like Roman Abramovic had any kind of knowledge of running a footbal club when he took over Chlsea, nor did SJH when he took over NUFC back then, yet both of them were successful. Good post.

Yes. I believe they may be a good option for this club if they have the money. Nothing weird about that. Fat Mike had the money..

Him and Oba, but to be fair they shouldn't be playing for a Championship team anyway..

Holland 2 Norway 0 FT

Lucky or not, the man is a classless baboon..