Unbelievable

Where has the club denied this today? The only things I have seen/heard is Ashley's "no comment" and a news report from nufc.co.uk from July 15th..

No they f***ing don't Seriously how do you come too these conclusions? We can fill a 52,000 seeter stadium while Everton can't even come close to filling a 40,000 seeter stadium but they have a bigger fanbase then us because "you would say they have more fans outside of the region"? Firstly mate that's guess work, secondly its pretty irrelivant. Same thing with Leeds. So you honestly believe we have a bigger fanbase and cachement area than Leeds United too?...i think its time to take off your black and white Blinkers...next you will be saying we are a bigger club than Everton all because SJP holds 52k and Goodison 42k or so..irregardless of the fact we have won jack s*** domestically for 55 years a lot of that time spent languishing in the second division..f***ing hell it hits home when there are 2 clubs in the same league as Gateshead that have won a major domestic trophy since we last have....wake up we arent a big club in anything other than the size of our stadia England have won f*** all since 66 but barring Brazil are probably the biggest draw in world football. Winning things means nowt compared to reputation. You what?

Good luck Oba. We'll now have to rely on Alan Smith for the occasional moment of brilliance..

Thanks for everything Bobby. RIP

35 with Kinnear. 110 if a new manager comes in. 1500 if we go down. Almost.

One of the things I've missed the most this off-season is a proper transfer thread, with vague rumours, hope built up, disappointments about players turning us down, surprise signings etc.. We haven't even had some proper transfer thread entertainment this summer. All we get is 217 pages of nothingness..

Deja vu. Are we really going to allow Fat Mike to tarnish another Newcastle legend?

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..