Unbelievable

Thread title needs updating, unfortunately..

Xisco doesn't look like a 'holding the ball up' kind of striker at all. His first touch and control seem poor to me.

Geremi great free kick..!

Good defending Taylor!

Oh shit..

Looks like it.

Bloody hell. Bassong saves our ass, but the defence looks shambolic once again..

Come on!

I love our squad depth..

Bloody hell, didn't even know about that..

This season is shaping up much worse than any of my worst worries..

Don't know.. Was still banging them in for fun in the Serie A not so long ago, but his latest injury has probably finished him off. What a player he was though..

I suggest we have 50,000 fans wearing white shirts with "FACT OFF" printed on the front. That should get the message across..

So they've been sacked off, they haven't walked. In the words of Worms: "Incoming"? Not necessarily they may simply want to get rid of people they see as Keegan supporters from the "inside" of the club, in order to stop any "damaging" leaks. Someone's been going to the press with "pro-Keegan" inside info for a while now, maybe they think it was Terry Mac? Like they are going to stop these people talking by sacking them..

top post, especially the (bit I put in) bold Yes indeed, a decision was made to take transfer responsibility off Keegan. Well, more than one decision, because it seems to me the acquisition (and disposal) process evolved throughout the summer, culminating in the farcical deadline day. But for me the questions are who made the decision to... relieve Keegan of his transfer duties, and why did they come to that decision. Those are important question, but not more so than: Why did they decide to lie about it?

I can see them turning to Ronald Koeman, and it would be disastrous for the club..

Let's put it plain and simple: their cards are marked now and they have some serious work on their hands if they want to win over the fans again.

I think we had the "realistic summer transfer targets" thread which surpassed 300 pages, but as it turns out in the end hardly any names mentioned in that thread have turned out to be ´realistic´..

Indi, fair play for digging up the old posts and I accept you may have been of the opinion this was unclear to some people even though I don't see it myself, but I'll let that be as you are right there are other intersting views to discuss and we know where we stand on this one. Regarding the "whole squad up for sale" argument, I don't think that statement was factually correct. What I think may have happened is, as is being reported, is Keegan came in the office on deadline day or thereabouts for transfer discussions and found that the board had written down a price that they would find acceptable for every player in the squad, might an offer come in for said player on deadline day. Of course this is more a statement of "everybody is available at the right price" than "everybody is for sale", but I can see how this would have pissed Keegan off, because to him some players weren't available at any price due to it being impossible to find a suitable replacement considering there was hardly any time left and we are in no great position to attract top class players. If anything, the board may have been naive in doing this, but I don't think it was engineered to piss Keegan off, just the club saying if we receive an offer we consider too good to refuse we will take it (if it happened at all obviously). I can see both sides of the argument here, but what I find most amazing about this argument is how poorly both sides handled the situation. It should just have been a matter of Keegan stating the players he would find this agreement unacceptable for and the board accepting this stance. We will never know exactly if it even got that for and what exactly happened and who said what, so no point speculating really..

You know what, I can't even be arsed to ponder about a replacement for Keegan at this point in time.

The likes of Baggio/Wise I imagine..

ala Frankie Boyle: "My dad'll shag yer dad....and yer dad'll enjoy it!" Love Frankie Boyle, effing hilarious, but I think he tries too hard to be controversial sometimes. Anyway, that's a topic for another forum. So Lien, what's your take on this affair from an outsider's perspective? Do you think there is any way back for Ashley after the events of this week? Also, looks like we may be in competition for the Indian billionaire.. Do fans/you want him at your club?

http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,1767_4113385,00.html Bit in bold is very interesting. I tjink the bit just below is much more relevant.

If this was all agreed on the 16th Jan, how come KK was apparently still unaware of it just 2 weeks later? The statement from the club is trying to rewrite history, we've had Wise saying Keegan had the final say on transfers and Keegan saying that Wise reported to him - the club never stepped in to say any different and is now claiming this whole set up was in place from day one and everyone had agreed to it. "The structure at NUFC is clear, and has been clear from 16th January 2008." Has it fuck!