Unbelievable

Excellent!

I believe your colleague to be right..

What? If they get in a good player - well done. If they manage to keep it quiet - even more well done. If they get in a good player but can't keep it quiet > if they get in an unknown or average player and can keep it quiet surely? I'd prefer they kept all our deals under wraps until they happen, whoever the player is. Looks to me like you're just fishing here. Well, you're the one who started this thread at the time: http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=54171.0 And yes, I am just pulling your leg.. Anyway, good signing. More of it please.

bearing in mind pompey were turned down with an £8million bid for jonas would that make his signing "high profile" or is it purely the money factor which makes it high profile ? Jonas high profile? You're having a laugh. Most people on here didn't even know who he was..

The press only got a whiff of it because the agent came out publicly to force Depor's hand by telling the story of how they'd attempted to fudge the deal. If the player is a success then they deserve all the credit in the world, just like anyone else would receive. Quite excited by this, to be honest. Lot of pressure for the lad to live up to like, if it happens. Which is exactly what I was saying when people were giving the technical team credit when they signed lesser profile players on the quiet and got complimented for it..

What? If they get in a good player - well done. If they manage to keep it quiet - even more well done. If they get in a good player but can't keep it quiet > if they get in an unknown or average player and can keep it quiet surely?

So if this Coloccini deal gets done, considering the press were all over this signing for days before it happened, does this mean no compliments go out to our technical team (or does it simply mean you can't keep high profile transfer business quiet as opposed to lower profile transfers and compliments should go to the technical players if they get the right profile of player in regardless of the way they do it..)?

In that case I would prefer Faye to be our holding midfielder instead of Butt. Personally, I think Faye is undroppable unless we get two new first team DC's, which is highly unlikely..

An onslaught?

Positives: Jonas and Duff

It's a good thing the midfield is up to scratch and has created loads of chances..

Good start Jonas. So Zog in midfield now..?

Wouldn't it make more sense to have Duff out on the left and Guti at the right with Milner in the middle..? Looks like we have a left footed winger on the right and vice versa..

Duff's looking confident and seems to have found back some of his pace..

We'd have a better chance of scoring if Smith wouldn't touch the ball..

Strange remark. They´re holding out for more money with Colo, so if we stilll sign him we will have been held to randsom. The others most people had hardly heard about and are very much gambles and at least two of them squad fillers. If this is all we get this is anything but "respectable" in my book..

Also, what does "without just cause" mean in this context? Looks like completely unenforcable, and I would imagine a lawyer like Chris Mort would love nothing more than to test the waters on something as fishy as this..

Serious question and don't get me wrong, this is not at all to say I would have been happier if we would have paid 8 or 10 million for Gutierrez, but have you considered we may have targeted Jonas BECAUSE we could attract him on a bargain, rather than despite this fact? Personally I can imagine the club looking at the Webster ruling and sounding out potential targets who were eligible to move due to this new regulation, which is good business sense of course if (and only if) the player is of the required quality and deserves to be applauded if (and only if) it means the money available for transfers goes towards other (squad and first team) signings we desperately need. Ultimately it is about making the money available go as far as you can, and to that effect there is nothing wrong with a bargain or two, but the real question here is whether enough money has been/is being made available to strengthen the squad to the level required to realise the club's ambitions. If you're suggesting we were tapping them up before they handed their notice in I hope you're wrong. There are pretty serious consequences for that kind of thing in this situation, and I'm not talking about a couple of million quid donation to a charity. I wouldn't want us to be the ones to test the water. I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be that stupid. Agree with the rest of it. If there's money left over because we've bought some bargains, then there's no reason why we have to wait a season to see if these bargains come good when we could additionally bring in a new quality striker for example and hopefully speed up the process of getting back up the table. Within reason of course, I'm not a fan of making too many changes to a squad at a time, and they'd have to be a player Keegan wants too, I'm not at all suggesting buying for buying's sake. I would be very, very amazed if we hadn't talked to the player before he handed in his contract. I seem to remember reading somewhere we had this one covered for months. Also, I would be interested in knowing why you think there would be any such severe consequences if we had indeed acted like I claim?

Reading from here they seem chuffed with 3m euros: http://www.forum-fcmetz.com/showpost.php?p=1918555&postcount=57 It seems that they rate him and pissed off that its just 3 m euros. You seriously need to brush up your French..

Reading from here they seem chuffed with 3m euros: http://www.forum-fcmetz.com/showpost.php?p=1918555&postcount=57 Sounds promising. He's saying it should be Metz who pay us 3 million to take him from their hands..

The mind boggles..

Serious question and don't get me wrong, this is not at all to say I would have been happier if we would have paid 8 or 10 million for Gutierrez, but have you considered we may have targeted Jonas BECAUSE we could attract him on a bargain, rather than despite this fact? Personally I can imagine the club looking at the Webster ruling and sounding out potential targets who were eligible to move due to this new regulation, which is good business sense of course if (and only if) the player is of the required quality and deserves to be applauded if (and only if) it means the money available for transfers goes towards other (squad and first team) signings we desperately need. Ultimately it is about making the money available go as far as you can, and to that effect there is nothing wrong with a bargain or two, but the real question here is whether enough money has been/is being made available to strengthen the squad to the level required to realise the club's ambitions.

The standard of player they are signing so far is higher than ours.

Where did he say that?

More communists on this board than I would have held possible it seems..