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If the fucker's driven through/past/via Sunderland at any point in his life he'll realise that life's too short to have to be in that shithole every second saturday and fucks your lot off.

The bastards!!!!!! 'We spent fuck all on improving the team last year' said Brother Pardew in the annual report 'but on the bright side we did donate £300 and a day at the training ground to see the new bore hole, to the SBR foundation' Rent-a-quote continued.

Probably some cynical 'donate a percentage of profits to the SBR Foundation' as a way of trying to get the fans on side whilst having a good argument to turn a healthy profit every year.

Golfmag's post continues to be accurate.

Rather Loven + Money and keep Best as backup along with Shola. Would be a much better deal for us but cannot see them going for it. And suspect Best wants games too. We'll just get him travel connect 4 for the coach - maybe a game of 'patience' would be more appropriate. He'll only have to wait a few games until Ba or Marveaux crocks themselves.

Rather Loven + Money and keep Best as backup along with Shola. Would be a much better deal for us but cannot see them going for it. And suspect Best wants games too.

Can't be arsed to get into the debate - given it's been done to death on here, but I'm interested in watching an entertaining, achieving team on a Saturday and throughout the season and not really arsed about debt (Ashley's own making) and whether we've got the biggest bore-hole in the North East (which should have been paid for out of the clubs many other revenue streams), we've got some of the biggest arse-holes in the North East but Derek Llambias, Pardew etc are a different story.

That's fine - anything north of £5m is over the top anyway imho. I'd be offering them £2m + Best.

They said it will be reinvested in the club, not the team specifically. Afaik, they spent a decent amount doing up the training facilities. Pardew said team and the changed his mind (read, was told to change his mind) to club iirc. Either way, to go through another transfer window with a minimal spend/investment will be nothing short of offensive, given we sold a potential future star.

The guy has said he'd open talks when we were safe, then in the summer and now he's incommunicado. You're thinking he might 'eventually decide to sign' at some stage this season knowing he's walking into a life changing signing on fee and better wages with more prospect of winning something at his next club? Right...........................................

I've missed this card. It's finally back Do you think you can have the same affinity for the club as somebody born in the area?

Oldtype being in such a good position to capture the mood of geordies, all the way from fucking Korea.

Good luck with that little lot.

Needs to take a few others with him as well Unless Pardew is lying though, fuck If Pardew told me today was a Thursday I'd still consult my calendar.

Agreed. Pardew's word worth the sum total of fuck all.

Is that Baggio off then?

Scored for Liverpool today in a 4-3 friendly win against a Chinese side.

Let's hope it's not going slowly.

Yep - that'd do it. Even better if we can force Jose to request a transfer. Shows we mean business.

It's not that hard to fathom. Swansea have probably pointed out that he wouldn't get in our first team and have probably matched our modest wage package and given him a new deal, so he's changed his mind. When you are relying on clauses and loopholes to complete a signing there's always a fair chance it will fall through. Agree with this.

Pretty sure he did last week. £1.7m was the muted fee. Fair play to the lad, a cracking move for him and great to see english players chancing their arm abroad.

Pull the other one. Eh?

You've got to see that the handling of the Carroll sale, the general lack of proactive communication and the downright 'shadyness' of the Board/Management Team invite question? Yes, of course, I just don't think it means that all our worst fears will happen every single time. Edit: oh actually, I only agree with the Carroll sale bit, the rest I think is nonsense. Nonsense? Eh? Does that mean you think they communicate with the fans well? Does that mean that you don't think Llambias is a shady character? I don't really care about Llambias's character TBH, he's not a guy I like but that doesn't mean I automatically assume he will do whatever is worst. I've said many times on this forum that I think the communication issue is a massive red herring. You can't expect the club to detail its thinking or its planning in public, and I don't understand what people want the board to say. Almost every time they've made a statement it's been harmful, I'd rather they kept quiet. Couldn't disagree with you more on the communications point. If they were up front with the paying public they may upset a few people but at least we would know their intentions, their plans for the club and have an idea of why they made certain decisions seeing as we would have some idea of what the bigger picture was. You don't care about the character of the guy leading the club on a day to day basis? Oh, and on the 'not always expecting the worst/everyone to leave' point you made earlier, I agree.