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I think it's around 4,000 miles.

I like the player, but worry that he didn't really make an impact with Brum last year, I expected more from him. As long as the money concerned is reasonable , then I think we should go in for him.

how has no one picked up on this!? hahaha I was just wondering that Bramble. Could be time for me to move on. Shame as well coz I had just remembered the time I was peering through the window of Sven Adult Book Shop when I was about 10 years old and I only went and spotted Frank Pingel ramming his joystick up Justin Fashanu's anus. Man do I have an uncanny knackof being in the wrong place at the right time? I'm sure there's one more occasion lurking.............. Lol, I remember when a visit to Sven Adult books was like a rights of passage for young uns. You hadn't progressed in adulthood until you had left the store clutching a brown paper bag full of sleazy foreign language literature or some rubber likeiness. With the internet making these things much more accesible to the youth of today, I have no idea what rights of passages are in place for this generation.

Yes, but he didn't add the "FACT" to the end of his sentence, so I respect him for that

TBF "Spurs are on the verge of Signing......" is like a default template headline for the rags.

next David Icke TBH.

It's professional sport, money is a huge part of it, like it or not. It's all well and good being idealistic and going back to days when football was just a game and Jackie Milburn worked down the mines to make a living. But those days will never return, this is the reality of the situation at the moment and money talks. Sure there are ways that things can improve and we see a more competitive PL and hopefully those in power are putting plans in place to help achieve that. But this particular idea will not help at all.

Are you a football fan or just a premier league fan?? Think long term. The game is on its arse. Keegan said it himself. I'm not saying FIFA & UEFA get everthing right but I am with them on this...along with agreeing with their stance to never introduce technology/TV replays during play. TBH I don't give a flying f*** about the Lativan Premiership or the Egytian first division. I care about Newcastle United and the English game. And this rule is naive, ill thought out, does nothing to aid NUFC and is purely motivated by the self protectionists in power at FIFA and UEFA. That is the worst idea/wishes I have ever read. FIFA and UEFA don´t hate England. They love football. The most naive comment I have ever ead, TBH.

I doubt it very much and if they are then that exemption will be challenged and will be overturned, you can't have it co-existing alongside the free movement of people in other industries. the PFAs and footballers themselves and even the PL clubs are not short of a penny to challenge it thorugh the courts. I just feel the game is going to the dogs...why stop hear..next it will be against EU laws for Celtic & Rangers and Milan etc to be restriceted to trade only in their own countires. Let them join the PL. That is were the money is at. Why bother with Hull Stoke WBA..in fact lets just scrap relegation... When you look at the stats what is the point in the EPL.. or some of the other top leagues? Surely the idea was we have some sort of affinity with our clubs and the countries they are based in? Maybe I'm a dreamer but a 3 way split of a team to HAVE to include local/same nationality/foreign would be the soultion. Touches all bases. Makes it more interesting. Bigger connection. And more importantly takes money slightly more out of the equation...which long term is what football needs to be doing. 1st thing I would change/trial for a ten year spell. Reverse prize money. EPL winners get nothing...zilch...just the trophy and the trappings that come with it. 2nd get the next least amount of money and so on. Leaves the relagated teams with less chance of finacial ruin/freefall which is happening more and more to the the last few EPL clubs. There seems to be a rather fundamental flaw in that plan. Lol yes, could you imagine, the number of own goals scored on the last day of the season. Why finish 12th when we could finish 13th if we lost today

Are you a football fan or just a premier league fan?? Think long term. The game is on its arse. Keegan said it himself. I'm not saying FIFA & UEFA get everthing right but I am with them on this...along with agreeing with their stance to never introduce technology/TV replays during play. TBH I don't give a flying fuck about the Lativan Premiership or the Egytian first division. I care about Newcastle United and the English game. And this rule is naive, ill thought out, does nothing to aid NUFC and is purely motivated by the self protectionists in power at FIFA and UEFA.

I doubt it very much and if they are then that exemption will be challenged and will be overturned, you can't have it co-existing alongside the free movement of people in other industries. the PFAs and footballers themselves and even the PL clubs are not short of a penny to challenge it thorugh the courts.

Things wouldn't happen, I pretty confident of that. It's a fundementally flawed idea, that wouldn't have a hope in hell of standing up in court, no matter how many heads of state back it (and not many will) unless the EU rips up one of it's fundemental principles. If you think FIFA are trying to do this to improve the game in England, you are living in cloud cuckoo land, they have only themselves in mind here.

Source: http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l23013a.htm Is it possible for football to be granted some kind of EU exemption? I'm not particularly advocating that. It's just that it would probably be in the interests of every EU country apart from the UK for that exemption to be made, and you can never under-estimate the power of self-interest. There is serious concern in Europe about the dominance of the Premiership. It's not in the interests of the individuals, ie footballers as they are being hindered from being employed. That is what the rule is there to protect, the people not the corporation.

Love to see the PL break away from FIFA and UEFA. They are so corrupt and always seem to have an anti English agenda, bit like the judging at the Eurovision song contest ;P What do they need FIFA and UEFA for ? They have the best package in football the Premier League, it generates more revenue than any other tournament. The only things those two institutions bring to table are the World Cup and the Champs League. If the PL clubs pulled out of the CL, the tournament will be severely devalued and sponsors would be put off, so the money generation would diminish. I don't think the PL would have too many problems enticing the top European clubs to join a Euro super league in place of the CL, (or even inviting the likes of Barca, Real Madrid and Milan into the PL itself) promising more money. As ever money talks. The PL could also make it awkward for the World Cup, if FIFA banned anyone for playing in the World Cup who made their coin playing in the PL, then since the best players in the world play in the PL, that would severely devalue that tournament. If they didn't, the PL could set up a schedule that suits it's own needs (and in particular, revenue generation needs) and have no obligation to release players to play for their national teams, in fact they could possibly actively discourage it for fear of injury. The PL has a lot of power now, and it's gaining more, year after year, FIFA and UEFA are shitting themselves and mad policies like this (which due to EU laws, have no hope in hell of getting off the ground, the first legal challenge will bring them down) are solely aimed at reducing that level of power. It's a paranoid power struggle they better hope that the PL doesn't bite back because they could come out of it with really nasty scars. Before anyone starts, I know it's never gonna happen but it sure would be hilarious to see, love to see Blatter and Platini knocked down a peg or two. They really should bring back stocks, wouldn't it be fantastic to stick those two in them at Hexham market and start throwing eggs and rotten tomatoes at them.

Then why can't the same thing happen to the Arda Turan thread then ??

TBF, I think you can excuse him here. Not really, no. Oh go on, not even a little tiny piece of sympathy ?

TBF, I think you can excuse him here.

This thread has me hoping for NE5 to hijack it. Gosh anything is better than listening to MeatihS repeat his lame wind up. Let me have a go. I think it's Shepherd's fault we haven't signed anyone yet, the fat, ginger git was a right b******

He's not even a very good Mackem WUM !!

This is the most sensational development for me so far this transfer season. From the beeb gossip: Tottenham assistant manager Gustavo Poyet claims his club have "no interest" in signing Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o. There is a player that Spurs are not interested in !!!!

The thing is people post this sort of stuff every year, telling us it's still early and not to panic. But the same bloody thing happens every year, we make our signings too late, first they miss pre season with us, which is hugely important and then the prices go up because other clubs see how desperate we are. A sensible approach is to have all your targets identified, scouted and assessed and preliminary discussiona with their clubs and agents started well before the end of the season. So come the last game, you are in a position to move. Other clubs seem to do that but for some reason we never seem to. Perhaps the Modric deal was a sign that we are now thinking along those lines but I would hope that they would not have put all their eggs in one basket. If you get the holes in the squad fixed early in the off season, that removes the anxiety, temptation to panic buy and alows you to react sensibly should a player unexpectidly become available. As is tying down the contracts for the players at the club, that you want to stay, it seems to have gone very quiet on the Owen and Taylor front. Perhaps there has been an awful lot of work going on behind the scenes that the club don't want out into the public domain but there's no evidence yet of that. Hopefully that is intentional and just around the corner there is major development, 2 or 3 quality signings would soon melt away any nervousness.

Personally I'd prefer it to be a thread for attacking anyone who doesn't support a club where they don't have some sort of affiliation to the area where the club is based. I was born and brought up here, but I can understand people supporting any club if it's where their parents are from or if they lived there for a few years or some other equally good reason. But not otherwise. I understand financially why glory-hunters are good for clubs (Even our club, we have some still from the original Keegan days or the Robson days) and are a necessary evil, but I can't take them or their opinions even remotely seriously. well im not from the area, and i support newcastle, why should my opion be any differently viewed? there are no clubs anywhere near me (south london clubs 2 hours away) and so theres no obvious "local team". i come from a place where everyone supports chelsea or man united. one of my mates is a millwall season tickt holder, and i respect his views on football, but hes not from the area of millwall. i think the main thing is the sentiments rather than the team, i chose to support newcastle because i really liked the team, and the feel of the fans and the team. and i started supporting us in the latter days of souness. since then ive never looked back, been to all the games i phaesibly could- watched the rest online. i know what it feels like to be a newcastle supporter, admitedly, some of the bona fide geordies probably know better, but im there as well. i think the difference if i never knew what thes score was like my chelsea supporting mates, or never been to a match in my life like some, then theres no place for your opinion. like i say, one of my best mates is a sth at millwall, id have just as much respect for his opinion if he supported rochdale or ipswich for all i care. Your opinions are just as valid as anyone else. These types of insular views come up now and again on here, and to be perfectly honest make me a little ashamed of fellow born and bred geordies. This guy should be concerntrating on those fans that jumped on the band wagon in Keegan's first fling then jumped off again when things didn't look so good. There are many born and bred Geordies who purport to supporting NUFC, that know bugger all about football and the club. These people will struggle to name any player beyond Owen, Given or Martins (well perhaps Joey Barton, but not for footballing resons). So having some connection to the area does not legitimise your view, if you talk shite you talk shite no matter what your postcode is. For my part, I'm glad to see so many people with no connection to the city, supporting NUFC. I would never write off someone's opinion because they weren't lucky enough to be born within the shadows of SJP.

Unfortunately that is a common trend for us, we really need to have most if not all the pieces of the jigsaw in place prior to the start of pre season, it never bloody happens though !

My mate's dad is good mates with a guy who's mates with someone who works for the club, and he said that Mort couldn't stand KEGGANS LIES!!!"!"!! Wow that's some ITK credentials there !

Thats quite a substantial claim there. What are you basing this on? I thought Shep was banned because of the warehouse thing and that the police confirmed we got raided becasue we were victims not the perps. Its not like any of the old regime have been linked with the police dealings since. So HTT are you going to expand on what you said or just leave us hanging there ?