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Spurs played a load of kids in the Europa League thats why, hardly any of their first team played in Europe this year. Are you suggesting we should field Sammy Ameobie and Abeied for this one?

For all those injured players back we will have new injuries to count for. There will be always injury 3 or 4 at the time. If you see the reserve team result recently we are thrashed by many it is kinda crazy. Qualifying for Europe will be a different ball park and it will test our limits. Even the like of Spurs struggled this season to get anything out of the competition.

If we qualifay for Europe we need at least 6 or 7 players. 3 challenging the first team CB, LB and DM and 4 squad players. The Europa league is very long tournament and it needs a depth in squad to do well in that competition.

When ever I think about him I feel so happy inside my heart...

Dunno why I find this so funny. Why I do it as well....

Any idea for any preseason dates and trips? Also are we having new kits. things are awfully quite in all aspect.

Can someone tell me whats the words of his chant? It is the most beautiful chants I heard it sounds like gospel choirs.

Great article on Sport Illustrated. Liking him with Andy Cole. The way he sprints look like him I would say. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/iain_macintosh/04/04/cisse.newcastle/index.html

Any news regarding this season Preseason we are pretty late in announcing our plans this year.

He wouldn't easily get £30M, no way. Offcourse he does in couple of years. He is the best Englishman coming through since Roony. Arsenal can sell him for 30-40Mil in couple of years.

If OX price is high we have to bid a bit higher Ashley easily double his sell on value easily.

That last min goal against Arsenal seems a vital miss so as 2 points drop against Wolves. had we had those 3 we had 56. If we win the next two it will be close to 5th place and possible 4th spot.

So is Santon Pardew signing as well.

Thanks lost in translation.

Beau plateau sur Tribune Foot (MCS 19:15). On parle PSG, Algerie et Newcastle avec Vahid Halilhodzic, Laurent Robert et Raymond Domenech. What does this say got it from twitter

Hopefully we will disturb their flow passing and do our own thing. It will be massive to get all three points.

I fail for it and felt so sad. How are we doing finanicaly?

He deserve to finish the game had he stayed in the game he would have scored against Eneque ..

Hero!

What an article about him on the Observer http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/31/newcastle-united-hatem-ben-arfa? Newcastle United put Ben Arfa in mood to make up for all the lost time Frenchman with a turbulent past seems changed by new-found happiness. But he warns: 'I'll always be different' It is rare that a 25-year-old who has won a European Championship, five league titles and two domestic cups can be described as an underachiever. Yet such is Hatem Ben Arfa's talent that despite those prizes there is a sense – shared by the player himself – that he has yet to fulfil his potential. Recent performances for Newcastle United – notably his bravura display against West Brom last Sunday – have ignited hopes that he may have finally put his problems behind him and is about to take off on Tyneside. When France won the Under-17 European Championship in 2004, Ben Arfa was widely hailed as the best player in an extraordinary team that featured Samir Nasri and Karim Benzema. But even before then he had been identified as a turbulent character, as two years earlier a documentary team filming French training at Clairefontaine caught, on tape, Ben Arfa, a scholar there since the age of 12, fighting with his team-mate Abou Diaby, now of Arsenal. He made his Ligue 1 debut for Lyon in 2004 and went on to win four titles with the club but never became a stalwart, his inconsistency infuriating a succession of managers, notably Gérard Houllier with whom he regularly argued. He clashed with team-mates, too, and ultimately with the club's owner, Jean-Michel Aulas. Lyon eventually had enough and, in 2008, accepted a bid from bitter rivals Marseille. Ben Arfa could hardly have left Lyon on less amicable terms, with the club and the player publicly trading jibes for weeks afterwards – the most memorable exchange being when Ben Arfa accused Lyon of being "financially disorganised" and Lyon responded by revealing that when they cleared out Ben Arfa's locker at their training ground they found that he had absent-mindedly left behind a cheque for €90,000. After a scorching start to his Marseille career his flame dimmed to the point that Eric Gerets dropped him. Ben Arfa seethed. And his relationship with the manager blew up when Ben Arfa refused to come off the bench in the derby against Paris St-Germain. He later apologised but his dispute with the club went on for weeks, during which he did not train. The following season brought a new manager, Didier Deschamps, but more mishaps, as flashes of brilliance were followed by flashes of, well, flashness: in one match his entrance off the bench was delayed because he struggled to remove his gold chain; in another because he was wearing the wrong jersey. The player said that he was unhappy and searching for his identity. In the second half of the season he found it, on the pitch at least, as he produced his best performance for Marseille and hinted at a new maturity in his game, adding efficient decision-making to his magical dribbling and shooting. Marseille won the league. Still, all was not well in Ben Arfa's world. His father, the former Tunisia international Kamel Ben Arfa, went public to express his concern for his son's lifestyle and the perceived negative influence of his agent. Ben Arfa Jr says that at one point he was on the verge of giving up sport to join a religious cult. His transfer to Newcastle in 2010, initially on loan, represented a shot at a renaissance. He began well and earned a recall to the France senior team, only for a tackle from Manchester City's Nigel de Jong in October 2010 to leave him with a broken leg. His recuperation clearly went well, both physically and mentally. In an interview with France Football last month Ben Arfa said that he has finally found inner peace. "I know I have an image of being arrogant and only shining when I want to, but it's not 'when I want to', it's when I can," he explains. "In the past I wasn't able to because I was unhappy. But I'm still aiming for the same thing that I always have: to be the best. I'll never be like others and that's the way I want it. I've always tried to show what makes me different. I'm not interested in going on to the pitch and making pointless two-metre passes like some players do – so I have to accept that people are going to be more demanding of me." He is demanding on himself, too: "Check me out in three or four years. I can see myself being at the very top then, maybe winning the World Cup in Brazil or the Ballon d'Or. I still have lots of dreams."

Very sad about this he is a proper Pro.

This is the most important game for me personally it means a lot to me to beat this scums. It underlines the fact we moved to the right direction after the players they took from us.

I do feel bad they stuck with him.... Sam Allardyce: a good but stubborn manager who must secure promotion for West Ham When you have failed to win trophies for as long as Newcastle United and West Ham, there is perhaps an emphasis on style over substance. Perhaps Sam Allardyce would seem less like a round peg in a square hole if was not so keen to tell everyone is stupid. Allardyce is a manager who believes winning is all that counts; that there are no points awarded for artistic impression, flair or entertainment value. He does not want plaudits for the way his teams play the game, he wants points and he is not afraid to tell people just that – repeatedly. It is a mantra that has served him well at clubs like Bolton and Blackburn, the just glad to be among the elite sides that need to make the most of limited resources and do what they can to level the playing field. The picture was rather different at Newcastle and it is a vista largely shared at West Ham. These are clubs who have a tradition of playing with panache – clubs where fans have pride in the manner in which their team play as a substitute for their persistent failure to live up to other, grander expectations. Allardyce claims he was never given a fair chance at Newcastle and, to an extent, he is right. He was Freddie Shepherd’s final managerial appointment just months before Mike Ashley booted the former chairman out in the summer of 2007. Managers who are not appointed by the owner are always running up hill and Newcastle were mid-table in the Premier League when he was sacked just eight months after he had left Bolton to accept the “big job at a big club” he craved. Newcastle had started well, enjoying their best start to a Premier League season in more than a decade, but when results dipped, Allardyce’s football philosophy became the issue. Significantly, having worked for local paper The Journal during Allardyce’s brief Tyneside tenure, few moaned about his appointment, in fact he was largely welcomed. Newcastle fans had grown tired of the constant near-misses and their flaky reputation. They had tried the Entertainers route under Kevin Keegan and Sir Bobby Robson and fallen short of the standards needed to actually put a silver pot in a dusty trophy cabinet. Allardyce was perceived as a manager who would introduce a steely streak, a manager who would bring winning football and if that meant scrappy 1-0 victories, a new emphasis on defence and set-pieces, it was a price worth paying. Allardyce, though, was too keen to hammer home the point, taking a slightly mocking tone whenever conversation moved towards reflecting on the club’s recent flirts with triumph and the Keegan era in particular. A mistake in a part of the world where Keegan was still hero worshipped and the 1995/6 season run-in meltdown was still lauded, if only for the fact the ride had been an exhilarating experience for a generation of supporters who remembered the dark days. Allardyce implied Newcastle had nothing to be proud of because they had actually failed to win the league. They were losers in the end. True, but he failed to appreciate the context. Newcastle fans had never expected to win the league that season. Three years earlier they had believed they were going to be relegated to the third tier of English football, the culmination of decades of mismanagement and failure. Keegan had completely transformed the football landscape and helped give an entire city its self-esteem back in the process after the dire post-industrial eighties. Allardyce did not stop there. Annoyed by what he perceived as negative reporting of his team’s performances, Allardyce told reporters they were “miserable” because they were stuck in the North-East and wanted to be where the real action was in London or Manchester. Maybe some did, but most were, like the fans most of them used to be, loved the region they called home. North-East people do not have an inferiority complex when it comes to where they live, they are smug about it. It all helped to create an atmosphere where people were waiting for Allardyce to fail and as soon as results dropped, the criticism focused on the manner in which they were achieved. Allardyce responded with typical bullishness. He knew best, he understood the game and he had the success to back it up. The bullet came at the start of January after four league games without a win and an ugly 0-0 draw at Championship side Stoke City in the FA Cup. But it was a 4-1 home defeat to Portsmouth at the start of November, less than four months into his first season, that sowed the seeds of doubt and discontent. Newcastle were ripped to shreds despite all the talk of defence comes first. The players were more interested on what they could do with the ball than worrying about stopping the opposition having it. Allardyce’s approach insisted that nullifying the opposition was always the first priority and it fuelled a negative approach. Ashley, seeking a tonic to the drabness, added insult to Allardyce’s badly-injured ego, he lured Keegan out of retirement to replace him. Allardyce is a good manager, but he is stubborn and highly opinionated. At West Ham, he is suffering many of the same problems, but he is either unable or unwilling to change his philosophy just to pander to an increasingly restless crowd. Ultimately, Allardyce was brought in to do a job – protect the business by making sure of promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt. He may yet do that and it is premature to believe Allardyce is a busted flush. Go up and he will be vindicated in everything he has done. Fail and he’ll surely be swelling the ranks of the unemployed.

They are trying hard to sell him... wtf is we can cope with out him when we expect him playing next Sunday?

Our versatility sets us a Pard FLEXIBLE ... Alan Pardew's Newcastle players have shown great versatility Published: 27th March 2012 ALAN PARDEW hopes Newcastle's versatility will help them qualify for Europe. 1 comment Related Stories Pardew searching for more coups ALAN PARDEW admits he needs to pull some more transfer rabbits out of the hat Super Goals in a flashIt ain’t Arf hot! Pards hails BenWest Brom 1 Newcastle 3Top 10 Premier League freebies The Toon boss has been forced to put square pegs in round holes in recent weeks, with winger Jonas Gutierrez filling in at left-back and centre-midfield and James Perch filling in in numerous positions. But such is the flexibility in Pardew's squad, the Magpies have managed back-to-back wins against Norwich and West Brom and are within touching distance of qualification for the Europa League. Pardew said: "You have to remember that when you have had success, teams are going to come and nullify you and start working on ways to beat you, and you have got to keep asking different questions. "Yohan Cabaye and Jonas had different roles last week, and they could have different roles again. "But their application and attitude to them has been first-class, and that's why Jonas at left-back got man of the match against Norwich, because he attacked the job that was at hand. "If my players do that and take that as a lesson, then we are going to be okay." Star midfielder Cheick Tiote was sidelined for the win over the Baggies and has been missing for large parts of the season due to injury and Ivory Coast's African Cup of Nations campaign. But Pardew reckons the Toon have fared well in Tiote's absence. He said: "We have won without Cheick for the last two weekends, and we won without him when he was away at the African Nations Cup. "Actually, since he has come back, we haven't had great results with Cheick. "I am not saying that as a negative because he is a massive player for us, but we can cope without him."