EthiGeordie

What a class guy KPB... He deserve to be in a class team after his Spurs and Portsmouth debacle....

the “Newcastle United players on Twitter” list. Jonas Gutierrez - @elgalgojonas Danny Simpson - @dannysimpson12 Dan Gosling - @dangosling15 Stephen Ireland - @stephenireland Nile Ranger - @NilePowerRanger Sammy Ameobi - @sammy_ameobi Kazenga LuaLua - @kazlualua Shane Ferguson - @shane_fergie Brad Inman - @brad_inman47 Former Toon players: Olivier Bernard - @seedorf77 Warren Barton - @warrenbarton2 Shaka Hislop - @ShakaHislop Read More http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newcastle-united/nufc-news/2011/05/17/follow-newcastle-united-players-on-twitter-72703-28708135/#ixzz1McnzYOUF

It was two weeks ego it was a cheeky way of Simpson jokingly asking him he should come here... I can't believe this lead to his own thread.

I think he is class but he is a luxury signing at this point if we want to sign him.

The former England striker on his dark days at Newcastle and why the experience has not dampened his desire to get back into management Alan Shearer wants to return to management but says he is 'not desperate to go in at a club that’s got nothing and where I’m peeing against the wind'. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Paul Hayward The Observer, Sun 15 May 2011 00.07 BST Two years ago this month Alan Shearer waited for the nod that would confirm him as Newcastle United's permanent manager. After eight games in charge and relegation to the Championship, Tyneside's local hero had fallen in love with the role and had started planning his promotion campaign. So what went wrong? "I don't know," he says. "I'd spoken to Mike [Ashley, the owner] and Derek [Llambias, managing director] and basically everything was agreed. Then they went away to speak to the bank, for whatever reason, and we haven't spoken since. The contract was over eight games and obviously we were planning. We were basically thinking – and had been told in the meeting we'd had – that things would be moving on into next year. I'd made numerous calls to agents and players about the following season. "We got relegated on the Sunday, then had the meeting on the Monday or Tuesday and were told they were coming back to do it all on the Thursday. But they never did. So in the end there was no point going into the office any more." This story carries echoes of an Arthur Miller play: working man is discarded, via silence, and one morning concedes the futility of driving into work. Shearer's job passed to Chris Hughton and Newcastle shot back up to the Premier League. In BBC sofa-land, the two great England strikers of the 1980s and 1990s were reunited: Gary Lineker and "Super Al", who now balances his loyalty to the corporation with a burning urge to jump back into management. Shearer will be in a dugout again one day. "I loved the eight weeks I had at Newcastle. I loved the problems and challenges it brought every day, but I'm also not too daft to see that the longer you're out of the game the harder it is to get back in," he says. "If the right one was to come along then, yeah, I would look at it. I'm not desperate to go in at a club that's got nothing and where I'm peeing against the wind. I'm not naive enough to say I'm not going in unless I can be a Premier League manager, I'm not that stupid. Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it." Conscious that he may sound picky, Shearer squints in that way he uses to convey intent and to warn people not to take liberties: a lesson he administered to countless defenders in a career of 283 league goals and 559 appearances with Southampton, Blackburn and Newcastle, plus 63 caps and 30 England goals. People who see him only on television assume he is an arch-diplomat, wary and reserved, but socially he is always full of beans, and opinions. During our talk he argues that Lionel Messi could be the "greatest of all time" and nominates the next England manager without hesitation: "There's one outstanding candidate for that and it's Harry Redknapp. I think he has the charisma, he's English and I think he would get tremendous respect from the players. He's a very good coach and I think that job would be great for him." He also defends his move from Blackburn back to Newcastle for a then world record transfer fee of £15m in 1996 in the most emotive terms. The alternative destination was Manchester United, who were three years away from a Premier League, European Cup and FA Cup treble, but Shearer answered the heart's call. "I thought they [Kevin Keegan's team] were going to win things, definitely. What I had at Newcastle and what I still have is an incredible feeling, and I would say to Manchester United fans: 'Those of you in the Stretford End, it would be your dream to go and play for Man United. I stood on the Gallowgate End and it was my dream to go and play for Newcastle.' "Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime. Regrets? None at all. It was everything I hoped it would be and a hell of a lot more. I didn't win any trophies with Newcastle but what I had then and what I have now makes up for that." The ardour of this response leaves no doubt about Shearer's fidelity to Newcastle, where he thought a chance had come to repeat his triumphs as a classic Geordie/English centre-forward. With his alma mater imperilled, he took over on 4 April 2009, for the visit of Chelsea – Newcastle's opponents at Stamford Bridge on Sunday – and lost the game 2-0. In the next seven matches he endeavoured to correct a shambolic first-team culture. Draws against Stoke and Portsmouth and a 3-1 win over Middlesbrough were insufficient to lift the team above 18th place and soon they were turning out at Plymouth and Doncaster. But Shearer wants more of it: "You get faced with a different task every day as a problem is thrown at you. Someone's late – how do you deal with it, do you upset him or do you upset the group? You try to instil some discipline. Someone asks for permission to go somewhere [London, usually]. It's all the little things. What do you decide to wear on the match day? When do you decide to go to the hotels? You're asked different questions every day and I loved it. It was great. "I enjoyed picking the team. The tough side was that I'd played with half the side and knew them individually. I had to leave players out who were mates of mine." This is a reference to Michael Owen, his close friend, who was dropped for a 3-0 defeat at Anfield. "Yeah, I left Michael out at Liverpool, but I did it the right and proper way – if there is one. "I got him in the office two days beforehand and told him what I was thinking of doing. He didn't agree with it, but he went along with it, professionally. At least he didn't read it on a team-sheet – as I had to find out once." Shearer's burst of laughter here recalls Ruud Gullit's infamous team-sheet "suicide note", as it was called at the time, when he left his star player on the bench for the north-east derby with Sunderland. Decadent would be a polite description of parts of the Newcastle squad he found himself trying to save: players not exactly busting a gut to play, or even to be on time. "I'd heard about one or two problems prior to going in. But it was a really, really difficult situation. I'm pretty positive that if I'd been given longer than eight games I could have done something. I learned a great deal. It's one thing saying managers work hard but it's another going in there and seeing it for yourself. You appreciate how time-consuming it all is. Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit." In his own barnstorming days as a modern Jackie Milburn or Hughie Gallacher, Shearer required no guidance in the art of physical subjugation, and a striker he managed briefly (and who scored for him, against Stoke) has now taken up the tradition. Of Liverpool's Andy Carroll, Shearer says: "He's a beast to play against. I can truly appreciate that he'd be a nightmare for defenders. If you get the right ball in to him then he's probably unplayable. He is like big Duncan Ferguson and he will scare people. I know he's relatively young but he doesn't mind a battle and upsetting and having a fight with defenders. He can look after himself. "He's got good feet and he's very quick for the size of him. He's got a good touch and a rocket of a left foot. Potentially, he's very, very good. I got on great with him when I was there for the eight weeks. I found him to be a lad who just wanted to play, train, work. I had to drag him off the training ground at times. I don't know what he's doing differently training wise at Liverpool but you can rest assured he's in great hands with Kenny [Dalglish] and he's at a great football club." But in case anyone should think Shearer likes the macho types best his eulogy to Messi confirms an appreciation of the game's more subtle arts: "Cristiano Ronaldo went for £80m but Messi would smash that. I would go as far as to say he could be the best ever – maybe even now, on the basis of what he's continually doing. What did he get last year – 49 or 50 goals? And he's got 52 this year. He makes world-class defenders look like park players, week in, week out. And he's 23. Scary. "He's doing it in the Champions League. He's a little genius, he is. Incredible. He plays every game. I don't know whether he's got something in his contract where he has to play every time – but he does. I'm sure sometimes the manager would like to rest him. The way he plays, he's playing with his mates on a Sunday morning, with no fear. I love that about him." For now all this is delivered from the sidelines, until a good club or maybe even the England set-up come calling. After the 2006 World Cup he was contacted by Steve McClaren to discuss an England coaching role but Shearer is guarded on this subject: "I spoke to him very, very briefly. It was never a serious situation but I did speak to him." And he insists: "I don't want it to come across [in this interview] that I want to skip all the apprenticeships and go straight in at the glory end." Nobody could have accused him of that at Newcastle, where he gambled his start in management for a regime, who, in those chaotic days, would have struggled to find "glory"

Diabate worth 750.000

The Classic still wins. Love that shirt so much Classic is classic you cant beat it.....

Very happy for him. Totally deserved.

I think they pretty much content in finishing with 44 points.

Very John Carver signing if true. IMO.

Barcelona deserved Champions.Talented of course,but they also win cause theirs an idea,a method behind it.Reward 4 hard work.Congrats!

NUFC Sold?? http://bit.ly/ksMAit

I dont hate him like I use to hate Souness, Roeder and fat Sam.... But I dont like him as SBR, Keegan and Hugton as well...

People who thinks we can win this are preparing themselves for a major let down.... Then the usual stuff Pardow this and that.... get a grip Chelsea will beat us 3-0.

This looks shows we were OK at anfield..

Allegri just confirmed Milan signed Taiwo and Mexes..

If people think we need to replace him it just shows how extreme their views are.... He is the 7the or 8the best players we have at the club and we are no where near in replacing those players.... Clubs like Man Shity replace players like that we dont... We should give the lad a lengthy contract...

So far no comment about the Gold members one. Is it worth to be a member of the 12th man club?

Get a grip guys... it is aight kit. The most original Toon kit in a long time, a lot better than the cream-cracker effort from two seasons back. Sportsmail verdict 8/10 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1375998/PREMIER-LEAGUE-NEW-KIT-SPECIAL-The-strips-2011-12.html#ixzz1LOXKgfWg

OptaJoe Opta Sports 33 - If all shots that hit the woodwork had gone in instead, Birmingham & Newcastle would be in the relegation zone with 33 points. Margins

I will be happy with Matudi.. decent cover for Tiotie... when he is suspended and away in African nation...

The sun NEWCASTLE boss Alan Pardew is eyeing French talent this summer. Pardew has been tracking Toulouse's £5million-rated defensive pair Cheikh M'Bengue and Franck Tabanou, who can both play left-back. They could be replacements for Spaniard Jose Enrique — a target for Liverpool and Tottenham. And Pardew has also been in touch with Lorient in the hope of snatching highly-rated French striker Kevin Gameiro 24, for a decent price. The Newcastle boss said: "I haven't put a figure on how many players I want because it depends on the renegotiations of players we have. "Joey Barton, Enrique and Kevin Nolan all need contract deals sorted out — and there are others I won't mention that we still need to secure." Pardew confirmed Newcastle have been in touch with a number of clubs about the availability of their players. The Toon boss added: "We've made contact with a few clubs about their players, I think that's important. "There's a lot to be done but the process has started. Our chief scout Graham Carr and his team have been very much on the ball and understand exactly where the European market is and the targets we have." The success story of Cheik Tiote in the Premier League since his move from FC Twente last summer has led to plenty of scouting trips to Holland. But players in France are highest on Pardew's wishlist.

Simon Bird send me a message he ask them about it and they say there is no truth about it..... Then again who in the world will belive them? They can not say yes until they get all their money and run.

PortsladeTOON Paul Frances @ @ReturnOfTheMag @woodseatsmags try using a good brand then ;-) 4 minutes ago Paul Frances PortsladeTOON Paul Frances @ @Legend_9_206 a friend of mine that is a bank admin manager for business accounts in london, funds have been deposited into NUFC accounts 5 minutes ago Paul Frances PortsladeTOON Paul Frances @ @Legend_9_206 no i'm not taking the piss, but i'm not getting any other details to how good the source is, so pinch of salt req at the mo 15 minutes ago Paul Frances PortsladeTOON Paul Frances Breaking News that NUFC "MIGHT" have been sold (not sure how good the source is so bear with me) 48 minutes ago

this got to be a joke...