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Considering he will be looking to secure a big contract from someone this summer, I could well see why he would be looking to keep it secret. No one is going to pay him what he wants though, because he is always injured. I doubt he will get a better offer than what we have made to him and I hope it's been withdrawn now.

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle-utd/newcastle-utd-news/2009/02/22/newcastle-are-eyeing-a-summer-move-for-inter-milan-striker-david-suazo-79310-22980668/ This part could be true anyway, didn't he only leave because the club was supposed to be in new hands before the Jan window? Yeah, that was why he left. I hope he's back because he apparently had some ridiculously good contacts in football. Any ideas of who? Well he apprently brokers a lot of deals in the sam vein as what Pini Zhavi does. I believe he took Ramos to Tottenham for example.

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle-utd/newcastle-utd-news/2009/02/22/newcastle-are-eyeing-a-summer-move-for-inter-milan-striker-david-suazo-79310-22980668/ This part could be true anyway, didn't he only leave because the club was supposed to be in new hands before the Jan window? Yeah, that was why he left. I hope he's back because he apparently had some ridiculously good contacts in football.

Interestingly, this is what the owners were looking to do from the outset wasn't it? They looked to offer him a smaller deal which would be topped up with performance and appearance related incentives. Owen snubbed it and the owners were critisized for the most part. People wanted the owners to just shell out the same wage he is on now as far as I can remember. Well thank God they didn't. The owners were spot on with that one. Owen at this point must leave. Even a lesser deal doesn't seem like it will be worth it.

Now he's having secret operations? What an idiot. His plan to get a big contract as a Bosman has blown up in his face. No one is going to give him decent money now. No matter how many secret operations he tries to hide. Just a depressing player to have on the books righ now. Can't wait till he leaves.

I was just having a gigle at that myself. Certainly don't miss that stupid looking sour face of his. "O God I have miss! No move to Real to join Lass!"

Did you watch the same match mate? Deffo penalty had the opponent been any other than Manchester United. And by the way, some of the comments by some of you here going "giving a penalty isn't the same as giving a free-kick." Are you dumb? You're not meant to do fouls at all, and when you do, you get punished. And the rule book is the same even if it's on the other side of the pitch or in the opponent's penalty area. You stop the play and it's a free-kick or a penalty. Simple as. I'd go on but I'm tired, someone else who knows how it's like will probably pick up my side of an eventual argument from here on out Not for me. Pedersen was weak as piss there. That doesn't mean it wasn't a penalty though. That's why I said not for me. I think it would have been a very soft penalty and Pedersen is one of those who will always go over when given a chance, and I feel that is why he did. Watch it again and pay attention to the way he actually falls down in relation to how Rafael puts his hands on him. Pedersen is an ass.

Did you watch the same match mate? Deffo penalty had the opponent been any other than Manchester United. And by the way, some of the comments by some of you here going "giving a penalty isn't the same as giving a free-kick." Are you dumb? You're not meant to do fouls at all, and when you do, you get punished. And the rule book is the same even if it's on the other side of the pitch or in the opponent's penalty area. You stop the play and it's a free-kick or a penalty. Simple as. I'd go on but I'm tired, someone else who knows how it's like will probably pick up my side of an eventual argument from here on out Not for me. Pedersen was weak as piss there.

Never a penalty for Pedersen. Pedersen was looking for the easy way out the soft biatch. That tiny Rafael had his hands on him for one second and didn't even pull him. Pedersen is a pansy. I would fine him for going down in that situation.

what? Kinnear did some scouting and other work for Arsenal and Wenger while he was out of management.

Shearer. Struggling to think of one thing the present day Owen has over him tbh. Owen really isn't that much faster anymore and Shearer was just as clever a player. Owen doesn't have the hold up play, the shooting ability, the presence, the leadership, isn't as good a header of the ball as Shearer was ... Shearer in his last season would probably even be more useful than Owen right now, with Oba alongside him, Jonas zipping around and Raylor whipping some of those crosses in. And to top things off Owen is a weasel. No contest.

That's all he's ever worked under kiddo.

I see what you're trying to say, but Adebayor is far more useful because he is a much better athlete. He's stronger, faster and jumps higher. He is a great presence to play off of upfront. Both players can be quite careless, but I wouldn't say they were crap. Adebayor is a very valuable player and I think he is a talent. The problems arise though, when you rely on him to score all of your goals as he can be quite careless in front of goal at times. With all of the injuries in the past couple of seasons Adebayor has really been the only source of goals for Arsenal which has hurt them. Start surrounding him with the likes of a healthy RVP, Eduardo, Fabregas and then the new boys Nasri and Arshavin and there would be a lot more of a goal threat spread around which would make Adebayor look a lot better.

I meant mobile relative to Butt. But from your comments I see you don't agree with this. I think Smith deserves at least a chance as Butt has just been terrible recently.

Smith looks better in midfield when he has a midfielder with some ability beside him as he is at least intelligent enough to pass to that individual and not try to do too much with the ball himself (those Butt hollywood passes are despicable). As has been mentioned he is also more mobile and believe it or not would be a greater goal threat than Butt from set pieces and even from shooting as at least the ball would remain in the stadium when he shoots. Every negative as far as his suspect tackling goes already exists with Butt anyway. At least Smith had the decency to give away free kicks on the edge of the box while Butt just waits till the opposition are in the penalty area before he goes sliding in recklessly the filthy beast. Alan Smith over Butt everytime for me thanks.

It's really cool to see how much he is enjoying it at Newcastle as he was a bit sceptical about coming to the club if I remember correctly. All this despite the fact the team has been pretty crappy while he has been here too.

Yeah, because things are going so well. Why change it? The longer Ive been on the messageboard, the more Ive come round to the idea that you spout s****. Where were we when JK took over and where are we now? You are very confused and unrealistic. Are you saying that if Avram had come in straight after KK and had to deal with exactly the same circumstances that JK did we would have been any better off? Why exactly would you think this? You say things haven't gone great, but in my view, with all things considered I would argue that they have could have been a hell of a lot worse. I know it's trendy to discount JK, but when I look at where we are right now we are in a much stronger position than the majority of our relegation rivals, and with a lot of our better players returning from injury we have every chance of easing away from our predicament. Jk came in and won the players over very quickly and ultimately that is what is the most important factor in our current state of being relegation candidates. Especially when you consider how easily this set of players seem to be willing to cave in and take any excuse not to compete. But whatever, you keep on rubbishing it all, but I'm not buying that shit because it is absolute bollocks.We actually look like we might be starting to get out of this mess and you think it's a great idea to now bring in Avram Grant out of nowhere because he has really shown he would be great for this club at this point in time. Nonsense.

Can't believe this Avram stuff. Avram would not be able to inspire performances from our current set of players to stay up imo. Can't believe anyone would want him to come in at this point. We need someone with a lot more energy, drive and charisma right now in order to keep the players geared up for the fight we have on our hands. In a relegation scrap I think I roll with JK over Avram for sure. With a team of quality players who are comfortably a mid table side at worst, then I consider Grant.

I remember being so discouraged by this signing at the time. Just lacked imagination. At the time we signed Viduka, Blackburn were signing Santa Cruz. This desperation for prem experienced players goes too far. British managers in particular, have to begin to do a better job of identifying good players who can adapt to the prem and stop going for lesser players and even damaged goods just because they are prem experienced. Pathetic waste of money and time on the whole. As alreday mentioned though, at least he helped keep us up last season.

They were running the f***ing show man not Avram. Yup. Avram is a pushover a la Roeder.

Avram had Essien, Makelele, Joe Cole, Carvalho and a focused Drogba. Scolari has not had any of these players either consistently or at all. Avram would not be a good move. He has done nothing outside of stepping in as an interim for Chelsea for a few months. No thanks. Seems like the sort players would walk all over too. Sort of like they did to Roeder. Nah, not for me neither.

Interesting ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article1782157.ece

Hughes out and Scolari in. Can so see that happening.

The club should try and see if they can fit in Viduka for a spot of lypo as well. We are going to need that fatso fit and firing the rest of the way and we can't afford otherwise.

It could be until they decide on the new guy. At this point Joe returning is impossible. There is absolutely no telling how long it will take him to really recover. You can't keep the seat warm and have him feeling he has to rush his recovery as that would be dangerous and stupid.