Chris_R

Our new manager: Alan Par-DUE

This commentator is useless. Just described Ameobi as "onside", ffs. I've got no video here but I can't believe that happened for a single moment.

Effectively calling Omeobe fat.

Sherla!

"Demba-Ba couldn't keep West Ham up at the Boil-Inn ground" Think this is going to be an amusing evening.

Marveaux £4.3m? This guy's fucking clueless.

No way can you do Portsmouth to London in an hour ffs. Anyway, Defoe is a decent enough player and a vast improvement over what we have. However he's 29, has maybe 2 or possibly at a push 3 decent seasons left in him at best and then he'll be massively in decline, plus he'll want massive wages and a long contract. If he was on a free, I'd take him. For £10m, Spurs can fuck right off. If we give them £10m then they'll go and use it to buy the sort of striker we should be looking at, ie someone young and with ambition and talent. Instead of taking Defoe off their wage bill and giving them a ridiculous fee in the process we should make them keep him and sign someone younger and better instead.

instead I'm hearing we've got Jonas at left back and Lovenkrands on the right wing. I mean really: what the merry f***? Will probably find out soon that Marveaux is in goal and Tim Krul is playing right back. I f***ing despair sometimes, I really do. Why can we just not play players in their correct positions once in a while? Almost as f***ed up as when we stuck Ameobi out wide as a winger. co.uk mentions that Gos and Rayls start in defence.. probably Ryder is wrong I'm going off the official NUFC.co.uk text commentary.

So whilst we could have gone for the perfectly sensible: instead I'm hearing we've got Jonas at left back and Lovenkrands on the right wing. I mean really: what the merry fuck? Will probably find out soon that Marveaux is in goal and Tim Krul is playing right back. I fucking despair sometimes, I really do. Why can we just not play players in their correct positions once in a while? Almost as fucked up as when we stuck Ameobi out wide as a winger.

Isn't he bloody old? Not really what we should be looking at, really.

Well it's the same logic that had 90% of the board wanting to spunk £10m on N'Zogbia...

The only choice. Has been tremendous, best DC since Woodgate and comfortably in the top 2 that I've ever had the pleasure to see in black and white. Also strikes me as ideal leadership material. Really happy for him, hope he stays for years.

Gibson? FFS.

As with Matuidi, I'm baffled at the continued interest in signing another defensive midfielder. Surely the reported £13m could be better spent on a right winger or a centre forward? Or a right back?

Because they've realised that the grass isn't always greener elsewhere. There's probably a lot of regret in their words.

Despite having been to St James' Park more times than I could ever hope to count over the last 20 years, I've never sat in the East Stand. I've stood and sat in the Gallowgate and Milburn, and I've sat in the Leazes, but never been in the East Stand. I think next year I really need to get a ticket there for some cup game or other. I know the atmosphere there is supposed to be a bit flat but I just feel I have to copmlete the set.

These journalists are all idiots. Coloccini is on £80k per week. I've just checked FM.

This. All these people getting on their high horses over his wages really need to have a word with themselves. I don't blame Smith for one moment, every single one of us (apart from the liars) would admit to doing the same thing. It's the board to blame. Or more specifically the person who suggested we sign him. Smith's doing nothing wrong here. I'd applaud him if he left for less money, but to suggest it's something he should do is ridiculous when not one single person on here (Apart from the liars) would do that themselves. If you endorse Smith's financial stand I hope you also endorse Ashley's regime as well to look after every penny and every pound. There's no difference and if you're not a liar you'll admit it. Which part of Ashley's regime are you on about? If it's getting rid of the old, immobile players and bringing in young, fast, skillful players then I holeheartedly support what he's doing. I also believe that Newcastle United should be run at a profit, ridiculous though that may seem. It seems fashionable to lambast Ashley for "only" pumping in about £150m of his own money and then looking to get some of it back, which is frankly f***ing ridiculous. Of course I'd love it if we had an owner who splased billions on us but to suggest that our current owner has some kind of obligation to do that is f***ing bonkers. He's hardly bleeding the club dry, it's cost him a fortune to own it. His financial commitment cannot really be questioned.

This. All these people getting on their high horses over his wages really need to have a word with themselves. I don't blame Smith for one moment, every single one of us (apart from the liars) would admit to doing the same thing. It's the board to blame. Or more specifically the person who suggested we sign him. Smith's doing nothing wrong here. I'd applaud him if he left for less money, but to suggest it's something he should do is ridiculous when not one single person on here (Apart from the liars) would do that themselves.

Can't see the SOL burning down, I don't think they've discovered fire down there yet have they?

Or a pie eating contest. Would be a bit one-sided though, Ashley could just inhale the pies whole, foil wrapper and all.

Don't think we should sell for £1.5m. Harper's been a great servant but is starting to look past it, for me it should be a straight fight between Krul and Forster for the jersey next year. I can see Celtic's logic though. They're probably aware that Krul has now been capped by Holland so reckon we'll be favouring him next season, so Forster might want a move. 1 year left on his contract, could realistically expect to get him for that when they could figure he'll be unhappy staying with us when he thinks he'll be warming the bench.

By that logic we've got the best player in the world in Nile Ranger. Still confused at why we're looking at spunking £10m+ on a defensive midfielder. Baffling.

OK, I know very little about him but isn't he a defensive midfielder? Why are we after him? We've got Tiote, and I accept we need cover for him due to inevitable suspensions and ACON duties but aren't we talking about £10m+ here? That's a mighty fee for a position that we've already got a tremendous player playing in. Or do people think we're going to play 2 DMCs? I can't really see that myself. It might be a tactic in some games but not enough to make it practical having 2 top-class DMCs on the books.

1 - Tiote, for the moment as much as the goal 2 - Ben Arfa, goal from nothing, great movement and strike 3 - Shola, gets a load of stick and rightly so but to keep that ball down took a hell of a lot of doing, showed tremendous technique. Or got lucky. But it went in so he gets the vote.