Chris_R

We could play until next saturday and we still wouldn't score. Completely devoid of ideas.

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I'm pretty sure he was our preferred choice initially so if we are now in for Pieters we must have been priced out. Priced out? Ffs I'm all for being sensible financially but we've recently sold about £50m worth of players and freed god-knows how much off the wage bill. Perish the thought that we pay decent money for anyone. If he's the preferred choice, get him in. So say they want £10m for a player we think is worth £5m.. just get him in? Obviously there's a limit, and obviously I'm speculating wildly, but I feel our limits are hindering us in progressing. Like I say, I base this on nothing more than conjecture, but I don't think it's too much of a leap to think we're very easily scared off when we find out how much players want and end up going for the cheap option far too often. Unless we're incredibly lucky then it WILL bite us on the backside, sooner rather than later. Gervinho -> Barnetta -> Obertan Gameiro -> Ba M'Bengue -> Pieters Erdinc -> Probably end up with Carlton sodding Cole There's a pattern there. It doesn't take a genius to work out what it is. Some could argue that certain players never wanted to come here in the first place (Gameiro, Gervinho) but most players will go anywhere if the price is right and ours hasn't been in too many cases so far this window. I'm not advocating a return to the exploits of Fat Fred, but we seem to have swung too far the other way with Ashley determined to replicate the Sports Direct philosophy inside St James' Park.

I'm pretty sure he was our preferred choice initially so if we are now in for Pieters we must have been priced out. Priced out? Ffs I'm all for being sensible financially but we've recently sold about £50m worth of players and freed god-knows how much off the wage bill. Perish the thought that we pay decent money for anyone. If he's the preferred choice, get him in.

Rightly so Being banned from SJP and writing what you truly feels is surely more appealing than writing dross filtered by fatty and dekka not if it costs the paper money which it can't afford to lose Rubbish. They get jack s*** from nufc now why would they get more in the future if they told it how it is Nobody would buy a newspaper that doesn't even report from the f***ing match man. Sales are rapidly falling now, as people are saying, so what have they got to lose? If they keep printing the same stuff, they'll keep getting the same s*** (And falling) sales figures. After all, isn't the definition of madness to keep doing the same thing whilst expecting different results? Anyway, I for one would be infinitely more likely to buy a Chronicle if it lambasted Ashley than I would for it carrying an interview with Carver about how the morale is good. They need to attract new readership, and you can't do that if you're just rehashing the same s**** propaganda that everybody can see through and nobody wants to read now. And they can never be successfully banned from reporting on a game. The club can say whatever they want but there's 52000 seats there, surely to god they can manage to get a reporter into one of them? All the club can do is stop access to interviews with players and staff, but when you've got to write the s*** that you're told to write even when you know it's bollocks then what are you losing exactly if this is taken away from you? You're only losing restrictions, but gaining a massive amount of freedom to do the job you're supposed to be doing in the first place. I admit it's a gamble for them if they went anti-Ashley, don't get me wrong, I'm just suggesting that it's a gamble worth considering. And think of the scoops they could lash out day after day about how Ashley's been trying to control the press for years by stifling their reporting? Would be f***ing brilliant reading!

I've defended Ashley to an extent, as without him we'd have been crippled financially as Fat Fred had us doing a Leeds. I've had enough now though. He's got until August 31st to open his fucking wallet and spend some of the projected £46m (plus wage savings) that he's brought in since January or I'm going to go and take a shit in every Sports Direct that I can find.

3-0, happy with that.

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.