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Sale to Fulham completed today. Just had confirmation texted to me.

Barton back in training today and could figure tomorrow night v Sheff Wed. Also in squad will be Guthrie and Simpson

I have voted to keep him on the poll, he will do really well in the Championship and regardless of the wages, which are high I know, we need to keep some experience in the side as most of the other experienced players seem to be heading out one by one! In this league we need to have good service for the forwards and a midfield who can chip in with a goal or two, he is about as good as we have at the moment so unless the money is to be used to bring in an equivalent or better replacement on lower wages I say keep.

Spurs announced last Friday that agreement had been reached for Bassong's transfer. The FA's deadline to get him registered prior to Newcastle's game was 5pm Friday. He wasn't registered until after that time so technically he was still Newcastle's player when Newcastle played West Brom. As he was still a Newcastle player for the West Brom game, he couldn't play because he was still suspended. He never played, the second match suspension was satisfied and so he is eligible to play against Liverpool next Sunday. The FA don't now list him as being suspended. http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/Disciplinary/SuspensionLists.aspx Just out of interest which match will count as the third of his three match ban then? I guess that would have to be Newcastle v Reading in Saturday since Spuds don't play till Sunday. He hasn't got a three match ban. Thought it was 3 matches for a red card. Either way I think the whole thing stinks.

Spurs announced last Friday that agreement had been reached for Bassong's transfer. The FA's deadline to get him registered prior to Newcastle's game was 5pm Friday. He wasn't registered until after that time so technically he was still Newcastle's player when Newcastle played West Brom. As he was still a Newcastle player for the West Brom game, he couldn't play because he was still suspended. He never played, the second match suspension was satisfied and so he is eligible to play against Liverpool next Sunday. The FA don't now list him as being suspended. http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/Disciplinary/SuspensionLists.aspx Just out of interest which match will count as the third of his three match ban then? I guess that would have to be Newcastle v Reading in Saturday since Spuds don't play till Sunday.

They should just use Sunderland Central Station to make their travels out of their town, oh, hang on!! Maybe they could have flown from Sunderland International Airport, maybe not........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/8194412.stm How can they possibly think that this is ok?

Lost 5 - 1 today.

Doesn't matter what he looks like you will be able to smell the mackem on him.

£515 fine and a 14 day ban for driving at that sort of speed!!! Fuck me what a joke. A mate of mine is due in court soon for doing 83 through the road works at Washington Services, while they were on, at 11:30pm. No other cars or any workmen on the road. He is expecting a bigger fine than that but, I doubt he will get any sort of ban. I thought that it was automatically a 6 month ban for driving over 100mph to be honest! Amazing what having the cash to employ an expensive barrister for your defence can do for you. Sick!!

I think that's unfair tbh. It's my understanding that the players do loads of work in the community that goes completely unpublished in papers like the Mirror (unless one of them does something wrong while doing it of course). Boro have community work written into their contracts. So does Joey Barton, it saves time later!

My opinion: Kinnear clearly wants to work in football again at some point in the future, today he was at a launch for a computer game and had the chance to sell himself as a viable manager on the TeeVee but, he won't be ready for a couple of months. Lower league teams who may be interested will see that he doesn't end up taking the "job offer" at Newcastle but, is still available and Joe Kinnear starts to receive offers from other clubs who think that he must be a valuable commodity if the "mighty" Newcastle would offer him a post so therefore Kinnear wins! All spin........ Alternatively - Ashley knows exactly what will wind up the avaerage Newcastle football fan, his contempt for us is clear and is just doing all of this to make us suffer even more. He doesn't care about the money anymore, he has plenty so it has become a game for him. 52,000 people vs. 1......

Suppose the 3pm press conference has been cancelled as well then?? Damn, I was looking forward to that!

For what it is worth I am prepared to believe that Thomo is telling us what he has heard from his reputable source within the club. You don't have to believe if you don't want to, it won't make it feel any better if the source is wrong by having a pop at him all the time either.

Can I pick Wednesday then? Around 3pm.........

Whether there was an embargo or not, the fact is that Newcastle have sold a player and there are plenty of reasons to believe that more will follow this week. I will only start to read something into this once a player is signed rather than a stream of outgoing! Ashley is sanctioning the sale of some of the clubs assets that is all....

That is so very sad. So glad that he was able to hang on for his big day at St James' om Sunday! RIP to a true Gentleman.

Newcastle in Championship > Hull in Premiership Hebib Beye must know that!

Mahjoob doesn't appear on The Times rich list at all. That generally includes all the wealthy people in the world, although Iran could just keep that sort of information quiet?? I did like the Iranian footballer Karim Bagheri (Pro Bighairy), always added some comedy to world cup finals!

I'll need XL

Not an expert on None Disclosure Agreements by any stretch, nor have I claimed to be however, the very definition of the title "none disclosure" indicates that a party being involved in one would not be able to disclose details relating to or pertaining to items and information that the agreement was set up to protect. I am sure that identity of bidders was one of the items that was included in the NDA when there was first talk of one being prepared by SP at the start of the sale process.

By the terms of the bidding process set up by Semour Price only bidders who remain anonimous and sign the NDA will be given acces to the accounts so to answer your question, probably no.

Uncle Chuckles or Charlie Watshisname?? He has very little chance if he is only just logging his bid now. Plus he has totally blown any chance because he has disclosed his intent while the other "serious" bidders are following the None Disclosure Agreement terms. Probably more likely he has been sounded out by the press about Newcastle because of his links with Sunderlands original takeover and he has responded with something along the lines of saying yes, it would probably be a decent investment because the price is right as compared to the value of the club a couple of years ago. But, just imagine if it was true??? We could all start thinking that we are Irish as well!! That would be really great fun what with the tricolour flags and the Guiness hats and the really great sense of humour and all the Irish people starting to follow us, to be sure! Stupid mackem cunts!

And that as well!!

Yes, but that doesnt mean you have to buy a Season Ticket. Theres a few people on here who seem to think you cant call yourself a supporter unless you have a season ticket, but its not that long ago that the most supporters didnt bother with season tickets. I can only assume these people werent about pre 91. I know what you mean but, bear in mind I'm 43 and been going to the games since I was a school boy, a season ticket was unheard of back then, you just wandered up to the turnstyles at 2:45pm and paid to get in. I only started buying season tickets when they started the all seater and ground changes and I could afford one. I have a cracking seat in the East Stand and I don't want to change it by not having my season ticket now. I'm sure that is fair enough to most people who read this?