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I'd imagine they want him to leave now for a good fee. Rather than sign a new contract? Dunno, depends on the figures. Well nobody knows the exact figures, not even the club know exactly how much they could sell Enrique with one year left or five years left. But they do know (and so do you) that players fetch much less as their contracts run down.

I imagine they'd want him to leave for a good fee. Yeah, but if he leaves without signing a new deal we will get far less than he's really worth, right?

If anyone thinks we actually want Enrique to leave now for a discount fee rather than sign a new contract I have to say they're mental.

He's shite lads, I wouldn't bother signing him.

I've been saying this for months, as with Ashley the media statements and answers to questions thing is basically a non-issue.

correct, wasn't that one of golfmags chelps that pardew was more media friendly? the more pardew keeps everyone entertained with wishful thinking and hope about signings the more distracted everyone is from the fact that we won't actually make any (enough) good ones smoke & mirrors 101 tbh hughton stonewalling people on transfers the entire summer just raises interest and awareness imo, if pardew is talking people assume good things are gonna happen Well maybe, but that remains to be seen. The transfer window hasn't even opened yet, let alone finished. FWIW I don't think Pardew is playing the press in any planned way, or trying to distract anyone from the truth. He's just answering questions in the way he thinks best.

fucking ronaldo, if i asked for more twitter rumours you'd be asking to have people banned for putting twitter rumours up Everything on Twitter isn't the same, this is a local journo. It's basically the same as linking to an article. That said, when people quote complete randoms on Twitter just spouting nonsense I agree it's just annoying. I know what you mean, but it's not quite the same as linking to an article. An article has to have enough substance to be written up, then enough credibility to pass the editor and get to print. In theory anyway, doesn't seem to apply to football writing!

Well if that's true, the only way to avoid it is to say nothing at all. Which I just don't think Pardew is the sort of person to do, he's too open and friendly with the press for that.

I know it's highly unlikely but just imagine if we signed those 3 players. Mega!! I'd jizz if we got one of them TBH.

So that was just a rumour that we have heard 100 times before and a summary of Joey Barton's contract negotiations. Don't the papers have anything better to write about? Can't believe people get paid to write that stuff, it's a joke.

aye this is becoming more and more obvious as the days go by unfortunately, i reckon we're gonna here a whole deal of shite spoken by him in the coming months As opposed to all other managers, who spell out what is happening behind the scenes to the press perfectly, and predict the result of transfer dealings exactly?

Is the transfer window even open? No. Mike Ashley can force the transfer window to open.

Which Mike Ashley will do without hesitation the moment any serious bid comes in. Oh, and we're getting relegated next season. And the club will go bust the season after that. And then the rapture will happen for real. And none of us will make it. Start the helicopter!

Too sensible by half.

Eh? Why would it be good to target players if Pardew didn't believe we had any chance of signing them?

Shit, only three months of the transfer window (which isn't even open) to go! Time to panic/slag off the club/rip up your season ticket.

They've got class names in Ligue 1 like.

Could go either way I suppose TRon.... the problem is that we might not be able to resist cashing in one them a year early. In which case we would lose the player and get a below market value fee.

Eh? Since when are we selling Nolan and Tiote?

Is the transfer window even open?

I really don't think that's the approach. Carroll is pretty much the only example of that. Enrique is coming to the end of his contract and is far too good for a mid table club. If he leaves it won't be part of a grand strategy to sell all our decent players.

Why didn't they just say that then? Surely they have in the season ticket t&c's ? I think he means why didn't they cite that as a reason for scrapping the singing section.

Selling three of our best players to Liverpool within 6 months would be a bit much like.

These days there's basically no difference between sports journalists and people who tell you rumours in the pub. They're equal to me.

Barca do have some detestable qualities, but the football they play is enough to eclipse all of them IMO. Never seen such beautiful and perfect football.