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shortfalls in investment now will almost certainly mean we are heading for a fall there. Although there is 00000.1% of me that is telling myself to calm down minimal investment now leaves all the pot free if we get promoted rather than buying solid champ players that will be piss poor in the prem.

I think any reputable chairman would understand or at least think before opening their mouths, and then they would never consider selling 100+ years of tradition down the drain as the reaction from the supporters is not worth it. We all knew that we needed to streamline and that would be hard at the end of last season we said goodbye to alot of players and no new investment going back into the first team. Other things have been set in place to bring cash in such as the three year season ticket deals, getting payments for outgoing players in installments and then we have the renewal/sale of the shirt sponsorship money. I personally think that everytime they announce a new way of bringing in "much needed revenue" what they mean is they want to stop having to top up the club with their own money and right now we need over investment above and beyond the basics and this has the potential to reap the most rewards but the "chairman" and owner just dont see this.

if i had to pick one the newcastle brown ale twist would be the one which would least bring a lump to my throat partly due the fond memories I have of the old brown ale shirt sponsor days.

Out of the three bits of news that came out last night this is the least disappointing, he seems to like the club and comes across as someone who is suprised/ so pleased he is where he is. Most would not argue that he is a nice person but sometimes nice guys do finish last. I can see this turning into southgate mk2 a man who seems willing to act as a shield for those that should be taking the flack while retaining a smile on his face until the knife will come from behind when he least expects it.

Mr Miyagi says I can win the tournament with this move

the ball was for the bulge but then I thought fuck it

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didnt have any of those but around the same time I had a very long page refresh which took about 15 seconds rest of open pages working fine so guess it is the page and not my ISP

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"who the fuck picked their arse before handling the ball"

I think Dave is trying to say that its not always about the big negatives but some of the positives. We have done some good things this window unfortunately they arent all positive but its not going to be perfect because of many factors one of which is the lack of time the board/new set up has been together.

is Jose trying to prove if Kev wants an attack minded lb then he just needs to come to him and not zoggy?

Hope this goes through for him will be a fresh start for him and his new wife, will miss talking to him though as he goes to my mates African night fundraisers.

voted for cautious. Just because as much as I want to defend the board about their policies I dont know enough in terms of their intent for this window to really stand up to anyone with major doubts. Obvioulsy I think some people go way over the top but that can be said for those who are over confident to overly negative. Once this window is out of the way we then know how we stand until the window is closed all we can do is hope I just feel confident in KK to do what is right by the club and supporters he aint a pushover.

Hence why M&S food is struggling and Netto/Aldi etc are showing increased sales? sports goods are not essential purchases food is.

think people are more annoyed with him/her/it constantly saying we are not a big draw we cant attract anything descent there are 100 other clubs that a player would choose than to come to us and that doom and gloom is upon us with no end in sight. To then use spurs as a shiny beacon of how things should be just rubs salt in the wound seen as most people on dont like spuds for one reason or another.

Waste of time asking that sort of thing already asked him to list 3 things good about the club and what do you know no reply.

I must say that I think Rio aint half the player he used to be and I probably paid more attention to his england performances than man uniteds. I guess it goes back to your original point that a descent attacking/ good organising type mid fielder is hard to find.

I really have no idea who. The defenders i rate simply wouldn't come here and i don't take as much notice of a good defender as a good attacker when watching footie from abroad. Celluer seems to be rock solid, would be the 1st name that comes to mind. People have this obsession with a 'ball playing centre half' which apparently KK loves, can't say i noticed that in his 1st days here, but it was a while ago, secondly who are these ball playing centre halves? Thirdly, what makes a good one, someone who can pass? A good ball playing defender is not just a good passer, but is someone who can carry the ball out of defence and into the midfield, forcing a central midfielder to deal with it, allowing a team mate to push on up the pitch with more space. Plus they need to be able to defend, as well as any other. Rio ferdinand springs to mind with that description

Can you do me a favour just a little one and no I aint gonna tell you to fuck right off like a few on here. But can you think a little harder than negative and give me 3 things great about the club in general? No tricks just a simple list.

The only ones we know for certain are Woodgate and Modric. the worrying thing is that both of them rejected us to go to tottenham. hope this doesnt happen again with the players we want to sign now at the time it was more like woodgate does not go back on his word keegan came in too late (not his fault seen as he had only just took over the club) and there was no player snub really Modric already debated for nearly 100 pages but Mort at the time said we offered more money and his "agents" turned down the deal as we wanted to own the player 100% and not put up with having to give away % selling on profits. Not really the same as putting it in the context of both players rejecting us as an option.

both of them would have cost around 25m as well and would only have covered 2 of the 3/4 signings keegan said he wanted so jumping to conclusions here there seems to be the funding to get the players they want lets hope they have decent back up targets who turn us down/go else where/stay put. I would hate to think we put all our eggs into one basket target wise and signed no one as Keegan can only do so much with what he has.

Fair enough mate, I can't deny I'd love to know who we're after and who we're going to get. I've been going mental on Newsnow the last week or so, but I think I'm just coming to accept the fact that when we sign someone it'll probably be a surprise. Newsnow is my friend I love it although sometimes the bastard can get my hopes up seen as the sources are shite at times. I am affraid of the unknown and excited about it at the same time abit like a kid at xmas wanting to know if he/she got their big present.

its catch 22 for me I love the thought of sticking 2 fingers up to the press and telling them nothing they have raped us enough to the point where we are "tokenly" added to nearly every article you can think of. However I also wish we knew more about the plans of the board/the backing the manager has/ how much money we have to spend of a lil peek at the type of players we have already thought about.

At the time the press were saying it was hoped when shearer left shola would step "out of his shadow"