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Strange if true considering Keegan said no one would be leaving. It could be a loan deal. Would Lazio have anyone we may have wanted as a swap?

Same here. I'm sure he meant 3 or 4 young players. We know for a fact that they will try to sign players better than we've got in the Summer.

Great news. > 2 from Emre, Butt and Barton it is then!

Especially when it's against the same team at the same venue.

The press should launch a red top tabloid called "The Liar". People would still buy it and believe what they read. Don't pay their wages by buying 'news'papers. If you want to read their lies read them on the internet for free.

The "Pulling power" argument was used against Roeder and Souness and they got big name signings e.g. Owen, Duff, Martins, etc.

He went to play for Real Madrid and all he came back with was a suntan and a bad hairstyle.

He probably changed his mind when he was told he'd have to get rid of that awful hairstyle.

Martins tends to take the long way when going to a destination. He was supposed to go to Nigeria for a qualifying group game but he went to Italy instead. Hopefully he'll hurry back and not go AWOL for a week.

Sunday Sun Kev's happy with new destination Jan 27 2008 by Neil Farrington, Sunday Sun KEVIN KEEGAN has vowed not to repeat his infamous “it’s not like it said in the brochure” walk-out at Newcastle second time around . . . Because his return trip to Tyneside was a “lastminute.com” booking! And Keegan insists he is delighted with the staff, facilities and management which have welcomed him back. So much so that the Magpies Messiah has . . . # HAILED the unlamented Sam Allardyce’s work at St James’s Park. # VOWED not to dismantle his predecessor’s 20-plus backroom staff. # INSISTED Newcastle is a bigger club than the one he left behind – and that he is more optimistic of bringing trophies to the Toon now than ever before. # REFUSED to rule out the prospect of making signings as stunning as Spurs’ Dimitar Berbatov. Keegan famously – if temporarily – stormed out of St James’s after just 40 days of his first stint in charge, issuing the notorious “brochure” comment as he left. But with a rebuilt stadium, new training ground and the financial muscle of owner Mike Ashley now at his disposal, KK insists walk-outs are a thing of the past. Reminded of the events of 1992, Keegan said: “This is one of these lastminute.com holidays. There was no brochure – I just came!” And what he has found has only added to the determination to succeed where he so gloriously failed last time around. “I like a lot of it. I think it’s the way forward,” Keegan said of Allardyce’s scientific approach and extensive coaching and scouting network. “What a manager wants is as much information as he can get about players. “At the end of the day, his judgement is in his eyes and in his experience in looking at players and how they are. “But it’s good to know where players are. It’s good to know how hard they’re working. It’s good to know all about them, if only just to back up what you’re thinking. “So I think a lot of what Sam has put in place here is excellent.” And that could mean a reprieve for many of Allardyce’s myriad minions. Keegan vowed: “I’ll have a look at them, see what they bring to the party and if I don’t think it’s worthwhile then I’ll do something about it. “It would be terribly unfair to come in and say: ‘Well, Sam fetched these guys in. They’re not my guys. “But at the moment, I’ve got to say I’m very impressed with the staff here. We’ve got everything we need and more than I’ve ever had at any other club. “To just dismiss it would be really stupid on my part.” Keegan added: “It’s a big club now – a much bigger club than the one I left. “I’m more optimistic now because the things that we wanted before, we had to work very, very hard to get. There was nothing there, and there’s a lot here now. “We’ve got the opposite problem now. Then, we were striving for this sort of thing. Now, we are saying: ‘Wow, it’s so big. Can we just pull it back in so we make full use of everything?’ “Can we just package it and pull it all together? Can we get this or that a bit better? Can we get everybody rowing the same way?” And Keegan has made it clear he is firmly committed to answering the accusation that he is indifferent to Newcastle’s youth system. “This club, invariably, has not bought or brought on kids. All the other clubs have,” he admitted. “Can we do that in the future? I think that if we say ‘no’ we are always going to be behind the other big clubs.” But buying big – with Ashley’s riches at his disposal – is an immediate priority. “There’s an evens chance of us getting one player in this week,” said Keegan, who is confident of landing Middlesbrough’s former United defender Jonathan Woodgate. “To get two in now we’d be swimming the Channel, I think. “But you never know, we might surprise ourselves and the last week of the transfer window invariably sees clubs make decisions which make you think: ‘Wow, I never expected that.’ “We’re only looking at Premier League players. We’re not looking to bring anyone in from abroad unless they were really world-class and established, and invariably they don’t come around in this transfer window.” Even Berbatov has been mentioned as a possible target, despite a price tag of at least £30 million. When asked about the Bulgarian star, Keegan insisted: “I wouldn’t rule anybody out. We’re looking at every team and I’m sure everybody else is looking at our players as well.”

Get your bets on at the bookies if you think we're going to get relegated. I'm sure the odds will make it worth your while if you are so sure it's going to happen.

If FIFA 08, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Chamionship Manager and Football Manager all agree a player is good, get him in!

These Keegan quotes from The Journal on Saturday at least show we now have a scouting network: - “We are beavering away but we are not looking for lots of people,” he said. “If we get anyone it will be from the domestic game, unless an absolutely massive opportunity drops on our doorstep. We have good people here who know every player all over the world. We have all the data and the computer can pull (their details) up. If an agent calls about a player we can see four or five reports on them, see them playing and make a decision, but we have tended to say that is for another day. We are concentrating on players from this country who are available – I looked at the list and, with the greatest respect, you like all the players on it but know you are not going to get some of them because of price or they may not want to come somewhere where they won’t yet play in Europe. “So when you get around to the realistic targets – and there are not many – if we can’t get them in we won’t make any signing in this window, in or out. We have had inquiries for some of our players but don’t want to get people out, we have not got a big enough squad. Even if it were part of a swap deal I would be very reluctant.”

If Middlesbrough can get Alfonso Alves we should be able to attract the same sort of calibre of players that Man City did in the Summer transfer window.

As I understand it, Woodgate hasn't been that good this season. He also regularly picks up minor injuries. He isn't the player he was four years ago. For the massive wages he wants, let him go to Spurs. He may be for Spurs what Duff is for us - a signing they wish they had missed out on.

Bit early for the judgements on how Keegan will do with the team aren't we? We draw at home with Bolton in the Premiership (two days after playing Stoke with ten man for an hour and two days after Keegan had arrived) and lost to Arsenal away (no one has beaten Arsenal at the Emirates) in the FA Cup and we're now going to get relegated are we? I don't expect us to get anything from the Arsenal and Man U games. That doesn't mean I think we're going to get relegated.

The last player to reject Tottenham for us was Duff! I wish he'd joined Spurs. I hope this turns out better.

I read Sam Allardyce's football page in 'Zoo' or 'Nuts' (whichever he writes for) and he said "Unfortunately I can't talk about Newcastle but I know I am a good manager". You may think that Sam but the Newcastle players, fans, owner and chairman don't agree.

That would be good. Imagine the stories they'd write then! Keegan more or less called them a bunch of lying bastards in the press conference when he joked about their editors removing the facts from their stories. I imagine all these stories slagging us off would be good for firing up the crowd and maybe the players in a "we'll show them bastards" kind of way.

Someone should set up a website, write an offensive story about each 'journalist' who writes a story slagging us off, put the Journalist's picture next to it (usually next to their story in some papers and websites) and have the heading "<Journalist's name> is a cunt". Then email the link to them.

I've just seen Martins in the line up.

We haven't really got any flair players in the squad have we? We really need to find a creative midfielder in the transfer window.

It's strange how the media get away with their anti-North articles (Scum Red tops and broadsheet papers). If the things they wrote were about a race it would be classed as racisim. All the shite stereotypes they push. I'm sure they'd love to write "Northern monkeys" and shit like that. Well, two can play at that game. They are all a bunch of soft, southern poofs!

Why do opposition fans expect a fair hearing on a Newcastle forum? Bolton are shit and so are Newcastle. The difference? We now have hope of a better future with Mike Ashley's cash backing and the prospect of exciting, attacking football under Keegan. What hope have Bolton got?

Man U Barcelona Real Madrid If we could beat those three teams 15-0 beating Sunderland and Tottenham would pretty much be nailed on!