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He's as good in his position as Enrique is in his. We'll never be able to attract a player of equal quality, no matter what money we get for him. It's going to be a messy situation this time next year.

Just noticed that... Leon Best: 6 goals, 9 starts Demba Ba: 7 goals, 12 starts ...hmmm

For me selling Colo for something like 5~7m would be an automatic no-questions-asked ticket back on to the Ashley-hate bandwagon. It just shows that we have no intent for steady progress whatsover.

When I first came on this forum five years ago people were on my case for not understanding banter and taking jokes too seriously. I don't know what to think about having the opposite problem now.

I'm not the one accusing xenophobia for expressing a valid concern. I'm not the one jumping on a high horse over some throwaway gag.

Dave in quick to belittle others shocker

Based on anything other than national stereotypes? And racism. Don't forget the racism.

we've only lost nolan so far but yeah it looks like barton and jose are probably on borrowed time too f*** it, at least something is happening how many times have we heard it - if you don't move forwards you're moving backwards in football Yeah, I have to admit that I'm experiencing both excitement and trepidation at the way things are going. These new players are quite exciting but we're also taking a fairly large gamble.

At this clip we'll have comfortably signed 10 players by August 31st The "plan" seems to be to completely uproot our squad and replace them with the Ligue 1 All-Stars.

I'll be honest and admit that I've never, ever seen him play and have no idea what kind of player he is by the way. Signings are good though.

I guess the "good news" was Marveux

Three signings in June man, what the hell.

Ba Ba Yetu

N-O's ITK Every forum has wanna-be ITKs who predict the future. Rarely do you see one who can predict the past.

If nothing else this basically guarantees that Ameobi will start 20+ games yet again next season when Ba/Erding are inevitably injured/f***ing off to the ACN

Love how people instantly believe bad stories. Obviously the media have a 100% record......... I have no doubt that Leon Best is looking to be shipped out. When the media makes up horseshit they generally make something about some club signing somebody. They rarely make up anything about "~ has been put up for sale/told he can leave club" it doesn't generate any excitement/sell papers. When you see an article like that (from multiple sources even,) it usually means something is up.

I guess a possible justification would be that we're only planning to play one striker next season and therefore don't need a lot of them?

I'm not stirring at all here and I'm certainly not trying to stir up any of the usual dull Keegan debate, but I was reading True Faith on the way to work this morning and couldn't help but be struck by Keegan's comments at the beginning of May: “It is not going to be reinvested is it, I think that’s obvious,” he said. “As a Newcastle fan, if Carroll is the only one you are going to lose you have to be pretty thankful. "There may well be other players going as we speak. I think they’ll sell two more players and then he’ll sell the club. And that’ll be the best day Newcastle fans have, when he sells the club. “I’d love to be able to give Newcastle fans some encouragement but I can’t see it getting any better in the short term.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8485428/Liverpool-will-not-win-the-Premier-League-for-at-least-five-years-says-former-Anfield-great-Kevin-Keegan.html I personally don't believe for a minute that he'll sell the club soon, but it does make you think slightly. We've shown intent to reinvest at least a significant portion of the money though, so that quote doesn't really hold a lot of water. It's the outgoings that are more concerning.

We don't even know if this is a starter yet, Douglas + Wraith = Sun article It just seems to be such a random story that's not exciting enough to fabricate unless there was some actual truth behind it.

Perhaps there's something going on behind the scenes that we're not privy to? i.e. the board has fallen out with key members of the squad and has decided to just ship out anyone who they don't like?

I don't get it. It doesn't make ANY sense. At all. Why sell a player doing a decent job who probably isn't even on much wages and would probably be happy not being a guaranteed starter? Is it just that Mike Ashley is allergic to stability?

It's getting around to being just utter stupidity at this point.

According to the local press Sunderland are very close to losing out to PSV for Ji Dong-Won. Ji wants to go to the Mackems but his club seem to be trying to force him to PSV because they've made a higher bid. It's like their version of Gameiro, only in reverse and involving a (probably) crappier player.

Don't know about Hodgson at Liverpool, Big Sam at Newcastle was hardly this bad. A lot of us were very happy with the appointment, myself included.