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He'll be thirty next year man. To Wenger that's basically like being a leper.

Smith? Who?

Probably on his way out eventually. Last remaining member of Nolan and Barton's "crew"

Pretty sure it's already too late for us to be getting in anyone in time for the Fulham game. There aren't any deals I can see being wrapped up within a day's time.

For someone with tied hands, he's doing pretty well at picking up a pen and signing a contract. Such a moronic stance to take. Imagine yourself in his position. He's clearly not wanted here and has received a decent offer from QPR. Is it not possible that he does want to stay, but realises he needs to do what is best for him in the long-term? I don't blame him from leaving but posting sob-stories on Twitter to get the fans on his side makes me puke. Bye, thanks for one good season, sorry you had to deal with that cunt Mike Ashley. Go fuck off to your new club quietly please.

How long before he comes out trying to take the captain's armband away from Taarabt? And how awesome would a fight between those two be

Not sold him for free, for starters.

For someone with tied hands, he's doing pretty well at picking up a pen and signing a contract.

I wouldn't be worried. We haven't actually sold anyone we weren't expecting to lose this summer anyway. (Well, there's Nolan I guess.) Colo will be gone next summer.

You know, now that he's left and the black-and-white-tinted glasses are off, I'm starting to realize that he really is a despicable, pathetic sort of human being. And that's completely independent from his transfer and how he was screwed over by Team Ashley. Just no longer feel the need to legitimize all the shit that he's done in my head anymore.

Almost as fast as they can sell them

You know, it's going to be awfully awkward for Barton having deleted his Newcastle mates from twitter given that he'll be seeing all of them again in two weeks time.

You must have sore fists. Aye, no point injuring yourself. I just kick my dog. That's a given every morning in Korea, regardless of your mood. Don't be silly man. Just cook the damn thing, why bother with the kicking. Thought the suffering made them tastier? Shit rumor invented by Frenchie animal-rights activists. I don't want no boot-marks on my meat.

To Modibo Maiga of Sochaux till something actually happens On second thought, let's just change all of the transfer rumor threads to "let's nip this one in the bud"

We'll somehow stumble our way into a left back. I don't dare hope for more than that.

He's going to score against us in two weeks

You must have sore fists. Aye, no point injuring yourself. I just kick my dog. That's a given every morning in Korea, regardless of your mood. Don't be silly man. Just cook the damn thing, why bother with the kicking.

To what? The title is still accurate. We've bid. They haven't accepted.

Goal.com have linked us with Dempsey by the way. Just a nothing story but from a purely hypothetical perspective I wouldn't mind Deuce here at all.

IMO I don't really mind. For me Newcastle has always been like this and I'll enjoy every matchday as it comes without particularly worrying about where we finish at the end of the season. As long as we don't get relegated it's fine and if we do better than expected that's a nice bonus. Couldn't care less who actually wins the title, or about the entire Champions League for that matter. Might as well be a completely different sport. I feel the same really, as long as we compete week-to-week and have a decent team to get behind it's fine. I can remember when we getting to the latter stages of the Champions League though, wouldn't mind another taste of that. Totally agree but we could easily be topping that second league with a modicum of ambition rather seemingly settle on just not going down. (From an owner's standpoint) What's the point of spending an extra 20m just to have a shot at topping the second league? How does that help him at all?

Selling players like Andy Carroll doesn't help. Indeed not, but not many clubs can turn down that sort of money. Besides that, let's not kid ourselves. If Carroll's development didn't stall and he became a top striker, he was never going to be ours for very long anyway and we probably wouldn't have gotten 35m for him if we sold him later. Speaking of Carroll he has been awful recently. Got halled off early against arsenal. They are already complaining about how he makes them play long ball football. Not his fault, but it could mean his rapid transition to the bench. Here's wishing. Welcome him back with open arms.

Selling players like Andy Carroll doesn't help. Indeed not, but not many clubs can turn down that sort of money. Besides that, let's not kid ourselves. If Carroll's development didn't stall and he became a top striker, he was never going to be ours for very long anyway and we probably wouldn't have gotten 35m for him if we sold him later.

Still getting a feeling that we might go in for Park Chu-Young at some point in the next week. He's getting desperate, we're getting desperate: interests have to coincide at some point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Bo-Kyung If we're selling Barton, this guy is another Korean we may want to look into. Decent little player on either wing. Turned down Brighton and is apparently being tracked by Stoke.

Barton has got brilliant technical ability but he lets himself down with his mental state on the pitch. When he's not focused or trying too hard his delivery becomes erratic and he tries way too many risky "hollywood" passes, which basically screws the entire team as delivering accurate passes is what he's there for. There's few better midfielders in the Premiership when he's on his game but that doesn't happen with any degree of consistency. I'm not too bothered about losing him, particularly since he seems to be a divisive figure in the dressing room, but I'm more generally concerned with selling any players at all given our chronic inability to actually negotiate transfers.

IMO I don't really mind. For me Newcastle has always been like this and I'll enjoy every matchday as it comes without particularly worrying about where we finish at the end of the season. As long as we don't get relegated it's fine and if we do better than expected that's a nice bonus. Couldn't care less who actually wins the title, or about the entire Champions League for that matter. Might as well be a completely different sport.