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Man, this is like two blind men trying to stab each other.

players look aggressive and up for it from the start. Good. Murder them.

Just surprises me about the extent to which I'd forgotten he existed.

Beautiful ground though, to be fair. Amazing view from the top of the away stand.

He's done enough for the club to earn a free pass this one time, but there better be a public apology.

I find him more attractive than most women

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2084/513572749659fbc81edfo.jpg This is my new desktop since today. Something about it just seems iconic as to where we are right now as a club and the general atmosphere of our squad. These are probably also the three players who now have the central role in keeping us afloat this season.

Damnit why does Pardew have to come off so well in interviews. Makes him difficult to hate.

Of course he f***ing was. From the clubs viewpoint they extracted maximum value for an asset that's not without his faults, no matter his potential. Ashley gave the b****** use of his helicopter ffs, not the actions of man with his hands behind his back. Though sometimes I wish Ashleys pilot did have. Meh - good fee, buy some good forwards in the summer and we'll get over it. It's the lies and propaganda from the club that f*** me off. Just be straight with people. The game plan is to buy cheap, damaged or potential 'stock' and then develop them and then sell them. Let's not kid ourselves that next year we could have similar threads on Tiote or Ben Arfa. It's what we every club in the Premiership except for five or so do now. FYP

Agree wholeheartedly.

Harry Redknapp can go ram his head up a horse's ass. You probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

It's kind of funny how we're so doubtful about whether the money will be spent at all or not that we can't even begin to start worrying about whether Pardew will spend it wisely

Would love him to sign a new deal and then come out with another one of his trademark "no-bullshit interviews" about the current sate of affairs.

I trust the likes of Barton and Nolan enough to think that the players are going to respond positively to this and will be trying harder than ever to prove that this team is about more than just Andy Carroll. Strange how things happen. Two years ago I couldn't stand the sight of either of those two. Now they are the bona fide heart and soul of this team.

Everything he says sounds logical.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it BUT every penny back into the club does not necessarily mean transfers What Pardew is saying is 100% truth. Ashley can't legally just throw the money in his pocket. (unless it's used to pay back the money that's owed to himself.... But what incentive does he have to do that?) But like you say "into the club" doesn't necessarily mean "into new players."

My post from another thread For me, with the Keegan, Given and now Carroll sagas it all comes down to one thing in the abscence of 100% irrefutible proof WHO DO YOU TRUST? NEITHER

What wasn't serious about it? They probably knew it wouldn't be accepted and did it to look like they were trying to do something. Wigan accepted £9m in the summer. So I would say 10-12m was a good bid. I don't get this "fake transfer bids" bullshit. What incentive does Mike Ashley have to participate in that sort of charade. He clearly doesn't give a shit what we think.

Given the ridiculously good luck we've had despite a couple of years of Mike Ashley doing everything humanly possible to fuck up this club, I half expect us to make 35m worth of brilliant signings in the summer and come out of this smelling like roses.

Even if the 35m is re-invested into the squad this summer, it is kind of hard to get excited about the remaining matches given that the club have essentially written off 2010/2011 as a season.

Jayson, 35m is a ridiculous offer. Look at Carroll's record. 34 career goals so far. Start to be prolific just 6 months ago (he is not prolific last year), is "optimistically expected" to be a regular international player, has some personal problems, is far from a complete product. He is fxxking valuable for us, I know, but 35m is too much for a player who has relatively high risk not fulfilling his potential. The key point is whether 35m is a ridiculous offer. If you honestly think Carroll is not for sale at any price, then ok, you can continue to bash Ashley. My stand is if Ashley did give Carroll a choice, then he is doing "what a normal person should do". That's exactly it. If we were offered 80M for Carroll surely noone would be complaining, but 35M is just too much in the grey area of a ridiculous offer, its a lot sure, but small enough that we might never see it reinvested, if we got 80M then even if he pocked 50% we'd have loads. Sadly i think Carroll wanted to go, but i have no idea as to why, liverpool aren't a whole lot better than us at the moment and don't have a clear path back to the CL. 35m is not in the "grey area." 35m is obliterates the grey area to pieces. Andy Carroll is now the 8th most highly valued footballer in the history of the world. He joins the ranks of Christiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Zinedine Zidane, and Louis Figo. Yes, he has the potential to be one of the best strikers in the world. But 35m is a fee you pay for somebody who already is one of the best strikers in the world. Not for someone who may or may not be. Basically the media hype machine and John Henry's desperation to not get stoned by half of Merseyside has landed us a ridiculous deal. Emotionally, it's devastating of course. But if we had assurances that this would be re-invested into the squad then we should be laughing. Ah... that last bit though.

Hey, as long as we're inventing conspiracy theories and dirty lies... What if this has actually been in the pipeline for ages? What if all this talk coming from club leadership about "not being for sale at any price" was bullshit to begin with? What if Carroll has been demanding a transfer for a while and his mysteriously extending "injury" was a ploy to force a move?

We could very easily do what Everton did with the Rooney money/Tottenham did with the Berbatov money. If we had a good manager.

Such a shame. I know. After the relegation I managed to persuade her to keep going, now she says she is sick. She is 11 and when I told her Carroll had more than likely gone tonight she just looked at me and said, "I don't want to go to Newcastle anymore". It's £100 cheaper for me to renew the bairns ticket whether she uses it or not (she hasn't been much this season at all). I've renewed every year since 1982 so i'm not going to stop now. The bairns ticket is over £200 cos she is in the Leazes corner with me. That story makes me sad. Can't imagine what it must be like to experience all of this through a child's eyes.

You know the really shocking thing is that most of the joke list of Korean signings would probably improve our team.