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I'm not confident whether he'd be any better in the Championship than he was in the Prem. They don't make the goals any wider there.

best for both parties if he's moved as soon as possible.

Head says "it's about as likely as us making top seven in the Premiership had we stayed up." Heart says "FUCK YES."

NUFC is gone so they need somebody else to be the "deluded club that thinks they should be in the top 6" for them. Tottenham Hotspur. No, no, no. Tottenham Hotspur is the "adorable up and coming club that is BOUND to make the top 4 one of these days."

Krul can have all the cup games. Best solution all around imo.

We can't just stick Krul in "because he'll leave us otherwise." We need to play the player who's good enough, pure and simple and we know that Harper is. We don't know if Krul is. Yes, Krul may very well be better than Harper one day but he needs to prove it first. Preparing for the Premiership before we're actually in the Premiership is a great way to make sure that we never get there in the first place.

NUFC is gone so they need somebody else to be the "deluded club that thinks they should be in the top 6" for them.

i heard his Agent on Radio 5 today, saying there was too much needed at Sunderland and that he would be interested in Celtic. Lazy fucker. Turns down a real challenge but offers himself up for possibly the easiest job in professional football That's an interesting thought. I think you are porbably right Celtic is the easiest managerial job in football. Can't think of too many more easy. Newcastle. All you have to do is come, fail for a year, and leave with your fat compensation payoff. I'm surprised more aren't lining up to come here just for the money!

Yes, aforementioned players all have around 50+ caps

I had this on an earlier thread, but since nobody read it

I'm sorry Kaka but that complete nonsense, once again, of course we will be looking at players with a proven record at this level and we'll have the cash to buy them, I'm sure about that. Looking at League 1 players makes no bloody sense whatsover. i'm with afar on this one - the average wage bill for the CCC is 9m or something and they papers (i know) reckon we'll attempt to maintain a 40m wage bill for a season to try and go up we'll be the biggest hitters down there by far and with the sales of martins & bassong, plus peanuts adding up from the likes of smith, shola or whoever else we ship there should be money to spend on new players from the CCC we need to buy players who aren't only gonna exist for a season, i.e. some scrappers who get us up who we've then got to offload to replace with PL players this is why loans are key for me, spend what money we have wisely getting the best players down there who have the potential to improve then flesh out the squad with loans all depends on fat mike though i suppose League One, here we come!

Good. Sounds positive to me. Actually reading the god damn fine print has been a skill woefully absent for most in this club for a while now.

Like we're talking about f***ing Mourinho here It's not a matter of Shearer's ability. The fallout if Ashley manages to alienate not just one but TWO legends will be unbelievable. He'll shit his pants and try to sell again, fail, and we're headed to a nice mid-table finish in the Championship.

Jesus christ if they fuck this up and lose Shearer that's really the end for this club.

It's great that Man U lost but man, Park had such a bad game

Man United are so bad today I don't even have the slightest fear that they'll somehow come back and nick it at the last minute like the jammy fuckers they are.

Messi. Header. Goodbye Man U

Come on people. Harper is more than good enough for the Championship. Seriously, look at some of the keepers who are doing just fine in the division. As for Krul, I'm sure he's a fine prospect but ultimately we have absolutely no evidence that he's ready for first team football other than 90 fantastic minutes against Palermo three years ago. He should have to prove himself like everyone else. We can't just knee-jerk and throw him in over Harper just because he's become everybody's new favorite scapegoat. I'm all for giving him the Cup games regardless of opposition next season, but Harper keeps the number 1 shirt by default unless Krul has an bsolutely mindblowing pre-season.

I don't remember ever seeing Man United raped this badly. I feel like they should be wearing black and white stripes.

Jonas could really, honestly want to stay but it doesn't matter in the end because he just can't at this point in his career. He NEEDS a move to a top flight club to show his worth and make the 2010 World Cup. The fact that Maradona has kept him in the squad for this long shows that he has a legitimate chance of making it into the first team squad for the finals . It would be career suicide to stay here. If he actually stays I would be more worried about his sanity than feeling respect for his loyalty. Still a good player though. Shame we never saw his best.

That could have been us if we weren't relegated I fear that we'll soon see the day where you can't be competitive in the Premiership without your own Arab sugar daddy.

No. Any sort of change scares me to death now. If it isn't some sort of moneybags owner who will come splash infinite amounts of money, I'd rather have the idiots who've already screwed up so much that they can't possibly get any worse.

Almost as interesting as what'll happen to us given our reported debt levels I imagine.

Good cover? Howay man, in our current state Kyle Naughton is just about the best LB we could get.

Those teams keep their squads though, that's the big thing. We lose pretty much all of ours. Our success pretty much relies on how well we're able to build a new squad and how well we can make it gel, two things I have absolutely no trust in Newcastle United to achieve.