mrmojorisin75

i'm expecting to see more of these stories cropping up everyday, especially in relation to the newly taken over "cash-rich" clubs but also in general terms due to the new football deal and extra money swimming about if you were an agent and wanted some extra cash to buy another ivory backscratcher with you'd want to be punting your lads to one place and one place only, da loony dollar-dollar bill daft premiershit

you ain't wrong, i got out of there just before the kidnappings started in earnest and i thank my lucky blue stars everyday i'm not having to go back there crazy people/country sums it up

ha ha aye, oba's counter-threat, "stop shooting at me or i'll send joey over with a box of cigars, then you'll be sorry" stop it dead in it's tracks!!

worked out of lagos before, about the scariest place i've ever been and never want to go back what surprises me is that when he ran away someone else didn't shoot at him just 'cause they had bullets they weren't using right then

give that man a cigar

I cannot imagine Ashley/Allardyce "panic buying". Acting with appropriate speed (if and when 'speed' is required - as in THIS case with our defensive problems) is not the same thing. I expect Ashley/Allerdayce to get (at least) close to the seven, and to avoid January if they can. you're optimistic bonny lad, optimistic indeed 7 defenders of the required quality is gonna take some amount of doing & no little amount of cash but i hope you're right anyways the original point wasn't about defenders, come january like i said i think the problem is gonna be with attackers

ha ha, not read it for ages but when i did you could tell whatever interviews or info they had was from the week before so they'd be saying something was gonna happen when it was printed, but by the time it was out the total opposite transfer had gone through not bad for the eye candy though

aye but that's what i was saying early doors - i don't see a massive splash out on 7 defenders before september what i do see is probably 2 x CB's of hopefully good quality 1 x LB of definate quality 1 x RB of definate quality i see these, along with taylor, being the starting back four and then carr/babarapist being given thir chance if injuries and suspensions kick in, then i see them being shipped in january...i'd see hunt/edgar being a 4th choice CB possibly a little pessimistic outlook on what we'll spend but lets face it we're looking at 20m easy to buy the 4 top quality players we're looking at there right?

you work for Nuts or summat?

Can't really argue with any of that mate. One point I would make is that looking at the fixtures, up until mid-Novemeber every game we play is winnable. That suggests to me that if Sam can get a few decent defenders in, and Owen starts scoring we could be in a very decent position come January. Cannot see a billionaire businessman like Ashley, allowing his 'strategic review' to drag on very long. He will be as aware as we are of the need to strengthen the playing staff as soon as possible (ie, this summer) a fact that is VERY likely to be confirmed by part of his review that covers the playing staff, and he is most unlikely to in any way devalue his £133M investment by artificially and unnecessarily restricting his manager from doing what is required - ASAP. The review will cover all aspects of the workings of the club, not just the playing staff, and its objective will be to improve everything, not restrict it by itself, 'dragging it on' and preventing early implementation of some of its inevitable findings (re the playing staff). Ashley will also be as aware as we are, of the problems of trying to recruit in the short January (mid-season) window, and I am sure his business sense (and common sense) will lead him to try and avoid the January window as much as is possible. He now owns the club, so the review will (I'm sure, even if not 'announced' or picked up by the papers where WE get our information from) be well under way, already. He will be aiming to take the club private in mid-July (as already stated) and I am sure that he will have advised his manager of his level of funding to be available to him, prior to then, actually releasing the funds by mid-July, if not earlier. This guy has not purchased our club to pussyfoot around and/or 'do the wrong thing' - he has (I am certain) purchased Newcastle United FC to "get it right" and one way he can do that is by doing things at the right time. He will not regard 'doing things quickly' as "rushing things" - he has the (oft talked about) 'people' to do things speedily and accurately. He is here to win things with us, and to me that means he is not going to hang around in trying to achieve that. i think you're right and i never said i think he'll restrict anything, but what i think we'll see is similar to villa after they were taken over last season fat sam will be given cash to overhaul the defence but don't forget we have a number of high profile, highly paid, supposedly talented players that we need our talented manager to try and get the best out of before we replace them - to do otherwise is contrary to your opinion of ashley as a man and a businessman so i'll reiterate, it's just my opinion, that i don't see massive overhauls to the squad in the summer except in defence...other positions (where we are numerically at least well covered) will be dealt with later down the line i feel - i mean we have 4 strikers, 2 wingers for each side, 3 cen mids and, ahem, dyer...i just can't see massive changes or replacements to that lot without fat sam having a go at making it work

don't agree that martins will be off for 6 weeks? hm nah sorry just being a twat there all opinion obviously but i've no faith in little mickey at all, he'll hightail it to whoever he thinks suits him first chance if all isn't well good point about fixtures though, it's where we've gone to ratshit since bobby left - not taking advantage of favourable/winnable fixtures before we play the tough ones if you ask me....recent times have seen us lose/draw against the shite and play well against the better teams only thus being lower-mid table again back to uncle bobby but i'm fairly sure his record vs the top teams wasn't great but he got us beating the shite and that's often times enough - look at spurs i'm sure they were poor against the top teams but beat the crap....if fat sam can get us doing that again he'll be juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust fine

aye righto, wind back to before last season when drogba wasn't winning them matches he had an immense season last season but prior that he was considered an overly-expensive diving/collapsible striker who missed too many one on ones and missed too many easy chances - if he was the striker you all claim he was they simply wouldn't have bought shevchenko, the irony being that it was obviously the competition that got him to step up his game it's amazing how recent form clouds perceptions terry (and lampard) have been carrying the club since ranieri and trophy's...

Sad but true. Sad because we've not seen much for our money and may not get any more. Drogba's way ahead of Terry for me. Possibly Cech is too. if terry wasn't english people would be shouting his name from rooftops man irrelevant, Dogba's twice the player pish

yeah well a new contract would be one option of course but would little mickey sign his life away without seeing which way the club was going? personally i doubt it and then should he reach january with the sniff of a move he'll be offski as for emre i could see him being given a chance at the playmaker role til january and then replaced if he doesn't cut it

Sad but true. Sad because we've not seen much for our money and may not get any more. Drogba's way ahead of Terry for me. Possibly Cech is too. if terry wasn't english people would be shouting his name from rooftops man

We're all excited at the moment about the takeover, new signings on and off the pitch, a breath of fresh air blowing through the club (hopefully it'll take the new home shirt with it and leave a better one behind) and basically all round genuine optimism. But thinking about it honestly reckon that January is gonna be the big month for the club in terms of shaping our season and perhaps the future. Think about it: #1 - I'm in agreement with Shearer in that I'll be shocked if anyone pays 9m for Owen this summer. However come January he's a prime target for any clubs still in the CL if he's scoring goals 'cause he'll not be cup tied. Thus, assuming he regains his form I'd say it's bye bye little Mickey. #2 - Martins disappears for 6 weeks (?) for the African nations. #3 - Ashley (or his people) will have had time to review the club top to bottom and know what needs doing. #4 - Allardyce will have had time to review all of the players who were at the club when he arrived in terms of fitness, attitude and ability. All of these things combined leads me to think that the summer won't be quite as exciting as people are hoping. I could see him bringing in the necessary amount of defenders we need to form a team and perhaps a couple extra but after that I don't see much else happening. To me, if he's scoring, Owen is gone in January. Probably to Chel$ki or maybe Arsenal. With Martins out of the equation at the same time we'll need 2 more strikers (general consensus being Ameobi not good enough and Viduka not able to play every game) plus Allardyce is gonna want to make an impression his first season so I'd see some serious scouting going on bewteen September and January and then BIG changes to the squad with Dyer on his bike, possibly Emre, Babarapist and maybe Carr. A lot will obviously depend on our league position come January too - if we're flying and challenging for Europe perhaps little Mickey might reconsider his "loyalty" and Fat Sam won't need to make wholesale changes. Or Ashley will give him 50m to spend next week and this is all bollox. Hard to say.

Newcastle United haven't cared about principle for the last ten years... why start now? well that's kind of the point I guess the problem is there is now a generation like you raised on this, and don't know any better look man, no-one disagrees that the whole thing was distasteful but then how on earth do you know it's not happening in EVERY transfer every day and we're just not hearing about it? i'd be surprised if it wasn't reminds me of lee bowyer when there was simply negative publicity for the sake of negative publicity (remember when every single picture of lee bowyer in the papers was the one where he was screaming into the camera ala maradona '94 with his nose streaming with blood? he looked like he'd been eating babies or something) if joey barton had been, say, scott parker doing the same with us for a move to west ham 'cause his release clause had been triggered then i doubt we'd have heard about it - in fact remember the delay with the parker transfer, 3-4 days from the first bid? how do you know that wasn't for the same thing? not saying it was but how do you know it wasn't? barton, while i agree with your sentiment, is an easy target for this type of story and ultimately it's NUFC that shouldn't have paid the fee and let him fight it out with citeh or take the hit

I like how Kingdawson pulls up Jenas scoring record as if that proves he's some sort of great player, only to not see the irony in saying Kevin Nolan is an average midfielder who scores goals. As you conveniantly forgott, i also mention the countless other skills Jenas possesses in his game. Other then scoring goals can you please tell me what else Nolan does?? the only thing i see jenas having added to his game since leaving us is slightly better finishing, he always got himself in good positions but jigsaw'd it up near the box other than that he's the same player from what i've seen - a good athlete who can tackle from time to time but can't pass very well and has a similar football brain to dyer, i.e. none...

Surely at a minimum they must receive financial compensation. The FA have already find WHU £5.5m, fine them another £10m, double it out of their own money and give the lot to Sheff Utd. I'm sure with £30m they'd not be complaining and would go straight back up. you must have missed the bit where bryan robson is their manager - it'd take 60m to get them in the playoffs under him problies....then another 30m for his bar bill

good post you're spot on about wigan like, they're doomed for me keane's stability was something i said at the very start - how will he react when things go badly? not renowned for it is he?

heard it described ominously as "beginning today" somewhere this morning so it might not be a swift outcome!

serrants knees were fucked and he retired at 24 or something you're right about serrant he was england u21 but not sure about disco des disco went to cardiff after us i think but then i'm not sure

ha ha! right you remember that goal at old trafford in the 1-1 draw?....thinking more about it he set up cole with a sweet slide rule ball i think then promptly fell off the face of the earth (something of an exaggeration)

that's the little tinker! about as nondescript a player as they come

anyone know another one i can't quite remember? we signed him about the same time as steve guppy and he played about one game - the only one i remember was man city away at maine road mike something or other?