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It won't be pretty but they will get promoted.

i've been questioning jonas since about new year. Well...unless you're fluent in Spanish, I doubt you'll have made much progress on that. i can say,toilet,kiss, the bill and beer in spanish. what else do i need to know ? Knowing the Spanish for toilet kiss is essential for a decent night out in any Spanish city imo.

I enjoyed seeing this group of lads win the Championship although it would have been a disgrace if they hadn't. They then finished 12th in the Premiership first season back - job done. But there is no room for sentimentality in deciding who stays and who goes in football squads. You have to move on and every successful club pulls the trigger on popular players when it feels the time is right. I'll freely admit at this stage that I have no idea whether the squad we end up with after this window will be better than the one we had last season, but sentimentality over an expensive squad that was relegated, then promoted and then stayed up is misplaced imo.

A bit random as all the talk is about attacking players - but surely we are going to sign a a central defender to replace Sol Campbell. I can't remember seeing a single link so far.

Great player, never forget what he did for us etc etc etc but I don't think he's sharp enough or flexible enough to cut it as a manager. Not even sure he has the hunger.

I see it as a lose-lose situation. He does well, and f***ing Cardiff and their arsehole supporters are in the Premiership. He does badly, and we have to suffer him as a pundit again. So I'm hoping for a mediocre, mid-table kind of performance. Mid table also = the sack and also = the MOTD couch.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2003542/Abdoulaye-Faye-joins-West-Ham.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Good early shout there Mr Nut.

This guy Peter Pannu at Birmingham is clearly a bit of a player, he could give Del Llambias a few lessons on cuntology by all accounts.

Exactly - isn't he about 5 foot 7 inches?

They aren't massively funded by their owners, but their annual Premiership income is about £30 million a year more than ours. Over the course of several years that helps. Edit: They are also very good in the transfer market and when they sell their players on it is done with good value to the club.

That's a really competitive shout tbh.

Grayson is a good guy and has done a good job at Leeds but we are now talking about a significantly lower profile than Ancelotti, Rijkaard and Benitez I would suggest.

That's quite a moving little anecdote. Would you go for a re-naming of your cock if he actually was a member of our squad? Or maybe it would be more like a natural progression that was somehow meant to be?

On the Nigel point I guess that the c*nt de Jong is the daddy - but for the most part I agree it's hard to argue that it's a great football name.

And now linked with Simon Grayson, makes you sick doesn't it?

He's still only 26 or 27 and he used to be an ok player until MON started playing him at right back. Given his previous contact with Pardew I suppose he's a possible. Would be a replacement for Smith so wouldn't get be in the frame for a game unless Tiote was injured or suspended. Not arsed either way about him really.

One thing we are not short of is players who can play central midfield, Yohan is here to replace someone I think. And I don't reckon it's Alan Smith.

Maybe we've just signed his replacement for less than £5 million......

Brummie probably can answer that best - but that's what was rumoured and was combined with MON allegedly being told that there was to be a tightening on funds to be made available for transfers.

A huge chunk of that figure is from the early repayment of the stadium expansion loan which was required when the club changed ownership. A "huge chunk" ?? around £40 Million is all Wasnt it closer to £70m? Ashley had to cough up £70 million shortly after he bought us but not all of that was stadium debt, some of it was simply working capital debt that allowed the club to pay its way. I haven't got any info to hand but Toon Pack's figure of £40 million for the stadium debt sounds good. £40 Mill was the mortgage (might have been £45, but certainly no more) the other £30 mill was other loans/overdraft that had to be paid, there was also £27Mill owed on transfers. If he'd done proper due dilligence he'd have run a mile, just like the other prospective buyers did the year before. And of course Barclays wasted no time in calling the whole lot in at the first opportunity. I wonder why? Dread to think what'd have happened if they'd done it when we didn't have a thick billionaire owner !! The importance and high profile of the club, not only locally but also as a well established Premiership football club, meant they couldn't really. And as the old saying goes - owe the bank £70 and its your problem but owe the bank £70 million and it's the bank's problem. And Ashley buying the club lifted all that. Some one quite senior in the credit department at Barclays probably thought all their Christmases had come at once.....And the Shepherd and Hall families also have cause to be grateful to the thick billionaire.

A huge chunk of that figure is from the early repayment of the stadium expansion loan which was required when the club changed ownership. A "huge chunk" ?? around £40 Million is all Wasnt it closer to £70m? Ashley had to cough up £70 million shortly after he bought us but not all of that was stadium debt, some of it was simply working capital debt that allowed the club to pay its way. I haven't got any info to hand but Toon Pack's figure of £40 million for the stadium debt sounds good. £40 Mill was the mortgage (might have been £45, but certainly no more) the other £30 mill was other loans/overdraft that had to be paid, there was also £27Mill owed on transfers. If he'd done proper due dilligence he'd have run a mile, just like the other prospective buyers did the year before. And of course Barclays wasted no time in calling the whole lot in at the first opportunity. I wonder why?

I remember fat Sam playing N'zogbia at left back and insisting that Milner was a left winger. Those may be questioned but they were light years away from being the worst decisions he made whilst manager of our club.

A huge chunk of that figure is from the early repayment of the stadium expansion loan which was required when the club changed ownership. A "huge chunk" ?? around £40 Million is all Wasnt it closer to £70m? Ashley had to cough up £70 million shortly after he bought us but not all of that was stadium debt, some of it was simply working capital debt that allowed the club to pay its way. I haven't got any info to hand but Toon Pack's figure of £40 million for the stadium debt sounds good.

That's yet another case of the press (local in this case) picking up random numbers and putting dubious interpretations on them. St James Holdings is 100% owned and funded by Mike Ashley. He used the company to buy the club for £138 million and also to loan the club a further £150 million making £288 million in total. The club does not owe Ashley for what he paid for it but it does owe him for the money he loaned. So the club does not have debt of £288 million, the figure is £150 million. we still have 150,000,000 debt? f***ing hell man £115,000,000 actually. He he... I see what you did there. Me too I've no idea if any of the Carroll money is going that way but whatever Ashley is in this for isn't pure and unconditional love of Newcastle United. So it's quite possible that at some point he is going to take money out to reduce his loan.

That's yet another case of the press (local in this case) picking up random numbers and putting dubious interpretations on them. St James Holdings is 100% owned and funded by Mike Ashley. He used the company to buy the club for £138 million and also to loan the club a further £150 million making £288 million in total. The club does not owe Ashley for what he paid for it but it does owe him for the money he loaned. So the club does not have debt of £288 million, the figure is £150 million.