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smith on form again today back in his midfield lampard esq role. must5 have made 90 challenges and his passes and runs into the box impeccable. on this form im glad it looks like theres a clause. who needs emre. what a player

if we go down im buying. not paying the price it is at tho mo nd its bound to go down

i its fukin hilarious? what u on about mate, it will be a good thing if their not after him. hel stay this summer then settle down next season. nd he is a good player. definitaly worth hanging onto.

no we wont the intertoto cup doesnt exist next season

i would rather give carr a new contract than pay anything for brown

whats with everyone picking barton. id have geremi over him anyday. or butt even. barton jus hasnt shown anything so far

am i the only one who thought pearson was a negative moaning pessimistic grumpy bastard? i used to hate seeing him give his monotone excuses on motd under allardyce and im glad to see the back of him

taylor is stronger and makes better defensive pozitional decisions than rozenhal

KEVIN KEEGAN has been snubbed AGAIN as his Newcastle revolution threatens to implode after just two games. Jonathan Woodgate has turned down a move back to St James' Park to sign for Spurs in a £7million deal. And some players were dismayed at new Newcastle boss Keegan's farcical tactical team meeting ahead of yesterday's 3-0 FA Cup fourth round drubbing at Arsenal. A Toon insider said: "The players were waiting for Kevin to give his instructions but all he said was: ‘Arsenal are a great passing team. We must make sure we pass the ball better than them.' "That was it. There were no specific tactics, no work on set pieces...the players were stunned." Newcastle have failed to score in both games since Keegan took over. And Middlesbrough defender Woodgate's decision to snub him comes just 24 hours after Alan Shearer rejected Keegan's offer to be his No 2. Keegan confessed: "I tried to bring in one new face and it was Woodgate, but I don't think I have been successful and it looks like we've lost out to Spurs. "It wasn't a question of money, it was purely down to where the boy wanted to go. "I wanted Wood-gate as the first part of the jigsaw. Spurs and us both had bids accepted but it looks like I've not got him." Woodgate, 28, was left out of Boro's team that beat Mansfield 2-0 yesterday and was set to undergo a medical last night. Boro boss Gareth Southgate confirmed: "There was a fee agreed with Newcastle but it was Jonathan's decision." http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/2701_woodgate.shtml

3-1 arsenal. come on reverse psycology

there is nothing wrong with saying one of your players is limited, when he is. What do you suggest, we say Ameobi is the new Pele ? Milner is nowhere near players such as Downing, Young, Bentley etc etc. This is the truth. Fair enough Young and Bentley but Downing is nothing special at all. Fair enough. I think he's a sort of left sided Beckham, he doesn't have great pace - although sometimes gets to the byline - but puts in good quick crosses. He also gets into the box and seems to score a few goals in there. dream on

people have no idea about this, you cant just claim somebody does nothing and is picking up a wage when you have no clue what goes on in the football club.

this 'milner is shit' thing that has just came up with the fans is typical of the fickle nature of supporters of our team. Instead of hitting him while he's on poor form people need to give him time (he's very young ffs) and get behind him. Remember how good he was last season and he never ducks out of putting in effort. It makes me sick to think of some of these people as supporters when all they do is criticise .

And for a minute there, I was beginning to feel ever so slightly empathetic with the man. But then he had to go and say that... Do you not think he was right though? It wasnt if he bunged Torino, Blackburn & Southampton above us. Oh I'm not sure I could actually be arsed to argue the point, tbh...mainly because deep down I think I realise he's right. Still hurts like f*** to have that reality rubbed in your face though. Especially at a time like this. It wasn't good TV watching the club you support getting talked down. Schadenfreude is as much a part of the sport as free kicks and dodgy penalties though. Talking of Schadenfreude, Souey did say " people who are professional agitators on the outside of the club, ex-employees of the club and journalists, seem to take great pleasure in causing the club a problem" Aye, I didn't see the interview myself, but when I read that on here I instantly thought how deeply ironic that statement was...having just stuck the boot in himself. The t***. i think souness talks alot of sense there and people cant get hung up on the fact he has called these clubs bigger than our's beacause in the big picture they are! I think its probly true about shepherd dabbling to much in the team and maybe if souness had his way we would have done alot better under him. He is by no means an awful manager and most of the team seemed to like him bar robert and bellamy, who are universally seen as selfish pricks so u cant say he lost the dressing room. HE was unfairly picked on from day 1 because he wasnt the fans choice, and this will keep on happening untill the croud gets behind the team (prooved once again in the alladyce debacle.) Maybe bringing back keegan with shearer would work because at least it would get universal backing. Obviously things went wrong for souness in the end and SA but can people really say it was all their fault when there is blatent problems behind the scenes at our club, which only are starting to sort themselves out now.

i would only want shearer for the first time he walks out into the dugout the support he would get would make the hairs stand up on my neck. after that it will probly go downhill

After the game he said "United were breathtaking at times. But we were a 45-minute team today. Our first half was ok, but the second half was not good enough. "To concede three goals in the last 10 minutes in that fashion was particularly disappointing. "But it is a reality check of exactly where we are at. There is loads to do at this football club"

only taylor clapped the fans at the end.

how much u reckon ashley would take for him? im worried it will be something low, by low i mean 6mill ish.

How long before he is sold to one of the big four? Consistently looks a cut above in attack and isnt afraid of running at people. Still looks a little raw but surely a decent manager could turn him into one of the best players in the league?

What did he say? [/sUPERTOON] i agree but he still has a bit of an anti alladyce vendetta streaking through his comments!

shut up. how the hell would you or could you know that? Because i watched the game. After the second goal Enrique was pure s**** and thats down to given? more probally because it was one of his only starts of the season against a rampant manu with no manager, from a different country and we had just gone 2 goals down. Or maybe it was because Given had spent two minutes bollocking him for a perfectly acceptable backpass talk about nit pikking, in the end do you really think it made any effect on our performance or the result. start worrying about bigger matters mate like players not givving there all or the lack of creativity, passion, bollocks, simple football, short passing, control, calming down, effective play, tactics, tempo, closing down, tracking, defending, holdng up the ball, confidence and anything else useful, shown by our team!!

That's remarkably FM-like. Nah, if it was FM we'd have won 1-0.

shut up. how the hell would you or could you know that? Because i watched the game. After the second goal Enrique was pure s**** and thats down to given? more probally because it was one of his only starts of the season against a rampant manu with no manager, from a different country and we had just gone 2 goals down.

shut up. how the hell would you or could you know that?

Given was f****** s***, as he has been a lot this season. did u see the game. he saved our arses on about 5 occasions and made one mistake. mate u seriously need ur head checking if u think given is a problem.