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What say does Shearer have in the matter? I'm sure Shearer would do everything in his power to prevent Bassong going to Sunderland. Besides I can't see Bassong deserting us to join a team that was only 2 points better off than us last season. Two years time the rolls will be reversed again. Shearer isn't employed by the club so has no say whatsoever. And I think you're overestimating Bassong's loyalty. Not refering to his loyalty but rather the fact that if he was to leave it would be to a better team. With any luck the Shearer thing will be sorted before any deals go through. Although I wouldn't put anything past this ownership, I really don't think they would do anything to compromise Shearers plans as I believe he is integral to the sale of the club. I read the other day something that makes sense regarding Shearer and a potential takeover. Ashley might want him appointed to make the club more attractive (popular manager already in place, fans happy etc) - but that relies on this supposed bank agreement in case there's no takeover. Another party though may want Shearer to hold off signing a deal so that they can negotiate the price of the club down, then have an sly agreement in place to appoint him anyway. There could be some kind of power struggle going on regarding Shearer's appointment. I firmly believe Shearer will be appointed no matter what the outcome, what does rely heavily on the outcome though is capital, therefor team building, therefor probability of Premiership status next year. Not something that can be done on a shoestring budget with all the transfers in and out of the club needed.

What say does Shearer have in the matter? I'm sure Shearer would do everything in his power to prevent Bassong going to Sunderland. Besides I can't see Bassong deserting us to join a team that was only 2 points better off than us last season. Two years time the rolls will be reversed again. Shearer isn't employed by the club so has no say whatsoever. And I think you're overestimating Bassong's loyalty. Not refering to his loyalty but rather the fact that if he was to leave it would be to a better team. With any luck the Shearer thing will be sorted before any deals go through. Although I wouldn't put anything past this ownership, I really don't think they would do anything to compromise Shearers plans as I believe he is integral to the sale of the club.

What say does Shearer have in the matter? I'm sure Shearer would do everything in his power to prevent Bassong going to Sunderland. Besides I can't see Bassong deserting us to join a team that was only 2 points better off than us last season. Two years time the rolls will be reversed again.

Anyone else on here feel really confident of Englands chances next year? We have a manager who is not afraid to drop big name players if they're not playing well, can get a team to grind out results and most importantly is turning games that we used to draw into wins. Granted, it's not the toughest group we've ever been in but these semi-pro national teams are the ones that used to give us the most problems.

It's funny you should say that Bruce, cuz it's never been a dream of ours to have your quasimodo face running our club either! Best case scenario, Sunderland stay up by the skin of their teeth, we get promoted as champions and then at the end of the next season Scumderland have to play us, leading to a humiliating thrashing which puts us into a europa cup place and puts them down on the worst points/goals tally ever recorded in premiership history.

Yeah, probably when he's in the twilight of his career when his legs have gone for one final payday. Not that I'm blaming him, just seems the way to go at our club. Would love it if he stays, one of the small silver linings in a dreadful season.

Bye bye you useless overpaid wannabe hippy :colo:

everyone was willing us to go down, the media were rubbing their hands and laughing at us, they all jumped for joy when we didn't even bother to muster a whimper against Villa. But now what are they going to do? Writing stories about a Championship side doesn't sell papers, there's no one in the premiership that the mainstream media can spout their poisoned stories about. Will be interesting to see who gets the limelight now we're no longer in the picture. Hopefully for good!

If his idea was to bring the youth through the ranks and spend less in the short term then why the hell did he bring in Keegan whose last stint at NUFC saw him spending insane money(at that time) to bring success to the club and the reason he left the first time round is believed to be because his spending had to stop. Ashley went in blind from start to finish and is still fumbling around in the dark now.

I think Shearer has done all he can to decide who's comeing and going and who's staying, but until everyone knows where they stand there's not much else he can do.

Surely if the only reason he wanted to stay was because he couldn't get a club in the Premiership he would have waited until closer to the new season? I think he would bang away a few goals in the Championship, his pace would worry a lot of defences in this league and as was said on here earlier, he had a better eye for goal at the tail end of the season than Owen and Martins put together!

I'd be more than happy for us to start bringing in young players with masses of potential from championship or lower league teams, it worked for SBR.

It hit home the other day when I was watching the ticker bar running along the bottom on SSN and they said there was some news about Shearer. The bar came round to Premiership news and I was wondering where the hell this update was, then it flicked over to Championship news and low and behold there was the Newcastle news.... GUTTED!

What's this 10 mins in and we haven't conceided yet?!?!?! Must be on to a winner!