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  1. Hi guys!

     

    Couldn't sleep last night, and just started to think of a list of potensial players we can buy now/or in the summer. Feel free to comment, and give me your opinions. Also please state how much you think we'd have to pay:

     

     

    How many of these you actually seen play?

     

    Hi :)

     

    Obviously not all of them, but I've seen quite a few. Some of the players I've just heard about through friends, and if I am to believe what they say, these players are good, and will improve us.

     

    |maze|

     

    Are your friends all characters on football manager?

     

    football manager?I don't play that game :) needless to say, the list is extensive, and there wouldn't be anything to lose by scouting these players. That's just my opinion. If you browse the internet; you will find that a lot of these players are attracted by big clubs:)

  2. Hi guys!

     

    Couldn't sleep last night, and just started to think of a list of potensial players we can buy now/or in the summer. Feel free to comment, and give me your opinions. Also please state how much you think we'd have to pay:

     

     

    How many of these you actually seen play?

     

    Hi :)

     

    Obviously not all of them, but I've seen quite a few. Some of the players I've just heard about through friends, and if I am to believe what they say, these players are good, and will improve us.

     

    |maze|

  3. Hi guys!

     

    Couldn't sleep last night, and just started to think of a list of potensial players we can buy now/or in the summer. Feel free to comment, and give me your opinions. Also please state how much you think we'd have to pay:

     

    Goalkeepers:

     

    Jussi Jaaskelainen

    Vincent Enyeama

    Oscar Ustari

    Ochoa

    Benoit Costil

    Igor Akinfeev

    Tim Wiese

     

    Defenders

     

    Armand Traore

    Giorgio Chiellini

    Per Mertesacker

    Naldo

    Pablo (At. Madrid)

    Miguel Veloso

    Cristian Zaccardo

    Fabricio Coloccini

    Vincent Kompany

    Nicky shorey

    Urby Emanuelson

    Jacques Faty

    Jeremy Mathieu

    Lucio (Bayern)

     

    Gonzalo Pineda

    Petri Pesanen  (how good are these last two IRL?)

     

    Eduardo Ratinho

    Oleg Husyev

    Darijo Srna

    Christian Pander

     

    Defensive Midfielders

     

    Javier Mascherano

    Jean II Makoun

    Fernanodo (Bordeaux)

    Ayila Yussuf

    Freddy Guarin

     

    Midfielder

     

    Jeremy Toulalan

    Tim Borowski

    Lucho Gonzalez

    Christian Ledesma

    Stephan Appiah

    Lucas Biglia

    Luka Modric

    Rafael van der Vaart

    Diego (Werder Bremen)

    Samir Nasri

    Juan R . Riquelme

    Riccardo Montolivo

    Ricardo Quaresma

    Rafael Sobis

    Jeremy Menez

    Cani

    Kim Kallström

    Fernando Belluschi

    Jonathan de Guzman

    Jefferson Farfan

    Arouca

    Thiago Nevez

    Yoann Gouffran

    Luis Jimenez

    Lulinha

    Per Ciljan Skjelbred

     

    Strikers

     

    Defoe

    Berbatov

    Adrian Mutu

    Jimmy Briand

    Karim Benzema

    G. Pazzini

    Dean Ashton

    Huntelaar

    Palacio

    Edison Cavani

    Caesar Delgado

    A. Kerzahkov

     

    Okey, that's it. A Nice and long list that I've written of 3 A4 pages *puh*... Maybe Alfonso Alves should be on that list too. Didn't include the likes of Carrick and Deco because they are already mentioned.

     

    |maze|

     

     

     

  4. ---------------Given-----------------

     

    Hutton--Taylor--Naldo--Enrique

     

    -------------De Rossi---------------

     

    SWP------V. Der Vaart----Zoggy

     

    --------Huntelaar---Martins------

     

    :thup:

     

    Hutton £8m

     

    Naldo £10m

     

    De Rossi £15m

     

    SWP £12m

     

    VDV £13m

     

    Huntelaar £12m

     

    £70m - Sorted  >:D

     

    Naldo and van Der Vaart - maybe (atleast those I agree with)

     

    Think Huntelaar and SWP is a bit unrealistic...

     

    + we don't need Hutton as we have Beye.

     

    Def. need a new left back, probably as backup for Enrique. But Enrique is still young and I'm unsure of playing him regular atm. will be the wises thing to do (hey, I might be wrong) other than that, I agree we need new wingers, and a couple strikers.

     

    But.. if you were to name ... say 5 players to off-load, who would it be? Just like to hear your opinions...

     

    Mine would be (not considering the kk effect or anything like that):

     

    Carr

    Ameobi

    Geremi

    Emre (Shoot me, but he's fairly inconsistent, and if we can get better we can afford letting him go abroad)

    Barton

  5. Seriously, Keegan should bring in the likes of Lee to coach the team. Watson and Peter Beardsley too. Important to have true geordies as backroom staff as well!!

     

    Shearer as ass. man !! =)

  6. I'm listening to BBC Radio 5 Live on the web, and I got to say, there's so much optimism, passion, excitement and I don't know what around...

     

    It's beautiful.. Wonderland:) Get tears in m eyes here! We need Shearer back, just to top it :)

  7. Brilliant!! Bring in Shearer as ass.man !!! :celb:

     

    ...Then go on and sack all those wasteful coaches, and bring in qualified people..

     

    ... Run CCleaner on the entire squad, and we are good to go!

  8. I knew this was coming from the core, if you want to discuss this personally you can PM or leave it out.

     

    This has nothing to do with me being impatient - not at all - I've been patient ever since I became supporter. Which is some years now (See earlier posts)

     

    Instead, I'm rather disappointed and shock tbh, that it is possible to run a club the way it has been done... and it looks like it is gonna continue.

     

    Mocking me does no good.

     

    If any of you replying to my post have supported the club for some time, you'd understand that my frustration is a result of years of incidences - and not Sam getting the boot.

     

    I'd like to see Mort/Ashley's next move now, because it will show their true ambitions. All the talk about consistency and stability :nope:

     

    Better be good, f***ing awesome or we'll be in the same old run...

  9. Hmm... :undecided: what to say, what to say... I'm in a bit of a shock here...

     

    Well, ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: Finally, I get to see Mort/Ashley TRUE ambitions !! I've been excited ever since the club was bought --> "what's next?"

     

    If they go on to hire a british manager - I'm out

     

    The only thing that can keep me supporting this club ATM is if they bring in a TOP MANAGER...

     

    ANYTHING else will make Newcastle United F.C. lose 1 supporter.

     

    Pretty much sums everything up - I'm fed up with this 'Dramaqueen' stuff at this club - it's pathetic.

  10. Thank you for a somewhat long and constructive post. Always nice to see good old loyal fans around. I can't defend other people's views and opinions, but I can tell you mine. Being a foreigner, coming from Norway, I started to support Newcastle because Alan Shearer signed for you. Back in 1994 when he was playing for Blackburn, his side went to Norway during the summer to play against the Norwegian side Vaalerenga (Vålerenga). This was actually a big attraction of the famous Norway Cup, which is played every year at Ekebergsletta close to Oslo. I was lucky enough to personally shake his hand, and talk to him for a couple of minutes after the game. Later on that evening, at the age of 10 (still not knowing what EPL was), I were to decide which team to support in England. The final choice became Alan Shearer and Blackburn, with Man Utd on a good second place (Man Utd does not have a place anymore ;) ) The rest, well.. it's history..

     

    I've never been in Newcastle, never seen a live game, but I see almost every match the team is playing on TV ... the rest I pick up from internet forums and news....My best moment's got to be the Kelloggs commercial with Keegan and Newcasle :lol:, and the worst is sacking Sir Bobby Robson (so ashamed) :-[.

    After the takeover, I honestly expected us to do what other takeover-clubs do (like man city and my "Swedish  neighbour" Sven Göran) buy and transform the club - totally. Some part of me actually expected us to do a Chelsea - which today would have suited me well. But that didn't happen.

     

    Instead we were going another way, buy clever and buy long-term, now... how can any of you say we have done that? Yes, we have 2-3 good signings this summer (faye, beye and enrique), but it's this 'other way' I don't understand. I don't think Man City has just splashed the cash playing Russian Rullette - Sven Göran has proven he can rebuild a club given just part of the summer (even coming in later than Allardyce).

     

    Futher, one can draw a comparsion between Sam Allardyce and Joey Barton with the headline : You get what you pay for. Most Newcastle fans want attacking (almost gung-ho) football with fast, technical players dribbling the oppositions butt off in true Asprilla style - Allardyce does not have such a working philosophy. You clearly see that from the players he have brought in (trying to stabilize - yes  but not aiming to play attracting and attacking football). Moving over to Joey Barton believing he would stay out of trouble was nothing but hope, you think Vinny Jones would turn into a good boy if we brought him from Wimbledon? Nope, again, you gt what you pay for.

     

    I'm pretty undecided as to wether Sam is the man to turn things around. I have no doubt what so ever that he is a very very good manager, and that he can handle pressure. In fact he, as anyone else, can be successful. And I think he will turn things around at our club given time, but he will do it the way he is confident of doing it - and that's where my uncertainty about Sam really is. I don't want us to play boring football with long balls (In true Egil "Drillo" Olsen style) Hoofing the ball up to a tiny Oba Martins and an unfit Owen, who both clearly aren't shaped to reach the "Crouch height", and then hope for the best - or look at it another way : So Sam can later on comment on SSN - "We pumped the ball up, unfortunatley Martins and Owen weren't there to get it, but we defended well and just conceeded / didn't conceed". My point is - you get what you pay for and people do their job in accordance to their abilities, their experience - in short they way they are confident of doing it. Just the way you do our every-day-job, right ? You do it the way you know it worked yesterday.

     

    People here complain about the way we are playing, the way things have turned since the summer - it's a transformation - a transformation into the Allardyce style (see above - the way he knows he has succeeded in the past). And I think that the players we see that don't play well, is the players that will leave sooner or later. Not because they aren't playing well, but because they can't adapt to Sam's style.

     

    So will a different, and maybe more reputated manager, do any better? Well, for once, if *he get the financial backup needed, and in truth that's expected from Ashley. Maybe. We might build ourself a team of stars.

    Will we see a different style of play? Certainly.

    Are we guaranteed success? Not at all. But logically speaking - a more reputated manager will have greater experience handling different aspects and his successess in the past should give him a better chance of succeeding now.

     

    *he and him = referring to a new manager.

     

    In other words, I highly doubt Sam Allardyce is the man to turn Newcastle into the playing side most people would like to see. But he will succeed at the things he's good at.

     

    Thanks for reading. *puh*

     

    Well said imo.

     

    In terms of entertainment, which is what we would all hope for, Sam's unlikely to deliver - short or long term. I believe the majority of the current negativity has come about from that realisation. In the summer everyone was on a high, the majority at least. Gone was the old regime, new owners and a new manager - positive transformations were the order of all expectations.

     

    It's the football that has crashed everyone back to earth. There would be nowhere near the amount of negativity if we had just a few more points on board from watching good games.

     

    People sometimes refer to Sam's "previous success". What he actually did was an OK/decent job at a small Premiership team.

    However with the exception of Keegan and SBR the football we've played this season is about as good or bad as anything else we've served up in the top flight since the sixties. Joe Harvey and Cox had their moments - but mainly in the second tier.

     

    Sam's got the job right now so I'll support him. If a new Keegan or Sir Bobby exists and would come to us for the right reasons then I'd support them too.

     

    Thank you GypsyKing for reading my post:)

     

    Benwell Lad: Thanks for replying. Well... you said : People sometimes refer to Sam's "previous success". What he actually did was an OK/decent job at a small Premiership team.

     

    People doesn't only sometimes do this. People do it all the time. It's been done in another thread were people rated his successors based on their CVs and previous achievements. It's done on a daily basis in the business world too. If I were to appoint you, I would judge you based on what you have achieved in the past, right?

     

    You are probably right about the way we play, with exception of Keegan and Robson - however, I'm concerned about Sam's long-term plan and style of play.

  11. Thank you for a somewhat long and constructive post. Always nice to see good old loyal fans around. I can't defend other people's views and opinions, but I can tell you mine. Being a foreigner, coming from Norway, I started to support Newcastle because Alan Shearer signed for you. Back in 1994 when he was playing for Blackburn, his side went to Norway during the summer to play against the Norwegian side Vaalerenga (Vålerenga). This was actually a big attraction of the famous Norway Cup, which is played every year at Ekebergsletta close to Oslo. I was lucky enough to personally shake his hand, and talk to him for a couple of minutes after the game. Later on that evening, at the age of 10 (still not knowing what EPL was), I were to decide which team to support in England. The final choice became Alan Shearer and Blackburn, with Man Utd on a good second place (Man Utd does not have a place anymore ;) ) The rest, well.. it's history..

     

    I've never been in Newcastle, never seen a live game, but I see almost every match the team is playing on TV ... the rest I pick up from internet forums and news....My best moment's got to be the Kelloggs commercial with Keegan and Newcasle :lol:, and the worst is sacking Sir Bobby Robson (so ashamed) :-[.

    After the takeover, I honestly expected us to do what other takeover-clubs do (like man city and my "Swedish  neighbour" Sven Göran) buy and transform the club - totally. Some part of me actually expected us to do a Chelsea - which today would have suited me well. But that didn't happen.

     

    Instead we were going another way, buy clever and buy long-term, now... how can any of you say we have done that? Yes, we have 2-3 good signings this summer (faye, beye and enrique), but it's this 'other way' I don't understand. I don't think Man City has just splashed the cash playing Russian Rullette - Sven Göran has proven he can rebuild a club given just part of the summer (even coming in later than Allardyce).

     

    Futher, one can draw a comparsion between Sam Allardyce and Joey Barton with the headline : You get what you pay for. Most Newcastle fans want attacking (almost gung-ho) football with fast, technical players dribbling the oppositions butt off in true Asprilla style - Allardyce does not have such a working philosophy. You clearly see that from the players he have brought in (trying to stabilize - yes  but not aiming to play attracting and attacking football). Moving over to Joey Barton believing he would stay out of trouble was nothing but hope, you think Vinny Jones would turn into a good boy if we brought him from Wimbledon? Nope, again, you gt what you pay for.

     

    I'm pretty undecided as to wether Sam is the man to turn things around. I have no doubt what so ever that he is a very very good manager, and that he can handle pressure. In fact he, as anyone else, can be successful. And I think he will turn things around at our club given time, but he will do it the way he is confident of doing it - and that's where my uncertainty about Sam really is. I don't want us to play boring football with long balls (In true Egil "Drillo" Olsen style) Hoofing the ball up to a tiny Oba Martins and an unfit Owen, who both clearly aren't shaped to reach the "Crouch height", and then hope for the best - or look at it another way : So Sam can later on comment on SSN - "We pumped the ball up, unfortunatley Martins and Owen weren't there to get it, but we defended well and just conceeded / didn't conceed". My point is - you get what you pay for and people do their job in accordance to their abilities, their experience - in short they way they are confident of doing it. Just the way you do our every-day-job, right ? You do it the way you know it worked yesterday.

     

    People here complain about the way we are playing, the way things have turned since the summer - it's a transformation - a transformation into the Allardyce style (see above - the way he knows he has succeeded in the past). And I think that the players we see that don't play well, is the players that will leave sooner or later. Not because they aren't playing well, but because they can't adapt to Sam's style.

     

    So will a different, and maybe more reputated manager, do any better? Well, for once, if *he get the financial backup needed, and in truth that's expected from Ashley. Maybe. We might build ourself a team of stars.

    Will we see a different style of play? Certainly.

    Are we guaranteed success? Not at all. But logically speaking - a more reputated manager will have greater experience handling different aspects and his successess in the past should give him a better chance of succeeding now.

     

    *he and him = referring to a new manager.

     

    In other words, I highly doubt Sam Allardyce is the man to turn Newcastle into the playing side most people would like to see. But he will succeed at the things he's good at.

     

    Thanks for reading. *puh*

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