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Are they playing with fire tho if they do that. I mean they could nip this whole KK thing in the bud from the off by going in a different direction. Agree but its our own fualt, they way we all raved about KK and the kick off when he left. Any new buyer will think its what every fan wants and that he is the only man for the job. I suppose one thing if he did come back we would be safe this season, we missed the KK team talk on Saturday. Aye missed that team talk. I just feel the possible new owners would have looked at the KK situation and thought "fck that, he has way to much power and influance" Not really, if the new owners make it clear from the start that Keegan has the only say on who comes and goes and stick to their word on how much money he has avalible to him, then everyone will know the buck stops with Keegan and if things go wrong there's no else to blame.

Again IF this is remotely true, this man lost 300m on a BET, but refuses to negotiate in the region of 100-150m (depending what you read) for the sale of the club. Yeah right Ashley, the best intrests of the Toon at heart. Bollocks.

BUT - he doesn't want (or intend) to sell - unless a 'silly' offer comes in. He is hell-bent on revenge against us . . . and he knows EXACTLY how to do that. Just watch. yeah, us getting relegated and looking a farce like this is really in his interests, as the value of the club will soar that way. oh wait.... Aye, i agree that us getting relegated is surely not in his best intrests. But by asking for silly money that he's never going to get, not much chance of getting a decent manager in under the present circumstances, and not strengthening the already thin squad when he could doesn't look like a recipe for success either though. So i can see where a lot of people are coming from.

A lot of what Ashley say's has proven to be lies (Keegan has final say over wise then the board saying this was never the case and Keegan knew it ect). But now a lot of people are willing to believe anything he says over Keegan who we have no reason not to believe. Unbelivable!!

When was his family threatened?

Whilst i agree that in the long run the club has to be run more efficently, such as improving our scouting system and academy and such. But also in the short term we had to have a sizable investment in the first team. We we're lucky last year not to be dragged into a serious relagation scrap and this year our squad is smaller while a lot of teams have improved. I feel as though all this sustainable club thing is just a convienient excuse for Ashley not to invest in the first team therefore improving his profit margin when he (as he has always intended to) sells up. It IS the right way to go about running a club, but when the first team is in dire need of investment you cannot dice with the threat of relegation hoping that in 4-5 years time our scouting system will have uncovered some players for the first team. Ashley knows this, and also knowing that to make a serious impact (and therefore increase the clubs value) in the league, he will have to invest a LOT of money into the first team squad. So in my opinion he has went for the cheaper option of trying to make the club look more appealing behind the scenes and trying for a quicker sale before we are in serious threat of relegation, and therefore less attractive. This is what he's been planning all along, it's just happened quicker than he expected with all the protests. If he was as traumatised as he says he is then lets see how much he accepts for the club, a small but not to shabby profit or hold out out for a ridiculous amount that has been reported in the papers.

I'm sorry but i can only think of one word for everything that's going on at the Toon (on the pitch and off it). DISGRACEFUL.

Sunday Sun (i know, i know) are reporting Ashley wants £450 million, nearly double what he's put up, for the Toon. IF this is true, then there's you're answer why people have enquired but then pulled out of a deal. I think it's a fucking disgrace that he can ask (if he is) for that much when any new owner if wanting champions league asperations is going to have to plough anywhere from £75-£150 million (maybe even more) into the team.

I don't really know what i want yet. On the one hand, if we appoint a manager within the next week, i can't see Ashley selling up in the foreseable future because as it's been said the new regime will no doubt want their own man put in place. BUT.... if Ashley's not selling up then i think we could do a lot worse than Zico. He seems to tick a lot of the boxes that the club seem to want (high profile, used to working within the clubs current structure, i would like to think experienced (not Poyet!)). Maybe i'm just being pesamistic here (that's what supporting this team for well over 30 years does for you), but i just have a bad feeling that this will all end in tears again i.e. Ashley staying on not putting much money into team rebuilding and us getting Poyet then having to make do with a mid-table finish year in year out. Or worse still, let's be realistic, possible relagation fights. I desperately need something to cheer me up like.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!! is going on with the club? Will there ever be a season (or even a month) that goes by without something happening that makes us the laughing stock of football!!

Like it's been said before, the timing is shite, but as long as the club take a stand and ask for silly money (like Villa are for Barry) and get a good replacment in, then i won't be to bothered. On the other hand, if they don't get anybody in.....

The problem we've got with the Barton situation is, we've got a paper thin squad to chose from already and it doesn't look like we've the greatest amounts of cash to flutter away on new signings. The bottom line as i see it is that we can't afford to sack him, and that's the real reason.

This coming from the paper that "exclusivley" brought us the "toon sacked Joey Barton last night" story. Yeah rightio mate.... i wouldn't bother wiping me arse with that rag.

...as it is wildly expected, KK reverts to a 442 next season (433 being a stop gap to pull us out of the shit). And he's looking for someone to take over Viduka's role as target man. Who will partner our new striker? Will Martins have to be happy with a super sub role? Or will KK ship out Owen for a nominal fee? OR.... will he play Owen at the tip of a diamond formation midfield? Not saying any of this will happen obviously, just wondering what peoples thoughts are on the matter.

In an ideal world i would love KK to unearth a player in the Sir Les mould - quick, powerful and good in the air. But then again... what's the chances eh?

Desperate last ramblings of a condemned man.

Spot on. If, as it was reported, some people booed Owen on the pitch, they are going to end up driving him out. And in turn end up playing right into the hands of the southern press. Can people not see that like it say's in the article the press will not be happy until he's playing for one of the teams of the moment. Aye that's a good idea, let's drive out our world class forward (sorry, head and shoulders above Martin's in terms of end product) because we read that we sould in the paper.

Eh???!!!?

I don't understand this, with an injury of this sort either the bones healed or it hasn't. Surely it must just be a case of match fitness he needs. Where's the harm in putting him on the bench for say the Spurs game and giving him 15 mins?

Yet another example of southern journalists trying to unsettle our club. Honestly I don't think they could have been happier than if the club had folded in the summer. This is a pathetic attempt to create some scandal, where if fact, it's all old news. This happened about ten years ago for fucks sake. And the club was under different ownership than it is now. It's like the papers coming up with a front page scandal about BSB before Sky bought it out and trying imply that Sky are now in some way responsible. Would they be responsible... of course they wouldn't. But the press loves to imply (without going to far) the the club are still now at fault. Wankers!

Any news on his injury? Also is he ever going to play for more than a game or two without getting injured? I'm only saying this because I think the blokes a class above. If we can get him playing constantly and in the right system he will be the bargain of the season. In my opinion he works better in 4-4-2 with the midfield bombing past him and little man buzzing around him for his flicks. IF we get most of our players fit then Sam needs to play 4-4-2 because as I said in a different thread at the moment we just don't have the personnel to play 4-3-3 effectively.

To be honest, I think this result shows that we haven't the personnel to play 4-3-3 effectively.

Emre could have come on. Jose Enrique could have come on to allow Zog to move up the pitch. Two options that should have been used a good 30 mins earlier, if not from the start. Aye, can't argue with you on that mate.

To be honest I thought we did well in the first half, but were second best in the second. I would rather have seen us convert to 4-4-2 after their goal as the 4-3-3 system isn't (in our case) good for when you're chasing the game. Enrique needs to start to allow N'Zogbia to play on the left, I thought Taylor had a bad game as did all of our midfield three. Martins did nothing in the second half apart from give the ball away, and I thing Sam's got a lot of thinking to do about the centreback pairing. He needs to pick what he thinks is his best pairing and stick with them. Overall i'm devestated about the result, not in the "Sam's shite" "sell ..... whoever" way, but hopefully this will give the players (and manager) a clearer view of where we are in terms of developing the team. Still, it's ruined my fucking Saturday.

Imagine the stadium the same height all the way around, then somehow we manage to incorporate a retractable roof. Imagine the noise generated through the roof keeping it all in.