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He would be in discussions wouldn't he?

I thought when Barton was getting stick on Saturday from the Arsenal fans and it panned in on MA the look on his face said "I'm not having him a moment longer at this club" - Bloody Barton and bloody Sam Allardyce for buying him. Having said that it sounds like KK was teetering anyway (if he has gone). Disastersville.

Big hitters would have more than 200 to splash

What's the betting looking like? That's usually a good indication. Insiders making themselves rich on our misery.

Today's Daily Mail as well. It must definitely be true then

Alan "tosspot" Oliver is saying that Everton have made a last ditch move for him. Well considering it's taken six months for "his people" to get this far with talks with us it would surely take longer than hours to have a deal and dusted with Everton or anyone - and would they pay him what we pay him?

I think we'll end up with a siege mentality and he'll be cheered at SJP, especially if the away fans start booing his every move.

When we played Frankfurt a couple of years ago I stood beside a bunch of knuckle draggers (our fans) who called Emre a Turkish c***, Martins a hopeless N***** twat and kept directing their chants at a woman (NUFC fan) who was Asian and the word "PAKI" was used in her direction. That puzzled me more than anything as she was obviously Chinese. As there was one of me and six of them I took the coward's way out and moved into an empty seat six rows to the front. I got the impression from their charva conversation they were Army wallahs, obviously stationed in Germany. It saddened me more than anythign and still does when I think of it.

The thing that I find a bit scary is that it's all so Big Brother like (NOT the reality show), the media say "We hate Barton" so the sheep in every crowd will boo him endlessly. If he played (for example) Sunderland and Roy Keane had announced he was backing him the media would say "Oh isn't Keane wonderful he's giving him a second chance" and the crowds would act accordingly and not boo him as much. Hitler found out he could manipulate the crowds because he knew people are so much like sheep it's possible to sway at least 90% of them. It shows for me that Keegan is a man of high principle and is not scared to take difficult decisions. For people like Pygmy Craig Burley to virtually call him a liar like he did on Saturday really sticks in my craw. I wouldn't say cheer JB for the sake of it but I'm sure it would disappoint KK greatly if Barton got roundly booed at SJP.

Put it this way - if he'd signed for Man U he'd be the best defender ever to wear a football strip. :colo:

"Geordie mob BEYES outside journo's house"

Yes but a good example is Ashley giving that interview at the weekend. They can't find anything in it they can give a negative spin to so they just completely ignore it. Keane is an ex Man U captain so that labels him a saint, just the same as Smith is ex Man U and he can't be anything else than a fantastic footballer. It's obviously Keegan's fault that he's turned into a shite footballer. Ferguson played him in midfield as a clever experiment, Keegan played him in midfield because he has no tactical nous whatsoever. And so on and so on. The only way to shut them up is to start winning games, of course that would be labelled a flash in the pan as well. We're never going to win the media war, we just stand together behind the barracades and stick two fingers up at them.

Do you really think anyone will pay him what we're paying him? The top 4 obviously aren't interested, if Spurs really want him are they going to pay him even 80k a week? I doubt it. I think the delay is due to him waiting to see whether any club will take him and pay him what he thinks he's worth. If no-one comes in for him he'll be busting a gut to have a few good months till January, if he does someone might pick him up then.

My guess is that if they can't find a negative spin on it the papers will simply ignore this interview. So be it, as long as we know what he's thinking, stuff em.

Strange story on NewsNow saying Man U are about to sign Henry in time to play us nxt Sunday and they are willing to pay 20 million for him. WTF?

You're obviously having a laugh. Apart from fouling people he does nowt, we'd be getting a new Smith who plays in midfield.

Please god may this be true. He fits right in with his charva black Range Rover and pink wheels.

It says on Wikipedia he signed for us on 6 August. It must be true then.

What do they expect Keegan to say? "Oh yes Smith is the worst player I've ever seen and I'm selling him" - as for the not knowing about Coloccini - why was he talking about it in Mallorca if he didn't know owt about it? What crime has he committed that the press hate him so much? Is it because they know he couldn't give a toss about what they say?

That esteemed organ the Daily Star.

Mostly thankful, lots of dread. <i>I know</i> he's going to score on us. He'll score one goal all year and it'll be a screamer past Shay. Then his previous shitness will be our fault. But it will be worth it to just ged rid of him.

threw sir bobby's faith in him back in his face by being a t*** about being asked to play on the wing and chucked the captain's armband on the floor iirc. sir bobby wanted to make him vice captain with a view of taking over from big al. dyer also - - - dodgy video's with lampard, out on the piss in town too much for a pro footballer, crashing his porsche into the swing bridge... Don't forget chucking out tenners from his car as he drove along the quayside, total tosser.

Surely buying Nugent would just be replacing one dud for another. If he isn't good enough for Pompey why would we want him?

Here to help.... And to push up the page count.

One of those translations "Coloccini: "I would like to say good-bye of the fondness as corresponds" The head office was given a beating in Abegondo and today or tomorrow will pass medical exam in Newcastle Author: Alfonso Andrade Date of publication: 4/8/2008 To the acquisition of Fabricio Coloccini by the Newcastle lacks alone the firm, but to the closing of this edition the transfer not yet was an official. By being still footballer of the Sports one, the international one Argentine left behind its family weekend in Majorca and he returned to be coached in the afternoon in Abegondo, where an authentic beating in company of them was given ruled out and injured of the joint one coruñés: Aouate, Pablo I Love, Rodri, Adrián López, Jairo and Taborda. Stayed away Munúa, with permission of the club. After a session of exercises and careers to the orders of the physical coach José Angel Franganillo, and of an endless party of futvóley with Adrián López, the head office explained its presence in the sports complex when many situated it already in English lands. "I came to coach me to Abegondo because the clubs not yet finished to sign and wanted to move me also a little for lose not the rhythm of training", commented. Later it recognized that in brief will pass review with the English doctors. "They have to confirm it me now, after the training, but tomorrow or past -for the present Tuesday or tomorrow Wednesday- I will pass recognition in Newcastle, but we are waiting for that the two clubs finish its agreements, because they remain pending details, so I do not want to speak a lot since this is not finished". The prudence of its statements contrasts with its warm hug to one of the employees of the club before being withdrawn to the wardrobe. A gesture that sounded unmistakably to farewell. But the Argentine head office is reserved another, very special, for the fan of the Sports one. "The day that this be finished and all be signed i would like to say good-bye of the fondness as corresponds, but when be the moment, when be all resolved. Now -it continues with conviction- what I want is that be finished as soon as possible, and alone later to say good-bye, but for now I prefer to be tranquil and a little to the margin. When he be done do not I know if some days will give me to come here, and if I will not say good-bye through the press", summarized with uncertainty. A millionaire salary It speculated besides with the possibility that Coloccini was left to see yesterday or today by the plaza of Pontevedra, but the own footballer rules out that possibility: "With the Sports one I have all fixed, correct, so I need to go for nothing by the club. The unique thing that would have that to sign would be in Newcastle". The agreement among the clubs was summarized last week and has been confirmed by the own Sports one. Have not transcended for now the final figures of the transfer, but round the 11.5 million euro, with another million more by objectives. The footballer will pass to charge, as confirmed their representative, two times and average more than in the Sports one. This is, around 2.5 million euro by each one of the five seasons that even in the Newcastle, where will be to the orders of a myth of the English soccer, Kevin Keegan.