McCormick

eh? He's joking des

Wait one gosh-darn minute here, WE are saying no to HIM? Only a year and a half ago he was widely considered the best striker in the world, questionable ego perhaps, but we shouldn't be scoffing at a player of his immense talent. All pointless really though seeing as its never going to happen.

What a fucking piece of shit you are. Here here

Wouldn't come here, sadly

What makes you say that? His piece in the Observer Sport Monthly today goes on about how he likes his manager to be a disciplinarian and that a manager should be like a school teacher. 'You need leadership from your manager, players have to be controlled, if they're not it's a disaster. Look at Newcastle.' He obviously hasn't got a fucking clue about what really happens up here. What a bellend.

awesome how long did that take you?

4 times? Just goes to show that everybody has at least one thing they're good at.

Looks really unsettled atm, *sigh* you know its a sign we're doing well again when the media start spreading rumours of our best players being unhappy. Just yawn and move on lads

Nobody's answered the question? Kel loves orange soda

Get used to it, he's a striker! Strikers can't set up their teammates? The best ones have vision to pass as well as an eye for goal. fuck off idiot. get a life man. Calm down mate, we're winning

Great half lads, doing us all proud

whaaat a goal owwwwen!

Owen always seems to miss those

Impressed with enriques crossing

GET THE FUUCK IN.... lalalalalala Martins you beauty!

oster you cheeky twat

From the NOTBBC site. http://www.notbbc.co.uk/forums/f=unufc ‘'Reading I fear them NOT! Come to SJP little shitty Reading and be afraid. Be afraid you nobodies. We are on the first page of a new chapter. NUFC is safe and in good hands and football is entertainment again.’ ‘I predict we'll score 7. Just like the good ol' days.’ ‘This is going to be a massacre. Reading will slope off home as vanquished shadows on Saturday night wishing they could change sports to synchronised yoga. Poor old plaster casted John Madejski will be so depressed he will put the team bus up for sale in Auto Trader and make them play in the Slough league where they can walk to matches. Our players will enter the arena hungry for blood. If I was a Reading player I would be crying off with a cold and hiding behind the sofa. BRING IT ON!''

I know everyone thinks their club is the best but come on, get real please. It's not 1996, there is nothing special to an outsider about Newcastle United these days. I have to agree. What glamour? What mystique? This is not the mid 90s any more. Bentley would have been, what, 10 years old then? Footballers these days just want to play at the highest level. If you're not in the CL, there's a f****** huge gap to bridge. The only club outside the top four with a chance of signing him, imho, is Spurs, and that is because they are in London, which is more of a factor these days than it was before. And that's still asking him to put his faith in a club which is struggling to break the top half of the table, let alone the Champions League. Mock all you want but I still stand by the statement that Newcastle United is a bigger pull than the likes of Villa or Everton. We still have that Mystique, whether you like it or not, that your clubs just can't match. The media is actually a good barometer for this. TBH the goings on at Villa or Everton hardly register on the interest level but when the tea lady at NUFC sneezes there's a story written about it. Did Milner almost go to Villa as a step up ? What about Nobby's remarks when he returned, having been at both clubs he knew damn fine which one was the bigger. Arteta's complaing in the papers today that he would be in the Spain squad if he played for a bigger club. Spurs are the only team outside the top four that is a bigger draw than us at the moment. Most people inside and outside of football reguard the likes of Villa and Everton as also rans, they are not in the foreseeable future going to challenge for the major honours. While the likes of Spurs and ourselves have the potential under the right circumstances to break the top 4 dominance. Villa and Everton are very much "so what" clubs in my mind. That may sound condersending but I really don't give a damn what happens to them unfortunately for you guys my feeling is not uncommon. Leaving out any previous support for their club and assuming both clubs are in Europe or not in Europe, the player has no preference for which manager he plays for or area he lives in and the same assurances have been given on first team football. Do you honestly think most players would choose Villa or Everton over Newcastle ? I seriously doubt that would be the case, in fact I would be a little embarrased if I were a supporter of one of those clubs that despite NUFC atrocious form over the last few seasons and the upturn in form shown my own team, that my club still can not out draw them !! Mystique? Bollocks, the reason we've been in the press more than the likes of villa and everton is because of our laughable instability as a club. Being newsworthy isn't enough to draw a player like bentley to us, the media have moulded us into almost a laughing stock and to wrecklessly say we have a bigger pull than clubs like villa and everton (both of which have extremely competent mangers, good fanbases plus financial backing aswell.. not to mention being exponentially more stable and garnering higher league finishes for years on end now) based on a certain 'je-ne-sais-qua' is just you bringing your own biases into the equation. Lets face it, we're not scrapping with the mancs for the trophy, and yes we're on the up but we need at least a season to prove to the those outside of newcastle that we ARE a major force again, because quite frankly we aren't and haven't been for a long long time. If we get on a good run and put on a showcase of exciting football then the chances of a player of bentley's calibre sitting up and taking notice are less slim, but without doing that we simply don't have more of an allure than those other clubs you mentioned.

Mine usually does, but thats because the lass cant take more than a few bites without feeling like a porker

new... cant wait til he's allowed to start threads

DC: ferdinand, king, woodgate, vidic, carvalio. MC: gerrard, fabregas, essien, ballack, scholes FW: torres, anelka, rooney, berbatov and then id say adabayor is on par with drogba Woodgate better than Terry, Berbatov better than Drogba... Now I get it, you're kingdawson in disguise aren't you? good joke,i hate spurs, but i can admitt when they have good players, woodgate has class. something terry doesnt have. all terry does is throw himself at the ball. as for berbatov i dont think you can really argue with me as its a pretty close call, its not as if im saying someone shit like ashton is better than drogba who's gonna be first?

and what are you on about. all ive said is that hes overrated i havnt said hes rubbish or anything You're entitled to your opinion. If you genuinely think he's over-rated then fair enough. Millions of people disagree with you. millions of people think lampard is world class when that clearly isnt the case I think lampard is reasonably overrated myself

in his dreams a bit late with my 'edit'

Actually i'v always thought that, apart from his diving, drogba is a striker in the same mould as Shearer. Edit: before anyone says anything, i'm not saying he's as good as shearer was, just his general style of play reminds me of how the man himself used to do it