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How legit? No idea tbh. I've been told by someone who's a mate of Paul Kemsley that Newcastle are seriously interested in appointing Fatih Terim. And that is about it. Don't know if he is your #1 choice or whether he is at all interested in taking over, but if he says that Newcastle are interested, then I believe that, hence my £20. FWIW, I don't think Newcastle under the current regime deserve a good manager. How they treated KK is about as shabby as it gets. I'm assuming in your view then Spurs deserved Howard fecking Wilkinson after what they did to your namesake?

Has anyone mentioned Ketsbaia?! If not, there's probably a valid reason, but with people throwing Steve Bruce in the mix...

Can´t really understand your fear of that! I really do admire wenger and what he´s done at arsenal. they play beautiful football have a young squad and dont pay silly wages like us and end up with overpaid useless players like smith. And he still buy "expensive" good attractive players nasri. can´t see there problem......though i know we are at least 5-10 years behind. If we follow the identical model, great, but do we have a Wenger to do that? As i said, my fear is of us being a second rate version - not able to attract the cream of the crop and settling for second best, leaving us in mid table obscurity, selling our best players as soon as they show some form and not challenging again. Even Arsenal, with Wenger, have failed to win anything for a few years. What he does is admirable and one league win for them is worth 5 Chelski wins in my opinion, but it seems now they can no longer compete. Watch chance do we have without Wenger, London and being years behind?

This is my biggest fear. I hope it's not the case, but if we turn into a low-rent Arsenal, bringing youth players through without the lure of the capital / recent history Arsenal have so getting slightly worse players, then selling them on i'll be gutted. Not sure i could take us being turned into some kind of football farm. As i say though, i'm hoping that's not the case. The problem is I'm just unwilling to trust Ashley any more. That exclusive interview he gave turned out to be a pack of lies. So I've got no idea as to what he wants this club to become. Agreed

This is my biggest fear. I hope it's not the case, but if we turn into a low-rent Arsenal, bringing youth players through without the lure of the capital / recent history Arsenal have so getting slightly worse players, then selling them on i'll be gutted. Not sure i could take us being turned into some kind of football farm. As i say though, i'm hoping that's not the case.

He's accomplished much here both as a player and a manager. Revolutionised the club during his first spell as manager, *and re-educated the team as to how to play football the right way during his brief second spell. *His influence over the closing stages of last season saved us from the relegation axe, and with this Mr Ashley's 'investment' was also kept afloat. *In essence this is my response to Baggio's thoughts 'that during his latest managerial spell KK has done nothing which is deserving of appreciation etc'. Keegan owes Mr Ashley nothing, likewise he doesn't owe us/the supporters anything either - especially the wankers who are drumming up this 'he's left us in the s**** for a second time' line. My sentiments about Keegan's departure. My respect for him - as a manager - would've diminished fractionally if he'd stayed while having his strings pulled by a set of puppeteers who deem themselves to be more important football-related figures than the manager. No manager, and he is 'old school, with any sense of professional integrity will just sit back while having their power to manage compromised ie. at the front-office level: transfer activity & coaching staff acquistions/dismissals. Keegan has walked away from an unambitious w***** in the form Ashley. He wants what's best for the club, he always has and his ability to take the club forward. He shouldn't be weighed down by the sort of lack of ambition not seen since McKeag's reign imo, when the latter funnelled off our best players. I refer to the board in the final hours of the transfer window and their attempt to flog/sell-off players currently in Keegan's 1st team frame, Owen in particular. He's walked away with his professional integrity intact and fair play to him. However for Newcastle-Upon-Thames it's a different kettle of fish. And from which source did you get the bit in bold which seems to be the basis for your assumption on the board? I think if we are to cast aside assumptions and only deal with fact we won't have anything left to post!

We'll find out. If Keegan stays quiet and we don't find out what happened, I agree

I just don't understand how it could be Zola... He has nil experience, no links to Newcastle (bar the dwarf) and no outstanding credentials that i can think of. Still prefer him to O'Leary mind, i think that would actually end my interest in football altogether.

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Idiot. Is that not exactly what has happened like? I understand people have different views like, but i don't see the need to push your views in everyone's face in a thread like this in the way Baggio is. Why not stick to the main KK thread or one of the millions others, rather than one that are people paying a few tributes to a guy who, up until the beginning of this week, we'd have all agreed is a legend of the club? It's smacks of wummery and trying to stir shit? We get the message, Baggio thinks KK fucked us over, we don't all agree, why argue about it in every thread? May as well stick something in here about the old board being better than the new and be done with it. Don't mean to have a go but it's been a shit few days for people, lets have a bit of respect for each other. I'm not arguing about it, this is the first comment I've posted in this thread since posting that. It seems you are only interested in views similar to your own. Ok dude, if it makes you happy to believe that you go for it, it just gets a bit tedious in my view reading a load of threads that tail off in exactly the same direction... I'm more than happy to sit and argue about it (actually, in this circumstance i'm not, as we all have our own views and without the facts it's a waste of time arguing something none of us can prove) but just think this ain't the best place for it. Fair play though, didn't realise you had only posted the once, should have paid more attention, darting between threads trying to read everything as been offline for a couple of hours. Apologies

Idiot. Is that not exactly what has happened like? I understand people have different views like, but i don't see the need to push your views in everyone's face in a thread like this in the way Baggio is. Why not stick to the main KK thread or one of the millions others, rather than one that are people paying a few tributes to a guy who, up until the beginning of this week, we'd have all agreed is a legend of the club? It's smacks of wummery and trying to stir shit? We get the message, Baggio thinks KK fucked us over, we don't all agree, why argue about it in every thread? May as well stick something in here about the old board being better than the new and be done with it. Don't mean to have a go but it's been a shit few days for people, lets have a bit of respect for each other.

Those fuckers in the background smiling are really boiling my piss. I hope they get a fucking kicking at school tomorrow

Yep, I'm waiting for news that they haven't been granted permission to build an extension to the ground so they need to build a new stadium in London and are being renamed the NU Lons

Even .com are listening to proposals for some kind of protest. This is fucking ridiculous, i honestly don't know what to do next, i'm numb

Yeah, sorry, i find it very hard to be anything but seriously pissed off with those in charge at the club. Keegan obviously said he wanted control, they said no, they can fuck off. They should have given him the chance, they must have fucking promised him he would have control, then if it had gone wrong fine, kick him out, but to force him out 3 games into a season is stupid beyond belief. More than anything it's a MASSIVE fuck you to the fans - we don't care what you think we'll do what we want. Well, bollocks to them, i'm not going to be reasoned about it, i want whoever is responsible to get out our club. Bring on Reliance, or anyone else for that matter.

I had a couple of pints at lunch, not sure how this afternoon is going to work out. Does that mean you are NUFC's Chief Communications Officer ? If I had been drinking pints of aftershave, yes I might just set myself up as [email protected] and email SSN and mail them saying Keegan has demanded Terry Mac as Chairman and see if they yellow ticker it, honestly wouldn't be surprised.

I had a couple of pints at lunch, not sure how this afternoon is going to work out.

Lets hope it works.

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Pretty sure we know the answer (at least) 90% of people on here would give that. You can pick whatever holes you like, there's something special about the guy and we just have to keep him

has anyone said that ? It's the impression i seem to get - people saying they were happy with the signings before all this kicked off so we shouldn't get rid of Wise seems to imply they feel he is linked to these transfers... He may have dealt with some of the negotiation but i'm pretty confident someone else (Keegan) could do a lot of that...

Vetere and Jiminez are the important ones here. I think it's pretty obvious they were the people who identified these targets, not Wise, so all those saying if we lose Wise we lose the ability to bring those players in seem to be jumping the gun. If losing Wise means we lose the other 2, then we have a problem, otherwise we're laughing. Another thing was Ashley explicitly stated Wise's remit was to bring in 6 under 17 players a year and he had nothing to do with the first team. If Wise is sacked / leaves i think it's safe to assume Ashley was lying to us all.

http://blog.i2fly.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/india-mobile.jpg I could live with it Probably a big tub of Lonsdale boxers on her head...

I think that Keegan and Ashley decided they needed to generate a warchest for next transfer window and heard Curbs could be on his way out. Few well placed rumours, Keegan surefire to leave, lay a load of cash on Betfair, Curbishley out as far as 30 or 40 - 1, stick down a million of fat mike's wad and there we go, tens of millions for Keegan to spend in Jan, at no cost to the club, whilst any loyal fans keeping faith and betting for the club were rewarded too. Win win. Case closed, lock the Keegan still manager thread.

No one actually knows if any of that is the case though!