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if we stay up we should try to get Fernando Llorente or Senturk.

John Simpson, the BBC News foreign affairs reporter.

it would just be a slightly better looking version of

I want Barca to win but on the plus side if Man U do win, at least it will mean another medal for Giggs (the legend).

That's what I thought last season when Keegan fought to keep us up. We all know how that played out. aye but it would be boring to do the same thing again and we know nufc isn't boring. True. I was just making the point that, last season I thought "All we need is to survive this season, a new season with a sensible manager that knows the game (a.k.a. Keegan), and we can rebuild the right way". The wheels came off that after two games. I doubt we'd have the same problem again though. Shearer wouldn't desert us

I agree, Ameobi would surely be prolific in something like the Luxembourg third tier

ohh so Boro have been intentionally bad this season so Southgate wouldn't be bored come May. And there was me thinking he's just a shit manager.

he just looks gormless.

who has a more miserable face - Gerrard or N'Zogbia?

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he's not an average footballer when he puts his mind to it. When he was at City in the 06/07 season he looked really good and practically kept them up on his own. If he'd just stop being such a prick he'd be a very highly regarded player, that's the annoying thing. He'll never change though.

"amid the fall-out from his imprisonment for assaulting Ousmane Dabo, one of his Manchester City team-mates at the time, in training." Total bollocks, Barton was jailed for beating up a kid in Liverpool and the Dabo case didn't get to court until almost the end of his sentence for the original offence. What do these f***ing journos get paid for? Lazy twats! tbf it is quite hard to keep up with who Barton's been beating up and when.

shame. If it didn't have the sponsor or white panel on the back it would be the best looking kit ever!

looks beautiful without the sponsor.

but you know all the press will want to talk about now is Barton, rather than our fight for survival.

"I'd try to keep LuaLua and get rid of Ameobi" we should have done the same a few years back

Smith's played quite well these last few games tbf.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the "challenge" just confirmed, incase there was any lingering doubt, that Barton is infact a psycho. Why would anyone sign him now though? He's on big wages and has more baggage than terminal 5.

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the thing is he'll probably be quite hard to sell. Maybe someone like Wolves will take a chance on him.

sad to think he'd have probably developed even more this season if he had Abdoulaye Faye partnering him.

very underrated player and a Newcastle fan Is he actually?! He was brilliant today, really, really good. think so, unless FM's lying to me.

the frustrating thing is he could just have easily been the player to spearhead our survival and play a major part in keeping us up. What a waste.

very underrated player and a Newcastle fan