Parsley

I'm sorry, who? Next year's best Premiership defender... after Shittu. Well, hopefully we'll still be around to see him in action firsthand. He was at Sheffield Utd last season so chances are you've probably already seen him

Bollocks, the start Keegan's had was always an impossible task. He's been left in a position where he has to inspire players simply to bring them up to the level of being s*** and on top of that he's had to play three games against and Manure. Obviously if you weren't this depressed under Allardyce then you were one of the people who didn't see our current predicament coming from a mile off, a predicament created by the fat c*** himself.. We just need to somehow find the results needed to stay up. After that Keegan can go out and replace some of the s*** currently infesting our side and we can kick on from there.

Very well? In what way? Turning a defender then kicking it out of play? Off the ball hes great, but on the ball hes only good at attacking the fullback high up the pitch. Everything else - contributing to the build up, passing and moving, picking players out, etc, hes piss poor at (remember Nobby? He was practically the opposite player, yet far better). And even being good at attacking the fullback is made useless when its followed up by a cross into the keeper's hands, over everyone's head, or straight into a defender. Got bored of counting the number of times moves broke down because of his inability to play a team game on the ball. Hes similar to Butt but not as obvious because he sees the ball less often. Very well in the way that he got an assist, his delivery from set-pieces regularly caused problems for United, he tracked back well and got on Evra's bad side plenty of times. Also his delivery was quite good today - certainly better than Zog's - but the lack of bodies in the box hardly helped. He can't be bad if Martin O'Neill was so eager to sign him and still is regretting that he missed out on him. It seems the guy can't do right by you lot.

He played very well today against one of the best full-backs in the league. In addition, he got Carling Player of the Month. If that doesn't deserve credit I don't know what does.

So did Smith in all fairness.

Why should Carroll play up front? Owen and Martins have barely played together - give them a bloody chance.

We were quite positive going forward imo but we don't have the defence to support it - Manure simply ripped through us on the counter-attack. Still, we got a goal and created a few good, legitimate chances. Milner and Duff were both standouts for me; Barton, Taylor and Faye were all awful. Still, the doommonging going on is unbelievable. The likes of Reading, Birmingham and Fulham are nowhere near as clinical or defensively astute as Man Utd and so why people suddenly feel that we are going down after almost inevitably losing completely astounds me.

Feyenoord 2 - 3 Newcastle Such a tight, well contested game and was a brilliant moment when Bellamy slid home the rebound to take us through to the next round of the ECL.

I thought Butt's had a good game so far - won almost every tackle he's gone in for and his passing's been alot better than usual. As for Keegan give him a fucking break - this sort of attitude is proving all those twats in the papers to be correct and he's had a very tough start as manager.

Such a good start too but Man Utd have just been too clinical. Still, this isn't over. Come on Toon!

I hope you're right

Tbf for Keegan he doesn't have alot of options in the centre midfield; Emre's out and granted Faye should play there but we need someone like him at the back as well. What does seriously worry me is the absence of Enrique and Viduka - Zog should be playing ahead of Jose and not behind Duff and Smith before Viduka is a fucking joke. Well, we'll see how things pan out I guess but at this moment in time I am honestly bricking myself.

He grabbed a couple of assists against Barca for what its worth.

Not what I heard. From BBC Sport:

They would make us pay through the nose for them. You could probably get Appiah and D'Allesandro for half as much. City hardly blew the bank for Benjani though, only £8 million or so I think once all extras have been paid, and seeing as he's been brilliant this season I don't see why Kranjcar or Muntari will cost much more. Benjani, despite having a good season, isn't actually that good though. He's 29 now and this is the first season he has a good goalscoring record, even in France he had an average record. Kranjcar and Muntari are much younger and much more talented. Ah fair enough, never realised they were both so young.

They would make us pay through the nose for them. You could probably get Appiah and D'Allesandro for half as much. City hardly blew the bank for Benjani though, only £8 million or so I think once all extras have been paid, and seeing as he's been brilliant this season I don't see why Kranjcar or Muntari will cost much more.

Muntari and/or Kranjcar would be sound purchases imo and would be attainable as well.

Didn't see any deflection From the last angle, the ball bounced below the defender's (Maicon I think) outstretched foot.

Why do you think he isn't playing (out of interest) Was injured against Arsenal in the Prem and Carr was likely given the nod against Villa because he's done ok as of late and Enrique may not have been fully fit. What about the period before the last 3 or 4 weeks though? Ask Allardyce - I'd have been happy to play him. Regardless, just because he wasn't playing doesn't go to suggest he's unsettled. Zog's reportedly unsettled at the moment and he still plays every week.

Why do you think he isn't playing (out of interest) Was injured against Arsenal in the Prem and Carr was likely given the nod against Villa because he's done ok as of late and Enrique may not have been fully fit.

We should not be signing any more Spaniards. Aye, that Arteta would be s*** too. We won't be getting Arteta So he's the only spanish player who isnt s***? Straw man argument No, but they don't seem to exactly settle in here do they. Arteta was used as a completely pointless example. He joined a club that many NUFC fans (incorrectly) see as being beneath us. And is ace. How many Spanish players have we had here who've done bad? Out of how many Spanish pro footballers? Personally, I like our odds of finding a decent one (assuming we tell Willie McKay we've moved house, and don't give him a forwarding address). As an extension of your argument, we wouldn't have signed Abdoulaye Faye or Beye, after our experience with Amady "Absolutely Cosksuckingly Awful" Faye. Paragraph 1 - He wasn't considered that good when they signed him. Fair play to them for picking him up. I'll say it again though, he'll not be coming here. Paragraph 2 - Every one we have signed Paragraph 3 - Another Straw Man argument. I'm talking about Spaniards, who typically don't settle in this region, or even country. How many spaniards have and have not settled in this country? I'm intrigued, as you have clearly done some research, if you can talk about "typical" behaviour. Enrique, Marcelino, Luque, Morientes for a start. Thats without trawling Liverpool's reserve side of the last 2-3 years mind. Enrique, imo, has been one of our better players as of yet and there's nothing to suggest that he's out of sorts with Newcastle so I'm a little unsure as to how you can come to the conclusion that he's unsettled.

Why? he plays for blackburn and this is a far, far bigger club with more potential and the ability to offer bigger wages. where we are in the table this season isn't that relevant. not to say we'd get him, but if we were the only side in for him i couldn't see him turning us down. They're a smaller team than us, certainly - we are an average sized club, they are not. More potential? More money, certainly, but lets not pretend we are anywhere fuckng nearrealising our "potential". Some fools thought Bramble, Dire, Shola et al had "potential" - but it didn't stop them being of very little value to us. But with a new, well established manager at the helm in the form of Keegan, there is arguably alot of promise for next season's campaign and I'm sure players such as Bentley could be swayed because of this. Are you? You think they'd take a backwards step in the hope that a manager (for whom they have no particularly positive feelings that we are aware of, and who has poven to be a pretty medicore manager since a brief moment of apparent genius at NUFC over a decade ago) will turn around a club that has not done anything for a long? Keegan is not well-established manager in the sense of being a great manager, so why woud a player like Bentley want to coem here, other than money? And if we accept that signing for the money is perfectly reasonable, i hope that we have the honesty to accept also that these players may well have more genuine feeling for their country than their club - because if we acccept the former and not the latter, we will be bigger c***s than Gasuso. I agree, Keegan's not particularly well established in terms of what he's achieved but he carries quite a strong reputation. He's held in quite high esteem among players that he's managed - Anelka being one example and so maybe this could act as an incentive in playing for Newcastle. I don't see why Keegan can't turn the club around - he's done it not just with Newcastle but with Fulham and City also and with the strong financial backing he now has, you couldn't completely write off him taking us into the top 6 and in this respect Newcastle do show mroe potential than the likes of Blackburn.

Why? he plays for blackburn and this is a far, far bigger club with more potential and the ability to offer bigger wages. where we are in the table this season isn't that relevant. not to say we'd get him, but if we were the only side in for him i couldn't see him turning us down. They're a smaller team than us, certainly - we are an average sized club, they are not. More potential? More money, certainly, but lets not pretend we are anywhere fuckng nearrealising our "potential". Some fools thought Bramble, Dire, Shola et al had "potential" - but it didn't stop them being of very little value to us. But with a new, well established manager at the helm in the form of Keegan, there is arguably alot of promise for next season's campaign and I'm sure players such as Bentley could be swayed because of this.

It's Liverpool TV, what did you expect?

Good - quick to recover and very composed. Seems to have picked up an injury though