ChrisMcQuillan

I know a close family member of one of Newcastle's main scouts. Was with Hughton at the Arsenal game and still there under Pardew today. She says Carroll's gone for £35m.

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like s***? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult? He thinks he is above anyone else with his views tbh. Poor, at best, Michael. Chris, at the end of the day, you'll be back - you said the same thing (almost verbatim) when Hughton was sacked. It came across as though you were of the impression that the majority of the NUFC supporters were also incensed by the decision and you started the "official protest" bandwagon...when people had a chance to think it over and they realised that perhaps this wasn't the falling of the sky, they soon got back into the normal swing of things (i.e. going to matches). It'll be the same with Carroll, even if he is sold - no one player is bigger than the club, so long as we have 11 players out there who are putting their all in for the black and white shirt, people will still care about the club. At the end of the day, Stu, we as fans deserve better than the way Ashley has treated us. I have attended one home match since Hughton's sacking. The protest was a success, in my opinion. We got our opinions out there, and we made them clear. Yes, Ashley's still here. The tragedy in all of this is not that Carroll is sold. It's not that Hughton was sacked. It's that our owner is disconnected from the fan base, and there's not one thing we can do to change that. We're all being shafted. I guess people just react to it differently. And you're right, I will be back because I love this club. But that's not a justification for anything that's done, nor does it negate in anyway how wrong that is.

Daily Mail: "Word is Liverpool have had a £35m offer accepted and now it's down to sorting personal details."

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like s***? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult? Go support City then. Guess, you didn't support or know about what selling your best players did in the 80's then. Pushed us to the brink of the 3rd tier of English football. Eh? I'll be supporting Newcastle long after Carroll retires. Can't stand muppets talking about giving up on the club because we've been offered an incredible fee for a striker. Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like s***? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult? Go support City then. That's exactly the kind of ill-educated tripe gets spewed out far too often around here. "We're selling our best players, but f*** me, that's a lot of McFlurries. SELL!" This is Newcastle United. We're not some team of village idiots. We're supposedly a Premiership football team that wants to get back into Europe. This is the wrong decision, at the wrong time. Too many fair weather supporters these days. Bollocks total bollocks. It's fans like you criticising others, who are f***ing wankers in it all. I'm criticising a fan who is going to stop supporting the club cos of the sale of one player. Too right I am. I'm a fan who is always going to support Newcastle United's players on the pitch. But I will cease to actively support Mike Ashley's reign at this club. And if you think it's just cause of Andy Carroll being sold, you need to go get a full medical examination and your memory checked.

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like s***? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult? Go support City then. Guess, you didn't support or know about what selling your best players did in the 80's then. Pushed us to the brink of the 3rd tier of English football. Eh? I'll be supporting Newcastle long after Carroll retires. Can't stand muppets talking about giving up on the club because we've been offered an incredible fee for a striker. Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like s***? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult? Go support City then. That's exactly the kind of ill-educated tripe gets spewed out far too often around here. "We're selling our best players, but f*** me, that's a lot of McFlurries. SELL!" This is Newcastle United. We're not some team of village idiots. We're supposedly a Premiership football team that wants to get back into Europe. This is the wrong decision, at the wrong time. Too many fair weather supporters these days. Bollocks total bollocks. It's fans like you criticising others, who are f***ing wankers in it all. Absolutely with neesy on this one.

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like s***? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult? Go support City then. Guess, you didn't support or know about what selling your best players did in the 80's then. Pushed us to the brink of the 3rd tier of English football. Eh? I'll be supporting Newcastle long after Carroll retires. Can't stand muppets talking about giving up on the club because we've been offered an incredible fee for a striker. Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like s***? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult? Go support City then. That's exactly the kind of ill-educated tripe gets spewed out far too often around here. "We're selling our best players, but f*** me, that's a lot of McFlurries. SELL!" This is Newcastle United. We're not some team of village idiots. We're supposedly a Premiership football team that wants to get back into Europe. This is the wrong decision, at the wrong time. Too many fair weather supporters these days. I've followed Newcastle for years, and religiously attended in the Championship, after countless sackings and sales. Here I am. Yeah, I'm a fair-weather fan.

This.

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like s***? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult? Go support City then. That's exactly the kind of ill-educated tripe gets spewed out far too often around here. "We're selling our best players, but fuck me, that's a lot of McFlurries. SELL!" This is Newcastle United. We're not some team of village idiots. We're supposedly a Premiership football team that wants to get back into Europe. This is the wrong decision, at the wrong time.

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. @ CMcQ Why support a club with no ambition, one which sells its own players and treats its fans and managers like shit? And why laugh at me for pointing out that that is difficult?

Wondered when this would start. Don't agree with it, but can understand why they'd accept £35m. You'll struggle to find many chairmen that wouldn't. Look, I understand that. I know its a lot of money. But Ashley should know that Carroll is irreplaceable. He's not going to get anyone better in, certainly not someone with the potential to be what Carroll could be for us over the next ten years. Ashley has fucked up so many times before, and Carroll does not want to leave. Ashley should get behind Carroll and the fans for once, and just hold on for one day. If Carroll went for the same price in the summer, at the start of the summer, then fair enough. We could rebuild the squad decently. But now, with no replacements that we know of lined up (since no one in January could replace him for sensible money), this is a stupid, stupid decision. Money is NOT everything in football. And if it is, now, then the game's a shadow of what it once was.

If Carroll leaves today, and we don't have a world class replacement, I'm done with this club under Mike Ashley for good. Simple as. Can't take it anymore.

I think he's gone, folks.

£60m.

If Carroll is still here at midnight, I'll be: 1) Shocked 2) In love with Mike Ashley.

Probs just can't spell "robbery" tbh.

Well, it'll be £50,000 off the wage bill. Can't hurt.

Typical. Fulham will be on top confidence going into our game now. That said, 'Arry getting slaughtered!

Sort of sounds like they'd consider something double that. Yeah, so would I tbf.

Sort of sounds like they'd consider something double that.

There's no guarantee he's even going to sign.

Harper Simpson Williamson Coloccini Jose Barton Guthrie Nolan Jonas Shola Best Subs: Krul, Perch, Campbell, Ferguson, Xisco, Ranger, Lovenkrands I can't think of a back-up CM to put on the bench... They're all on loan or injured.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jan/27/inter-40m-gareth-bale

Bale to Inter for £40m in summer. Is that it? Hardly that exciting.

I don't think loan moves count.

Dean Windass is the natural replacement.