Frazzle

Liverpool finished 4th before Benitez took over, Inter 1st, Napoli 2nd, Real 2nd. Gonna be a hell of a job convincing him. I think even Moyes is a bit unrealistic and Rodgers even more than Moyes.

These lads seem to be getting more active on social media. Be interesting to see what happens.

Douglas on Pardew possibly leaving after Stoke: https://twitter.com/MsiDouglas/status/516722808651804674 Didn't happen. Journos are just guessing, no-one can predict what the idiots at our club will do.

Not worried. We've got a lot of easy home games.

Joe Kinnear's phone is ringing

Bishop there, ready for some PR today.

https://twitter.com/AshleyOutdotcom/status/705168310414020609 Embarrassing record.

Janmaat thick for confronting fans. Fans thick for bothering to travel around the country supporting a club that is actively taking the piss out of them.

Hadn't Shelvey basically given up at his last club? Perfect captain material...

They've been made to look clueless for years now but still are sitting comfortably because there is barely any response from the fans.

Everyone with Bournemouth on 34 points? Would mean 6 points from 12 games, after 18 from their last 12.

Another Messi pen miss

Really? I remember last season they beat Arsenal in February or something, Kane bossed it. To go 5 points clear of them in the league or something. End up comfortably behind Arsenal come May. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31071175 just seen it was only the single point. Spurs got more points in the second half of the season than the first half.

Irving sounds as thick as pigshit. The model works? That's why we're battling relegation for the second year running after previously being relegated under this thick t***. He hasn't taken any money out? Nah, he's just restricted our revenue streams and used the club to get free advertising.

In his last two seasons his teams has gotten more points in the second half of the season.

Obviously tongue in cheek but there'll be loads now who'll have that opinion for real, not being able to grasp that 8 years of chronic under investment has forced his hand and he'll now be sh*tting himself over the possibility of missing out on next seasons TV bonanza. Unfortunately for him, even if we do sign a striker, the manager he appointed to get the results needed clearly isn't capable of doing so. While I'm sure he is very worried about relegation, we spent £50m+ in the summer too when he could have sat back and seen how things went. I don't think we're spending because of the threat of relegation, I think we always planned to spend the money the club has generated, as we have in all the previous seasons where we didn't sell anyone at £20m+ profit. I think the players we're buying are a more telling change in policy in that we're buying Premier league experience I don't think we would have done if we were higher up the table. If the plan is to constantly spend the money the club brings in and not just when facing the threat of relegation then why did we end up with 35m sitting in a bank account at one point? Because we sold Cabaye for £20m that January and spent that profit and the profit from 13/14 revenues in the Summer after the books showed a snapshot of cash balances in June. Preference to spend in Summer cash that's been earned. So we had £35m in the bank on June 30th and spent £37.4m in July/August. I'd seen a big enough sample back in September 2014 when I was pointing to consistently increased spending and saying we'd continue to be spending more. http://www.themag.co.uk/2014/09/mike-ashley-ready-invest-manager-now/ Revisited my view in Summer.. http://www.themag.co.uk/2015/07/a-corner-turned-or-history-repeating-newcastle-united-transfer-spending/ I got stick on hefre for pointing to the growth in spending being a year on year pattern that was clearly going to continue because the sale of Cabaye meant one year didn't follow the trend. I can only see the increased spending continuing as long as we stay in the league, regardless of where we sit in the league. Why are we spending in January? Why wasn't Shelvey bought in the summer? Are we going to split our money between summer and winter transfer windows in the coming years? If not, why was this year different? You say we aren't spending because of a fear of relegation, well, if so, we should be spending every summer and every January in the future. We haven't really been in a position of strength long enough to know whether spending will be curbed. I'm not saying it definitely will just that a relatively small sample of data, in a specific set of circumstances, (i.e. always pretty much in danger), means that it's difficult to say whether this money was always going to be spent at this time. I just think it's weird that the club have gone on record to say they don't like dealing in January and then buy 2/3 (maybe 4) players in January. The last time we bought that amount in January being the last time we were panicking about relegation at this time of year...

Obviously tongue in cheek but there'll be loads now who'll have that opinion for real, not being able to grasp that 8 years of chronic under investment has forced his hand and he'll now be sh*tting himself over the possibility of missing out on next seasons TV bonanza. Unfortunately for him, even if we do sign a striker, the manager he appointed to get the results needed clearly isn't capable of doing so. While I'm sure he is very worried about relegation, we spent £50m+ in the summer too when he could have sat back and seen how things went. I don't think we're spending because of the threat of relegation, I think we always planned to spend the money the club has generated, as we have in all the previous seasons where we didn't sell anyone at £20m+ profit. I think the players we're buying are a more telling change in policy in that we're buying Premier league experience I don't think we would have done if we were higher up the table. If the plan is to constantly spend the money the club brings in and not just when facing the threat of relegation then why did we end up with 35m sitting in a bank account at one point? We haven't really seen a big enough sample (because we've more often than not been s***) but I think we're only willing to spend when we need to. Why else buy in January when it's, according to the club, a poor time to do business? Why not buy Shelvey in the summer? Like Wullie says, they s*** themselves in the summer and they're shitting themselves now.

Yeah, I reckon Remy would demand to be centre-forward if he came.

When the manager is Pardew and the influential squad members are fucking Colo and Shola then, yes, he should still stay.

Desperate to go basically.

After Swansea's win, looking more and more like two from us, Norwich and Sunderland. If Sunderland do their usual escape act, finishing ahead of Norwich might not even be good enough.

He would get to play against Juventus, Inter, Roma, Napoli etc. rather than Angers, Caen, Rennes (and PSG). He may earn more money at Milan but it's boring everyone saying every move is solely down to money. Moving to Qatar = moving for money. Ben Arfa has never struck me as the kind of player to move for money, hence moves to us and Nice.

I can't stand him, I think he's a massive fraud He won a league title with Swansea, won the FA Cup with Wigan(!), and got 72 points with Everton (their highest points total since they won the league). He could be doing a bit better with Everton but don't think he's a fraud.

We may have won two but our away form IS shocking. We've scored the least away goals in the league and only Villa and Swansea have won less away games.

The bookies have us going down, so if anyone is convinced we're staying up then there's money to be had.