Interpolic

It's a method which every club outside of the top 6 is adopting, not just us though. 1)We should be aiming to be in that top six. It's not going to happen overnight but it's never going to happen if you don't spend a bit of cash. There's a reason those clubs are outside the top six 2) The only clubs that have sold players for substantial sums thus far are Villa and Sunderland, they have/are re-investing it. After the prospective Erding & N'Zogbia transfers, Villa will be £17m in profit since June 2010, Sunderland will be £7m in profit (but would you have been happy with their transfer dealings?), and we'll be £16m in profit. Not sure where you're getting £16m from, the link below suggests it's more like £23.5m. http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premiership-transfers/newcastle-united-transfers.html And I know we had just went down but the summer before we sold £25m worth of talent and only spent a couple of million. Aha, well I'm not being funny like but if you're counting Erding then I'm counting Enrique and Routledge and we're back to square one if not further in profit. And we might spend a couple of million on Enrique's replacement but not a great deal at all imo.

It's a method which every club outside of the top 6 is adopting, not just us though. 1)We should be aiming to be in that top six. It's not going to happen overnight but it's never going to happen if you don't spend a bit of cash. There's a reason those clubs are outside the top six 2) The only clubs that have sold players for substantial sums thus far are Villa and Sunderland, they have/are re-investing it. After the prospective Erding & N'Zogbia transfers, Villa will be £17m in profit since June 2010, Sunderland will be £7m in profit (but would you have been happy with their transfer dealings?), and we'll be £16m in profit. Not sure where you're getting £16m from, the link below suggests it's more like £23.5m. http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premiership-transfers/newcastle-united-transfers.html And I know we had just went down but the summer before we sold £25m worth of talent and only spent a couple of million.

End of the day Jose isn't disgusted enough with our lack of spending to hand in a transfer request. People are calling Modric all sorts (including Wullie I believe) but when he wanted away at least he had the nuts to hand one in and give up his loyalty bonus. It's about money and fuck all else. If Enrique puts in a transfer request people will just call him a greedy cunt and gloss over the fact that one of our best players wants to leave. Absolutely untrue. I have always been one of Enrique's biggest fans and I am gutted that he is leaving. I have no problem with him going if he can do better but to have done it this way just makes him look a mercenary looking to squeeze the most money out of the situation possible. If you are going to defend that how can you criticise Ashley for doing the same thing? It's quite simple for me; I don't believe he would want to leave if we were showing ambition to match his own. That doesn't mean trying to break into the top four this season coming of course, because I don't think it would be possible without money we don't currently have access to. But even just using the money from selling our most promising young local talent and trying to get up there would suffice. Aim for the stars and miss but you might still hit the moon and all that. All players want to play at the highest level possible, it's nonsense to imply most are happy to settle for being also-rans. There's always an excuse for why our best players want to leave. How many more good players will go before the penny drops? The penny will never drop imo.

End of the day Jose isn't disgusted enough with our lack of spending to hand in a transfer request. People are calling Modric all sorts (including Wullie I believe) but when he wanted away at least he had the nuts to hand one in and give up his loyalty bonus. It's about money and fuck all else. They get slagged off whether they hand in a transfer request or not man ffs, they can't win unless they're willing to tread water for a career that only lasts 10-15 years most of the time.

He's in the next tier up from some of the most disastrous signings we've ever made. He didn't cost as much as Owen, played more games than Luque, put a decent half-season in in the Championship. Seems an OK lad but the fact we've paid him so much for so long has totally infuriated me. Agree with the idea of paying half or even 2 thirds of his wages if we get rid - any money spent on him is money wasted because he's been finished since the day he broke his leg.

Skirge, I've just realised - why do you have 2 Ameobi's in your sig? Well 2 Shola's.

This needs more exposure Pretty mild. Yep, fair question. Again, polite and reasonable. :lol:

You moved house recently, Pip?

I understand what you're saying, it just isn't relevant to our day to day running and how we could put potential advertising income to good use now. But there is no distinction between the club and Ashley. There is no 'we' the club. The club is, like it or not, Ashley's. Money into the club, money out of the club is money into Ashley's pocket, money out of Ashley's pocket. When we're sold, the new buyer will consider our future cash flow (included advertising which isn't being paid for), sum it, discount it, and pay. Our day to day running, at this moment of time, isn't affected in the least by any advertising we do for Ashley or Sports Direct. Last example: You own a company, and you own a car (that is in your name). If you start sticking advertising on your car for your company, does it matter whether your company pays you for the advertising? It doesn't, because it's moving money from one pocket to another. Leaving aside tax reasons, there would be no logic in doing it. The curious thing is that he only owns something like 70% of Sports Direct, so it actually makes more sense to shift money from there into the club, since it's shifting 70% of his money + 30% of other people's into something that is 100% of his. But SD's shares increase a lot more when they're profitable, and an increase in the share price is worth hundreds of millions of pounds to Ashley, so it makes business sense to shift money the other way around. Our accounts would look a lot healthier if Sports Direct were paying us a few million a year though. Funny, that.

I'd imagine that Enrique regrets making out that he'd sign once he knew we were safe, because it seems that he's had it in his mind that he'd sign when he was convinced we were going somewhere. He'll definitely get the "greedy Judas cunt" treatment by a good few like, but I'm not sure what a player could do to not get that treatment from some of our lot these days. Not a player who's on the up anyway, it's easy to wish someone like Shefki Kuqi well when he leaves.

I went to see the Tracey Emin exhibition today - you'd have fucking hated it.

Shearer: "Of course, you don’t want to lose your top players and Andy Carroll and Kevin Nolan were probably Newcastle’s two best players." IIRC Shearer dropped Nolan during our relegation season and fell out with Barton who also thought Shearer was clueless along with his clueless mate Dowie. Shearer now changing tack completely and describing Nolan as one of our two best players doesn't surprise me in the least. He's as slippery as a politician and just as untrustworthy. You don't remember correctly, Nolan started 6 of the 8 games that Shearer was in charge for.

National newspaper man ffs.

No Marv.

I agree that the result and the overall performance aren't that importance like, but it would just be nice to see us play some decent stuff.

Fucking horrific pass of the ball there, comical.

I'd throw bog roll at this shite n'all.

4-2 to them.

Can they change their Visa decisions retrospectively for the NUFC lads that got in on the basis that they're dangerously fucking boring on a football pitch?

Howay then, what are people listening to? I'm listening to The Horrors but might put the Home Alone soundtrack on for the second half.

Prizes for who has the most interesting audio to go along with the match.

This is fucking shit, sack the board. In all seriousness this is very, very boring.

I see. I'd rather they just left it like, especially if they're going to justify selling a player for £15m or so to fund it even though it'll only cost £500k. I obviously really enjoyed watching the replays of all the goals we conceded at Stoke though so I can see the appeal.

You can do absolutely anything that you put your mind to Ronaldo, I think you just need a bit more confidence.