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It's Maro's magic football with a mixed race lad instead. What a jip.

I think its possible he wants his stated 100 million and then out, anything he gets more and a bit more publicity for Sports Direct will have been a bonus. He may of course be a belligerant bastard who wants to run a club in the same way he runs any of his other businesses. Who knows?

It's Barton's toungue out concentration face that does it for me like

We're buying young players so we can sell them at a profit in 2/3 years time. Perfect business strategy. Maybe. I don't think he's planning to stay for the long term though. I'm glad the days of everest high wages are going; in the long term I see football in general heading that way. With foresight, I can't see how its going to end in anything but tears with the likes of Man City and Chelsea once the oligarchs finally get bored and see no further profit in it. It may be gradual but in many senses you could argue we're taking the right stance. Regular business ethics don't apply with competetive sport though, as their are too many variables to apply spending just enough to accumulate and having to rely on merely having employees on roll that can fill a playing position. It's only ever going to get you so far. I'm no doom-mongerer as I'm quite happy with many of the signings in midfield; they seem really astute buys but the dismantling of a strong defensive unit has been the catalyst for the decline of many an effective team. I think we have a first team that is adequate without the players that have left, assuming they maintain fitness but I won't rule out the possibilty of a struggle or even relegation. Maybe we are a club struggling from the 'sins of the father' and the Fallout of the Shepherd years and Ashley in a clumsy, botched way is seeing the way things are headed. The noises made not too long ago suggest that the man wants out, as I suspect that though he sees clubs are potential cash-cows; it is difficult to do stay in the top tier and especially do well in the way he may have originally desired, coupled with the extra difficulty of slaking the ambitions of an avid fan base.

Definite exit strategy stuff. Ashley doesn't strike me as a principled man with a genuine vision for the club. All this young, hungry players stuff looks more and more like a smokescreen by the day.

Far too much hyperbole in the press about him being our best player last season....Best English/offensive player perhaps. He wasn't the best though. From a non-pragmatic point of view of course.

Just 'BBC: NUFC give up hope...' and leave it there. Take it as a wise instruction.

I wish he'd shut up. Quoting Orwell. Christ....

Not exactly comparable really. You pay 10 of thousands of pounds a week to recieve displays showing some footballing ability.

When I read joey's post it smacked of the domestics you often see on social networks. It can be a powerfully poisonous tool. In any line of work you should be safeguarding against things like this.

Shhhhh....Shhhh...Shhhh....David Craig is on! He'll surely enlighten!

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/244/horriblebossespostertoo.jpg BINDUN?

Gaahhh. I'm off to shit in my hand and punch it. About as constructive as anything anyone at NUFC has done over the course of today. Anyone care to join?

Club owners being complete dicks aside...Barton's acting a complete clown on this one like...the lot of them are dragging the name of NUFC through the dirt in a complete display of unprofessionalism, greed, ego and stubborness fromboth sides. The fact its being carried out on the in vogue version of fucking BEBO or whatever makes it almost laughable. What a circus this club perpetually seems to be each year.

Hope you all understand? Long before you did Joey. I hate social networking. Soap boxes for already well massaged egos.

Spot on. If there's anyone that shouldn't be on twitter, it's Joey Barton. The guy combines the IQ of a sprout with the feeling that he's Che Guevara or something. Somebody please photoshop this

Just goes to show on a pragmatic level how much of a fucked up mad monster of an industry the world of football has become tbh. I wish the club and Nolan would just move on. He's got his payday after all. I've no malice against him like but I don't think it's necessary for him to comment now he's gone.

No good can come of public displays of aggro which may or may not represent the views of an entire squad.

A bridge in time saves Tyne? Ah fuck it...hes crap.

http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/7769/nilecountahahah.jpg AH AH AH! The Count? Try your spelling again mate

'Shola Amoebi'

Shola's hats!

Demba's knees go following Columbus game http://i48.tinypic.com/23vgh1w.gif/

Aye I know it wasn't about Pards. Be a bit random otherwise innit? Poor paragraphing for the uninformed tbh