Hughesy

Spot on - seems like a great bloke, but he wasn't really that good. A bit harsh. TBF he had Ginola playing in front of him for a decent amount of time and his contribution to defending for the most part, was to watch the RB run past him and help the winger out. He was a pretty solid left back. I remember Bez taking a corner in an Anglo-Italian cup match (forget when exactly - think it was the promotion season). He was taking it at the Gallowgate/East corner and slipped when he was taking it putting the 'corner' out before the 18 yard box. He picked himself up did the donkey ears, laughed with everyone else and scooted back to LB. Top bloke. Can't imagine many players reacting like that now. Don't get me wrong - he was a decent player, but he wasn't much better than decent. In my opinion, he was one of the 'weak' links in the Keegan team.

Spot on - seems like a great bloke, but he wasn't really that good.

I just don't understand that. Pretty much every bank loan contains a change of control clause as a mandatory prepayment event. His lawyers would have told him that.

http://www.themag.co.uk/the-mag-articles/allo-allo-ashley-to-sell-newcastle-to-his-ukrainian-double/

Just the odd sponsor on that shirt.

Get in!

nufc.com seem to think we are still after a foreign winger? I wonder what info they had to publish that story a week or so ago about 2 new arrivals. They tend to be fairly accurate.

Yep - they might as well have just stated that they had no intention of buying anyone and left it at that.

Assuming Ashley does want his money back, I don't really understand is his lack of investment. I realise that the tv money helps, but the business model he seems to be using is based mainly on buying players cheaply and selling them on. Hard to do this if you don't actually buy anyone.

I remember being warned by a ref for that and I thought he was making it up as I'd never seen the rule enforced. Surely Ben Arfa did that yesterday when he beat Riise - he definitely ran off the pitch on purpose.

I am going to start saying 'oof' more often.

Oof.

I don't see a problem with booing a player if the majority of newspaper reports suggest he has refused to play for us. I certainly wouldn't applaud him on.

Where does your dad sit? Milburn stand. I am sure the guy lives near Ashley - I can never remember the guy's full story as he tends to ignore me..

Bloke who sits behind my dad at SJP knows Ashley and says Ashley has lost interest and we won't be making any more signings. Felt I should pass this on..

Good atmosphere at Selhurst.

It's about getting them over the line. Seemingly we have a 10ft brickwall in front of ours. Yep.. Just annoying to see players like van Wolfswinkel go for decent fees and us not even compete. Even if he isn't our first choice, surely he is better than no-one?

Absolute disgrace if we don't get at least two players in. It isn't even as if there haven't been decent players available.

While we're on the subject Everything he said there was perfectly fine, but the bolded bit just didn't need saying http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-keep-demba-ba-as-75million-1198658 Everyone thought this until Pardew felt the urge to tell us he was still available. Please tell me that you don't actually believe that Ba's agents didn't know about this clause. Obviously not. You're missing the point anyway so you're wasting your time. Perhaps you would care to explain your point then? My point is that Pardew 'revealing' the existence of the clause has absolutely no bearing on whether Ba would be sold or not. Any interested buyer would know about the clause. You and I may not have known about it, but that is irrelevant. Of course it has bearing. Most managers would have seen the numerous articles we did and assumed he'd now cost twice the release clause. Pardew saying what he did (for no reason...) would have interested clubs that were no longer interested. f***ing hell. Is this a wind up? Do you honestly think that Benitez reads the newspapers to see if players have release clauses or not? That sounds realistic - Ba's agents will have read and negotiated Ba's contract. They will know the contents of that contract. Ba's gameplan was to get a transfer to another club. Ba's agent would have told any manager who would listen that Ba's clause was still active. born yesterday Good reply. Any agent who didn't inform managers of the clause that would be probably the worst agent in the world. Really struggling to see why people think that all PL managers didn't know about the reactivation of the clause. They most certainly do, still doesn't change the fact biscuit brains didn't need to tell everyone. I agree with this - in an ideal world, Pardew wouldn't say anything at all. That would be good for everyone I think. But the fact remains, him spouting off to the press wouldn't have put anyone on notice about Ba's release clause.

While we're on the subject Everything he said there was perfectly fine, but the bolded bit just didn't need saying http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-keep-demba-ba-as-75million-1198658 Everyone thought this until Pardew felt the urge to tell us he was still available. Please tell me that you don't actually believe that Ba's agents didn't know about this clause. Obviously not. You're missing the point anyway so you're wasting your time. Perhaps you would care to explain your point then? My point is that Pardew 'revealing' the existence of the clause has absolutely no bearing on whether Ba would be sold or not. Any interested buyer would know about the clause. You and I may not have known about it, but that is irrelevant. Of course it has bearing. Most managers would have seen the numerous articles we did and assumed he'd now cost twice the release clause. Pardew saying what he did (for no reason...) would have interested clubs that were no longer interested. f***ing hell. Is this a wind up? Do you honestly think that Benitez reads the newspapers to see if players have release clauses or not? That sounds realistic - Ba's agents will have read and negotiated Ba's contract. They will know the contents of that contract. Ba's gameplan was to get a transfer to another club. Ba's agent would have told any manager who would listen that Ba's clause was still active. born yesterday Good reply. Any agent who didn't inform managers of the clause that would be probably the worst agent in the world. Really struggling to see why people think that all PL managers didn't know about the reactivation of the clause.

While we're on the subject Everything he said there was perfectly fine, but the bolded bit just didn't need saying http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-keep-demba-ba-as-75million-1198658 Everyone thought this until Pardew felt the urge to tell us he was still available. Please tell me that you don't actually believe that Ba's agents didn't know about this clause. Obviously not. You're missing the point anyway so you're wasting your time. Perhaps you would care to explain your point then? My point is that Pardew 'revealing' the existence of the clause has absolutely no bearing on whether Ba would be sold or not. Any interested buyer would know about the clause. You and I may not have known about it, but that is irrelevant. Of course it has bearing. Most managers would have seen the numerous articles we did and assumed he'd now cost twice the release clause. Pardew saying what he did (for no reason...) would have interested clubs that were no longer interested. f***ing hell. Is this a wind up? Do you honestly think that Benitez reads the newspapers to see if players have release clauses or not? That sounds realistic - Ba's agents will have read and negotiated Ba's contract. They will know the contents of that contract. Ba's gameplan was to get a transfer to another club. Ba's agent would have told any manager who would listen that Ba's clause was still active.

While we're on the subject Everything he said there was perfectly fine, but the bolded bit just didn't need saying http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-keep-demba-ba-as-75million-1198658 Everyone thought this until Pardew felt the urge to tell us he was still available. Please tell me that you don't actually believe that Ba's agents didn't know about this clause. Obviously not. You're missing the point anyway so you're wasting your time. Perhaps you would care to explain your point then? My point is that Pardew 'revealing' the existence of the clause has absolutely no bearing on whether Ba would be sold or not. Any interested buyer would know about the clause. You and I may not have known about it, but that is irrelevant.

While we're on the subject Everything he said there was perfectly fine, but the bolded bit just didn't need saying http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-keep-demba-ba-as-75million-1198658 Everyone thought this until Pardew felt the urge to tell us he was still available. Please tell me that you don't actually believe that Ba's agents didn't know about this clause.

As if no-one knew about Ba's clause anyway. You think agents didn't tell anyone who would listen about it? Why wouldn't they? It would be the first thing they said.

Where's Bigi?