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Interesting that Edwards hade an article on it the same minute news was released pushing delay was due to both sides. Make you belive PL once again playing games.

Final year of his contract, that will decrease his value in the market

Rafa staying will not change the fact that we need to decrease the wage bill quite dramatic to be financial healthy. With the TV-money gone and match day revenues unlikely to increase we need to save money somewhere. Sure Ashley might allow us to have negative result for a year or so but there is no way he will sanction an unhealthy wage bill for next year. Ashley will still be Ashley. Financial rules for Football League is also strict when it comes to spending. The biggest problem is that the squad is big and loaded with non-saleable players. Gouffran, Saivet, Thuavin, Haidara, De Jong, Riviere, Cisse, Good, Vuckic, Bigirimana and Sammy, can anyone see us getting more then a couple millions quids for any of them? Sell: Janmaat (6-10 m£), Wijnaldum (14-16 m£), Sissoko (7-13 m£), Townsend (8 m£) Krul (2-4 m£). Would keep Townsend but if the clause exist it would be criminal for some of the PL clubs not to activate it. Krul only have one year left on the contract and we can’t afford to have three senior keepers. Janmaat, Wijnaldum and Sissoko will attract other clubs, prices will be sky high this summer so they are available for a healthy amount. Loan out: Thuavin, Saivet, Haidara. As we will have problems to sell certain players, I think we will use loans in a couple of cases to decrease wages. Also from an accounting perspective it would be crazy to sell the likes of Thuavin and Saivet now as it will trigger a large accounting loss. Teams in France will take all of these on loan. Get rid of in any possible way: Coloccini, Cisse, Tiote. Neither of these should come close to the rebuild that Rafa will start. High wages and do not contribute enough. Leaves us with a squad of: GK: Elliot, Darlow, Woodman DEF: Dummet, Mbemba, Lascelles, Good, Sterry, Mbabu, Taylor (if new contract) MID: Aarons, Anita, Colback, Gouffran, Shelvey, De Jong, Perez, Vuckic, Bigirimana, Sammy FW: Mitrovic, Riviere, Armstrong, Toney, A couple of the 11 players that leaves in the scenario above will be kept but then we need to make sure that none of Mbemba, Lascelles, Perez or Mitrovic leaves instead. Hopefully Rafa will be given some money to spend on defenders and a striker, although I have a hard time to see that he will have more then 15-20 m£ to spend, even if we sell a couple of big players. Out of the squad remaining I don’t think any of Good, Vuckic, Bigirimana or Sammy will have any impact in the future. Taylor given an new contract as we are short at the back. Should be a cheep option for experience. Gouffran and De Jong stays as I don’t think anyone will buy them. It will be a though year in the Championship. Even with Rafa in charge.

Have anyone found more information then relesed on the homepage? Is the full Annual report avaliable somewhere? All dealings with "related parties" eg SportsDirect should be disclosed in the full report.

Marveaux really need to step up in the second half, he has been so poor in the first. Show some work rate and passion!!

We are so so poor....

Wow. If this happens. We are Newcastle, this will happen...

True!

This season, oh my!

Marveauxs and Anitas passing has been not good at all... If we can keep the ball more this might work.

How on earth could we end up paying £7M for Anita. Carr what did he see, Ajax junior games?? Our pressing game is probably the worst in Europe. Its essential to solve this as soon as possible, from there we can build something.