Jack Flash

Don't think Ian W is going to survive this year

Has even 1 person say that?

This been posted? Pardew told BBC Newcastle: "It's unsettling and unsavoury and it needs to be eliminated. "It's really not fair. The transfer window should be shut before we kick a ball and that way everyone knows where they are. "If you can't do your business in the summer, then I don't know why because there is plenty of time." Newcastle have signed four players this summer, bringing in Vurnon Anita from Ajax, Gael Bigirimana from Coventry, free agent Romain Amalfitano and Curtis Good from Australian outfit Melbourne Heart. But they have been victims of late transfer business before, selling striker Andy Carroll to Liverpool for £35m minutes before the deadline in January 2011. Pardew added: "The reality is it (the transfer window) shuts on Friday night and we have to sweat right up to 12 o'clock. That's the type of club we are now. "The top three or four teams have a massive advantage; they can even play with you and say they are coming for one of your players but then not actually [do so]. I'm sure that goes on."

Again, no f***er is having a pop at the transfer policy, stop making stuff up man, Carr identifies targets based on these policies, is anyone, anyone at all turning up their nose at a player he has indentified? Afford to reach? We're making a profit man and it's only going to be bigger if things remain the same. I understand it in a far wider context than you clearly do, you've just created yet another strawman as are all the people who don't appear to be slightly p*ssed off, unbelievable. Does it help you believe everything will be alright if you just imagine people are moaning about things they're not? So just because we are making a profit we then must reinvest all that money into the first team, ignoring stadium costs, corporate costs, youth team/acadamy, scouting, equipment, wages, facilites and our mighty bore hole. Sky money, ticket sales, shirt sales etc.

It's a shame some of us would rather consolidate rather than try to push on when the financial cost is so minimal and the opportunity so great. Keegan once banned the word "consolidation" when he was here btw.

There's no ambition in having spent about £2million with nearly 2 days left.

Why are you so angry about this? When have we ever had a full house for a cup game against a minnow which is also on TV?

They're replacing him as we speak.

Plus loads of Uefa Cup/League Cup games.

They won the Champions League and the FA Cup last year.

The window hasn't closed yet you f***ing nugget man. We've played 3 games with this situation so far, with 1 more tomorrow tbf.

Pointless having a go at the people who won't be there. We've got a game a few days later which would set you back at least £50 (tickets, travel, food etc) if you were going to both. A bad attendance at Villa would be far more annoying.

Wouldn't be the first time he's been left annoyed. Thankfully he's not trying to publicly second guess Ashley regarding transfers now.

Not after Carroll or Debuchy then.

You know we'll (hopefully) have about 20 more games than last year?

Who on earth would argue otherwise? The squidgers demanding we BUY BUY BUY without knowing the full facts. You've made that up.

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Three MASSIVE days.

Why are we "caving in" anyway? Why can't we just be buying a player we want for a very affordable fee? I'm as guilty as anyone of believing the hype around our transfer deals but sometimes it just doesn't work.

It's not as simple as a little extra money on one player though. Once we allow selling clubs to know that we're susceptible to brinksmanship, other clubs will be more liable to move the goalposts on us like Lille have done. Right now we project a very strong image as a club who will not negotiate too far beyond our initial price and who will not have our chain dragged around by unreasonable sellers or dodgy agents. Once we lose that, it'll just become even harder for us to sign the players we want in the future. Other clubs know how we operate now and adjust their prices accordingly imo. We're seen as getting great bargains so when we come knocking the other club will assume we're going to rip them off somehow and that has probably hindered us this summer, mainly with Lille and Twente. One thing that's very clear is that we either undervalue players or simply bid very low deliberately and both of those things can drag a transfer out for months when we could just compromise a little bit and probably get the player much earlier.

We can compromise our principles (Robert Palmer) and still improve our squad. Spending the extra £1-2million to get Debuchy, a player who we clearly want, will improve us and have had scouted for a long time, isn't going to send us into bankruptcy. Spending a little bit more than we want to might be the difference between 6th and 5th or 5th and 4th. Having the famous scouting network is pointless if we're not going to trust it with an extra few million here and there which, in today's terms, is nothing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/sunderland/4446719/Newcastle-United-wanted-Sunderlands-Kieran-Richardson.html