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Sadly I agree. There's is only so much you can take. It's like MA is intentionally punishing us.

Just arrived in sunny Spain enjoying my holiday then read this....unbelievable. What a sad joke of a club we've become.

£30mil into Ashley's pocket...maybe...just maybe £3-5mil on his replacement. Look Cabaye may have not had the best season but that can be labelled to much of the squad. But on his day he's class. I for one hopes he stays even at that price.

Going to be like last summer I feel. They think they've done their spend in jan even though that was making up for the lack of spend in the summer. Can feel history repeating itself. They'll give it the big 'am happy cause no one left'

And he speaks the truth. I'd have him back but it's not going to happen.

Well said. Everyday I check the sports news in the hope someone with a bit of ambition buys Ashley out.

I'd like him here - no problem. Gervinho - Cisse - Hatem is not a too shabby from line.

Exactly. I think he could do wonders with our current squad.

If there was one thing that we learnt from last season is that you should always be looking to improve your squad. You don't do that by selling your best players. The club should be on a strong enough financial footing now where we don't have to sell to buy. So the club have no excuses really.

This. He is. Writing was on the wall after we didn't reinforce last summer. It killed our season.

Agreed. That writing was on the wall when we failed to reinforce last summer.

Hopefully it's smoke and mirrors....

Whatever the stats maybe he certainly wasn't playing in his preferred position until Ba left - which was really the point I was trying to get across. The service to him after that was poor at best hence why 'imo' he did brilliant to score the goals he did.

Firstly Cisse is worth more than £20Mil - the guy is a 'proven' goal scorer in the Premiership and the goals he scores are utter class. When you think up until January Pardew had him playing out wide, to finish the year with 13 goals for the service he got was nothing sort of brilliant. If it wasn't for his goals we would be down. Which takes me to my next point - EVEN if you thought £20Mil was good for him, you need to take into account the loss to the club should the lack of his goals next year send us down. We cannot go into next season without 'at least' one striker who has proved he can score goals in this league. Cisse is clearly seriously under rated. At the end of last season before last when he was scoring goals from everywhere would you have said then £20Mil was a fair price? I am not convinced you would. We have one bad season and suddenly people become bad players? I would even throw Tiote in that bracket. We need to keep this squad together - it was this group of players who got us a whisker away from Champions League football. I am not saying they will again but it certainly shows the potential of the team. We need to be adding to it not selling any of our best players, whatever the price. Cause you never know if the replacement will be half as good. Just look at Ba - so far Gouffran is the only striker to come in. And lets be honest he is average at best. And the joke being? You, if you genuinely believe Cisse played out wide until January (when it was actually no more than a handful of games) and that 13 goals in 47 appearances in all competitions (8 in 36, or 1:4.5 in the Premiership) for a man of his ability constitutes in any way, shape or form a return that can be described as "nothing short of brilliant". Aye...I am imaging it. http://www.themag.co.uk/the-mag-articles/alan-pardew-cisse-has-improved/ http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/lee-ryder-would-newcastle-united-3415047

Wish Monaco would crawl under a rock - sick of reading about them. Yes they've money but seriously must be such an underwhelming stadium to play in they only get 5000 a match. Probably 50 at away games.

Firstly Cisse is worth more than £20Mil - the guy is a 'proven' goal scorer in the Premiership and the goals he scores are utter class. When you think up until January Pardew had him playing out wide, to finish the year with 13 goals for the service he got was nothing sort of brilliant. If it wasn't for his goals we would be down. Which takes me to my next point - EVEN if you thought £20Mil was good for him, you need to take into account the loss to the club should the lack of his goals next year send us down. We cannot go into next season without 'at least' one striker who has proved he can score goals in this league. Cisse is clearly seriously under rated. At the end of last season before last when he was scoring goals from everywhere would you have said then £20Mil was a fair price? I am not convinced you would. We have one bad season and suddenly people become bad players? I would even throw Tiote in that bracket. We need to keep this squad together - it was this group of players who got us a whisker away from Champions League football. I am not saying they will again but it certainly shows the potential of the team. We need to be adding to it not selling any of our best players, whatever the price. Cause you never know if the replacement will be half as good. Just look at Ba - so far Gouffran is the only striker to come in. And lets be honest he is average at best. And the joke being?

Firstly Cisse is worth more than £20Mil - the guy is a 'proven' goal scorer in the Premiership and the goals he scores are utter class. When you think up until January Pardew had him playing out wide, to finish the year with 13 goals for the service he got was nothing sort of brilliant. If it wasn't for his goals we would be down. Which takes me to my next point - EVEN if you thought £20Mil was good for him, you need to take into account the loss to the club should the lack of his goals next year send us down. We cannot go into next season without 'at least' one striker who has proved he can score goals in this league. Cisse is clearly seriously under rated. At the end of last season before last when he was scoring goals from everywhere would you have said then £20Mil was a fair price? I am not convinced you would. We have one bad season and suddenly people become bad players? I would even throw Tiote in that bracket. We need to keep this squad together - it was this group of players who got us a whisker away from Champions League football. I am not saying they will again but it certainly shows the potential of the team. We need to be adding to it not selling any of our best players, whatever the price. Cause you never know if the replacement will be half as good. Just look at Ba - so far Gouffran is the only striker to come in. And lets be honest he is average at best.

No chance this lad coming to the toon.

Cisse is class - his goal scoring record is excellent. Even at 20mil it would be madness to sell him - as it is we are struggling to replace Ba. Even with Cisse here we need two more strikers.

My answer was not exactly ground breaking either...

Mike Ashley has billions.....we're in.

Is he really that good?

Cause the people who run the club have zero ambition.

Agreed

I hate to admit it but thought Williamson looked better when he came in for QPR game. Not this s*** again, a lot of people were saying Williamson must start ahead of Taylor and they only realized how f***ing dumb is that until he did. he's nowhere near as good. Well I wasn't one of them. Williamson is championship level at best. That said whilst I have always liked Taylor due to being a local lad I've never really rated him as a defender either.