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Ashley will decide that Magpies aren't fierce enough, changes the mascot to the Honey Badgers. Colors become pink and purple hoops with the gayest looking honey badger in the crest. Sports Direct United howey the Honey Badgers.

Brings in Kinnear to force out Pardew. Pardew leaves. Kinnear forced out. Look who... [move]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2008/07/10/ashley460276.jpg[/move] ...wins again.

Ethiopia, Egypt, and Cote d'Ivoire qualify for the final round of CAF WCQ. South Africa and Morocco among the teams bounced.

When one says one is "done", what exactly does this entail? I'd wager most of you dropping these proclamations will still watch/attend the matches, buy apparel, and be on here posting come the fall. It's a sickness.

These clowns make those guys look like Seal Team 6 ffs. Imagine this board if Tom Donahue or ol' Buddy Nix was in charge. Managed by Chan Gailey.

This is all just a massive exercise in self-flaggelation for you isn't it? They're gonna flay you alive, House Bolton-style.

This has to be one of the most incompetent management teams I've ever come across. And that's saying something considering the other teams I follow.

Would be a very good signing.

Interadesting. 4-3-3? That's a laugh.

Nah man. Then again, you are the Optimistic Nut.

"Oh look at poor me, my team's kit has one extra hoop around the sleeve." Pathetic.

Definitely but I think they're both capable of 15. Or one 17 the other 13 etc. ...which would be 30 between them.

Gerrard and Lucas at CM?

Honda really is a quality player.

There's really no point to the OFC. They should just fold those squads into the AFC.

Mignolet got me a lot of points for fantasy last year, ergo, he's a good player.

to be fair, if we could get a good price for Perch I wouldn't be against letting him go. Like Willo, he shouldn't be that hard to replace. Perch is arguably more valuable to the squad than any fee he could command on the transfer market.

Source From the article: for Pardew if that's true.

Cautiously optimistic about him. He's got talent, let's see if he can put it together.

What makes you skeptical? Moutinho went for ~£21m and he's just a shade younger than Cabaye. Moutinho's team won the league. Porto wins the league almost every year though. So they're in a much stronger negotiating position than we are. A team that has already dropped, what, £100mil on 3 players this summer probably isn't much for negotiating. More like a "name your price" kinda club. We'll see I guess. I can't think Ashley would let Cabaye go for anything less than what he deemed his max value is. And it's helpful that Cabaye's name has been floated around in connection with other clubs too. Ashley's many bad things, but he's a shrewd businessman. Wasn't the Moutinho fee split with Rodriquez (just to fuck over Sporting) or something? Porto always get way more than they should. Yeah it was £60mil for the pair (Rodriguez for £39, Moutinho for £21) plus whatever small fortune in potash blood cash it took to get Falcao.

And not a single decent wing player in the squad. Delightful.

What makes you skeptical? Moutinho went for ~£21m and he's just a shade younger than Cabaye. Moutinho's team won the league. Porto wins the league almost every year though. So they're in a much stronger negotiating position than we are. A team that has already dropped, what, £100mil on 3 players this summer probably isn't much for negotiating. More like a "name your price" kinda club. We'll see I guess. I can't think Ashley would let Cabaye go for anything less than what he deemed his max value is. And it's helpful that Cabaye's name has been floated around in connection with other clubs too. Ashley's many bad things, but he's a shrewd businessman.

What makes you skeptical? Moutinho went for ~£21m and he's just a shade younger than Cabaye. Moutinho's team won the league. Porto wins the league almost every year though. I don't think £15-20mil for Cabaye is unreasonable, especially considering Monaco has no qualms about spending and Ashley is a frugal bastard.