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I'd hope Tiote and Enrique would give us one more chance - let us spend this £35m and see what we can build. If we don't qualify for Europe next season then, reluctantly, you can leave. Would be a horrible day though. Would say £15m for Enrique and £22m for Tiote.

 

Agree with the valuations, but do we wan't to become a selling club, simply becoming a conveyor belt for talent.

 

No doubt, that is Ashley's plan.

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I just think we need to enjoy our good players rather than constantly talking about them leaving.

 

Maybe they will, maybe they won't, f*** knows.

 

Exactly !

 

Every set of fans think they have special players who can walk into any top team and there'll be a bidding war over, e.g. Henderson,Adam, Brunt, S.Parker, Cahill etc, and a gushing media just crank up the hype.

Tiote seems like a very decent person and I'm sure he will appreciate what our club and fans have done for him and he is intelligent enough to know that he may well develop best in a team like ours.

He has mates in London and it's easier to get to Abidjan from there but Newcastle remains an attractive proposition for players in terms of lifestyle,facilities and playing in a packed home stadium.

Only a small handful of clubs would be progress for him (if we stay up) and they will be looking all over the world for improvements not just at our best players.

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I'd hope Tiote and Enrique would give us one more chance - let us spend this £35m and see what we can build. If we don't qualify for Europe next season then, reluctantly, you can leave. Would be a horrible day though. Would say £15m for Enrique and £22m for Tiote.

 

Agree with the valuations, but do we wan't to become a selling club, simply becoming a conveyor belt for talent.

 

No doubt, that is Ashley's plan.

 

I hate to sound like one of Ashley's PR men but Arsenal could be considered a "conveyor belt". The difference is that their quality coming through completely eclipses ours.

 

It's stating the obvious but we won't be over this until Ashley leaves.

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I fear if a bid of £15m comes in for Tiote, he will be sold.

 

And is that such a bad deal

 

To replace him would be likely to cost around the £15mil mark, and even then a replacement could flop. You mentioned the Barfa and Tiote signings, but we could just as easily end up with another James Perch or Leon Best if we're looking to replace Tiote with another bargain buy.

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I must say that I just logged onto Skysports and Cheick has said that scoring his goal was the greatest moment of his career. I actually think he may like us.

 

 

Damn you Andy Carroll making us geordies think that all our players just want money.

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I'd hope Tiote and Enrique would give us one more chance - let us spend this £35m and see what we can build. If we don't qualify for Europe next season then, reluctantly, you can leave. Would be a horrible day though. Would say £15m for Enrique and £22m for Tiote.

 

Agree with the valuations, but do we wan't to become a selling club, simply becoming a conveyor belt for talent.

 

No doubt, that is Ashley's plan.

 

Your jaundiced views are well documented and may well be justified regarding Ashley's PR approach, crazy appointments etc, but to imply we are a "selling club" simply doesn't hold up - unless of course any club who ever sell a player (and that's all of them) falls into that category.

In my decades of supporting  the club we've actually felt less like a selling club over the last couple of years than at any other time I can remember, even taking into account last week's extraordinary events.

We buy and sell players like everyone else, agents will continue to make contracts worth no more than toilet paper whoever you are, but if anything we're starting to look like a club with a very serious attitude to transfers and the subject of this thread is evidence of that.

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"I am hoping there are no bids, ­otherwise we will have a problem," said Pardew.

 

Why go out with this in the media? So resigned that he might as well prepare the fans?

 

 

New owner - now.

 

Benwell Lad won't agree. This manager reeks of resignation (and not in the handing your notice sense of the word).

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I don't get the panic.. there will be bids for him no doubt from home & abroad.. Pardew knows how good he is knows how much he wants him/needs him to stay

As a player hearing your Gaffa say he hopes no one bids for you would make you feel wanted loved and appreciated.

I cannot see what he said wrong.

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"I am hoping there are no bids, ­otherwise we will have a problem," said Pardew.

 

Why go out with this in the media? So resigned that he might as well prepare the fans?

 

 

New owner - now.

 

Benwell Lad won't agree. This manager reeks of resignation (and not in the handing your notice sense of the word).

 

No need to speak for me really, although I know you enjoy being a fans "spokesman"

 

I don't know what the full context of the interview was (I realise that doesn't matter so some) but on what is printed perhaps Pardew has been a bit too open and possibly naive.

But trust me, in professional football any manager would prefer bids not coming in for his best players and will "have a problem" when it happens. It upsets players and means dealing with agents and media etc when they'd probably rather be doing something else.

However, it happens and it has to be dealt with.

At worst Pardew has made a statement of the bloody obvious.

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You forgot?

 

Actually, I haven't seen them before. Others, who actually thinks he will stay on the other hand.

 

....on the other hand, what?

 

I'm getting pretty sick of this to be honest. I can't see that anyone 'thinks he will stay on' for certain, that would be as stupid as the likes of you and Colocho running around in circles shouting that he has already gone.

 

It's idiotic to second guess what will happen, if the player wants to go, he'll go, if we get an absurd offer for him, he'll go, but until that happens under Ashley or anyone else, stop with the doom mongering and enjoy watching a team who are the most likable, exciting, and watchable team we have had for a fair few years.

 

At worst Pardew has made a statement of the bloody obvious.

 

Indeed.

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Couldn't agree more.

 

Pointless doom mongering for the sake of it is ridiculous. Just enjoy tiote (and others) while we have him instead of worrying about what might/might not happen in your little world of perhaps and probably

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I must say that I just logged onto Skysports and Cheick has said that scoring his goal was the greatest moment of his career. I actually think he may like us.

 

 

Damn you Andy Carroll making us geordies think that all our players just want money.

 

Tiote did an interview in the Independent before the Arsenal game, and he said this is a fantastic club. He's clearly happy here but there are going to be clubs chasing his signature this summer. I'd only be really worried if one of them was Chelsea because they will pay whatever it takes.

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I must say that I just logged onto Skysports and Cheick has said that scoring his goal was the greatest moment of his career. I actually think he may like us.

 

 

Damn you Andy Carroll making us geordies think that all our players just want money.

 

Tiote did an interview in the Independent before the Arsenal game, and he said this is a fantastic club. He's clearly happy here but there are going to be clubs chasing his signature this summer. I'd only be really worried if one of them was Chelsea because they will pay whatever it takes.

 

And they've got Drogba, who could be a big factor.

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