Dave Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Might as well sack this fucker, the players he's recommending clearly aren't good enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Indeed. Next he'll probably suggest we do something really batshit crazy like pay market rate for a player or look outside of France where we might have to offer them a competitive wage. Best off getting rid of him now. Seriously though, can you imagine the kind of shit we'd be in if Ashley's mental, overly limited transfer policy of only buying damaged goods from France with minimum fee release clauses or 6 months left to run and under 27 wasn't backed up by one of the best scouts in the land? I think Carr's about the only person I'd trust to even get close to making such a suicidal strategy work. If / when he ever leaves, we're utterly fucked because we all know that plan B will be to get some mentalist like Kinnear (Or more likely, Kinnear himself) to try to do exactly the same thing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Graham Carr visited me in my sleep last night to tell me that he recommends that Gary Johnson is the next Newcastle manager. He then brought me to Yeovil Town club office where him and Mr. Johnson tried to arrange signings without NUFC knowing. I was asked to help by persuading Marveaux 's agent to get him to sign for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 http://gifs.gifbin.com/032010/1269337691_guy-walks-in-on-obamas-speech.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 The Clown who hosts 606 was trying to pile the credit on Pardew for our signings. (Ben Arfa etc) It's quite shocking how poor most football journos are in this country Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Pardew wasn't even here when we first got Ben Arfa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Kinnear signed him anyway. I actually wouldn't be surprised if that's the next time we see him wheeled out actually. Photo shaking hands with HBA over a new contract. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Kinnear signed him anyway. I actually wouldn't be surprised if that's the next time we see him wheeled out actually. Photo shaking hands with HBA over a new contract. If it means Hatem signs a new deal I couldn't care less. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexf Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Kinnear signed him anyway. I actually wouldn't be surprised if that's the next time we see him wheeled out actually. Photo shaking hands with HBA over a new contract. If it means Hatem signs a new deal I couldn't care less. Same Was thinking though. With all last seasons signings really settling in now; Anita,Sissoko,Gouff,Yanga,Debuchy. Have we made a single bad signing on his recommendation? I mean I think Obertan and Gosling were widely speculated to be Pardew signings were they not? Even so if we count them as Carr's that's still a ridiculous success rate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Gosling was hoots I think Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.R. Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/jan/05/newcastle-hatem-ben-arfa-contract Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 70 years old today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Should be his glory days as a scout. Instead he's being shipped to France via Ryanair to find another Gouffran whose contract runs out next May. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Pretty much the only one that can do his job properly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Amazing he hasn't had a Frank Grimes moment yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Surprised a better club doesn't take him TBH. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 He's probably got a better contract than the manager in fairness and given he has no affiliation with the club historically I'm sure he doesn't give that much of a toss. As I've said before though I don't see him as a scout in the traditional sense, he hasn't unearthed any gems merely got us good deals that we probably shouldn't have been able to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Surprised a better club doesn't take him TBH. Better clubs don't look to bring in whoever's cheap and almost out of contract without factoring in suitability. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Well maybe not, but surely identifying all those good players available cheaply would mean they could pick and choose the ones they need. He obviously had brilliant connections and a knack for identifying available players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 He's probably got a better contract than the manager in fairness and given he has no affiliation with the club historically I'm sure he doesn't give that much of a toss. As I've said before though I don't see him as a scout in the traditional sense, he hasn't unearthed any gems merely got us good deals that we probably shouldn't have been able to. He's a Newcastle fan and has threatened to walkout before over how P45 plays the players he finds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Can spot De Jong - the shit one, but we were never linked with Pelle. SMH. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Thought he was a fan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Can spot De Jong - the shit one, but we were never linked with Pelle. SMH. Is only he had the benefit of hindsight like you, then he'd be the perfect scout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Can spot De Jong - the shit one, but we were never linked with Pelle. SMH. Is only he had the benefit of hindsight like you, then he'd be the perfect scout. And we were scouting Pelle, was mentioned in the media the other week by the club that we had been looking at him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Tbf we were linked to Bony while he was in Holland. Can spot De Jong - the s*** one, but we were never linked with Pelle. SMH. Is only he had the benefit of hindsight like you, then he'd be the perfect scout. Fuck off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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