Players who would have left the club under Roeder, but will now stay.

[Cajun]

gooch for his long throws!

 

Being fair I've been thinking exactly the same thing

 

I don't think Allardyce is gonna sign someone for their long throws if he does I am sure we can get Dave Challinor cheaper!

[La Parka]

gooch for his long throws!

 

Being fair I've been thinking exactly the same thing

 

I don't think Allardyce is gonna sign someone for their long throws if he does I am sure we can get Dave Challinor cheaper!

 

He is at Bury if you are interested sam!

[toontownman]

Love to see what Allardyce could do with Luque if he isnt already signed, sealed and delivered to PSV's door.

 

Bramble will no doubt get "Yet another chance".

 

Unfortunatley Id say Carr and maybe Babayaro might have futures too.

 

Gooch is as good as gone, Moore wants to go regardless.

 

Owen who knows, I think he will stay, but stranger things have happened.

 

Likewise N'Zogbia

 

Sibbers will probably get another year extension as will Nobby.

 

Will be interesting to see who gets another chance and who is shipped out.

 

Like someone said earlier he will definatley want to analyse every player first when he gets here, problem is after Sunday they go off on holidays til pre-season, so where that is going to happen other than personal meetings who knows.

[sempuki]

Interesting topic and he would be Jesus incarnate if he could make wine from the sewage that is Luque and Bramble. He's rehabilitated miscreants in the past but this would be miraculous!

[thewellander]

It remember reading somewhere in the press that Milner might have had a bad patch with Roeder. So, he might fit into this category of someone who would have left sooner rather than later under Roeder. I hope that he stays and improves under Allardyce, and gets a lot of first team football next year, because he deserves it.

[Howaythelads]

At their best this would be a canny front six

 

                            Parker

              Dyer                      Emre

 

      Martins          Owen            Luque

 

Although, i'm convinced Luque has gone.

 

That with N'zogbia/ Duff for Luque would do tbh.

 

Just need a whole new back 4 then...

 

Yes, agree about kicking Luque out, so that with Butt for Parker would do tbh.

[Howaythelads]

Love to see what Allardyce could do with Luque if he isnt already signed, sealed and delivered to PSV's door.

 

Bramble will no doubt get "Yet another chance".

 

Unfortunatley Id say Carr and maybe Babayaro might have futures too.

 

Gooch is as good as gone, Moore wants to go regardless.

 

Owen who knows, I think he will stay, but stranger things have happened.

 

Likewise N'Zogbia

 

Sibbers will probably get another year extension as will Nobby.

 

Will be interesting to see who gets another chance and who is shipped out.

 

Like someone said earlier he will definatley want to analyse every player first when he gets here, problem is after Sunday they go off on holidays til pre-season, so where that is going to happen other than personal meetings who knows.

 

He'll know a lot about the players already.

[Thespence]

By the time he joins the club Titus will be in Aya Napa in his speedeos busting moves to the rewind. Gooch will be goine as well.

[Gallowgate End]

I think Big Sam will try and make Onyewu a permanent signing.

 

He is a huge figure, powerful strength, and very strong in the air and Sam Allardyce will be impressed with his extreme long throw.

 

I think buying Onyewu age 24 at £3-4 million is a better bet then keeping Bramble on with a new contract. 

[Gallowgate End]

Still if Big Sam decides to keep Onyewu or Bramble i think he will still want to buy a Top (in the Woodgate mold like under Sir Bobby) partner for Steven Taylor and that will be his priority this Summer.

[sempuki]

SAM TAKING JOEY WITH HIM

EXCLUSIVE He's heading for Toon.. and bad boy Joey is going with him

By Alan Nixon

SAM ALLARDYCE will put pen to paper on a £13MILLION Newcastle deal this week...and immediately make a controversial move for Joey Barton.

 

Magpies chairman Freddy Shepherd has offered Allardyce a four-year contract worth £3.25m a season. That will put him on a par with Rafa Benitez and Arsene Wenger - and behind only Jose Mourinho and and Sir Alex Ferguson in the Premiership wage list.

 

He has also been promised substantial transfer funds by Shepherd.

 

And Allardyce will spark immediate debate by tabling a £5m bid for Barton.

 

The disgraced Manchester City midfielder could face police action after his training-ground fight with team-mate Ousmane Dabo - an incident that saw City boss Stuart Pearce ban Barton for the rest of the season.

 

Barton - who is also in the sights of Everton and Spurs - will not play for City again but the club are holding out for a £5.5m fee.

 

 

Allardyce is also planning a raid on old club Bolton for Nicolas Anelka if Newcastle get the right offer for Michael Owen in the transfer window.

 

 

Owen's fragile relationship with Shepherd looks certain to end with the England star leaving.

 

 

And that will spark Allardyce's move for Anelka. Bolton believe they have an agreement with Allardyce that bars him from taking their players and staff. But if Newcastle match any offers for Anelka, then they will get their man.

 

 

Wanderers chief Sammy Lee admits Anelka could go and prices of between £12m and £20m have been bandied around in the past few days.

 

 

Allardyce is also heading for a battle with Bolton for FC Sion's Swiss Under-21 midfielder Gelson Fernandes.

 

 

Allardyce, 52, will be unveiled as the sixth manager of Shepherd's tenure as chairman later this week and handed at least £16m to strengthen his squad.

 

 

And the Magpies are going to back Allardyce's move to bring in his own expert medical and scientific teams.

 

 

The total outlay - including Allardyce's salary - will top £30m but Shepherd believes he has finally landed the man who can end Newcastle's barren years.

 

[sempuki]

EXCLUSIVE: BIG SAM'S BIG KITTY

ALLARDYCE TO BE UNVEILED THIS WEEK

Brian Mcnally 13/05/2007

SAM ALLARDYCE will be handed a £25million transfer fund as he bids to meet the challenge of restoring Newcastle to the Premiership top six.

 

The former Bolton boss will sign a fouryear deal worth about £10million this week to succeed Glenn Roeder - whose departure as Toon manager was revealed exclusively in last week's Sunday Mirror.

 

Chairman Freddy Shepherd, who lunched with Allardyce at Claridges in London on Friday, plans further formal talks over the next 48 hours, with the official unveiling likely to be on Tuesday or Wednesday.

 

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Shepherd and Allardyce want the negotiations and the contract signed before Thursday, when both men plan to attend the Football Writers' Association dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London.

 

Newcastle sources say the deal is "99.9 per cent certain" to go through although the two sides have still to finalise key issues such as the size and cost of Big Sam's backroom staff.

 

But Allardyce has been assured his transfer kitty will be considerably in excess of the £15m Roeder spent last summer.

 

The Toon chairman told Sunday Mirror Sport: "The first job for the new manager is to get Newcastle back into the top six and to make sure the club is playing regularly in Europe. That is the minimum we expect.

 

"Where we are in the Premier League this season simply isn't acceptable to either me or our fans. The managerial change is about re-establishing Newcastle United as a formidable power in both the Premiership and Europe.

 

"Sam Allardyce knows that a club with Newcastle's support, resources and wage bill must be challenging at the top end of the table.

 

"You only have to look at what he achieved in transforming Bolton to know that his credentials match the job description.

 

"But Sam knows just how badly affected we were with injuries last season. He has a lot of sympathy for Glenn Roeder."

 

And Shepherd broke his silence on Roeder's departure to praise the former manager. He added: "The performance against Blackburn simply wasn't good enough and Glenn knew that. He did the honourable thing and resigned.

 

"But I appreciate everything he did for Newcastle. He will remain a personal friend and a friend to Newcastle United."

 

Allardyce intends to keep the existing senior Newcastle coaching trio of Nigel Pearson, Terry McDermott and Lee Clark in place until he has a chance to evaluate his staff needs.

 

One of the first major tasks for Allardyce will be to sort out the future of striker Michael Owen, linked with a move away from Tyneside amid claims of a £9m get-out clause in his contract.

 

Allardyce is desperate to keep Owen at Newcastle, and talks of a summer bid from Manchester United have been rubbished by senior Old Trafford sources.

 

Allardyce's hand may be strengthened by the fact that Shepherd is close to resolving his dispute with the FA over Newcastle's compensation claim for Owen's medical treatment following last summer's World Cup injury.

 

Shepherd threatened to prevent Owen playing against Brazil and Estonia next month if there was no negotiated settlement, but the Magpies chief has revealed the two sides are now close to a compromise.

 

And Shepherd has intimated that Owen, called up for the England B squad last week, will be released for the Wembley friendly with the Brazilians and the vital World Cup game in Estonia five days later.

 

Shepherd said: "We are still talking with the FA and I am sure common sense will prevail."

 

[sempuki]

SAM PLAN TO LIFT FOG OVER TYNE 

 

 

 

 

Sunday May 13,2007

By John Richardson 

But Shearer was first Geordie pick

 

Sam Allardyce will sign a four-year deal worth £12million this week with orders to spark a Newcastle United revolution.

 

After originally insisting Big Sam would never be given another opportunity to manage on Tyneside after turning down the job in the aftermath of Sir Bobby Robson’s sacking, chairman Freddy Shepherd has done an about-turn.

 

He decided that with Glenn Roeder rapidly losing support from the Toon army, and with Allardyce severing his ties with Bolton, it was too good a chance to miss.

 

But I can reveal the move for Allardyce came only after former Newcastle United skipper Alan Shearer was sounded out about the job.

 

Shearer, though, believed the timing was wrong. He has only just completed his first year as a front-line pundit for the BBC and had made a commitment to spend more time with his family.

 

 

That was like tossing almost £50m into the Tyne, along with the inflated wages also lost

 

Despite his love and affection for his home-town club, who travel to Watford today, he declined to step into the ­manager’s seat.

 

That will now be occupied by Allardyce, who has received assurances from Shepherd that he will be able to do the job his way.

 

It will mean a complete revamp of the St James’ Park backroom set-up with Allardyce insisting his modern thinking – which helped Bolton reach unprecedented heights in the Premiership – is replicated at Newcastle.

 

Allardyce employed a backroom staff of 28 at The Reebok, which included sports scientists, dieticians and specialist trainers.

 

 

He wants a similar scenario in the North East which will obviously eat into the St James’ Park budget.

 

But Allardyce knows that to succeed at a club with such high expectations – but which has endured low returns on the playing field in recent years – he has to be able to operate within the right environment.

 

Although millions of pounds have been wasted by several Newcastle managers since the successful Kevin Keegan era, Shepherd has promised adequate transfer funds will be made available.

 

Shepherd will hope Big Sam invests the cash better than some of his predecessors who have been guilty of over-spending on players including Marcelino, Hugo Viana, Jean-Alain Boumsong and Albert Luque.

 

That was like tossing almost £50m into the Tyne, along with the inflated wages also lost.

 

Allardyce is a shrewd cookie in the foreign market and will be expected to keep that up – although at a lower average age.

 

Even though he has yet to be officially installed as Newcastle’s latest boss, he has been involved in trying to rescue the deal involving Reading’s Steve Sidwell.

 

Sidwell had agreed to join the Geordies on a Bosman free when Roeder was in charge, but has since begun talks with other clubs including Chelsea and Everton.

 

Allardyce has let it be known that he would love the energetic midfielder to be part of his Newcastle side, but Chelsea are the new favourites to sign him.

 

He will also be heavily involved in talks about Michael Owen’s future. As Sunday Express Sport revealed, Manchester United are interested in signing the England striker in the summer if he has proved his fitness.

 

An escape clause was inserted in his contract when Newcastle bought him from Real Madrid in August 2005 for £16m which allows him to move for £11m – not £9m which has been widely reported.

 

I believe Allardyce will be ­prepared to let Owen leave so he can utilise the cash for his own transfer targets.

 

It’s going to be a lively summer on Tyneside and made the more intriguing by Roy Keane preparing up the road for Sunderland’s return to the Premiership.

 

 

[Mowen]

Luque's been gash for us, and although there's no reason to suggest that would change I wouldn't mind Allardyce having some time with him on the training ground, see what he can get out of him - he'll be going for free anyway, might as well see if he can make a difference.

[Cajun]

I think Big Sam will try and make Onyewu a permanent signing.

 

I think buying Onyewu age 24 at £3-4 million is a better bet then keeping Bramble on with a new contract. 

 

No it wouldn't, we would be getting a player who has looked as dodgy as Bramble and be paying another £3-4m for the honour!

[iklgizmo]

the thing that worries me is that he will give players like, bramble, carr and baba a chance and they do all right for the first few games and then as soon as the transfer window closes they'l be shit again and we'll be stuck with them

[SEA Mag]

If some of the articles (trying to retain Owen, interest in Barton, reigniting the Sidwell deal, signing Viduka on a free etc, etc) are true Big Sam has been a very, very busy man already even before he is appointed!

[Minhosa]

He'll want to assess each player first, which is the best policy IMO.

 

I'm not so sure about that, if he's scouted the team (when we played them) as well as he is supposed to then he'll be aware of all the weak links in our side, he's probably had an eye on all of our players in the final year of their conract for the past few months too with a view of signing them for Bolton.

 

I can see big changes though, plenty of players coming in who are out of contract with our lot in the same position going out, he'll also move on some of the players on big wages who he can cash in on who aren't worth what their transfer fee will be(Dyer, Parker) players like Ameobi, Butt, Carr, Babayaro, Milner and Ramage will be safe for this season.

 

I also think he'll relish working with Emre as he likes to convert players with a bad reputation.

 

 

 

Baggio,

 

Thats a great point. For me, Emre can be like a Djorkaeff/Okocha in that he could be a tremendous playmaker IF he had someone behind him mopping up/breaking up everything else. Basically, what Parker should do inbetween his "round and round the garden" routine.

 

I think Emre will be a Big Sam type of player and he could be a pivotal player if the team shape suits him. It never has so far.

 

Its no coincidence that our best run of results this season have been when the middle of the park has consisted of him and Butt (when Parker was out for about 10 games or so).

 

I'm not getting too carried away with the impending appointment of Sam for reasons mentioned in another thread BUT one of the big positives for me would be what he could make of Emre and that, at the very least, everyone in the team should know and intimately understand their role in the side. Something they've never had since SBR left imo.