I hope he gets it all, seen as he's been given very little this summer to spend.

You never know with them money grabbing s

I reckon he'll do well if he goes to Everton away from the pressure of a "Top 4 Club"...

Yeah into (2/1) from (20/1) Apparently! Chairman Ken Bates has also said that a new contract offer would be offered to Beckford in the next 24 hours, Oh well if he was to leave we'll miss his goals but not his link up play, Work effic or Disciplinary issues!...


Also the reported [i(SkySports News)[/i £7.5/8m for Fabian Delph is a fantastic piece of business by Leeds United IMO for a 19 year old who has only made 44 First Team Apperances...

Better than £80m to the yanks and £0m to Ferguson.

Just an architects fantasy proposal. Probably just to get publicity for himself. Building an island in Dubai for a "7 Star" hotel is one thing, but building an island for an 150,000 seat football stadium is a completely different scenario.

Maybe you should have passed it less than good, then you might have stayed up.

Ho-hum.

It was plainly obvious to see that Newcastle were poor all over the pitch. The strikers did not get enough chances but still misfired most of them time apart from the odd wonder strike from Oba. The midfield lacked any real creativity and pace and also did not seem to able to protect the back four all that well. The defence was very poor at times, lots of individual mistakes from most of the defence including Taylor. Taylor seems to have potential but then will go and have a 'Bramble' type moment.

A lot of the problems stem from having no leadership on the management front, lets face it JK was a joke and spent more time whinging and swearing at reporters than he did coaching.

It will be really interesting to see what happens to them this season, they have a number of players who I would imagine would be leaving but there has been little movement as yet, unless I have missed any. Bassong, Beye, Lovenkrands, Viduka, Oba, Owen, Barton, Nolan and Guiterrez would all be leaving I expect? As yet only Owen has gone and they don't seem to have signed any players, found a buyer or have a manager. I honestly think they could go down again, hope not but it would not surprise me.

I'm not sure how true that is. Supposedly before Alonso went he could still sign at least one player however:

Out
Alonso (30 million)
Leto (£3 million)
Dossena (£4 million....soon)
Arbeloa (£3.5 million)

In
Johnson (£10 million when you take the money they still owed us for Crouch off)

Now according to the yanks, he had £20 million at the start of the window. In my eyes that leave us now with £50 million to spend if he gets all the money from his sales which I would imagine he will insist on.

Maybe wishful thinking though.

From what I've read regarding this summer, the signing of Johnson really stretched us.

Apparently Aquilani is set for a tough medical, the Echo says the club have doubts over his fitness, I'm not sure if he's fully recovered from ankle surgery.

Also, the Echo completely dismisses Poulsen to us, saying he's not even on our radar. I'll believe the Echo over Sky, easy.

The new skysportsnews music is terrible

He's not good enough for Liverpool IMO. I am sure there are many better options.

Ability-wise, he is. But I have doubts over his mentality, his fitness and his potential to improve defensively.

Viable options? I really can't think of many mate. Aquilani, Defour and Poulsen are the ones linked. The thing that concerns me the most about the trio is that they are coming from Italy (alot slower paced) and Belgium (not at the same standard as the Prem). I'd rather sign someone from the Premiership or La Liga personally, but if we are taking viable options who aren't going to be over inflated pricewise I'm struggling for names.

Defensively shouldn't be a huge problem as Alonso wasn't exactly defensive minded when he had Mascherano around. His great strength was pinging passes. Ideally we want a decent passer who scores goals as well. Alonso and Masch contributed 1 goal between them last year. If this player we sign can prodce 5 goals a season it will be an improvement on that.

Arteta?

I think Alonso's defensive game was massively underrated. He was always there to win the second ball, and he often broke play down. I remember when we played Villa away and Xabi was asked to man mark Carew, he done it really well and he acted like another centre back.

I think Aquilani can do Xabi's job on the ball very well, he's probably got more to his game in an attacking sense, but he does go missing and he isn't that dominant. Xabi used to be the same during his average couple of seasons he had, but last year he really upped his game, which will make pretty much any player we sign a step down, but Aquilani is still decent.

Kinnear offered 2 year deal at Newcastle apparently.

The club just gets worse and worse, the damage Ashley has done to the club is ridiculous.

Why's he taking so long to sell the club?

Must be pretty bad to be a Newcastle fan at the minute mate. The damage that one person can do to a football club is scary

Oh dear!

No idea pal, does seem to be a bit strange, when there have been offers for it, meeting the £100m that was asked for by Ashley.



It's awful mate, but with the set of idiots at the helm that we do have at the moment, then nothing suprises me anymore unfortunately. Does make me laugh when people on here tried to defend Ashley and co.









Absolutely mate, it's s*it.

Can't really argue with any of that to be honest.

Owen and Oba didn't seem to find the net when they were presented with a few presents , and at other times the service to them was crap so you cant blame them for that.

Oba has gone by the way mate, he has signed for Wolfsburg.

I would imagine Bassong and Beye will be next to leave, both players are good players too who we need, but Bassong wants to move, and was fined the maximum fine possible for not meeting the team to go to Dundee last week.

It doesn't suprise me that we were relegated and still end up in the mess we are at the moment, with Ashley at the helm. The guy is a complete idiot and is inept at running a football club, you know how bad it is when Sir Bobby Robson was quoted as saying that Dennis Wise helped to wreck the club and that he can forgive many people in his life, but wasn't sure if he could forgive Wise for doing what he did to his club.

Still, all Ashley's apologists will still surface, somehow, i dont know. Llambias is a clueless pr*ck and hasn't a clue either and continually tries to make positive soundings from the club, more so recently at how confident he is about a sale going through. Absolute nutcase.

I bet he's lying.

He'd better be lying.

Now telling BBC he's turned it down

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He claims he was meant to go back for the Dundee game.

States that he has lost some of 'his' players, Viduka, Owen, Martins, etc...

Also states there would be no money for him to buy players.