Jimbo

There will be more reason to protest by the end of January methinks.

Credit to the lad: http://www.stephenireland.com/

Joe Kinnear may be formulating plans for the January transfer window, but the sense of drift that continues to infect Newcastle United was highlighted yesterday when Steve Harper admitted that he is yet to be offered a new contract. Along with Michael Owen and Nicky Butt, the experienced goalkeeper’s present deal expires next summer, but there have been no negotiations regarding an extension. Harper’s comments were a statement of fact, not a complaint, but as a reflection of events at St James’ Park, they were illustrative. At 33, Harper is in his prime for his position — as he demonstrated under Kevin Keegan in the latter half of last season — but, as things stand, he, Owen, his captain, and Butt will be entitled to leave on free transfers at the end of the season. With the prospective sale of the club likely to be delayed until February — one of two American investment groups interested in buying Newcastle is engaged in due diligence — and Mike Ashley, the owner, reluctant to sanction expenditure before his departure, it seems unlikely that talks will begin. The perils of losing such established players should be obvious. “My contract is up in the summer and I haven’t been offered a new one,” Harper said. “There are a few of us in the same boat and we’ll just keep working and see what happens. With everything that’s been going on, I don’t know what the situation is. Related Links “But I’ve been fully committed here for the best part of 16 years and I’ll remain so until somebody tells me otherwise. When Kevin was here he did mention he would like to give me a new deal, but he’s not here any more and it’s died a death. It’s a hypothetical question. If the option was there, I would consider it, but at this moment in time, it’s not.” Kinnear, the interim manager, has been told that, should he remain in situ in January, he will be required to balance the books if he wishes to add to Newcastle’s flimsy squad and with the team just one place above the Barclays Premier League relegation zone, the chances are that he will. Kinnear has made contact with Roma about signing John Arne Riise, the former Liverpool left back who was a target of Keegan, on a loan basis. “We have been in touch with Roma to see what kind of package they are looking at for Riise,” Kinnear said. “We’re waiting to hear back from them.” Kinnear has denied reports that Charles N’Zogbia is one of the players he would readily jettison and the French midfield player, whose attitude has been questioned, has clarified his position after he was quoted last weekend as having expressed an interest in joining Paris Saint-Germain. “In an ideal world I would want to stay with Newcastle United,” N’Zogbia said. “This is the first time I have spoken about my future and those quotes attributed to me over the weekend came from my agent back in France. Obviously I am not happy that I have hardly featured in Joe Kinnear’s starting line-up recently, but that is up to me to put right.”

So is Woolworths.

I have a permanent erection anyway.....

Just watched the final ever episode of The Shield. Gutted

The payment is over several seasons, not just a lump sum.

I thought they had already denied any links to the purchase of NUFC.

Sold Owen to Chelsea for £10m who dislocated his hip on the day of the transfer and is now out for 5 months.

How did you get it ??

http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=21650 Burnout Paradise Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 Half-Life 2: Orange Box FIFA09

I got it via rapidshare have you got it yet ? naa just going to look now Check your pm's

How much did you win Brock ?

Its on this one too ffs http://thinkitsallover.blogspot.com/2007/0...led-leaked.html

Seriously WTF

Gusset sniffer I'd imagine.

Not guilty

I got it via rapidshare have you got it yet ?

1600 Kick off FULL TEAMS Sunderland v West Ham Sunderland: Fulop, Bardsley, Nosworthy, Ferdinand, Collins, Malbranque, Whitehead, Reid, Richardson, Jones, Cisse. Subs: Colgan, Tainio, Edwards, Diouf, Meyler, Colback, Henderson. West Ham: Green, Neill, Collins, Upson, Ilunga, Faubert, Parker, Bowyer, Behrami, Bellamy, Cole. Subs: Lastuvka, Boa Morte, Mullins, Davenport, Collison, Di Michele, Sears.

from 365:

1330 GMT KICK-OFF Tottenham 1-0 Blackburn Pavlyuchenko

CHARLES N’ZOGBIA has revealed he is set to demand a move to Paris St Germain — as German giants Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund enter the race for him. N’Zogbia admitted his agent has held talks with PSG and that he plans to ask Newcastle to let him make a “dream” switch to the French capital in January. The 22-year-old has started just seven league games this season, having spent seven weeks on the bench including yesterday’s trip to Chelsea. And although interim Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear has been keen to talk up his prospects at St James’s Park, N’Zogbia insists he wants a new start — and regular football — across the Channel. “My agent is in regular contact with Paris,” he said. “It could be as good a deal for me as it is for them. “I am still under contract with Newcastle, but this would be a good progression for my career. “Newcastle know that I am looking for more playing time. If a transfer can be done, all the better. “I am 22-years-old. I want to play. I must soon meet the leaders of Newcastle to take stock. “Paris’s interest flatters me. As a boy, I dreamed of playing for them. I always have.” However, the prospect of bigger wages and Champions League football at Bayern would also be tempting. The Sunday Sun understands both Bayern and Dortmund have sounded out third parties about N’Zogbia’s interest in a move to Germany. But whoever covets him most, it may take more than a mooted figure of £5 million to persuade Newcastle to do business for a player still rated as a prodigious, if enigmatic, talent. Meanwhile, Kinnear has confirmed to the Sunday Sun that the two players he hopes to sign on loan if still at United in January are a left-back and a centre-half. Although Roma’s Liverpool old boy John Arne Riise and Germany international Marcel Schafer have been mooted as the left-back in question, that would seemingly rule out Arsenal midfielder Denilson, but not Blackburn centre-back Chris Samba. Elsewhere, former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd is playing hard-ball in discussions over a takeover deal for Real Mallorca. Shepherd is thought to be demanding that a meeting this week with president Vicente Grande — in which he would re-evaluate the La Liga club’s books — takes place in London.