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New safety measures brought in at Heathrow

agreed, Modric would be a great signing.

From The Times January 24, 2008 Kevin Keegan joins race to lure Jonathan Woodgate from Teesside George Caulkin Tottenham Hotspur have made contact with Middlesbrough regarding Jonathan Woodgate, although the North London club are expected to face competition from Newcastle United for the centre half. Kevin Keegan is a known admirer of the 28-year-old – he handed him his England debut in 1999 – and may attempt to take him back to St James’ Park. As of yet, no bid from Newcastle has been forthcoming, but Keegan is understood to have taken soundings from associates of Woodgate, who spent 20 months on Tyneside before signing for Real Madrid for £13.4 million in 2004. There are unconfirmed suggestions that the defender has become unsettled at his hometown club, even though he joined them on a permanent basis only last year. After his successful loan spell on Teesside last season, Woodgate’s form has dipped and while he has been troubled by cramp and hamstring injuries, Gareth Southgate’s team have appeared more assured without him. The return to fitness of Robert Huth and Emanuel Pogatetz have been supplemented by the superb form of David Wheater, whose emergence from the club’s academy has more than compensated for Woodgate’s inconsistencies and frailties. Middlesbrough have not encouraged suitors and there has been no official word from Newcastle, but any offer would be considered. Sam Allardyce had also been monitoring Woodgate’s form and Keegan made reference to Newcastle being obliged to sign “awkward” players this week. It is a category into which Woodgate, who has had off-field difficulties, falls. “In this area, we’re not always going to get the very best,” Keegan said. “We sometimes get the ones with warts and all.” The approach from Tottenham, which was made on Tuesday, is intriguing, given that Woodgate becomes the third Middlesbrough player to be targeted by the club during this transfer window. Having had little luck in pursuing Adam Johnson and Stewart Downing, they have turned to Woodgate as they seek cover for Ledley King. While they have been credited with an interest in Shola Ameobi, the Newcastle striker, Middlesbrough hope to sign Fred, of Lyons, and Afonso Alves, his fellow Brazil striker whose purported transfer from Heerenveen to AZ Alkmaar was declared void by Dutch authorities last night. AZ claimed they had a signed agreement with Alves, delaying his move to Teesside, but their case has been dismissed. Alves has met Southgate and negotiated personal terms with Middlesbrough. Although a fee has to be determined, a sum of about £11 million has been mentioned. Alves, 26, has scored 48 goals in as many matches in all competitions for the Eredivisie club over this season and last. He would, however, require a work permit. Goran Pandev, the Lazio forward, insisted yesterday that Newcastle have made a bid for his services. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia player has been at the Italian club since 2004 and his versatility would make him attractive to Keegan, who has said that his team lack creativity. “This morning the club told me about an offer from Newcastle,” Pandev said. “I am used to [receiving] offers recently, but I don’t decide, so it’s not up to me again. Several days ago we agreed with Lazio that I would stay until June, but anything is possible.”

Cunts !

I do enjoy savouring my own farts, I seem to be the only person able to tolerate them in any capacity, except for if I have Stagg Chilli, then and only then do I find them totally repugnant.

David Rozehnal is 'convinced' Kevin Keegan's 'natural authority' will ensure Newcastle United climb the Premier League table. The Magpies' poor start to the season led to the departure of Sam Allardyce, with Keegan sensationally returning as manager earlier this month. Newcastle currently sit 12th in the table and have picked up just two league wins in their previous 14 fixtures. But Rozehnal, who was brought to St James' Park by Allardyce last summer, is positive Keegan will turn the club's fortunes around. "He has natural authority; that is why he is a legend of English and world football," Rozehnal told Pravo. "To us players he is more like a friend, like one of us. "For example, the preparation for the Bolton game was completely different to what it was under Sam Allardyce. "Keegan was sitting amongst us, spoke to each of us and told each player what he wanted from him to play in the game, cheered him and motivated as if he was an older team-mate. "This is exactly what we needed in this period of time. I am convinced that under him we will go up." Midfield dream Rozehnal also explained that he realised a dream last Saturday when he played in midfield against Bolton Wanderers. "After nearly a year I played in centre midfield. It was also one of my dreams, to play in this position, and this dream has come true," he concluded.

According the BBC, Southampton manager, George Burley is to be offered the vacant Scottish managers job, could this lead the way for Shearer to go back to his old club to begin his managerial career ???

Everyone has their price.

Tell Shola to hurry up, I've got the engine running.

If we sign Beckham, I'll eat my arse.

Strikes me as a bit of a douchebag though. I think the use of the word "douchebag" is worthy of a ban from the board

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By MARTIN HARDY - More by this author » Last updated at 21:26pm on 21st January 2008 Kevin Keegan's move for Micah Richards could spark a new boom in player wages, driven even higher by the ambition and spending power of Newcastle owner Mike Ashley. Keegan has set his sights on landing the 19-year-old England defender, who has still to sign a new deal at Manchester City, where he is involved in a contract wrangle. Richards remains the poorest-paid player in the England squad on just £15,000 a week and talks over a new four-and-a-half-year deal at City remain ongoing. While the situation drags on, Keegan, backed by Ashley's money and an offer in the region of £70,000 a week, is ready to move. And yet another club prepared to pay astronomical wages is certain to drive the going rate skyward. Richards' plan had been to stay with City and then plot a move to a side with genuine title aspirations, but Keegan has proven in the past that he can persuade players to make decisions they had previously ruled out. Keegan will also have to fend off Spurs, who want Richards as well. Two more realistic targets are Daniel van Buyten and Pascal Chimbonda. The former, a strapping central defender with Bayern Munich, is available on a loan deal until the end of the season, making him a particularly attractive proposition. Chimbonda would cost in the region of £4m but there are now doubts about his character after he looked for a second move in two years. Keegan has admitted he will keep Michael Owen as his captain at Newcastle. The move is seen as conciliatory, after Owen's attack on Keegan's tenure as England manager. 'I think we'll leave it with him at the moment, and if he comes to me and says he enjoys it, then we can look at it longer term,' he said. 'I looked at the players I had got, and I honestly believed Michael was the most experienced player on the pitch, along with Shay Given. 'I told Shay I would like Michael to lead it from the front, and he said, "Fine - I fully understand. I've got no problems with that".' Former Newcastle and Chelsea defender Celestine Babayaro is set to sign a three-year deal with LA Galaxy. Babayaro's contract at St James' Park was bought out last month after the injury-prone full back started just 45 league games in four years with the club. He will join former Chelsea boss Ruud Gullit at LA, who took him to Stamford Bridge in 1997.

What a prick.

Newcastle United boss Kevin Keegan will not be forced into adding to his squad during the January transfer window. Despite seeing his new side draw a blank at home to Bolton on Saturday, Keegan is taking his time in selecting the right transfer targets. Speaking to BBC Radio Newcastle he said: "It's no good collecting players. All the players here are useful to us. "Can we just get one or two who can take us to the next level along with the one's we've got? I think we can." Although he was disappointed with some aspects of Saturday's 0-0 draw, Keegan is still excited about the challenge ahead. It's no good collecting players. All the players here are useful to us. Kevin Keegan "No excuses but this team got beat 6-0 a week ago, this team lost to suspension three key players and already lost four to the African Nations Cup. "So if you add all those things together and you see the quality of the side we could still put out, and the fact we can bring people in, that's the exciting thing. "But you couldn't get excited about the football we played."

Daniel van Buyten's agent has hinted the Bayern Munich defender could be tempted by a move to Newcastle United. Reports have claimed that the Belgium international is among the players new Magpies boss Kevin Keegan is looking to sign before the close of the transfer window. Van Buyten's future with Bayern is uncertain, with the centre-half struggling to secure regular football this season. He recently admitted that he may be interested in a switch to Scottish champions Celtic, while Premier League clubs are also in his trail. The former Marseille stopper played under Keegan at Manchester City after spending the second half of the 2003/04 season with the club. Appreciated And, according to his representative Christophe Henrotay, a reunion with Keegan at St James' Park would not be ruled out. "Daniel would like to carry on doing his job at Bayern, but I have said to Kevin, 'Anything can happen, the truth today is not the truth tomorrow'," said Henrotay in The Guardian.

We need him as bait for the Berbatov deal

The England international Nicky Shorey is among those in Kevin Keegan's sights as the Newcastle manager tries to add a few names to his squad before the end of the month, as well as speaking to Alan Shearer about the possibility of him joining the back-room staff at St James' Park. Shorey, 26, has only 18 months left on his existing deal with Reading and has shown no inclination to sign a new contract with the club. With his value likely to decline steeply in the summer, he is a feasible target this month and would cost Newcastle around £5.5m. A deal for Shorey to join West Ham fell through in the summer. The signing of a left-back is only a small part of the rebuilding job that Keegan is faced with at Newcastle. Nonetheless Shorey represents an opportunity to land an England player who has valuable Premier League experience. The key moves over the next few days are also expected to involve Keegan trying to complete his loyal back-room staff. The one bequeathed him by his predecessor, Sam Allardyce, numbers around 30, which is not the kind of tight circle of advisers that Keegan favours. In Shearer's case, the signs are that he would accept a role with Keegan if both men thought it appropriate. Keegan is doing little to dampen expectation, saying, when asked if he would be "comfortable" working with someone of Shearer's stature: "Yes, I wouldn't have a problem with that at all. Alan Shearer is going to manage this football club one day, that's for sure. It's the same as when I left here as a player, I knew I would come back as manager if I wanted to. There are some players like that who get that opportunity, it's just a case of when." The two men have had their first conversation, last Friday, which was short but friendly and Shearer has said he will call Keegan on his return from a Sport Relief charity trip to Uganda this week. "I think two things," Keegan said. "One is that I know he [shearer] loves the club. People sometimes don't think that's enough but it's a good base. I don't mean this disrespectfully, it [management] has just not been his priority until now. If common sense prevails, I've got three and a half years here and, yeah – if common sense prevails. But let's get to that. I'm reluctant to discuss those things in public." Keegan has Terry McDermott alongside him from the existing Newcastle staff and is bringing back Arthur Cox to St James' Park. There is a growing belief that a significant number of the permanent staff brought in by Allardyce will be asked to leave and, if Keegan is left with only McDermott and the 69-year-old Cox as his senior colleagues, then there would be room for Shearer to be an influential No 2. Keegan is still expected to add another coach even if Shearer comes in. "We had a good conversation," Shearer said. "We didn't go into detail, so what we've agreed is when I get back at the end of the week I'll give him a ring and we'll see where we go."

Celestine Babayaro has agreed a three-year deal with Los Angeles Galaxy after being released by Newcastle United. The left back, 29, will play under Ruud Gullit, who signed him for Chelsea in 1997.

Quoted for truth, and worth every penny.

Being John Malkovich Seriously fucked up mentalism of a movie, loved it !

This is like being asked to choose between gonorrhea or syphilis

Faith No More - Everythings ruined