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OS 3.0 out at some point today, possibly 6pm according to rumours.

From The Times June 17, 2009 Wigan not interested in injury-prone Michael Owen If Michael Owen thought that his stock could not fall any farther, the Newcastle United striker might want to think again. Dave Whelan was prepared to break the bank to sign Owen from Real Madrid four years ago before the player's £16million move to St James' Park, but the Wigan Athletic chairman effectively conceded yesterday that he would not touch the England outcast with a barge pole now. Wigan did not receive a copy of the glossy 34-page brochure distributed to eight Barclays Premier League clubs by Owen's management company in a bizarre attempt to drum up interest in the former European Footballer of the Year, and to judge from Whelan's remarks, it was probably a good job. Owen strenuously maintains that he still has the desire to compete at the highest level, but Whelan expressed misgivings over the striker's injury record and wage demands - Owen earns £115,000 a week at Newcastle. “We've not had the brochure,” Whelan said. “Would we be interested? No. One, his wages are too expensive. Two, has he got the urge, the bottle and the drive to do what the Premier League wants? It's a big question. Related Links “I hope he has because he has been a great player. I tried to sign him and said to his agent I would pay £15million to bring him to Wigan and let him leave whenever he wanted. “But he's looking a bit injury-prone now and loves his horses. I'm not criticising the lad, he has been a magnificent player and can still do a hell of a job for somebody, but I think he will want to go to a much bigger club than Wigan. Everton and Liverpool might think differently.” Wigan presented Roberto Martínez as their new manager at the second attempt yesterday after his appointment was initially delayed by a wrangle with Swansea City about compensation for his backroom staff. Whelan took the extraordinary step of reassuring the Spaniard, who has signed a three-year contract worth £1.5million, that his job would be safe even if the club are relegated next season, although the chairman expects the man he signed as a player 14 years ago to be a worthy successor to Steve Bruce. “I'm sticking with Roberto,” Whelan, who sacked Chris Hutchings after only 12 Premier League games in 2007, said. “I want him here for three years minimum. If we go down, he will stay with us - that's for sure.” Wigan are resigned to losing Antonio Valencia, although Whelan claimed that Manchester United will face a fight with Real for the Ecuador winger's signature. Bayern Munich are also understood to have registered their interest. “Man United and Real Madrid have a meeting with us in the next three or four days and the other team have asked for a meeting,” Whelan said. “Real have been in contact once a week for the last six weeks and since Ronaldo joined them. “We can't tell anybody where they're going to play. If Real offered £2million more than United or vice versa, it still depends on where the lad wants to go. If you say have we had a bid in black and white - no.”

Did a good job for Hull last season in the Championship.

Having made only five league appearances last season, Xisco certainly has a point to prove when he faces England at Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium on Thursday in the Uefa Under-21 Championship. The £7 million recruit from Deportivo La Coruna has come to represent the naivety, tension and lack of planning of the Mike Ashley era. Xisco is understood to have been the signing of two Ashley allies, Tony Jimenez and Dennis Wise, whose involvement in transfers antagonised the manager at the time, Kevin Keegan. Xisco fell victim to the politics of St James' Park, being ignored by Keegan, then Joe Kinnear and finally Alan Shearer. He has four years left on a lucrative contract, will learn next season's Championship schedule when the fixtures come out on Wednesday and is incredibly frustrated. "This last year has been hard, very hard," Xisco said yesterday. "When I signed from Coruna I knew Newcastle were a historic team, great fans, great players and a lot of money. "But there were many problems. First it was like a small snowball, then the problems rolled and rolled, got bigger and bigger and then when it was time to wake up it was too late. We did not have time to recover. "I knew the story that Keegan was not the one who wanted to sign me. We never spoke much. I would say 'hello'. That was about it. "When Kinnear came... for me nothing. On that first Monday I knew I would not be playing. There was no communication with Kinnear. I was very angry. For a player the most important thing is respect. I felt they didn't care if I trained well or trained badly. It was 'You stay here and train one or two hours and then go home'. "The first game when Kinnear left [became ill] I played 10 minutes against West Brom and this day was like 'wow, I play again!' Next reserve game I played against Manchester City and I get an injury with my toe. I was out for 2½ months. "At the beginning it improved when Shearer came in. But I understand his situation. He had to use players who had played all season. He had only eight games to change it around. That was too short. But no one thought Newcastle would go down." Xisco paints a picture of a club in paralysis, waiting for Ashley to sell up, leaving players in limbo, although all are available for sale barring the likes of Sebastien Bassong and Steven Taylor. "They don't know what they want," added Xisco of the board. "I don't know what I will do. Newcastle don't know what will happen with the manager, who is the manager, nothing. "I have to wait for a call to see if they want me there or if they want me to go on loan. I cannot afford another year like it. "I need to play. If I can't play at Newcastle I have to find another team. I love England and Newcastle is a nice city to live in. "I was surprised because I had heard many legends about England. About the weather, the food and the time when everything closes – 5pm! "In Spain it is not like this! But I was together with [Fabricio] Coloccini and Jonas [Gutierrez] and life in the city was good. Beautiful people, always friendly. "I am sad for everyone because Newcastle fans are amazing. I remember my first game when I came. It was: 'Wow, what a team, what fans.' "It has all been very sad for the club and the city. When we win or when we lose the mood of the city changes." A regular with Spain's Under-21s despite his travails at Newcastle, Xisco cannot wait for Thursday. "I have to show to the Newcastle fans what I can do. I have given many tips to my team-mates about England. They have a strong team of very good, quick, quality players. We know their principal dangers: [Theo] Walcott and [Gabriel] Agbonlahor. I like the right-back [Micah] Richards too."

That middle fence post needs another coat of creosote tbh.

SKY Sports rehash of the Journal story: Alan Shearer could be named as permanent manager at Newcastle by the end of the week. Although the sale of the club has not yet been finalised, Shearer will be appointed in the hot seat should all prospective buyers agree on his appointment. Anyone interested in paying the £100million asking price has until Wednesday to prove they have the funds required. Providing Shearer gets a unanimous vote from those prospective buyers, he will be appointed permanent manager of the football club within the next few days. It could still be weeks before a takeover is complete, but Newcastle managing director Derek Llambias says the club are close to making a significant announcement. Movement "There could be some movement regarding Alan Shearer at the end of this week or early next week," he told Journal Live. "The data room will be open on Wednesday, which will allow the groups who have proved they have the money to buy the club to look at the books. Nobody has been able to do that yet because the data room hasn't been opened. "We will not be making any decision on Alan as manager, that is not up to us, that is down to the groups who are buying the club. "If they want to appoint him, then it's up to them. We will speak to them about it. If they do want Alan then something could be done in the next few days. That's where we are at this stage and everything is ongoing."

I'm very cynical about these "storys", but I hope this is true for the sake of the future of the club.

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The 3rd film has nothing to do with him either ! He's barely in it ! It was originally meant to be him winning the 2010 World Cup with Mexico or Argentina. I dont know what the fuck happened but the story changes to some pisshead let go by Real Madrid who gets signed by NUFC and gets knocked out of the 2006 World Cup in the quarters Talk about being out of date, all the footage is 3 years old!!! Isn't that because it's set in 2006 ?

The 3rd film has nothing to do with him either ! He's barely in it !

Incredibly, the film is actually worse than the cover.

I've found that that iTunes seems to have a different sync profile for each device, but once it's been set for each device mine has been fine with manually managing each.

Goal 2 isn't bad but not a patch on the first one, Goal 3 on the other hand

Never used it, but I have used mediamonkey, but it's only good for transfering music, as long as you manage your devices manually, IE turn auto sync off, iTunes should be fine, I use my iTunes account with four Apple devices and it's not a problem.

Tvcatchup.com for live tv.

It is the most toe-curlingly Clichéd mess of a movie I think I've ever seen.

I nearly fell over when I saw the Geordie England fans wearing the red and white striped scarves.

Ronald McDonald would be a quantum leap of an improvement over Ashley.

Americans favourite to take over Newcastle By Michael Walker Monday, 15 June 2009 There appears to be some confidence in the City of London that the proposed sale of Newcastle United has entered a new phase and that an as yet undisclosed American consortium is favourite to buy the Championship club from owner Mike Ashley. Whether Ashley gets the £100m asking price remains to be seen but there are suggestions a preliminary agreement could even be announced this week. Ashley only formally put the club back on the market a week ago, but it is likely that he decided to sell as soon as relegation from the Premier League was confirmed at the end of May and broker Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce was reportedly commissioned to find a buyer soon after. There have been several parties linked with a bid and an American interest has been mentioned from the beginning. It is said that Newcastle have prepared their accounts for due diligence and that the process could be quicker than usual. There is a feeling of the last days of the Ashley regime at St James', from where the managing director, Derek Llambias, was allegedly absent for the bulk of last week. Llambias had suffered the embarrassment of having his company BMW repossessed by a local hire firm. The possible proximity of a sale of the club has also meant that player sales have been placed on hold. But Michael Owen, a free agent, has had a personal brochure produced to advertise his talents, playing and commercial, by his representatives.

Don't fucking bother ! What a train-wreck of a film, straight to DVD, surprised it didn't go straight to VHS, suddenly it's turned into Green Street, no Anna Friel, no "Gavin Harris", and as for that scene at the England match with Mike Ashley in his toon shirt with Paul Kelmsley, I nearly vomited.

The Guardian: Michael Owen's management company has been shopping their client to various clubs with the help of a 34-page brochure that talks up the Newcastle striker. In the document, Wasserman Media Group says: "Were it not for an unhappy spell at Real Madrid and two injury-scarred years at Newcastle, he would be spoken about in the same breath as Torres and Ronaldo and valued in the priceless figures that only match-winning goalscorers ever justify." Owen is out of contract on 30 June and available as a free agent. The Wasserman brochure, reported in the Sunday Mirror, reveals the player would prefer to stay in the Premier League. It says that, in choosing his next move, Owen "is about to make the biggest decision of his football career", and explains that the 29-year-old is "good looking" and "charismatic". Sam Rush, the group's chief operating officer, said: "As one of the world's leading sports agencies, Wasserman regularly utilise comprehensive documentation and audiovisual material to illustrate the benefits of our clients."

The extent of Newcastle United's disastrous management in recent seasons can be exposed by The Sunday Telegraph with the revelation that the club is still paying their notorious midfielder, Joey Barton, £675,000 per year for his image rights. By Duncan White Published: 12:00AM BST 14 Jun 2009 Joey Barton leaves court after admitting assault and affray in May 2008 Photo: PA Newcastle are desperate to reduce their wage bill and this weekend owner Mike Ashley has been in discussions to sell the club for £100 million. But prospective buyers will be concerned that Barton, who spent 11 weeks in prison last summer for common assault and affray, has the highest "image rights" deal at the club according to a well-placed source. City had been close to sacking him in 2004 after he accidentally stubbed out a cigar in the eye of a youth team player Jamie Tandy at their Christmas party and in 2005 he was sent home from a summer tour of Thailand after a fight with a 15-year-old Everton fan. For his attack on Dabo in May 2007, which left the Frenchman heavily bruised and with a suspected detached retina, Barton received a four-month suspended sentence. He signed for Newcastle the month after the assault, just days before Ashley took over complete control at St James' Park. Last December he was arrested outside a McDonald's restaurant in Liverpool and subsequently sentenced to six months in prison for common assault and affray. During the 11 weeks he served in prison Barton would have earned £143,000 for his image rights on his contractual terms. The club did, however, fine him for his misdemeanours. This season, having recovered from injury to help Newcastle's failed efforts to avoid relegation, he was rashly sent off in a crucial game with Liverpool and had to be restrained in a post-match confrontation with interim manager Alan Shearer. The club explored the possibility of sacking him for his actions but are now desperately trying to find a buyer for a player whose total earnings come to nearly £65,000 per week. With Michael Owen at the end of his contract, Barton's image rights payments – which work out at roughly £13,000 a week – are believed to be at least £200,000 higher than those of his best paid team-mates. While most high profile players receive just over 10 per cent of their basic salary, Barton, whose contract runs until 2012, is paid just over 20 per cent. When a player signs for a club he has two options. Either he seeks to profit from selling his own image rights, or he lets the club use his image in exch­ange for an annual payment. This payment goes into the player's 'image company', many of which are based offshore. Almost all players opt for the latter.

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