GeordieMark

Definitely one of them. Club is a joke now.

Painfully obvious now that the plan was always to get to September doing the bare minimum. As expected as it was its frustrating. It wont be long til Pardew comes out with "Well Gouffran and Sissoko were brought forward in January, they were meant to be Summer signings, so really we have signed 3 players" It is comical now watching us being linked to Belgian defenders and Jelle Vossen on Twitter and idiots actually taking it for truth, then the press (well the Star) running with the story.

Aye, he wants to come here but the agents want their money. I think if we haven't signed him by the end of next week its over and done with.

He is a tease mind. I followed him on Instagram on Saturday night, within a minute he had liked two of my photos. He has then went on a bit of a spree of "liking" many NUFC photos, including one of Pardew and a mock up of him in the new kit. I think its all agreed with him and OL, and he wants to come, just agents and OL being funny with each other and causing delays.

Is that the "line" we need to "get them over" behind Remy and JFK?

I reckon if he gets cleared of this rape case then we will make the deal permanent in the January. Has to be an option to buy there. He has a release clause doesn't he?

I've always said I wouldn't hold any grudges from January due to how good he is. If we can have a selection of Cisse, Remy, Ben Arfa, Gomis and Gouffran for a front 3 then it stands us in very good stead for the season. Imagine the counter attacks man, Debuchy, Santon, Cabaye, Sissoko, Ben Arfa, Remy and Cisse bursting forward.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/8855508/ QPR striker Loic Remy will undergo a medical at Newcastle on Monday ahead of a proposed loan move, according to Sky sources. More to follow. I for one hope that he doesn't stop at HMV on the way up, encounters another PL chairman and has a game of Fifa.

I hope we sign Remy too mind. Gomis looks like a strong lad, but Remy is lightning quick.

While I am on here, does anyone care to take a guess at how many players we have been linked with this transfer window? Don't forget to include Wayne Rooney and Kurt Zouma.

Good point on Ben Arfa, I think he wanted a fresh start, but again he would have left for the highest bidder in terms of wages. I remember Emre too saying he turned down AC Milan for us.

Hope we do sign Remy mind. Nothing can stop him getting the opposition box once he sets his mind to it. Seriously though, people go on about him being a money grabber. All footballers are money grabbers. Cabaye left Lille, and Champions League football, for more money. Ben Arfa too. Yes, they moved from Ligue 1 to the Premier League which would be a draw but ultimately they would not be coming for less money would they? Demba Ba chose us for money, then left for more, and we had people surprised. Imagine you were at Swansea on 20k a week, European football this season. Offers from Cardiff (with a release clause) and Fulham came in and they offered you 40k and 30k respectively, but Cardiff were offering you £500k to sign on, whereas Fulham were offering you £300k, you would be an idiot to turn down the money. If you have no affiliation to a club then you chase the money, just like we do with jobs. At the end of the day, he will score you around 15 goals a season and that is well worth the money reported by the press.

The entire football league...what is Kinnear doing exactly? Is he actually bidding and talking or just sat at home?

Has rejected the role of "Assistant to the Director of Football" Best news all Summer.

Basically Harford coming in to level it up. Joe and Mick's opinions on players against Pardew and Carr. Wonder who Mike will back? The ones he dont will end up leaving. If we have Joe and Mick as 1 & 2 this season I sincerely hope we go down so that fat fuck loses his money and pisses off.

Best scored a couple of important goals that season, QPR, Fulham at home and Villa away, but pivotal? No way. Taylor did well the first 10 games, then was exploited at Man City away, he also got done for pace time and time again v Chelsea at home and Santon came in to start shortly afterwards.

Darren Bent and maybe another striker in and we have the quality in midfield to play good attacking football. I think Mbiwa will do well and Debuchy too, so we could be the "best of the rest" this year.

Like Howay said, I wish we had of went in for Nathan Redmond. Quick, tricky winger who I have seen score and create goals in an average side and he is only 19. £3m is a bargain IMO if Tom Ince is going for £8m. Both are worth around £5m I would say. Tom Ince is another play I would have liked, but he is going for over the odds. Not really bothered about Kone, he is slightly above Average but he isnt better than Cisse and I would say if Gouffran started 32 games up front he would get around the 10 goal mark. I would get Darren Bent in, he will score 15 goals if he plays regularly. The way we "were in" then we "were out" for Kone, I wonder if it was a smokescreen? Feign interest in a player, pursue another target, progress deal for this other target and end the feigned interest in Kone? Seems far fetched, but Marveaux came out the blue...

Aye Jonny haha, he is alright to be fair, just thinks both sides will come bottom half. Mate, another lad in here who claims to be a Newcastle fan said I was daft to think we could finish 7th. So I asked him what would be a realistic points target, he said high 40s, so like 48, 49...that would get us 8th based on last season, so how is finishing 7th out the question like? We would only need to win 3 more games than last season to get 50 points.

Bit generous with your guess at his mental age mind mate!

Just on the back of my previous post, I have a rather funny email from Anal Olive himself, littered with spelling errors in that typical style of his. Could dig it out if anyone fancies a look at it. It was on the back of one of his "EXCLUSIVES" where the story and interview had been ran on SkySportsNews all day. A bit like the Scott Parker press conference and his Amalfitano EXCLUSIVE for the Sunday people, 3 months after Mark Douglas ran it in the Journal...

I would say he has been at the Chronicle for about 10 years easily, he used to shadow Anal Oliver. And remember that lad who knows him, he is mid 30s. I reckon Ryder is 35 but has had a very very hard paper round.

Nufc fans used a video I put on Twitter when Ben Arfa trapped that cross field ball under his foot, can't remember the game, but it was the 11/12 season. They put a link out, would be making money and didn't even credit me or ask for permission. You are right though, they must just sit there looking for it all day during the windows, seeing what news that can source from where. I tend to use Newsnow.co.uk when sat at work and check every couple of hours, if a number of sites are reporting it then I will take it seriously, coincidently that Kone rumour is being reported by the Chronicle, BBC and SkySportsNews. Whether they are just using the VitalWigan site as a source, who knows.

Been linked with Arouna Kone today on that Sports Direct News website, the same one that said we had went for Rooney... Obviously, Ed Harrison on NufcBlog has put it on his site, as he seems to report every rumour no matter the credibility of the source. It has also appeared on VitalWigan and now the Shields Gazette. Doubt that will happen, he was meant to have signed for Everton anyway.

1. Chelsea 2. Man City 3. Man Utd 4. Tottenham 5. Arsenal 6. Liverpool 7. Newcastle 8. West Ham 9. Sunderland 10. Southampton 11. Aston Villa 12. Everton 13. WBA 14. Swansea 15. Norwich 16. Cardiff 17. Stoke 18. Hull 19. Fulham 20. Palace FA Cup: Man Utd League Cup: Chelsea Champions League: Barcelona Europa League: A team from Eastern Europe. I think Fulham have lost a lot of players who were getting 1st team football last season and their squad is small, they might struggle. Swansea will also drop down a few places due to Europe. A few lads in the office think Im daft saying 7th, but I think a points target of 50-55 next season is achievable. That would get us to 7th or 8th based on last season. We have a team full of international players, I think the minimum points target would be 50 with a full pre-season together.