S Norman

He was quite average me thinks. Some good balls and 30m shots. Lua Lua was better. It was a very dull game anyway.

Deportivo lost and out of the Uefa. This might raise our chances to go back and sign Luque.

He'll be injured by Christmas though

and it's just half time.

"When is this nightmare going to end ?" After Dick Advocaat will be sacked from NUFC.

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I'm not so sure this rule exists. Or we can make a loan deal with a permanent move in January.

Ashton and Cisse could be the best partnership in the Prem for the forthcoming years. Oh, dream on

Ashton would be a fantastic asset to our squad, but not the answer to our current striker problems imo. We would still need a proven quality. I'd love him to sign though.

He's travelling incognito

I really fear for Shearer not to become that for Newcastle what Souness is for Liverpool, from a legend to a public enemy. I hope he's not gonna be our next manager.

Shola is suspended

I like Boumsong and Emre also looks promising. I don't want to say that all of his signings are rubbish, but the guy is a bit one dimensional imho. It's not a rocket science to name Owen as our new successor, but I'm sure that we could find some decent strikers in the foreign leagues who could do a job. It's always a gamble, I know, but a good manager could find his men. It's all the same on the pitch too. Our current squad is only capable to play 443 or 451, and if it doesn't work, Souness will be unable to change his tactics, because our team is unbalanced. We are full of central midfielders, but don't have wingers to play 442.

I'm not too happy with his signings either. He bought Babayaro and Faye in January just to replace them with Coco and Parker just a half year later. He named just 3 strikers and hasn't got a clue who else could do a job for us upfront. If we fail to land either Anelka or Owen, which is quite likely we will end with what we already have. And that's because he hasn't got an eye for a player.

Who else then? Viduka?

I'm not so sure. Apparently Wenger wants a taller man with technique like Adebayor. I think we have a chance to get him.

Do you think that our lack of transfer activity so far is because FS wants to move for Owen?