sniffer

Exactly, it's like cheating in Championship Manager to give yourself a budget of £500m. The satisfaction just isn't the same. Sour grapes. When you've lived next door to manu for all these years, every citeh fan will be loving this.

we competed with Liverpool and were ahead of Spurs when Mike Ashley bought the club chum. Do you deal in facts, or are you still just babbling on like a rock ape. I'm talking about now though as it's pointless discussing what Liverpool and Spurs were doing then. Liverpool are spending vast fortunes now. They competed with Man C in spending last year, but you've clearly stated you don't advocate matching Man C for spending. Spurs is a fantastic set up for a club of their means. If we replicated many aspects of their approach I'm sure we could kick on again. Spurs aren't on a par with Liverpool though and we wouldn't be either if we did replicate their system so what you're saying still doesnt make sense on that level. You're confusing results and spending and picking and choosing the bits of the argument to suit. It goes back to what I've said before though Leazes, you can condense your post into just saying: spend as much as the top spenders. It's a perfectly valid statement of desire, but it's not a financial reality. At the end of the day though, we are selling our best players, without the managers agreement on occasions if not most or all of the time, and not giving him the monies received which allows him to build on his current good footballers with more and "go higher". People can say what they like about prudency etc, but if you seriously want to reach for the top places you hit a point where you have to play the transfer game the way that they do. If Mike Ashley had any intention of doing that, we would have seen it by now. His ambitions and aims are crystal clear. That's basically just another way of saying spend the same as Man C and Man U etc etc though, which elsewhere you say you don't advocate. if you see my point. This is all I mean really Leazes with all due respect - what you put forward is the dream when everyone else is trying to get to grips with the current financial reality. That's not just in terms of looking inwards at the ownership of NUFC but outwards at the profiles of our rivals. Now. Today. I've said a million times that I don't expect the owner - and the last ones - to compete financially with ManU [now joined by Man City and Chelsea], but if you allow yourself to be convinced that the likes of Spurs and Liverpool are beyond us, and also accept selling our best players to clubs like Villa, Wigan, West Ham, QPR and the money to disappear down a big black hole, then more fool you. This is reality, because it is what is happening. We should be putting a stop to these sort of ambitions and expectations. Like yesterday. And yet, over the years we have been more likely to sell a player to Liverpool or Spurs than buy one from them. Until we match their ambition, we'll always be viewed as behind them.

He said that he didn't fail the medical. They said he didn't fail the medical. Where's the confusion? That's not what was reported at the time so who knows the truth? Either way, he had groin issues then, he has major groin issues now which are clearly related injuries. I'd say something went down that wasn't just a contract issue. I bet we don't see him much this season, unfortunately.

Not like you to put a negative spin on every matter to do with the club, Sniffer. Nice try.

I was under the impression he failed a medical at Liverpool. Depending on who you believe, of course, as there's a bit of the he said, she said. Either way, they dodged a bullet and we got a crock.

It would appear you are much mistaken. It looks like Liverpool's medical team seem to know what they are doing after all.

Ba isn't french enough to want to play for them, though.

You have to wonder if there is more to this given the hoop-la surrounding his medical liverpool. Was he ever fit?

I'd take losing the match if that were to happen. Especially if Barfa doesn't get carded.

Citeh will probably lose sometime and it won't be to a better team as there isn't one. MIght as well be us that beats them.

Rose tinted I think.

And yet, they'd all walk into Newcastle's team.

I was glad it happened in that game tbh as what must go down as one of the worst officiating blunders in WC history turned out to be completely inconsequential. We just looked like a bunch of dickheads the whole tournament. Hardly inconsequential as it could've completely changed the course of the game.

I have absolutely no idea, but I wonder what the percentage of foreign players is in other leagues? Let's not forget there are times when you can barely scrape an England team together in the premier league on some weekends.

It is a load of bollocks to say ever McKeag had the good of the club at heart. He was a money grabbing twat as well. The difference is that he wasn't grabbing quite as much as Ashley. When they say it isn't about the money, its always about the money. Newcastle have always been a selling club quite happy to maintain the disparity between us and the teams with any ambition at all. I think this is because, like Ashley, they can rely on fans to keep turning up no matter how many times you take the piss out of them. At least the likes of McKeag and Westwood weren't quite as open about it as these fucking cockney carpetbaggers. Waddle, Gascoigne and beardsley were just the later players to be sole. Before that you the likes of Robson, Terry Mac, Kennedy. MacDonald, Nattrass list is endless. As for McFaul, buying a forward line of midgets was a recipe for disaster.

By the time you come back, the FCB may have gone the whole hog and changed the name of the team to Sports Direct United. Why stop at just the ground?

At what?

You have to give him credit, though. He picked his club very carefully and he knows his market.

Water off a duck's back to the FCB. When will people understand, he doesn't give a fuck.

Okay, tried sitting on my hands and chanting dont do it, dont do it. ......but I'll bite. My point about Ben Arfa was as follows. This was his big move, his chance to prove to all his detractors that he could still do it and do it consistently without all the bad boy antics. Obviously it hasnt gone well, he's had a year out and is struggling to break into a team that is doing very well. The scenario I was discussing was whether he would be happy, (given his ego and the ticking clock, point to prove etc ) spending the season as a bit part player. Or whether frustration would set in and he would engineer a move away, initially on loan, as he did to get here. A simple point that even a simpleton such as yourself should have been able to grapple with. With regard to Jonas, he's brilliant if you like having two left backs (which has been handy at times), but his attacking game has all but dried up, leaving the burden on Obertan's shoulders. His work rate is magnificent but he needs to get forward. If Pardew can somehow get him doing both (and we have end product , the he will be a great addition to the team. Aaaah, thats better. I guess I shouldn't reply, we'll end up with a cringeworthy thread like that one over at NO, but what the hell... "Obviously it hasnt gone well", WTF do you mean? He was great when he came here, then he broke his leg ffs! He's getting better and better, has shown some good stuff already. He's a unique player at this club, we have a lot of hard working players, Ben Arfa has the potential to be the icing on the cake. Our squad is paper-thin, sending out our most skillful player on loan, aye that's a good idea... I take it reading is a problem for you Reading is not the problem with many posters on here. It is more an issue with comprehension.

Its good though that the media have been fair and evenhanded in calling them deluded messiah chasers and idiots for wanting Dalgslish back again like us with Keegan...oh no wait they've done none of that because they're clueless arseholes! As the Swansea keeper said the other day, people are starting to think if you stop Suarez or he has an off day their team does pretty much fuck all, i haven't seen enough of them to say thats definitely the case, but i'd love to see them have a run of games with him injured! If Gerard gets back to playing regularly, you'll see a different Liverpool.

If they are that interested, suggest a direct swop for Sturridge. Let's see how interested they really are.

Difficult to imagine that anybody could be happy with Best if the opportunity arose to get Carroll back at a knockdown fee. Ba is not a front man and can't lead a line from what I've seen. Neither can Best at the level we want to be at.

Aah, makes it all right then.

I don't know about sailing around the world but I know plenty who never miss a session. And haven't done for years.