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Aye missed that, he's the only one who's killed anyone though.

You sure it was the cops who did the firing and not your blokey http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21373264

Given January we don't need a very noisy one (except if there are outgoings)

Derek Llambias: 'We have no need to sell players' by Mark Douglas, The JournalFeb 8 2013 DEREK Llambias has railed against the perception of Newcastle United as a selling club and insisted: “We’ve got no appetite to sell our big players.” Ever since they brokered the £35million sale of Andy Carroll to Liverpool, United have been stereotyped as a club that buys players on the cheap from the Continent and sells them on for a quick profit. But despite almost constant speculation linking their crown jewels with a move away, the only significant sale since the summer of 2011 has been Demba Ba, who was able to leave for Chelsea in January by virtue of a contract clause inserted when he joined Newcastle. Managing director Llambias insists that observers have “missed the point” completely when considering Newcastle’s business model and that during the current phase of their development there is no pressing need to sell. Although they are open about “trading” when the price is right, he says the club has now cultivated an image as “difficult” sellers who will not budge if a certain valuation isn’t met. “People get us wrong,” Llambias told The Journal. “Everyone is missing the point. We do need to trade at some stage but not really at this stage. “The perception is that we buy cheap and sell at a huge price, but that’s not correct. It’s lovely if you can do that, by the way, but it’s not what we do. To be honest we haven’t got an appetite to sell.” Asked directly about reports linking Hatem Ben Arfa (pictured left) with a move away from St James’ Park, Llambias said Newcastle were primed for more speculation this summer. He warned that the club would never be “easy sellers” in his time in charge. “You’re going to get speculation all the time, like we did last summer. All those links are going to get brought up again – nothing is going to change,” he said. “Are we primed for it? Absolutely, we’ll have discussions at the time. But we’re not easy sellers, we’re known for that. And these are all big players.” While United aren’t easy sellers, they are also considered buyers and Llambias says they are unlikely to buy any more “purples” this summer unless they do decide to sell. United’s colour coding system categorises “purples” as first-team players, “reds” as developing players or those underneath the first team challenging and “blues” as up-and-coming youngsters. Llambias told The Journal the club’s focus this summer is on “reds” – although they will replace any frontline talent with a player of similar calibre. “We will trade. If we lose a player, we will bring one in of that standard. That’s just normal trading for us. “The remit for us is that Alan needs a number of players into the team that he can draw on for the various competitions. “That’s our gameplan. “You can’t have too many players that are first-team players sitting on the bench, there’s a balance, you need to have players just behind them pushing the first team.” Llambias feels that, despite the criticism which inevitably comes Mike Ashley’s way, supporters are beginning to be won over by their strategy of laying foundations for stability. He said: “Having a responsibility for this club, you’re always going to be open to some form of criticism. “That is what the game’s about – you can’t have all these glowing appraisals of how you run your club. “It doesn’t work like that. “I do occasionally read the comments on the blogs and on the local paper websites – I understand some of that. “But I was on the train this week and a couple of guys came up to me and started talking to me. “They appreciated what we were doing and that we’re trying to do something the club’s not done before financially. “This club needs to be solid. It needs to be solid, not just financially, but as a team – a management team. We think we’re getting there.” Read more: Journal Live http://www.journallive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2013/02/08/derek-llambias-we-have-no-need-to-sell-players-61634-32769492/2/#ixzz2KIWWYlFa

I've said all along these monstrously successful business fuckers play a very long game and they learn form their mistakes. Football fans are all here and NOW! Mistake last summer, aye, (exacerbated by the injuries IMO mind) learned from ? January would suggest yes, the summer will be a good test of that.(but they definitely won't break their model). Shit he's even communicating, some more good stuff in the Journal today. If you take the long view, there's a hell of a lot more right than wrong at NUFC (if we stay up of course).

Oh they do, and did, (mainly because they hunt) or rather they had guns and never gave it a thought, guns were a day to day fact of life, but the current/recent government policies have reawakened their spouting of the second (or whichever it is) amendment, and the right to bear arms against oppression by the state or government bit. None of them own Uzi's btw (responsible gun owners don't) and I appreciate the drone bit, but this type of legislation/law is a strong argument handed on a plate in the defence of a right to bear arms.

Some of my right wing leaning US chums use this very argument to defend their gun ownership, that and the fact that homeland security (who's remit is solely within the borders) have ordered several million rounds of hollow point ammo, which is an illegal round and not even used by the military.

How well did those equally decimated teams do though, to be honest cant recall so many key players being out together. Few teams can afford losing their best and expect no drop off in results or have replacements good enough to deal with it. Mistakes are good if you learn from them. They've admitted the mistake, we'll see if they've learnt, Ashley didn't make his money by not learning though.

Dr Gloom needs a name change

Interesting how folks can vilify people for their faith yet to do the same about sexual orientation, for example, would lead to outrage.

Harry's a card aint he. He was in the paper stating buying Remy and Samba wasn't a gamble because if they went down they'd make a profit/cover the costs on them when they had to be sold, as they're very good players. Well yes Harry, you might have a point if someone was trying to buy one of your players who you didn't need to sell, but given everyone and their uncle knows you absolutely will need to flog them, I am certain they will attract top end bids and not circa £2-£3Mill bids because you're club is desperate.

He's in the clear, however his dog is said to be shitting itself.

Not really, at worst dangerous play (foot up) indirect free-kick is the rule.

The laugh is, apart from Carroll, it's never happened. Edit: DOH, just read on and seen Renton's post !! Cold day in Hell today, me and Renton agree on something.

No, is the answer to the thread.

Said exactly the same thing to my lads, bloody ridiculous isn't it.

One of ours does that no way he'd still be on the pitch

2-2 I don't know why, I never predict scores, but that just flew into my head reading this thread. I'd be happy with that an all.

Is that when you look at an ethnic in a shifty way ???

If you take it (for the sake of argument) the wages numbers are only for the 25 players. If the bottom end of your squad (say 5 players) are the kids on £5K/week then the next 5 the older "kids/fringe players" are on £15K/week, that means (on £53Mill total for 25) the top 15 of your squad average £61K/week.

:lol:

What's the score ?

I would doubt that many of these deals were available to be done "in the summer". Sissoko had a £12 Mill bid for him knocked back last January. Debuchy for an extra Million maybe, the rest very doubtfull IMO.

Possibly, that's what I meant about "is more than enough to handle without any rest advantage". He is by some stretch "the best" and doesn't need any help, but because he's unlikely to hit anyone who can take him to five sets (without Nadal) he's sitting pretty for the forseeable. Even then he'll remain a monster to beat.

The highest seed a 1st seed can/will meet in a semi is the 4th seed.