donaldstott

I don't remember anybody moaning about Michael Owen's performance at West Ham, when all he did was score a hattrick...

"There are three parties now interested in buying the club from Mike Ashley of which Barry Moat is and one thing in common for all of them is that the asking price is £100 million all ways round," a reliable source close to the Newcastle board told Telegraph Sport." Can someone please explain how he can still demand £100m for the club? That was a valuation he placed on it before he sold £25million worth of assets. The more i read the more I'm convinced that he is asking £100m and the repayment of the £100m he plowed in to the club (which may now be a £75million).

Aye, because one fuckwit calling the shots has been so fucking good for us FYP

I'm not even sure that Barry Moat is the right kind of investor for the club. Big bank loans and consortiums smack of bureaucracy and slow decision making. I'm willing to put those concerns aside however, solely because it means that Shearer and not JFK will be looking after team affairs.

Not wanting to know how much he's shoved in his sky rocket / how little they've managed to get for our best players.

And on Fulham's site... Fulham Football Club is delighted to announce that Damien Duff becomes the Club’s third signing of the summer having put pen to paper today on a three-year deal, for an undisclosed fee, which will see the player at the Club until the summer of 2012. The 30-year-old midfielder joins the Club from Newcastle United where he signed in July 2006. He made his debut for Blackburn Rovers against Leicester City on the final day of the 1996-97 season at the age of just 18. Duff helped Blackburn regain promotion back to the Premier League in 2000 when the side was relegated a year earlier and he helped Rovers to League Cup victory in 2002 when the team beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in the final. Duff went on to make 185 appearances for Blackburn and his impressive form earned him a £17m move to Chelsea in 2003 which was a club record at the time. He made his international debut for Republic of Ireland in 1998 and has made 75 appearances for his country. Speaking from Fulham’s Motspur Park training ground, Damien Duff said: “I am happy that my move to Fulham has been completed and look forward to joining in with the rest of the squad’s training programme immediately, in preparation for two important home matches this week. Fulham had a fantastic season last year and I know that having spoken to the manager in recent days that the Club’s ambitions remain high and I am looking forward to the challenges ahead.” Roy Hodgson added: “I am delighted to add a player of Damien Duff’s calibre to our squad, and welcome the further midfield options he provides us with. I have known Damien for over a decade since he broke into the first team at Blackburn when I was Manager, so I’m fully aware of his qualities and I am looking forward to working with him again. ”

Confirmed on .cock. No fee mentioned again.

It's obviously been a while, but there used to be a boozer just over the road from the box office which was friendly. Last time I went was a Wimbledon game like, so not sure whether the same applies for Palace.

Like we could sign Dunne ffs. Oh come on surely Dunne would come and then maybe John Terry and lets not forget that Pato kid!!

It's probably immaterial, as surely even Ashley realises that a business he valued at £100m is only worth £80m if you sell £20m worth of assets.

Still negotiating a deal. Should be done by the end of the week.

Come on man. He gets a hattrick and it's still not enough to deserve MOM. Goals win games. He scored the goals. He deserves the credit. The fact that you think his none goalscoring strike partner was more deserving is odd.

It's not televised it will be on the radio though but I'm not sure if you'll get it in Manchester as the stream cuts off when the game starts. Yeah, it gets cut off. I used to subscribe to NUFC World just so I could get the radio commentary. But sacked it off when they want to charge me double. Might have to re-invest this season though. I had it in my head we were on 5 games out of our 1st 7 or something? Dunno where I got that idea from now. Leicester at home and Cardiff away are both on Sky, then it's the Ipswich game on the Beeb a fortnight or so after that. Forest and Sheff Utd away are on Sky too. The rest won't have been announced yet (all those are before December). I was wondering earlier if there are different rules and rights in the CCC which mean you can know listen to streams of the games direct from BBC Newcastle or Real Radio?

I agree. It makes much more sense to ship out Colloccini, Butt and Geremi, long before Taylor, who won't be on crippling wages. the caveat to this would be that I think we need two replacements for Colloccini, Campbell and an other, as we are desperately thin at the back.

Or either, he is that dreadful in training and in the reserves that playing him would give us even less chance of promotion which will cost us a lot more than the transfer fee and wages put together and some. He's not played under 4 managers so far, I think we should accept he is garbage! Can he be any worse than Shola? Of course he can be. Definitely should have played Xisco, it's a mystery how he doesn't get a game before Shola...

Him sitting in between tweedle dee and tweedle dum didn't exactly pour cold water over the chances of him taking over did it.

Wiley owld Roy Hodgson has been talking about Duff today. Clubs talking.

The only player we can live without at the moment is Colo. And that's cause he does not look like get better. The rest we cannot afford to lose unless we get other players in. People keep on saying this about Collocini. I would say the last place we can afford to lose players is at centre half. There is no other reserve centre half at the club who's played a second of first team football. I've heard good things about Kadar, but asking him to play 45 games in his first season of football is beyond a joke. I'm not a fan of Collocini by any stretch, but good lord bring in at least one experienced centre half in first before we get shot.

That's a possibility. Putting all his eggs in one basket like.

Only we won't get promoted and the club will be worth next to nothing. He has three choices, 1) cut and run now and take a substantial loss. 2) Run the club with the intention of promotion by investing some of the cash already received in to new players. If we get promoted he may even get all of his money back 3) Sell our best players, have a paper thin squad, let the club slide backwards and eventually get next to nothing. 1 or 2 are the correct choices, but he seems intent on 3. 1 or 2 will give him a semblance of normality back to his life, 3 will lead to lord knows what from disgruntled toon fans. Why would the club next season be worth any less than it is now, should we stay in this league? An investor probably thinks our best chance of getting out of the league is this season. Another season in the championship would almost certainly lead to falling attendances. The players who we have now would be worth less, having proved themselves incapable of getting out of the league and the lack of parachute payment is looming on the horizon.

Only we won't get promoted and the club will be worth next to nothing. He has three choices, 1) cut and run now and take a substantial loss. 2) Run the club with the intention of promotion by investing some of the cash already received in to new players. If we get promoted he may even get all of his money back 3) Sell our best players, have a paper thin squad, let the club slide backwards and eventually get next to nothing. 1 or 2 are the correct choices, but he seems intent on 3. 1 or 2 will give him a semblance of normality back to his life, 3 will lead to lord knows what from disgruntled toon fans.

Got to say it barely registered on the excitement scale.

Last three seasons he's been on loan at Sunderland, Ipswich and Blackburn. Played 18 games for Blackburn last season.

Here's what I don't understand. Ashley wants to sell the club. He values the club at £100m, which was probably reasonable at the time (i.e. before players started to leave in droves, with fan morale reasonable given the likelihood of Shearer coming in). Everything we've heard suggests that the offers have been below that figure and he's not willing to budge. Every player shifted on and every dropped point makes us less saleable. The longer he leaves us without a manager, with no decisions being made and no players replacing those sold the worse it gets and the less money he'll ultimately get. The longer he leaves it, the less chance of any manager worth his salt coming to the club and we are stuck with JFK who will act as a repellant for ticket sales. I've said it before, but this guy's business acumen leaves a lot to be desired. He must have got incredibly lucky to be as wealthy as he is.