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On top of everything though, in seriousness what player in their right mind is going to come to a club where the current players are saying "I want out, this is shit"?

He's holding onto the players atm and using them as assets for possible buyers as far as I can see. There can be no other reason to continue to pay the lilkes of Martins 70k a week. I think you're right, worried though that if any sale falls through then we will see either a firesale or something worse.

Why dont you all club together and pay his wages? [/baldy from the Times]

Im worried that we ditch everyone possible and bring in Kinnear to start the season. I heard (and think I repeated it here) a while ago that the rumour was Ashley was not going to install a manager until the day before the season starts. if thats the case then we're fuckdiddlyfucked. I can honestly imagine Ashley and Llambias working on the logic of "so you play 11 a side and have 3 subs....so technically you only need 14 players yeah?" "so I can sell the rest of the squad as long as we have 14 left....cool!"

Fucking premature bastard

Its all we've got left in common

Who will be todays Chronicle interview with? We've had Harper, Nolan and Beye so far releasing statements so whos turn is it next? My money is on "Steven 'bleeds black n white' Taylor".

Is she though? two weeks ago there was a snippet or story every other day about how well it was progressing, how many people were in for it and how "a deal will be done by the end of the week". Now though its gone ominously quiet and we've been here before, if Decka and Harris dont make any soundbites then we're in trouble.

When pressed about debt and statements that contradicted previous statements Derek Llambias became extremely annoyed about the semantics of "debt" and stated his desire for us to start talking about MA buying the club for 244m rather than 134m if it would make it easier for us to "understand" and not get hung up on. http://nusc.org.uk/full_article.php?articleid=5 Dont get your pretty little head hung about such semantics, just be thankful good old Mikes here.

Dyer?

Stable footing....lower debt.....sound financial position......[/stupeedo]

Just glancing at the title and I saw 6 "Prem" stars as 6" Prem stars I wondered how old the thread was to be talking about Dennis Wise in that way?

Nah, the cheque was paid over in February just SBR wasnt well enough to do a photo until now, we werent bothered about getting a pic but the blokes a legend.

When did NewInsider come out the closet? last I saw he was some high flying Yank businessman who just happened to be using the same PC as a wind-up makem?

The caring, sharing face of the NHS Whats a sharing face look like? You wouldnt know

Nope thats not his son Thats Steve Hastie of the NUSC, from the moment SBR met him he was saying "dont I know you?" and Steves saying "no, dont think so" just as hes being wheeled into the hospital after the photoshoot he shouts to stop and beckons Steve over, "I know where I know you from" he says ........ "you're the spit of Eric Gates"

Still looking good and still laughing along.

Brain and Testicular cancer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...ain-cancer.html Get well soon John.

unless you follow nuscteam of course

And breathing heavily

Birthday greeetings shitehawk

Tony Blair has admitted the shambles unfolding at Newcastle United is a "tragedy" for the club's fans. Blair, who famously showed his skills playing head tennis with Kevin Keegan, said: "It is a tragedy what has happened. We have to got to regroup, reassert ourselves and move back up again." But the former Prime Minister stopped short of putting the boot into owner Mike Ashley adding: "I would not get into criticising anyone who has got into the onerous responsibility of running a football club." http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/200...15875-21515751/

Yet another "oooh lets get our names in the paper" headline.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/.../.html?ITO=1490 After more than 16 years at Newcastle United, goalkeeper Steve Harper may have thought he had seen it all and lived through enough of the club’s trials and tribulations. But Harper is just one of the many perplexed and frustrated members of the Newcastle squad who has been back for pre-season training for almost two weeks now. Still there is no sign of their saviour, Alan Shearer, or any manager for that matter, and their agonising and prolonged sale drags on. Steve Harper Harper, who returned last season to reclaim the No1 shirt following Shay Given’s exit in January, has warned the once proud club is ‘dying a slow, painful death’. And after their week-long training camp in Ireland and a 3-0 win over Shamrock Rovers, even the normally cautious and diplomatic caretaker manager Chris Hughton, the man put in temporary charge of team affairs for the fourth time by owner Mike Ashley, has admitted players are on the verge of revolt. Hughton has been in contact with Shearer, who is patiently still waiting for news of his confirmation as permanent boss, but the man who led the club to relegation in May is having little or no influence in first team affairs, much to the chagrin of Harper and Newcastle fans who who will have noted Fraizer Campbell, one of Shearer’s close-season targets, has signed for neighbours Sunderland. Harper said: ‘What happened last season was desperately disappointing but just when you think there’s an opportunity for this club to put itself right, build and get straight back up, the opposite happens. ‘We want it to be resolved so we know where we are and where we’re going because at this moment the football club is dying a slow, painful death. For five or six years now it’s been a gradual, slow implosion. ‘We’ve got to soldier on but the sooner the better for everyone concerned – but most importantly for Newcastle United. Chris Hughton Holding fort: Newcastle United caretaker manager Chris Hughton ‘A lot of fans have come up to me and said ‘‘In two or three years, it might be a blessing that relegation happened". 'Obviously everyone is very disappointed that it happened but if something good comes out of it and the club rebuilds then maybe I can see that point. 'But at the moment the club isn't rebuilding — it’s in a state of limbo and it's no good for anyone. We just want to get this club going back in the right direction and the situation is very, very frustrating for all of us. ‘To be fair to Chris Hughton, Colin Calderwood and the lads, we have made the best of what is a dreadful situation. 'We can’t do anything about it as players but it is awful and the sooner it’s resolved, the better for everyone because we can start again. ‘All we keep hearing is “next few days, next few days, next few days”. 'Everybody – fans, players, staff – want it resolved so we can rebuild this football club because we're in an awful state at the moment. ‘Everybody is in limbo — fans, players, staff. The players don’t know what’s happening, staff don’t know what’s happening, the fans don’t.’ Nile Ranger Confusion: Nile Ranger can expect to start for Newcastle ¿ but none of their players are certain of the future Newcastle came away with a 3-0 win against Shamrock Rovers, although they were playing a bunch of reserves and trialists because the Eircom League of Ireland side had more pressing engagements on Friday night, having secured an important 2-1 Eircom League win over Bray Wanderers which took them to second place in their division. In a lively first half, Steve Harper was forced to make important saves from Padraig Amond and the impressive Slovakia striker Pavol Jurco as Kevin Nolan, Nicky Butt, Fabricio Coloccini and Damien Duff provided evidence that pre-season matches are vital to build up fitness, but not necessarily an indication of form. But if the first half was Shamrock Rovers versus Shambles United, the visitors, who included Joey Barton from the start, improved after making 11 changes at the break. Steven Taylor celebrated a goal within five minutes as if he had scored the winner to keep Newcastle in the Premier League before strikers Shola Ameobi and Nile Ranger - possibly Newcastle's first choice starters in a month - added the second and third in the last four minutes. Alan Shearer It was a rare victory for Hughton, who returns to the club's Newcastle base today, still hoping for news of Ashley’s sale. But he admitted while he was just about able to keep the majority of his squad focussed at their luxurious base in the countryside at Carlton House, that could all change this week. He added: ‘I do not sense any frustration among the players yet probably because we had the first week at the training ground and then we have been in Dublin. ‘The first four days were in Newcastle and that is usually quite a good time because they are catching up with each other, telling stories and it is normally quite a good time for the players. ‘Then it has helped coming away because we are away from Newcastle and we have been in a very very good training complex where we have just been able to concentrate on the quality of training and we have been shielded away from everything else. 'But I accept that might change from Monday once we are back in Newcastle. ‘It is one day at a time and we have already planned next week's schedule and we know at any stage that could change with any announcement that is made and a new manager could come in and that is all we can do until we are told otherwise. ‘Whatever is happening we have to prepare as a group for the start of the season. 'It will be a tough season in a tough league and the aim has to be to come up straight away and whoever is in charge that will be their aim. I am getting on with the job in hand and if there are other things going on I am not aware of them.’

Jimbo, the healthiest man I know.