Scottish Mag

But we don`t need Robert anymore, as we signed Luque to replace him..

Incidentally, where the flaming gallah is Blaydon? 60268[/snapback] And Li3nZ 60280[/snapback] And Swindon Mag

Incidentally, where the flaming gallah is Blaydon? 60268[/snapback] Hes to busy going to all his raves these days, along with tyne, bennie, adidas, cheyne etc...

Newcastle United could re-ignite their bid to lure Nicolas Anelka to St James's Park in the New Year as Graeme Souness attempts to put the final touches to a squad fit for a European challenge. The Journal understands that Newcastle's manager is hoping to add to his side's attacking options when the transfer window opens in January and he has not lost his interest in Anelka. The Magpies embarked on a long, but ultimately, unsuccessful chase of the French international in the summer when his Turkish club Fenerbahce refused to sell the volatile forward, even though he had intimated to Souness and other United officials that he wanted to return to the Premiership. Souness' irritation at missing out on one of his main transfer targets was quickly relieved with the £9.5m arrival of Spanish international forward Albert Luque and one of the most memorable transfer coups in the history of English football when Michael Owen snubbed a return to former club Liverpool to move to Tyneside. But, United's manager is still keen to strengthen his squad in vital areas, with Anelka back on his wanted list alongside Chelsea left-back Wayne Bridge. Newcastle still lack the required strength in depth up front to challenge the leading clubs at home and abroad, ensuring Anelka has remained an attractive target. Alan Shearer, who will retire at the end of the season, was supposed to be used sparingly this season, but Souness has had to rely on the 35-year-old more than he had envisaged because of a crippling injury list. And, with Owen also missing because of another niggling strain at Chelsea last weekend, Newcastle were forced to rely on Shola Ameobi as a lone striker, with only Michael Chopra providing cover on the bench. At 26, Anelka, who was recalled to the French squad for the first time in three years for their recent round of international friendlies, still has the best years of his career ahead of him, as well as the sort of blistering pace Souness feels is essential to the style of football he wants his sides to play. He also has the significant advantage of having previously played with Owen when on loan at Anfield from Paris-Saint Germain in 2002 and would be expected to line-up alongside the England international in a 4-4-2 formation with Luque on the left wing and either Nolberto Solano or Kieron Dyer on the right. Anelka has scored five goals in 13 league appearances for Fenerbahce this season, helping the Istanbul-based club to the top of the Turkish Super League. Nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether Fenerbahce are more receptive to the idea of losing their star striker in January than they were in the summer even if, privately, Anelka's advisors are suggesting the player still favours a move back to England. Having already spent £50m during his time as manager, Souness is also unlikely to have a large transfer kitty available and Fenerbahce will have to drastically reduce the £12-15m valuation they quoted United chairman Freddie Shepherd just over four months ago. Much is likely to depend on the Turkish outfit's Champions League fortunes. They are currently bottom of their qualifying group, but a win against AC Milan this evening would give them an excellent chance of qualifying for the knockout stage and rapidly reduce their need to cash in on Anelka. Should Anelka prove to be an unobtainable target, United may turn their attention to Turkish international Nihat Kahveci. The 25-year-old, who is an international team-mate of Emre, is out of contract at Real Sociedad at the end of he season and the Spanish club could be tempted to sell him in January rather than watch him leave for nothing in the summer. Meanwhile, Sven-Göran Eriksson is the latest admirer of Newcastle United's exciting defensive prospect Peter Ramage after the England coach made enquiries about the Academy graduate during the 3-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge. Shepherd said: "Sven asked me who young Ramage was and said that he thought he had had a very good first half. "Obviously, he has only played a handful of games for us, all out of position, but we are delighted with him and I told Sven this."

"Done up like a kipper" tbh

Whats going on in here then?

Newcastle will continue to monitor Turkish striker Nihat Kahveci after scouting him for the second time in five days. United were represented in Istanbul in midweek as Nihat (above) and his fellow countrymen suffered World Cup play-off agony against Switzerland. And although another reputed Toon target, Tuncay Sanli, netted a hat-trick against the Swiss, Nihat remains higher on Graeme Souness' hit-list. United's interest in Nihat was revealed in last week's Sunday Sun, with the 25-year-old out of contract at Real Socieded next summer and looking for a lucrative move. Swiss left-back Ludovic Magnin has also caught Newcastle's eye, while reports in Europe have also linked the Magpies with his team-mate Alexander Frei, the Rennes striker.

Graeme Souness is looking to bolster his injury-prone Newcastle midfield with he acquisition of Anderlecht winger Christian Wilhelmsson. The Swedish wide man has been one of the Belgian side's better performers in their poor Champions League campaign and Newcastle are leading the chase to sign him with Fiorentina also believed to be in the hunt. Wilhelmsson, a key player for Sweden at Euro 2004, has recently signed a new deal with Anderlecht, but has a clause in the contract saying that they must sell should a big club come in for him. The player is interested in moving to one of Europe's bigger leagues, and with the January transfer window approaching, and the Belgian side already eliminated from the Champions League, a switch to St. James's Park may be quite tempting for the player. Wilhelmsson (25) said: "My plans are to come to a big league, England, Spain or Italy. "I have been in this business for a long time so I do not expect anything. If you do that you will get disappointed if it does not work out okay. "The get-out clause in my new contract is a big advantage. I feel very safe and I am more motivated in the league."

I can't remember us showing any huge intrest in him when SBR was in charge. 58284[/snapback] We allegedly had a bid in for him that was knocked back just before Robson was sacked around the same time we were knocked back for Bobo Balde and Huth. If reports were to be believed the interest was big enough to put a bid in..

He rates Frank Lampard and Claude Makelele as two of world football's finest but, as Graeme Souness prepares his side to face Chelsea's dynamic duo, the Newcastle boss is confident his own prized pair can enjoy midfield supremacy this afternoon. The £10.3m Souness spent to sign Emre from Inter Milan and snatch Scott Parker from Stamford Bridge this summer has proved to be a shrewd investment - with the talented 25-year-olds having formed a promising partnership with the potential to become one of United's best in recent times. Emre and Parker will be determined to give good accounts of themselves in West London - with the former keen to put the disappointment of Turkey's World Cup failure behind him and the latter anxious to prove Jose Mourinho was wrong to disregard his capabilities. But Souness believes the chance to outshine Lampard and Makelele is the greatest motivation of all for two players who have made encouraging starts to their careers at St James's Park. "Makelele has been an outstanding performer on the international stage for a long time, the last six or seven years, while Frank Lampard has shown himself to be a world-class midfielder in the last couple of seasons," said the Magpies boss, whose team's improvement has coincided with Emre's return from the treatment room. "We have got two young players who are not as well known but who we believe have got outstanding qualities. If you have anything about you, you want to be playing against the best every week. "Now we have a chance to do that. We will come up against two midfield players who are regarded as being among the best in the world at Chelsea and I would like to think that Scott and Emre will relish the challenge." Parker knows all about Chelsea's midfield strength having failed to win regular football at Stamford Bridge following his £10m move from Charlton two years ago, and a player who started just 11 league games in a blue shirt will be determined to shine on his first return to his former club. "I don't think Scott has anything to prove," said Souness, who has this week insisted that Parker has the qualities to become an England regular and a future United captain. "It has been well-documented how big the Chelsea squad is and how strong they are in that particular area. Scott certainly doesn't have anything to prove to me." Since selling Parker to Newcastle, Mourinho has spent £25m to add Michael Essien to his midfield ranks from Lyon. But given some of Emre's recent performances, the Magpies boss is confident his side can compete in a competitive part of the field. The former Galatasaray favourite met up with his club colleagues in London last night having spent Thursday in Istanbul following Turkey's controversial World Cup play-off clash against Switzerland. "We let Emre stay in Istanbul and he flew to London on Friday afternoon," explained Souness. "There was no point in him flying back up to Newcastle and then down to London again so we just let him relax. He was in the gym in Istanbul on Thursday and again in London on Friday and he will be fine. "It's a relief that Emre got through it okay - no-one likes to see the kind of things that went on after the Turkey game but he is fine. I spoke to him immediately after the game and he is okay."

Petrov consistently performs on the European stage as the captain of his country.

We dont need another central midfielder but i`d rather have Petrov in the side than Bowyer.

Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans. They may remind you of another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate. Known as "Prussian Blue" — a nod to their German heritage and bright blue eyes — the girls from Bakersfield, Calif., have been performing songs about white nationalism before all-white crowds since they were nine. "We're proud of being white, we want to keep being white," said Lynx. "We want our people to stay white … we don't want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race." Lynx and Lamb have been nurtured on racist beliefs since birth by their mother April. "They need to have the background to understand why certain things are happening," said April, a stay-at-home mom who no longer lives with the twins' father. "I'm going to give them, give them my opinion just like any, any parent would." April home-schools the girls, teaching them her own unique perspective on everything from current to historical events. In addition, April's father surrounds the family with symbols of his beliefs — specifically the Nazi swastika. It appears on his belt buckle, on the side of his pick-up truck and he's even registered it as his cattle brand with the Bureau of Livestock Identification. "Because it's provocative," explains April of the cattle brand, "to him he thinks it's important as a symbol of freedom of speech that he can use it as his cattle brand." Songs like "Sacrifice" — a tribute to Nazi Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy Fuhrer — clearly show the effect of the girls' upbringing. The lyrics praise Hess as a "man of peace who wouldn't give up." "It really breaks my heart to see those two girls spewing out that kind of garbage," said Ted Shaw, civil rights advocate and president of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund — though Shaw points out that the girls aren't espousing their own opinions but ones they're being taught. On that point, April Gaede and Ted Shaw apparently agree. "Well, all children pretty much espouse their parents' attitudes," she said. "We're white nationalists and of course that's a part of our life and I'm going to share that part of my life with my children." Since they began singing, the girls have become such a force in the white nationalist movement, that David Duke — the former presidential candidate, one-time Ku-Klux-Klan grand wizard and outspoken white supremacist — uses the twins to draw a crowd. Prussian Blue supporter Erich Gliebe, operator of one of the nation's most notorious hate music labels, Resistance Records, hopes younger performers like Lynx and Lamb will help expand the base of the White Nationalist cause. "Eleven and 12 years old," he said, "I think that's the perfect age to start grooming kids and instill in them a strong racial identity." Gliebe, who targets young, mainstream white rockers at music festivals like this past summer's "Ozzfest," says he uses music to get his message out. But with names like Blue-Eyed Devils and Angry Aryans, these tunes are far more extreme than the ones sung by Lamb and Lynx. "We give them a CD, we give them something as simple as a stick, they can go to our Web site and see other music and download some of our music," said Gliebe. "To me, that's the best propaganda tool for our youth." Gliebe says he hopes that as younger racist listeners mature, so will their tastes for harder, angrier music like that of Shawn Sugg of Max Resist. One of Sugg's songs is a fantasy piece about a possible future racial war that goes: "Let the cities burn, let the streets run red, if you ain't white you'll be dead." "I'd like to compare it to gangsta rap," explained Sugg, "where they glorify, you know, shooting n****** and pimping whores." Sugg shrugs off criticism that music like his should not be handed out to schoolyard children, arguing that "it's just music, it's not like you're handing out AK-47s." Perhaps not, but Shaw says it's the ideas in the music that are dangerous. "When you talk about people being dead if they're not white," said Shaw, "I don't think there is much question that that is hateful." Despite the success of Prussian Blue and bands like Max Resist within the White Nationalism movement, most Americans don't accept their racist message. Like many children across the country, Lamb and Lynx decided to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina — the white ones. The girls' donations were handed out by a White Nationalist organization who also left a pamphlet promoting their group and beliefs — some of the intended recipients were more than a little displeased. After a day of trying, the supplies ended up with few takers, dumped at a local shop that sells Confederate memorabilia. Last month, the girls were scheduled to perform at the local county fair in their hometown. But when some people in the community protested, Prussian Blue was removed from the line-up. But even before that, April had decided that Bakersfield was not "white" enough, so she sold her home, and hopes that she and the girls can find an all-white community in the Pacific Northwest.

Quality!

Souness and McCarthy were sat together at Tynecastle today watching the Hearts game. Souness was rumoured to have been watching Craig Gordon.

It has been rumoured since the summer that Burley and Romanov would clash due to Romanov wanting to much control over matters. He signed two players just before the deadline that Burley had no knowledge of or even wanted. It has been speculated for a while now that Romanov is trying to pick the team and make sure the players he signed are on the park. Its interesting to see the parting has happened a few hours before kick off on a match day.

That's why he got the boot from Derby. 48303[/snapback] He resigned

Yes. I hear Brian Clough was a shit manager btw. 48281[/snapback] Clough didn't turn up pissed for training regularly. 48294[/snapback] Has Burley?

Whilst Burley is one manager who i would love to take over he left because of his relationship with Romanov. Chairmen signing players now that does sound familiar...wouldn`t working with Fat Freddie be the same as what hes just left?

Are we deciding on post match piss up whereabouts beforehand or is it a club shop meeting thing?

Happy Birthday dude...

Its starting to look a poor turn out for the Big Yins birthday... I won`t be their before the match so i have no idea what the plan is, but afterwards i`ll need to text someone to find out where the "party" is..

GRAEME SOUNESS was a prime suspect last night after a butty battle erupted in Newcastle’s dressing room following their defeat at Wigan. A tray of sandwiches was angrily kicked into the air — leaving the changing-area walls splattered with egg, ham and cheese and chutney. Toon boss Souey steered clear of criticising ref Phil Dowd but it is clear he was furious over two bread-and-butter decisions. The Geordies lost 1-0 as Dowd and his assistant failed to spot a header from Magpies striker Alan Shearer had crossed the line. Coincidentally, Dowd — who also turned down a penalty appeal — features alongside Liverpool’s Harry Kewell in a framed picture in the dressing room. And, according to sources at the JJB Stadium, Dowd’s picture was a target for much of the grub — which was later cleaned up by Wigan’s trainees. The sound and the fury inside the Toon dressing room during the sarnie barny was the main talking point for stadium stewards who were in the tunnel after the game. Newcastle refused to comment yesterday but a Wigan spokesman revealed: “A tray of sandwiches did find its way on to the floor.” But he added: “That is nothing unusual in a Premiership dressing room — and I’m sure Paul Jewell couldn’t guarantee it never happening in our dressing room. “There was no damage to any property or the dressing room. “We will not be taking the matter further because there is no matter to take further. “It has been described to me as ‘Sandwichgate’ and a ‘buffet bloodbath’ — which is amusing but highly inaccurate. “We simply cleaned up the dressing room as we do after every game — and that was that. “Newcastle were courteous to all the staff at the JJB Stadium on Saturday. “And Graeme Souness behaved like a gentleman to all our staff, as did the rest of his staff and players.” Souey’s crusty mood will not have been improved yesterday by Dowd’s admission that Shearer’s goal SHOULD have stood. The official — using his loaf — admitted: “It was unfortunate. “You hope to get things right and it’s frustrating for the referee and everybody if it looks like it isn’t right. “Until technology comes in, this will keep happening, I suppose.” No crumb of comfort there . . . Newcastle’s only other visit to Wigan was for an FA Cup replay in 1954 — when they refused to use the dressing rooms at the humble Springfield Park ground. Instead, they changed at Wigan’s nearby public baths before travelling to the game by coach.