Happy Face 29 Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 I'll edit the OP every time I see an outlandish prediction made by someone. Alan Pardew10/04/11 - “A win Sunday Against Villa and we won’t go down, 100%,” We lost, but we still never went down. 28/03/11 - “Mike Ashley has made that commitment that the money will go back into the club, I’m sure 100% that he will and it’s my challenge to spend the money wisely. I didn’t get chance to replace him really, we made a few calls and were getting responses that were comical in terms of figures coming back, so we couldn’t waste the money in terms of paying an over-inflated price for someone who wasn’t as good as Andy. The most important thing from that deal was that we got over the line, because then we get the opportunity to spend the money to strengthen the team overall" £35m was not spent. 13/08/11 - "You can never say anything 100 per cent in football but I think he [barton] will be [at the club all season].” He went to QPR Angry Steve 23/06/11 - Dan Gosling will not play more than 90 mins (total) of competitive football for the first team before Halloween. Ant 21/06/11 - We wont sign any single player for a double figure transfer fee as long as Ashley is here. 22/08/11 - if we don't sign a decent striker by the end of the window we will score 25 or less by Christmas. Ayatollah Hermione 04/07/11 - If Sunderland beat us at the SOL this year, I'll get that new awful home top with Ameobi 23 on the back of it. We won one nil Chez 07/06/11 - We'll have a better playing staff at the start of next season. It was agreed we did. Christmas Tree 29/05/11 - Spurs are finished. They are on the way down with no CL money. They'll finish below us next season. 30/05/11 - Barton wont play for us again Barton played against Arsenal on the opening day. 04/07/11 - Joey Barton to be Captain Coloccini announced 08/07 04/07/11 - There will be lots of transfer activity this week. Nobody was signed. 17/08/11 - CT denies predicting the above. He predicts HF could prove him wrong. HF proved him wrong the same day Typically, CT's official predictions on Barton contradicted each other, even before they were proved either way. CleeToonFan 05/06/11 - We will beat Sunderland twice next season without letting in a single goal - On target Cunterhead 18/08/11 - From October we will never be in the top ten all season. Dr Gloom 29/05/11 - pardew sacked before christmas after a holocaust of a start to the season Ewerk 04/07/11 - I predict we will sign one £10m+ player in this transfer window. We never Fish 29/05/11 - 15th @ Xmas 29/05/11 - 13th @ final day Gejon 04/06/11 - I will eat my own bollocks if Nolan signs for West Ham this summer Nolan Signed on 16/06 Happy Face 30/05/11 - Pardew won't be sacked this season. Irrespective of performance. 22/06/11 - We won't finish any higher than we did in 10/11 in 11/12 Jamie_Gordon 25/05/11 - BEN ARFA will be number 10 next season He is, not sure when it was announced JawD 04/07/11 - we wont spend the £35M on players, including wages or not (not taking into account outgoing players as well) We didn't. JonTheMag 18/08/11 - Cabaye will have at least 7 assists. 18/08/11 - We won't have a single player score more than 10 goals. 18/08/11 - Ben Arfa will make less than 15 league appearances. 18/08/11 - Nile Ranger will spend some time this season at another club, either on loan or as a transfer. 18/08/11 - By the end of the season, at least half of our starting 11 will speak French. 18/08/11 - We will make it to the semi-finals of a Cup. 18/08/11 - Lovenkrands and Best will be our starting forwards for at least one league game. 18/08/11 - Vuckic, Ferguson, and Sammy Ameobi will score their first Premier League goals for us this season. Ranger will not. Jusoda Kid 04/07/11 - we'll be lucky to spend ten million of the AC money We didn't Kitman 17/08/11 - Pardoo will be gone by xmas. LeazesMag 22/06/11 - We won't finish any higher than we did in 10/11 under Mike Ashley McFaul 30/03/11 - Turnover will be at least £95m this season without any doubt, the profit will be between £8m and £15m, I'll bet you now. 21/06/11 - Chelsea will win the league by at least 6 points. 21/06/11 - Newcastle will sign someone like Woodgate but not necessarily him, but over 30 as back up before 1/9/11. We didn't 21/06/11 - Argentina will win every game they play in the Copa America in 90 minutes. They won 1 out of 4. Knocked out in the QF. 21/06/11 - We'll have signed 8 players between 31/5/11 and 1/9/11. Cabaye, Ba, Marveaux, Abeid, Obertan, Santon, Elliot 21/06/11 - When this window closes Nile Ranger will be at a club within 50 miles of London, possibly someone like Brighton or Watford, and in the near future will fall foul of the law. Still at Newcastle when the window closed, but been in the naughty chair for bruising some fella's chin. 21/06/11 - Mackems will beat us at SOS in August. We won one nil Papa Lazaru 22/06/11 - We won't be relegated 22/06/11 - We'll have a better home record than last season (more points/more wins) 22/06/11 - We won't win more games away than last season 22/06/11 - At least one of the new singings will be injured pre-season and miss the big kick off (i know this is a no brainer to be fair!) Only Ben Arfa was unavailable for selection on the opening day. 22/06/11 - Not including Neil Taylor we will sign at least two more players that aren't free Obertan and Santon. PaulR9 04/06/11 - Nolan has agreed a deal to join West Ham He signed on 16/06 Peasepud 06/06/11 - if we spend over £10m on one player I'll run round the Strawberry naked We didn't. 06/06/11 - bottom 3 by Christmas Sammynb 04/07/11 - More than one of Enrique, Tiote, Colo or Jonas will be sold within 12 months. 04/07/11 - At least one resulting in "to late to find a replacement" and "an offer to good to turn down" statements. StoneColdStephenIreland 04/07/11 - Whoever gets appointed captain at the start of the season (Coloccini) to be sold by September 1st Still here. 16/08/11 - Barton to be gone by the end of the transfer window Gone 16/08/11 - sign no players before the upcoming Mackem game. None signed Tiote's Nutz 30/05/11 - We will spend 20mil plus [in the summer window] £300k wasn't it? 22/06/11 - We'll finish 7th and win the FA Cup TicTacWoe 03/07/11 - Wenger's last season as Arsenal manager. ToonMarshy 18/08/11 - Barton joining Nolan at West Ham before the end of this window Close but no cigar...QPR Plenty of updates. Who else did we sign btw Stevie, that makes you think you should have that one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 I'll edit the OP every time I see an outlandish prediction made by someone. Alan Pardew10/04/11 - “A win Sunday Against Villa and we won’t go down, 100%,” We lost, but we still never went down. 28/03/11 - “Mike Ashley has made that commitment that the money will go back into the club, I’m sure 100% that he will and it’s my challenge to spend the money wisely. I didn’t get chance to replace him really, we made a few calls and were getting responses that were comical in terms of figures coming back, so we couldn’t waste the money in terms of paying an over-inflated price for someone who wasn’t as good as Andy. The most important thing from that deal was that we got over the line, because then we get the opportunity to spend the money to strengthen the team overall" £35m was not spent. 13/08/11 - "You can never say anything 100 per cent in football but I think he [barton] will be [at the club all season].” He went to QPR Angry Steve 23/06/11 - Dan Gosling will not play more than 90 mins (total) of competitive football for the first team before Halloween. Ant 21/06/11 - We wont sign any single player for a double figure transfer fee as long as Ashley is here. 22/08/11 - if we don't sign a decent striker by the end of the window we will score 25 or less by Christmas. Ayatollah Hermione 04/07/11 - If Sunderland beat us at the SOL this year, I'll get that new awful home top with Ameobi 23 on the back of it. We won one nil Chez 07/06/11 - We'll have a better playing staff at the start of next season. It was agreed we did. Christmas Tree 29/05/11 - Spurs are finished. They are on the way down with no CL money. They'll finish below us next season. 30/05/11 - Barton wont play for us again Barton played against Arsenal on the opening day. 04/07/11 - Joey Barton to be Captain Coloccini announced 08/07 04/07/11 - There will be lots of transfer activity this week. Nobody was signed. 17/08/11 - CT denies predicting the above. He predicts HF could prove him wrong. HF proved him wrong the same day Typically, CT's official predictions on Barton contradicted each other, even before they were proved either way. CleeToonFan 05/06/11 - We will beat Sunderland twice next season without letting in a single goal - On target Cunterhead 18/08/11 - From October we will never be in the top ten all season. Dr Gloom 29/05/11 - pardew sacked before christmas after a holocaust of a start to the season Ewerk 04/07/11 - I predict we will sign one £10m+ player in this transfer window. We never Fish 29/05/11 - 15th @ Xmas 29/05/11 - 13th @ final day Gejon 04/06/11 - I will eat my own bollocks if Nolan signs for West Ham this summer Nolan Signed on 16/06 Happy Face 30/05/11 - Pardew won't be sacked this season. Irrespective of performance. 22/06/11 - We won't finish any higher than we did in 10/11 in 11/12 Jamie_Gordon 25/05/11 - BEN ARFA will be number 10 next season He is, not sure when it was announced JawD 04/07/11 - we wont spend the £35M on players, including wages or not (not taking into account outgoing players as well) We didn't. JonTheMag 18/08/11 - Cabaye will have at least 7 assists. 18/08/11 - We won't have a single player score more than 10 goals. 18/08/11 - Ben Arfa will make less than 15 league appearances. 18/08/11 - Nile Ranger will spend some time this season at another club, either on loan or as a transfer. 18/08/11 - By the end of the season, at least half of our starting 11 will speak French. 18/08/11 - We will make it to the semi-finals of a Cup. 18/08/11 - Lovenkrands and Best will be our starting forwards for at least one league game. 18/08/11 - Vuckic, Ferguson, and Sammy Ameobi will score their first Premier League goals for us this season. Ranger will not. Jusoda Kid 04/07/11 - we'll be lucky to spend ten million of the AC money We didn't Kitman 17/08/11 - Pardoo will be gone by xmas. LeazesMag 22/06/11 - We won't finish any higher than we did in 10/11 under Mike Ashley McFaul 30/03/11 - Turnover will be at least £95m this season without any doubt, the profit will be between £8m and £15m, I'll bet you now. 21/06/11 - Chelsea will win the league by at least 6 points. 21/06/11 - Newcastle will sign someone like Woodgate but not necessarily him, but over 30 as back up before 1/9/11. We didn't 21/06/11 - Argentina will win every game they play in the Copa America in 90 minutes. They won 1 out of 4. Knocked out in the QF. 21/06/11 - We'll have signed 8 players between 31/5/11 and 1/9/11. Cabaye, Ba, Marveaux, Abeid, Obertan, Santon, Elliot 21/06/11 - When this window closes Nile Ranger will be at a club within 50 miles of London, possibly someone like Brighton or Watford, and in the near future will fall foul of the law. Still at Newcastle when the window closed, but been in the naughty chair for bruising some fella's chin. 21/06/11 - Mackems will beat us at SOS in August. We won one nil Papa Lazaru 22/06/11 - We won't be relegated 22/06/11 - We'll have a better home record than last season (more points/more wins) 22/06/11 - We won't win more games away than last season 22/06/11 - At least one of the new singings will be injured pre-season and miss the big kick off (i know this is a no brainer to be fair!) Only Ben Arfa was unavailable for selection on the opening day. 22/06/11 - Not including Neil Taylor we will sign at least two more players that aren't free Obertan and Santon. PaulR9 04/06/11 - Nolan has agreed a deal to join West Ham He signed on 16/06 Peasepud 06/06/11 - if we spend over £10m on one player I'll run round the Strawberry naked We didn't. 06/06/11 - bottom 3 by Christmas Sammynb 04/07/11 - More than one of Enrique, Tiote, Colo or Jonas will be sold within 12 months. 04/07/11 - At least one resulting in "to late to find a replacement" and "an offer to good to turn down" statements. StoneColdStephenIreland 04/07/11 - Whoever gets appointed captain at the start of the season (Coloccini) to be sold by September 1st Still here. 16/08/11 - Barton to be gone by the end of the transfer window Gone 16/08/11 - sign no players before the upcoming Mackem game. None signed Tiote's Nutz 30/05/11 - We will spend 20mil plus [in the summer window] £300k wasn't it? 22/06/11 - We'll finish 7th and win the FA Cup TicTacWoe 03/07/11 - Wenger's last season as Arsenal manager. ToonMarshy 18/08/11 - Barton joining Nolan at West Ham before the end of this window Close but no cigar...QPR Plenty of updates. Who else did we sign btw Stevie, that makes you think you should have that one? Remie Streete from obscurity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 12767 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Thought that was last season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 19, 2011 Author Share Posted October 19, 2011 Update: Cunterhead 18/08/11 - From October we will never be in the top ten all season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Not sure it got copied into this thread but predicting this football forum would have more than the usual 10 posts between a match and monday morning and that there would be loads of moaning cunts on here after a bad result was 100% spot on. I was right about google being the new microsoft, ipads and us not imploding this season. The latter one will still be proven correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I dont think the summer will be as bad as people are fearing. Was a great prediction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 What a thread! Just had a look at this for the first time. Great work HP. Angry Steve23/06/11 - Dan Gosling will not play more than 90 mins (total) of competitive football for the first team before Halloween. He played 144 minutes. 70x2 in the Carling Cup and 4 minutes in the Prem (and 1 other minute in the League on October 31st itself). Fish29/05/11 - 15th @ Xmas Believe that is already mathematically impossible Peasepud06/06/11 - bottom 3 by Christmas Mathematically even impossibler. JonTheMag18/08/11 - We won't have a single player score more than 10 goals. 18/08/11 - Nile Ranger will spend some time this season at another club, either on loan or as a transfer. Done and, well... also done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 Angry Steve23/06/11 - Dan Gosling will not play more than 90 mins (total) of competitive football for the first team before Halloween. Played his 90th minute against Norwich away...prompty sent off in his 138th minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4222 Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Angry Steve23/06/11 - Dan Gosling will not play more than 90 mins (total) of competitive football for the first team before Halloween. Played his 90th minute against Norwich away...prompty sent off in his 138th minute. hes right there though not wrong he DIDNT play more than 90 before halloween Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 Jon themag18/08/11 - We won't have a single player score more than 10 goals. Ba scored his 10th away to Norwich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 Angry Steve23/06/11 - Dan Gosling will not play more than 90 mins (total) of competitive football for the first team before Halloween. Played his 90th minute against Norwich away...prompty sent off in his 138th minute. hes right there though not wrong he DIDNT play more than 90 before halloween Right you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 Should have read Matt's post before I even started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 McFaul 17/01/12 - Tiote is away, every time I've come up with a piece of ITK I've been right, all I'm saying is he's going to Chelsea in June for £23m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 (edited) Ant 22/08/11 - if we don't sign a decent striker by the end of the window we will score 25 or less by Christmas. Some might say Demba was a decent signing, but either way we scored 23 by Christmas day. Edited January 17, 2012 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Dr Gloom 29/05/11 - pardew sacked before christmas after a holocaust of a start to the season. He wasn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Kitman 17/08/11 - Pardoo will be gone by xmas. He wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 3997 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I feel I need to add some more We will qualify for Europe We will get to Wembley We will sign two players this window We will sell no one this window Ben Arfa will be gone by September 1st Gemmil will cook a Jamie Oliver recipe this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 JonTheMag[/b]]18/08/11 - We will make it to the semi-finals of a Cup. We didn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 Tiote's Nutz[/b]']22/06/11 - We'll finish 7th and win the FA Cup. Out of the cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 Christmas Tree 17/01/12 - We will get to Wembley Out of both cups 17/01/12 -We will sign two players this window We signed 1 (Cisse) 17/01/12 - We will sell no one this window. We didn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 Ewerk 10/01/12 - I'm willing to go out on a limb and predict that we will not lose any major players during the January transfer window. We didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 A foreigner will wear the No.9 shirt. I Wyn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 A foreigner will wear the No.9 shirt. I Wyn. Apologies for missing it. Added to the OP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Ant 21/06/11 - We wont sign any single player for a double figure transfer fee as long as Ashley is here. Cisse signed for £10m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4222 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Ant 21/06/11 - We wont sign any single player for a double figure transfer fee as long as Ashley is here. Cisse signed for £10m debatable isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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