Guest alex Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 ALAN Smith remains reluctant to leave Newcastle United despite the club making him available for transfer days after the season ended.After being told his name would be circulated to rival clubs, Smith has already attracted interest from former team Leeds United – as well as lucrative offers from the Middle East a '..circulated to rival clubs' ffs I shouldn't grumble, it's comments like that - early in a piece - that save me time from reading the rest of the shit printed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Hence the Barton and Nolan situation. The pair of them have a couple of good seasons left in them, then its sitting on the bench refusing to talk to small clubs and collecting north of 40k per week to do it. Just like Smith is now. If Smith refuses to leave and no one wants to buy him / pay him then it probably means we will choose to free up resources by selling effective players. FYP. Difficult to say if it will be choice or neccessity, wage bill will be around 60m+ now with Cabaye, Ben Arfa, Tiote etc. Revenue around 80m. If you add in 3 new players on high(ish) wages, someone will have to fuck off. As it stands Smith is stealing over 3m a year off us which could be spent on someone good enough to actually start for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asprilla 96 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Alan Shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 8 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I can only hope he moves and we stop paying him any money what's so ever. I still feel sad about how happy I was when he signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 (edited) Hence the Barton and Nolan situation. The pair of them have a couple of good seasons left in them, then its sitting on the bench refusing to talk to small clubs and collecting north of 40k per week to do it. Just like Smith is now. If Smith refuses to leave and no one wants to buy him / pay him then it probably means we will choose to free up resources by selling effective players. FYP. Difficult to say if it will be choice or neccessity, wage bill will be around 60m+ now with Cabaye, Ben Arfa, Tiote etc. Revenue around 80m. If you add in 3 new players on high(ish) wages, someone will have to fuck off. As it stands Smith is stealing over 3m a year off us which could be spent on someone good enough to actually start for us. I'm not really defending Smith btw. Not as a player anyway. I'd love him to fuck off but can hardly blame him for staying when his only suitors are offering him 1/20 of what he is currently on. Who wouldn't hang about for another year? Re: the point in question though, if we are to believe the regime, they have steadfastly been working at reducing the current wage bill. Not to mention getting £35m in January. Add to this that Ashley has been able to pay Smith for all of his contract so far, including a year in the Championship, it is then disingenuous to suggest that paying him for another year means he has to offload another, more effective player. The last bit is superfluous anyway given it's hard to imagine a less effective player. He can afford it in other words. Personally I'd like to see him offer Smith two-thirds of what he's on in a lump sum as even that would be better value for money than we're getting / are likely to get. Smith was given this contract by Ashley though (as were Nolan and Barton) if we're playing the blame game. Edited June 9, 2011 by alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6562 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 He could go now and have a modicum of respect from the fans. If he sees out his contract in the reserves at the cost of the team and the club then he's another mercenary (which he is obviously) and he'll be just behind EMO in the cunt stakes. As HMHM said the utter shite they come out with in an attempt to pathetically obfuscate the truth. Why not just be honest? 'I'm staying for the wedge everyone, wouldn't you?' Barring a miracle he's going to see out his contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 (edited) He couldn't actually go down any further in the fans' opinion, unless he started funding Al Quaeda with his £60k a week. It would take something like that for it to happen. Edited June 9, 2011 by Kevin S. Assilleekunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hd1970 0 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 hope so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 hope so What, that he funds Al Q'aeda ? It's only a hunch, but I can't see it happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13016 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Ship him off to fight the terrorists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TicTacWoe 0 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Worse than Hitler tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 7240 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Hence the Barton and Nolan situation. The pair of them have a couple of good seasons left in them, then its sitting on the bench refusing to talk to small clubs and collecting north of 40k per week to do it. Just like Smith is now. If Smith refuses to leave and no one wants to buy him / pay him then it probably means we will choose to free up resources by selling effective players. FYP. Difficult to say if it will be choice or neccessity, wage bill will be around 60m+ now with Cabaye, Ben Arfa, Tiote etc. Revenue around 80m. If you add in 3 new players on high(ish) wages, someone will have to fuck off. As it stands Smith is stealing over 3m a year off us which could be spent on someone good enough to actually start for us. Think you're a bit light on revenue and high on wages mind. Revenue'll be thick end of £100Mill and wages somewhere around £55Mill, as we stand, I would think. (wages were £47Mill last year add 4 players at £50K/week and that'd put it to £57 - without adjusting for differential between what people were on previous like Tiote). There'll definitely be a levelling though, in terms of "outs". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4005 Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 WEST HAM boss Sam Allardyce will contact Newcastle again this week in a bid to land Alan Smith. Allardyce raided his former club to land Kevin Nolan in a £4million deal on Wednesday but is not finished yet. He is now determined to add Smith, 30, to his line-up in an effort to put some bite into his relegated team. Allardyce paid £6m to buy Smith from Manchester United during his time in the North East. And he is well aware of the midfielder’s ability to dominate games in the Championship, as he did in helping Newcastle to promotion two seasons ago. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/1...lan-Smith-deal/ :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13921 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEADMAN 0 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 come on west ham sign him get rid of smith hes past it now hes 30 we need younger stars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2188 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 :icon_lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bias 3 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Hopefully true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 48 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 :icon_lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Imagine if we could swindle another £4m out of them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2188 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Imagine if we could swindle another £4m out of them... It'd be like getting 7 mill when you take into account the wages he'd cost us next season. Could we be so lucky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4005 Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 (edited) Leeds trying to bring Smith, Woodgate and Bowyer back to elland road -----Sky http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11715_6997891,00.html Edited June 20, 2011 by Christmas Tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Leeds trying to bring Smith, Woodgate and Bowyer back to elland road -----Sky http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11715_6997891,00.html certainly "ambitious" © Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Bowyer would do a job for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1 Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 He'd sort out the immigration problem for starters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithJ 0 Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 He'd sort out the immigration problem for starters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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