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Shola
And I doubt its Ashley (or Pardew), more likely to be Charnley or whoever runs that side of things.
Poe
They knew he had cancer, if I knew that at the time I wouldn't have wanted rid of him. There's more to life than football and money.
It's Ashley's blueprint.
Poe
Shola
What's Ashley's blueprint?
Poe
And Jonas said in his interview it was Pardew that told him he wasn't in his plans.
Shola
He charges the club no interest on the debt, and has delayed taking £18m in short term loan, for the past couple of years. Giving Sports Direct advertisement is often seen as a sign of his greed, but it's robbing from himself. He's giving a company he doesn't own free advertisement, from a company that he does own.
Besides everything he does will be misconstrued to put him and the club in a negative light -
Sign expensive players like Cabella or Cisse - He obviously wants to cash in - and sell them for more.
Sign young players like Perez - Obviously can't wait to sell for more
Sign expensive players and then sell them for less than the club paid - Obviously cashing in, can't wait to save on the wages
Invest millions into the youth academy - Obviously trying to produce young players to cash in
Give young players a chance - Neglecting the team, running the club into the ground etc.
It's boring. The club is run in the exact same manner as Swansea, Southampton etc.
And just because it was Pardew who told him, doesn't mean it was his decision.
Poe
We should be run in a more ambitious way than Swansea, they're nowhere near as a big a club as Newcastle.
Buying/selling players isn't the problem - it's the timing of it. Letting Cabaye/Carroll go on the last day of a transfer window is just ridiculous. Not replacing them for another 6 months is even worse.
Shola
And OK, Everton, Spurs etc. are also run in the exact same way.
I'm still not sure how Newcastle didn't replace Cabaye. We sold a French International Midfielder and now we have a French International Midfielder.
Poe
We had Andy Carroll and didn't replace him for 6 months either.
We don't replace players straight away, unless we were going to go down.
I don't know why you continually defend Mike Ashley's transfer policy when it's clear it's contributing to our problems - they've admitted this themselves, for a start.
Tottenham Everton Southampton Swansea didn't go 18 months without making a permanent signing either.
Shola
Carroll is extraordinary circumstance - Newcastle got offered double what the guy is worth and then brought in Ba and Cisse.
I don't defend 'his' transfer policy, I just cba with the myths - Newcastle have spent over £80m gross over the past 4 years - they've just spent a lot of it badly. Nor do I believe it's 'his' policy. You seem very quiet on why Ashley sanctions expensive signings like Cabella?
Newcastle's starting XI last year was; proof that people prefer transfers to actual football.
Krul, Santon, Taylor, Colo, Debuchy, Tiote, Sissoko, Cabaye, Remy, Ben Arfa, Cisse
And we didn't replace anyone the season we looked like going down. We didn't sell anyone to proceed it. People just merge together bits of history to make their own narrative.
The major problems that year was Cabaye going missing, HBA getting injured, Tiote's form going, Anita and Amalfitano being bad signings and Cisse struggling.
Poe
Clubs need to sanction expensive signings now and then - teams need to been freshened up and improved upon every year or they go stale as teams work out how to play against them - that's just logic.
We've got the same central defenders in our team that got us promoted from the Championship - that's just not good enough - especially when two of them aren't anything special.
We've spent 80m yeah, but the majority of that is replacing players that we should have kept.
The season we finished 5th - we should have improved the team to make sure it wasn't a fluke - buying 1 poor central midfielder was an absolute disaster and contributed to our poor season when we were in Europe.
The season we spent big in January should have been followed up with a summer of activity too - to get us back in the top 7, but we only succeeded in making 1 loan signing then absolutely nothing in January - except selling Cabaye.
Tommo.
I haven't really seen much of Newcastle this season so I'm interested to see which two have flopped? I guessing one is Riviere and the other guess would be Ferrerya just because I haven't heard much about him this year
bmg033
Poe
He's apparently injured atm.
Think he was brought in on Coloccini's recommendation and he just wasn't good enough, basically.
Number 1
Certainly, its clear the central defensive area as a whole is past it and has been for a while, yet it seems to have slipped in priority. Pardew's failure to get to grips with Yanga-Mbiwa has really left us in trouble there.
I think most fans were hoping for more quality. Naturally, I don't think we expected Siem de Jong to be a semi-permanent crock, or Riviere and Ferreyra to be so hopeless. The ideas were there, but the execution is not, as said. But equally so, its not as if we couldn't afford more. It's not as if we're going to go bust anytime soon.
Nevertheless, it appears there'll be another overhaul in the summer anyway. Personally I think it could be relatively simple - say, one new winger, one new CB and one new striker to replace Gouffan, Williamson and Riviere. But maybe something more comprehensive is planned. Who knows. Still a while before the transfer fun and games anyway.
Meanwhile, the more I hear about the Rangers five, the more I get bewildered how it happened. Did we just pick players at random and dump them there?
The Bigirimana thing is particularly puzzling. Surely we knew he has the illness being discussed, and surely someone must've pointed out that the SPFL didn't allow players with the condition he has to play.
Number 1
Its a tricky one - most of us weren't impressed by Jonas' 2012-13 performances anyway, and I think we would've been a bit more sensitive had we realised his body was going through such a troublesome time. When he was loaned to Norwich I thought it was just to get him game-time after an injury, which in fairness to Pardew might have been what the line of thought was, even if he said it in an extremely idiotic way.
I imagine he'll stay for next year at least tbh. Then again I'm yet to watch a game in full since his return to the first team fold, so I don't know how well he has or hasn't played. But judging by what I've red, heard and seen in highlights, I'm thinking Ryan Taylor is the one in bigger danger of being let go at present.
He played some pre-seasons games, one Capital One Cup tie, was on the bench a few times and hasn't been seen in quite a while.
Number 1
Poe
Shola
HBA basically retiring and Tiote stop playing hasn't helped. And having about 8 injuries at once consistently for 18 months is awful. Should definitely be looked into. Summed up by giving Rangers a bunch of players who can't even get on the pitch.
And whoever is in charge of transfers have let far too many squad players go - Shola, Perch, Jonas, Guthrie, Marveaux, Simpson, Lovenkrands, Routledge. Honestly beginning to fear relegation next year getting rid of Williamson for someone fancier but useless.
idk, I have very little faith in Charnley to correct any of this. And worried about his decisions in the summer.
Poe
It's regularly square pegs and round holes at Newcastle.
Carver isn't the man to steer us forward, either.
Charnley is just a yes-man to Ashley.
Number 1
The odd thing with fitness is that we hired a fitness coach with a good reputation, and yet we seem to have gone backwards on injuries. Fuck knows how that's happened.
It is true we have very little strength in depth, but that's been the case for quite a while. Lee Charnley is presumably not the person for it - at no other club would someone make him an MD, or at least so quickly, and he looks like a fish out of water already.
Number 1
Still not sure what the point of grey kits is.
Shola
Number 1
Poe
R.Taylor, Janmaat, Williamson, Colback
Jonas, Sissoko, Gouffran
Ameobi, Cabella, Perez
We'll get absolutely hammered if the above rumoured team is true.
4-0-6 is how that formation will play out.
Number 1
Bet it still gets 50k. But maybe it is the start of a crusade to get the Sports Shite git out, and it seems like we haven't really had a concrete opening to any such campaign yet, or at least failed to capitalise on various attempts.
Shola
Shame they won't fuck off permanently, football was a lot funner when there was only 40,000 in the stadium.
Number 1
Three years ago today. To think its all gone wrong for him (and us) since.
Poe
Should have brought Sissoko, Gouffran, Mbiwa and Debuchy in in the summer instead of waiting until January (which was going to be July but relegation looked a serious possibility)
Could have had a team of:
Debuchy Mbiwa Coloccini Santon
Tiote
Cabaye Sissoko
Ben Arfa Cisse Ba
Could have done something that team.
Obtuse