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If he's said that in the last couple of days I'm inclined to believe him. If someone was sold, he'd just look even more staggeringly incompetent than he already does.

Yeah but isn't that what happened with us and Jonas? I'm not saying it's likely but it's concerning me slightly.

There is a very large difference between the Christians we have here and the ones in the US. Although the UKIP MP recently is starting to make me think otherwise...

I thought there were concerns that if we wait till summer, he could buy himself out of the remainder of his contract for about £6m. There seems to be a rule allowing that, not that it ever seems to get used. Something to do with the age of the player when signed, and possibly if signed from overseas. If there is anything in that, then I say sell him now. If not then I agree with you - unless it means we don't get Cabella now. I actually think I'd rather get it over with now, when we're safe but aren't going to achieve anything, then we do it over the summer and realise that the team doesn't work next season.

wtf Agreed.

That has to be the worst thing anyone has ever compared Shola to...!

You post on here while in the bath..?

I had a look before to see if they had any further developments. Left quickly and am in agreement about them being OTT. I still think it would make a certain kind of sense for him to go now when we have time to adapt to it for the rest of the season. We all know we're going to finish around 8th, so why not move him on and work out how we can play going forward. Better than working it out next year when we might need the points more.

Congrats CT!

CT if you don't tell us soon I may have to kill you.

We'll survive it, we've got a lot of good players. Best time for it to happen too, we know there's nothing on for the rest of the season, may as well work out the adaptation now.

Fair enough.

Thanks for that, it'll do my forum cred wonders... I think I have mild OCD tbh.

That's a fair point like... maybe in terms of significance someone like Andy Cole? We don't tend to sell good players really. Only shite ones, the good ones have tended to retire with us/stay past their best.

I've never seen more blatant attention seeking EDIT - But FFS I am now curious...

... Thanks.

EUR26mil apparently. About £21.5m. So we'll get Cabella for about £12m, and then the other £10m will disappear. If we get the other £10m to spend then it's about as good as could be expected. If not, then we've taken a step back.

I can't help it!! I have an irrational need to know what's going on at all times.

I read the other day, but in no means from a reliable source, that Cabaye had a buyout option in his contract which comes into effect this summer at roughly £6m. If that was true, we're better off getting rid now.

Nevermind, that'll be it.

We currently have 83 guests viewing the forum. Whenever the number is that high it makes me wonder if something relevant to Newcastle has just happened (i.e. we've just lost to Sunderland etc). I wondered if we'd managed to sign someone or something, but I can't see any evidence for this. That being the case, what could they possibly be here for? And why am I so curious about everything?!

Just out of interest, is Fellaini injured or just not being played? If it's the latter, that's a damning indictment of the Moyes era right there.

There will be people who think like this though.

True enough but I don't think I've ever seen Tiote as assured on the ball as he is now. He actually takes on his man from time to time, turns well, and can spray passes around well, etc. Given that his MO used to be crunching tackles and play disruption, it's actually interesting to see. Also getting booked far less this season (or it feels like it anyway).