Ayatollah Hermione

How aren't you getting this? It's excuse making really. Wages for new players tend to be low - before his new contract Tiote was on £10k. Ben Arfa is on £40k. etc etc Not the pie in the sky shit Andy seems to be implying. Again I passed on info from 2 reliable ITK's... you lot are fucking boring the pants off me with your shite. You don't believe them? Fine I really dont care... Like I said i'll keep the info to myself in future. I think I'll stick to the financial reports and some trusted journalists with regards to what's happening at NUFC. Starting an N'Zogbia rumour and having the media report the rumour doesn't count as ITK.

How aren't you getting this?

Confident of making a profit more like.

I'd try the promoted teams or maybe Wigan as a make-weight for N'Zogbia. No loss subject to replacement. Good idea to use him as a pot sweetener like. I think the hatrick against West Ham and the (should-have been) two goals past Arsenal would always be his NUFC highlights. Seems a decent enough pro though.

Just saw on SSN that he's up here today having his medical.

He's also probably not good enough? I know it's hard to believe having watched him for 14 minutes.

Kadar seems another in that list of promising young players who have done piss all. I know he's had bother with injuries like.

Can't be Enrique because it'll not be a surprise when he goes.

Nolan and Hughton

sorry if some of these are on loan from Prem clubs or something, but this is my choice... Don Cowie (Watford) Albert Adomah (Bristol City) James Coppinger (Doncaster (and at this point I'd better mention that I know that he's already played for us, because of knuckle-dragging idiots who think that if you don't mention it, you can't know it and must be an idiot) Peter Wittingham (Cardiff City) Lewiss McGugan (Nottingham FOrest) Danny Graham (Watford) Shane Long (Reading) Luciano Becchio (Leeds) James Henry (Millwall) Chris Burke (Cardiff City) Jay Borthroyd (Cardiff) Max Gradel (Leeds) Billy Sharp (Doncaster) Andy King (Leicester) Steve Morrison (Millwall) lmao

. . ah y know what . d'oh im off for me tea . embarrassed . hahah, tbf, Amdy Faye was never in a losing team for his first ten games or so

Not thinking of Amdy?

Black Ops is a pretty bad video game. Burnout Paradise isn't though, I'm on a serious addiction.

Reading Chaucer is like reading the ramblings of a mental dyslexic teenager.

It's refreshing to get an opposition fan who isn't just on the wind-up so feel free to stick about

The obsession with wage packets is a curious new obsession with NUFC fans like. 50k is pennies for your influential captain, top goalscorer, big dressing room presence and Mackem Destroyer (co-owned with Shola), especially for the continuation of those things.

For Stoke or the Mackems? I think Etherington's alright from Stoke. Sunderland have spent a load of money on a load of average players though.

He's got to stick his head above the parapet for so much shite going his way. I still can't say I feel sorry for him though with the circumstances of his arrival.

I went to Liverpool, enjoyed it, preferred Newcastle as a city. Just chiming.

Having said all this, I do agree that money ultimately dictates where most players go in these cases. Players like Barton and Nolan with us are different circumstances as they've largely been forced out of a club they want to play for and have been made to feel unwanted (though Barton has thicker skin than most). With players like Ba, I think it's definitely a bidding war in terms of wage packets and that's determined it; I just can't see us offering anyone 70k a week unless they see serious re-sale value in him. I'd argue that when players like these come to middling PL teams, it's with aim to move on to better pastures quickly anyway.

I'd have had him for 5 years, aye. That doesn't mean I'd start him for five years though; his presence in the dressing room and possible transition into coaching would have been a rare moment of long-term planning with the club.

It'll be 50k with some incentives, I imagine then. He'll get a bit extra after ten games etc, wouldn't surprise me. There's no way we're paying out 70k straight in wages under this lot. 10/20 goals, not games, I meant.

£70k for Demba Ba. Or if thats not true and its less then what is it? £60k, £50k? for a guy who failed 2 seperate medicals in the last 3 years for the same problem? Yes silly money. Aye but if you want to tell me where you're getting that figure from? A guy called "sheedy" who has contacts at Everton, he's pretty much always spot on with his info. Not your usual run of the mill ITK, if he says something it pretty much always pans out the way he says it will. What else has he got? I'm not trying to say you're talking shite but the notion that Ba is on 70k at a club with a wage cap, a club that won't give Enrique what he wants to stay and has routinely said they're lowering the wage bill is hard to believe. I reckon he'll be on about 40k fwiw.

£70k for Demba Ba. Or if thats not true and its less then what is it? £60k, £50k? for a guy who failed 2 seperate medicals in the last 3 years for the same problem? Yes silly money. Aye but if you want to tell me where you're getting that figure from?

What an absolutely shit deal. I'd have considered that derisory.