Ayatollah Hermione

a few people have talked up Lua Lua [more in hope ?] but tbh I want to see a bit more of him first. Barton and Nolan are the heartbeat of the club, they are the 2 leaders. I think if Nolan makes the starting 11 next season then imo we wont have progressed in the summer. Aye, if we get rid of our top scorer and captain, we'll certainly have progressed. He's top scorer because we dont have any strikers. Cant believe anyone would include Nolan in their starting 11 given we have a decent window. Aye but you'd have Lua Lua in regardless so you're not the best judge. You see what we miss when Nolan's out the side; compare his play to Guthrie's or Smith's. Nolan's better in possession, a better finisher and a leader on the pitch. Not sure why I'm even bothering responding actually.

a few people have talked up Lua Lua [more in hope ?] but tbh I want to see a bit more of him first. Barton and Nolan are the heartbeat of the club, they are the 2 leaders. I think if Nolan makes the starting 11 next season then imo we wont have progressed in the summer. Aye, if we get rid of our top scorer and captain, we'll certainly have progressed.

If he goes to Liverpool, I can see it being what we paid for him plus a player.

Has Barton missed one for us?

Offers from 2 Prem clubs apparently too.

As said, losing Barton will rip the team apart. In the 4-4 Arsenal game, he was dragging those bastards forward by their bollocks and he does it every time. If he shows up then we show up. Seb Larsson doesn't quite have those qualities.

End of the week

Keeping a watch on this. People are getting a bit eager with the bidding like, not that I want to rip you off

I must have missed his first 3 years at £60K a week, whilst he was proving himself. He's been good for ONE season. And in his current form, he'll be good for the next few if we sign him on.

Thought the story was that the contracts were shite?

I just dont believe that sentence. Had he said we cant agree etc etc....But I cant believe the club have called Willy in to say we are not renewing. ...really?

HOW? HOW when things like this happen, do people automatically go to "Barton must be greedy" and not "Mike Ashley is a tight-fisted cunt"? I hope Chez is right and this is McKay forcing their hand. I have a feeling that Ashley's hand consists of accepting a bid from someone though.

McKay is a c*nt clearly trying to get Barton as much money as possible. The fact the club haven't offered a contract confirms the demands were too high. I say sell anyone who doesn't want to be here or tries to extort the club. Aye right Joey Barton clearly doesn't want to be here like.

Tell you what, dump Smith, use the free money to pay Joey Barton, you stupid fucking cunts.

Fucking arseholes.

How Henry isn't there is beyond me. He was basically cleaning up awards and records when he was at Arsenal.

Elvis Costello, The Cars and Big Star too.

Love his lego hair.

If you don't use that, I certainly will.

Bet the reason we wouldn't pay for him in January is because they knew he was leaving on a free in the summer.

Can't see this on BBC Newcastle like.

If we're going on definition, you have to goose-step and shoot a jew to be a nazi but it doesn't stop that weird bloke down your local from scrawling swastikas into the bar.

Think they're probably better set up to do them than they were last time even without Ronaldo. Like Leazes said, Park will be invaluable in terms of pressuring and Rooney and Hernandez are in shit hot form. Can't see it being a classic though.

Got to be worth watching for the sheer surrealism of it all

Anyone going to try and watch this to see what it's like? I find it hard to believe this pack of twats are Geordies tbh. I suspect they've been created in some kind of horrible laboratory, maybe the same one where they produce Hollyoaks cast members. Anyone know one of them?