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Is that £40m for just this pre season and not January inclusive? If we manage to get 4 players in for £5.5m we could end up with quite a few new players this summer! About time considering the size of squad we've been working with the last couple of seasons.

He's obviously been talking to Lee Clark when he's talking about Newcastles "Scouting network".

Would still like to see Ameobi being given a post shearer opportunity. They never played well together and Shola has shown some excellent football at times, mainly prior to the last injury. If Fatty signs and Owen & Martins stays, it unfortunately looks as if Ameobi will be waiting for an injury or a substitution.

Its almost too good to be true. I think its only a matter of time before we get a kick in the slats like

Its its a bit like if Eastenders threw a plane crash into the plot at Albert Square. Chance to clear out the deadwood and bring decent new faces in! Wasnt Freddie quoted at saying he's never hung about in his past businesses? This obviously means that the Dein idea is off.

Viduka's the kinda of play we needed there for most of last season, might have been interesting if Roeder had managed to get him last summer. Although equally Viduka's definitely a relatively short term measure, 1-2 seasons unless Allerdyce works some magic. Tbh, Owen is probably a short term measure as well, as I think he'll be off next season if he doesnt go this year

Surely Bramble must be on more at Wigan than he was with us? Absolutely ridiculous money

If it wasnt Sunderland we were talking about, i'd be convinced this was a wind up!

I think most of us would be happy with that Especially Posh

Reo-Coker is a joker, better off with shite from Roker.

Agreed, but I'd have reservations if he'd have cost us three or four million. he didnt though, so in my opinion, its a very good deal!

nice one

obvious destination

good signing on a free, offers something a lot different to what we have up front. If we've got all this money coming in, this is good squad building stuff, if the money isnt going to be there for some time, he's still a good player on a free.

to me, the close-season has just begun because the manager has just returned from holiday. Between now and next month there should be big changes so that they can get things in place for the players returning to training. It'd be nice to have a few transfers in by then to start working with them early on, and then tying things up by the start of August. 2 1/2 months is a long time in the transfer market even though it'll fly by. Im confident that the ball is rolling in the right direction at the moment.

Those twins are from Newcastle - however by the sound of them, i think its Newcastle Under Lyme. Potters not Geordies

Should make great late night sound off telly.

Both Ben Haim and Viduka would be good additions to the squad on a free, after all we dont exactly have a big squad do we? i think i'll take what we can get until this takeover is complete. Anything can happen where NUFC is concerned.

Racist tbh. Canofbeans hit the nail on the proverbial

I'd settle for a few years of trophies too tbh.... Aye but I meant financially. They had some big debts when Abramovich took over and he's obviously wiped these and theyve furthered with the "Chelsea Village" infrastructure.

He's a handful for defenders because of his size, 17 goals in 64 starts for Liverpool, 11 goals in 17 England appearances. Much improved player over the last couple of years and while £10m is too much, somewhere around £7m i would think would be more realistic.

It was obviously just a plaything, and as easy as he picked Chelsea up, he's going to drop them. At least they should be in a better position than they were when he took over

We've already got Dyer at the club, we dont need another one.

Just goes to show reading those quotes from SJH that he obviously had reservations about selling up to Freddy. I cant imagine that FF hadnt already made an offer for the Hall shares, particularly from his comments about SJH and his comments about buying up their share. Just goes to show that when a decent offer has come in, SJH has got rid of them to anyone but Shepherd. Lets hope Ashley is a more dignified leader and doesnt meddle with team affairs.

dillusional if people think we're one of the worlds "big clubs" Havent been a big club since the 50s, only on support alone that we still can say this