OTF

Selling Carroll for 35M+ in isolation is not necessarily bad. Selling him without a replacement lined up at the very end of a transfer window whilst maintaining all along that he wasn't for sale is deplorable and shows a complete and utter lack of concern for the welfare of the club. If Carroll's departure results in the end of the generally strong team spirit that we've had since Hughton galvanised the team in the Championship, then the 35m is a mere drop in the ocean when you consider that we also lost a seemingly 20 goal a season striker. If Enrique leaves as part of that the devestation will be even worse, and the message will be even more clear and on the wall than it is now. We're a selling club - like one of our players and they can be yours if the price is right.

Unfortunately Shola'a not going to suddenly cut it after 10+ years in the Newcastle first team. Certainly capable of moments of brilliance and some quality goals, but inconsistent as and unfortunately the bad games outweigh the good. BTW - Where's your video of goals from this season?

They're offering you wages of 100K+ a week, plus incentives.

We've sent him to Liverpool to see a specialist. Expect a prognosis back in 5 and a half years. Don't think Ireland is fit so cant see him playing a part therefore we'll foreseeably be starting with the same lineup we did against Tottenham, though there is a concern about Guthrie fitness as well I think.

Give Vuckic a crack. He's a big lad, stick a pony tail on him and we can pretend he's Carroll.

Fair point. Maybe trying to disguise the fact that Tottenham has been pretty quiet in this window.

How the heck (and why the heck) are Tottenham able to buy so many midfielders and convince them that they'll have some important part to play. Didn't play out in this case, maybe Adam would have rejected the offer, who knows.

He's been called up for Nigeria! Pretty sure that was the point.

Pretty sure it's game over and you have to start from the beginning. Or - you can keep going as is but the moment you make a transfer you'll have to ship out one of your Chelsea players.

...Come on Mr Cort.. there's hope for my shirt still....

Shola, Ranger, Best, Lovenkrands and Steven Taylor might be happy about this.

I bet that N'Zogbia would have said yes to the deal as long as it increased his wages.

Can someone send an ambulance round leazesMags, I think he's on his way to dying from smugness.

Yeah now that we've been once again fucked over lets turn on each other. Brilliant.

We're in talks with Depor about taking their Spanish striker Xisco on a season long loan for 1-2m up front.

.. where he will get his deserved chance to shine.

They're readying a bid for Folan as we speak.

Don't think for one second that we'll see Ashley splash the cash in the summer.

Wonder how many other fake deals they will pretend to be making before they claim at the end that they narrowly missed out on several of their targets?

Softening the blow had fuck all to do with it, show me one example in the past two years where those slimey fucks showed that they gave a shit about what we think. They've sent their mate out every other day for the past month to say "Andy Carroll is not for sale at any price". They had to do something to save face there if nowt else. And they came out and rubbished Hughton in the press as soon as they'd got shot of him. They play the game, they're just shit at it. They're not too shit at it if they've managed to garner up to 40m for Andy Carroll. Particularly with his off-field behavioural issues. They don't care about their face, they've contradicted themselves so many times it's now not even worth digging up up the examples. They blatantly know that there's enough supporters out there who are addicted who will keep coming back for their hit no matter how many times they get burnt by the dealer.

The ol' wheeler dealer has seen it all before.

wasnt carroll `going nowhere` ? He was like, but that was coming from Mike and Derek who unfortunately lose out in the credibility stakes to rumour mongering online 'news' sites.

Can't really blame Carroll he'll be more than doubling his wage easily. Have to wonder how he'll react to the pressure and sudden increased 'fame'. All signs indicate not well.