Newcastle Banter Archive September 01 2011

01 Sep 2011 22:04:43
Why does everyone assume MA is satisfied with the outcome of NUFC transfers.As CEO he will have held a meeting with DL, LC and perhaps AP to assess what the impact on Nufc and the ongoing risk to his investment may arise as the result of not procuring the required staff to meet the business plan .
When the analysis is completed MA must decide if those directly in charge of procurement of players have failed to carry out the agreed plan.
MA has a ruthless business attitude and if failure is inside the club he will swiftly ensure that appropriate action is put in place to avoid repetition.
The club would then be in a position to make a statement setting out what steps it had taken to strengthen its position in carrying out its business plan.
At this point somebody has to take the rap,
it certainly wont be MA, he was to busy buying companies. it wont be Charnley as it appears we didn't lose anybody for non payment, AP only did the asking.Look out Derek here comes the axe.
Ah well enough fairy tales that have a happy ending

The point is NONE of the hierarchy speak to the fans so no statement will be forthcoming. We will be left in the dark YET AGAIN.

We need more and honest disclosure!

01 Sep 2011 21:24:30
We are doomed we haven't signed anyone, relegation is a certainty,our only striker is a kid who is unproven in the PL he wont score more than 8 goals.MA doesnt care about our club.
Sorry but this is a typical blog, posted at the close of the window LAST SEASON, when AC was considered raw and an "experienced striker we had no defenders etc.We finished 12th
Doesn't all the weeping and wailing this time round look familiar,why cant we learn from last years result that we are a pedigree PL club who need the fans to get behind the team we have, not the fantasy team that is speculated during the transfer window.We have enough knockers at ssn and the southern biased media, its a great time to show geordie grit.

"Pedigree" football clubs don't sell their top striker and fail to replace him in 12 months.
"Pedigree" football clubs have ambition and try to do their best for their fans.
"Pedigree" football clubs don't lie to their paying public.
"Pedigree" football clubs don't have owners like Mike Ashley.

Pedigree? what the hell are you talking about dog food for?

Calm down! we wont get relegated. leon best and demba ba will do the job until january just get behind the club, noone else likes how we havnt signed a striker but there not being negative and putting everyone else down

So here we are fighting amongst ourselves ,i bet all the other clubs fans are lol at us. Take a deep breath for a second and take stock. Right we have gotten in some good players some for free and others not but good deals all the same, Ba i'm sure will come good HBA is due back soon and i know he wont let us down the other guys all look fine too. Have to say that even with Bendtner still think the scums team is p**s weak compared to ours, i will always support the manager and team whatever so should all of you.

01 Sep 2011 20:36:35
Oh they call him Alan Pardew,

And he claimed to sing our song

But he broke the hearts of Geordies

Now the carnival is gone.

High above, the dawn is waking,

And our tears are falling rain,

For the carnival is over;

We may never sing again. Like a drum my heart was beating,

As he promised stars to shine

But his promises were fleeting

And were dashed into the Tyne. Now the Championship is calling;

And a striker we could not buy

Though the carnival is over, we will love you till we die.

01 Sep 2011 19:02:04
Lets be honest lads, did ANYONE think Fat Boy was going to deliver? Why change a transfer window habit? Remember he has had since january to line a striker up so what does he do? Chase a Turk from PSG for 9 weeks after the player said from DAY ONE he had no intention of joining us. What part of F**K O*F did Fat Boy and Puppet not understand? No we have once again been stitched up but not to worry,50,000 will still turn up every week. Yes turn up and support the lads BUT DONT BUY anything in the stadium,no pies,pints programmes, hit Fat Boy in his pocket,all he is doing is asset stripping our once proud club. Until Fat Boy and Lamearse sell up and go, we will be a feeder club for the likes of West Ham,QPR etc so PLEASE Fat B*****D Ashley F**K O*F OUT OF OUR CLUB

The pies are crap

So is the beer!

We're going to be feeder clubs for the likes of QPR and West Ham? Is that a joke?!

Feeder club,man you mad,we ain't got a f***in player west ham would want lad,have a tab and don't fret,things will look a lot better after a 2Lye bottle of white lightning;)

01 Sep 2011 18:12:24
2010/2011 Average Lineup
Harper,Simpson,Williamson,Colocinni,Enrique,Barton,Nolan,Tiote,Jonas,Lovenkrands,Ameobi
Average Bench
Krul,Perch,R.Taylor,Guthrie,Smith,Best
What I predict 2011/2012 to be
Krul,Simpson,S.Taylor,Colocinni,Santon,R.Taylor,Cabaye,Tiote,Jonas,HBA and Ba
Bench
Harper,Williamson,Obertan,Vuckic,Best Ameobi

I think Raylor will challeneg Simpson and take the RB spot, Obertan will be regular Right Midfield and Marveaux will play a bit part this year over Vuckic on the bench.

Yes like the new team

Don't forget dan gosling

01 Sep 2011 18:04:12
El Hadj Diouf released apparently. surely worth a short term contract? Maybe the character we need up front? Better than nothing. Him best and Ba competing it out could be good.

I would rather count every blade of grass on St James than have him at the club

{Ed042's Note - I would gladly let Tiote headbutt me repeatedly in the nuts until there was nothing left of them rather than have him at the club.. anyone else care to share what they would rather?}

I would rather wear a mackem shirt for a day (wouldnt let anyone take a photo though)

Id rather carry my mother in law in a skirt on my back from Newcastle to London! than av him

Go on get Dioufy would make my week that! he is dogsh*te and that is me being polite about him, your fans would have to wear waterproof clothing as he will be spitting at anyone who takes the mick out of him, probs worse than barton for stupidity

I'd rather let David Charlton f*ck my ar*e in front of my parents and have it aired live on tv after the lottery than have him join our club

01 Sep 2011 17:11:46
mad max here.now that the window is shut its time for reflection. both our clubs sold our main striker in jan. both clubs known since jan we need replacements. eight months and between two not bad clubs all we can up up with is ba and bendtner on loan. surely both clubs cant be inept and have lack of vision. maybe we just in wrong geographical area. i think if we lived 300 miles further south we could attract the world class players we are all craving for just a thought oh by the way red and white army
mad max

At last someone has started to talk sense

Fair point, always be difficult for us two teams to attract the high calibre of player anymore unless your champs league or in europe, not to mention the wags play a big part in the footballers decisions and I doubt a shopping trip at eldon square or the bridges is gonna beat harrods and also the money and wages getting thrown about by southern teams nowadays, we can't compete with that. Could be worse like we could live in smog city and support Boro!lol

01 Sep 2011 16:52:44
Ed I've been told that we didnt buy a striker because we have too many on the books already and we coundnt get rid of any during the summer, do you know if this is true, It does sort of makes sense in a way when you count all the players that can play as forwards, still need one that can score more than 6 goals a season anyway

{Ed042's Note - Its a train of thought on why we didnt, wouldnt subscribe to it personally, if that was the case we would have transfer listed who we wanted rid of well in advance}

I reckon best and ba will score tons of goals each we yohan cabaye who assisted the most in french league.

01 Sep 2011 16:00:33
i will buy the club if every Nufc fan sends me a quid or every Scumberland fan sends me 50 mill

01 Sep 2011 15:43:56
Im not one of those "supporters" who just slags the club off at every chance, neither am i an Ashley fan(although i agree with our transfer policy to an extent) but once again we were massively let down by Ashley and Llambias(tbh Pardew should have made sure we got a striker in aswell).
Im not a doom and gloom supporter like quite a few on here are. We have a good squad, although lacking a bit of depth, and think w'll probably have a decent enough season, probably a mid table finish, but with the transfer money and wages we've got in from letting go the likes of Carroll, Enrique, Nolan, Barton, Routledge etc we had the chance to REALLY push on this summer. We've made some good signings but we desperately need another striker and were told we've definetly get one in.
W've had 8 months or so to identify a list of targets and "get one over the line" yet we failed to do that which is dissappointing.
If we werent gonna get a striker in Pardew shouldnt have repeatedly came out and built our hopes up.
Honesty is the best policy.

Yes mate i agree i honestly think ashley is running the club how it should be ran we did need another striker but we now have make do with what we have and if hba comes back quick and keeps fit then he will do the job....smb

01 Sep 2011 15:25:48
The club does not need any free agents. Ba is still to settle in, so too Obertan, Best has the chance of his life, and as much as people ridicule Ameobi he still scores important goals. We've had a good start to the season, and will buy in January.

I find it amusing that there are Scumberland fans getting on their high horses because they signed Bentner. Bentner? Really? If you think he's all that brilliant, I can't wait to see you at SJP. You lost 5-1with Bent, so it'll be laughable with Bentner.

They slagged us a couple of weeks ago for showing intrest said he was finished he is now mags 4 ever

Thank gawd somebody has come on who is'nt in the Q to throw them selves off the Tyne bridge.Those wine -ing about no new strikers were probably the same as hailed the signing of Owen and Viduka
(Marquee signings ha ha) as the ultimate dream.Get behind what weve got and I predict you will be pleasently surprised

01 Sep 2011 14:42:37
2011 is the biggest spending period in the premieship scince 2008, excuse me ? where we were we????????

Ed how much did we spend last summer?

{Ed042's Note - After coming back up? approx. £5m mate, and another £6m in January for HBA}

Cheers ed. We did really well last season a lot better than most pundits and "experts" thought we would. I know we had Carrol, Nolan, Barton and enrique back then and they did better than expected but we've still got a good team without them and we've made wise investments this summer. Cabaye might as much a gem as tiote was, and obertan might turn out to be like HBA (without the injury of course). Santon could prove to be an even better player than enrique. Ba will be an excellant addition even if he hasn't fully shown it yet and with some of the youngsters coming through, I think we're in a better position and will finish in top ten maybe even top 8 (bit optimistic but you never know).

Some of that 5m was spent on perch! If we can get back what we payed for him I'll be glad.

Yeah and shola might turn into messi idiot

01 Sep 2011 13:55:54
I also cant believe that all summer we were told a striker was a number one priority. A new No9. Why did we not bid 10-12m weeks ago for a decent European striker - many were available. The reason for Crouch 10m etc was because it was last minute. We should have had a striker signed up before the USA trip. Not leave it til last hour to try and get a striker in who was already in talks with Fulham! Same with Ridgewell. That was never going to happen. They just sold Dann to Blackburn. Should of went in for him ages ago. Psycho

01 Sep 2011 12:21:18
Toon have recruited seb Coe as an advisor.. MA and DL both commented, " seb has the experiences in getting across the finish line"

01 Sep 2011 09:11:12
NEWSFLASH - Gaddafi and his family spotted at Newcastle Central Station talking to Ashley. Maybe we are trying to sign one of his sons. Spoke to MA who confirmed he is a fat b**tard and is going on a diet (believe it when I see it) and Lambiarse is to play the leading role in the life story of George Clooney. Ashley confirmed we will be making substantial offers for Messi, Iniesta, Rooney, Ronaldo and several more during the next transfer window. Sorry folkes, had to post this. Just another pissed off geordie who has his hopes dashed yet again. Should be used to it by now but wont ever build up my hopes again while Ashley & Co are at our club

And u went for richardson again

01 Sep 2011 11:43:13
the fact that we couldnt offload smith/perch/ranger just adds to my already overwhelming dissapointment. we will re-sign shefqi kuqi on a 6 month contract -never underestimate the predictibility of stupidity

To add to your already overwhelming disappointment, kuqi already signed for someone else

01 Sep 2011 11:31:43
Alan Pardew was contemplating resigning at 11pm last night, and was talked out of it by Derek Llambias. He was said to be angry that those above him at the club had not done enough to secure his main priority, a top striker.

Don't talk wet, stop making things up to pile on the doom and gloom, with 7 points from 9 and 5 years left on his contract, what would make him want to become unemployed?

01 Sep 2011 10:30:44
Apparetly we had 6 bids for players in the last 2 days and all were turned down either by the club the players or the agents of the said players cos of the financial structure of what we were offering!
If this is true we were either offering peanuts or the players were after much more!
Also its bein said that the way the club has been dragged thru the messy affair with JB and JE it has damaged our reputation abroad and some clubs wouldnt do business with MA cos of the way he moves the goal posts constantly.
Sounds about right to me!......JKM,Spenny

Fulham were chosen over us! say's it all!

Recognise London is a bigger draw than living in the NE.Un fortunately they dont know what they are missing.

01 Sep 2011 10:09:21
Newcastle put in a late bid last night for Swindon Leon Clarke. Di Canio Punch bag

No ill think you will find it was a bid for Di Canio,he says you weren't ambitious enough so he stayed put in his suit,chill lad'tabs all round eh;)

Best laugh all week Di canio and clarks ding dong, When Dicanio said to him ''come here i want to thank you'' it was like a scene from the godfather. you knew damn well he didn't wanna thank him lol, just brilliant.

01 Sep 2011 09:44:24
if the club was offering 12mil for a winger that was never even a target why o why couldnt they pay the 13mil requested for cisse and then the fans would be high fiving the board this morning instead of calling for heads, overall i am very happy with the signings of cabaye,ba,obertan, and especially santon, but i would have been happy to keep R Taylor at LB if it meant we would have a new class striker in the 9..

SAGEORDIE OUT

01 Sep 2011 09:24:42
Breaking news literally! The wife is a maid at the marriot,and she tells me,the reception area has sunk by a few inches due to the amount of agents and footy players coming in and mostly out yesterday,engineers are looking at a solution to the problem,but she did hear them say they might have to shut the hotel on the run up to the January transfer window,to stop further structural failure'due to heavy traffic lol! Chill out wi some tabs and white cider lads,be cool ;)

I had me geordie breakfast this morning,( kerbab, pizza and white lighting)
Looked at the daily star and thought we are f***ed.
did any one listern to talk sport this morning!
Coutney slagged off the toon and bigged up yhe makems.
Ashley , you happy mate , it really has come as low as this and I live in a doss hoose up westgate rd that i can put up with but you have taken away all that i have.

Haha,you slay me man,give your self 9 out of 10 lad,and a big slurp of cheap white cider!;)

01 Sep 2011 03:06:30
There is one positive thing now the window has closed... We can't sign Carlton Cole. On a more serious note really think we should be introducing sammy ameobi into the team a bit more in the next few games as he's shown more this season than any other striker so far! You agree ed??

{Ed042's Note - Love sammy, great lad, a lot of potential but is still a bit raw, couldnt throw him in the deep end playing week in week out just yet imo confidence of young players is paramount to development, if he had a bad run of form could affect him badly. Leon Best with Ben Arfa behind him would be my choice. Ba instead of Best if he proves he is better, looked much improved when he came on against Fulham.. but Sammy should get his opportunities now, be good to see how he does}

01 Sep 2011 08:36:11
Trouble with these pages and similar one in Evening Chronicle Del Rodney and Trigger dont read them, they dont here what the fans have to say, cant see Pardew standing on steps and talking to us like Keegan did, feel like someone has stolen my life savings and laughed at me while they wwere doing it. I like the signings we have made but Best Loevkrans and Shola are hardly backup never mind first choice so we are relying on Denba Ba. Now ive got to go to work very very sad

01 Sep 2011 08:26:18
feel gutted,we have Del boy and Rodney upstairs with Trigger running the show down stairs, I havnt felt this low since Sir Bobby died

You can hardly compare not buying a striker in a transfer window to the death of a footballing legend, give ya self a slap man

01 Sep 2011 08:00:40
Let's admit it, currently we are a feeder club and attracting players on personal terms is going to be tricky. In the past huge wages were offered which brought them in. Now wages are lower (which is good for the future) we struggle to bring players in. As I see it, foreign players want to join one of the consistantly performing top teams. They middle of the league teams like us as a stepping stone. This is why clubs geographically around London and Manchester have more chance of getting players in as if they get signed by one of the big boys then they don't have to leave their friends behind and move their families etc...

Problem for us is geographically we can't offer this and if I was a player I would go to a team like Fulham over us any day of the week even if i was on a lower wage.

Unlke most fans, I think the best thing that has happened to the club is Ashley. His aim is to create a club for the future, a sustainable club that has a great academy. Other clubs haven't got this commitment for the future and will be no good at adapting to spending rules that are put in place.

Granted it would be nice to be fighting for titles but I'm sure it will happen soon and with many homegrown players.

I think that it's not the management that's the issue at the club but many of the fans who don't understand business and seems to think money grows on trees, it doesn't!

So many clubs will be ruined from their spending in the next five years, ours won't be, be proud of that and just enjoy the game, it is just a game afterall.

Some great points in your post BUT you talk about home grown players lifting the club to another level in the future. Well lets see now wasn't Carroll homegrown ,what happened to him M.A sold him, and i personally don't think he really wanted to go truth be told, he played a game with M.A and lost. Face it ,as it stands we are a feeder club now .

Just read your post mate and you are talking crap. Sir John Hall talked about building a homegrown team of Geordies years ago - it did not happen. Arsenal have lost their way with a policy of young players & no stars. Yes plan for the future but sustain the present. If you think Ashley is the best thing that has happened to the club then you know nowt about football.

01 Sep 2011 06:56:04
yet again pardew and ashley hav let the fans down we hav needed a striker since carroll left and yet again we havnt got 1, i wonder wot the excuse will be this time? the form of leon best after 1 game? or will we be bringing another kuqi singin in again? i just pray ben-arfa is fit soon as scoring against the big teams in the league is gona prove difficult for the likes of ba, lovenkrands and shola! is sammy ameobe the best of the bunch now?? certainly not a world beater in my eyes wots ya thorts??

01 Sep 2011 03:05:12
Now we just have to hope Ben Arfa will be back soon WOW just so annoyed it doesn't even fill me with confidence the way we have been playing Pardew has been talking all summer about how we will be passing and keeping the ball better but its worse than last season we played less long balls when we had Carroll and also the fact that Smith was chose ahead of Marveaux to come off the bench isn't convincing either.
Our hopes >>>>> ////////////

Ok so your 2:1 up with stopage time to play pardew makes the right call and brings on alan smith but this nugget would bring on a winger? give ya head a shake you idiot!

I think you will find that Marveaux can play CM and puts pressure on opponents better than Smith and fouls alot less and it was 2-0 at the time. " give youself a slap "

And how would you no this he hasnt played for over a year first game against Scunthorpe and if you think hes a defencive midfielder you need a slap m8 he hasnt got a defensive bone in his body hes an attacker nd dont give me the BS that hes a better tackler then smith and look at all smiths prem experience why would you bring on a young french small lad to defend on his debut in the premier league when hes an attacking player. al argue with you all day if you want m8 but your talking s**t!

01 Sep 2011 01:38:52
I made a prediction that after the deadline we'd sign Lomana LuaLua and Jlloyd Samuel, I guess I'll be proven right soon enough

01 Sep 2011 01:17:43
best to get the number nine shirt was offered it when he first was signed for the club but sed no because he wanted to prove himself first now with him going on record saying it feels like a new start for him and he has something to prove this season friend that works for the club says that he has been working his socks of late and wants to prove that we have done right keeping him

01 Sep 2011 01:05:02
Right guys, sorry if this goes on a bit but I want to address a few comments on here lately.

Firstly, Ed042, well done mate. We have had nothing but people bitching on here about what isn't happening at our club and you have called them on it every time with well thought out, sensible comments - if only more of our fans thought the same way.... Maybe Spongebob wouldn't be a bad shout though ;-)

Carrying on from my point above, how about we focus on what has happened at our club and be positive about it? We have had a good summer in terms of transfers, bringing in Santon, Cabaye, Marveux, Ba, Obertan all of which have the potential to improve individually and improve our squad. Ok, so we lost Enrique, Barton and Nolan who have been fantastic over the last season or two but they were all on big wages and wanted an increase they thought they deserved for helping this team get back to a position it never should have left in the first place. They were in the team that got relegated remember - they owed us that much!

With regards to the management of the team and the club in general, would we all love to have a rich Arab come in and spend hundreds of millions on world class players and get us in the Champions League again? Yes. Is that going to happen? No. Is Ashley going to spend loads of money? No. Is he going to run the club in a way that keeps us afloat and in the Premiership? Yes. Because I think even he knows that a club that goes up and down the divisions like a yo-yo won't be worth anything and will cost him more in the long run. While we're on the subject, Pardew isn't a puppet as such, he is, like has been mentioned, the voice of the board. He will recommend players, some of them he will get, some of them he won't. He will be told things by the board, some of them he can relay, some of them he can't. But he will continue to do his job, which is manage the players he has and gets results. If we get on his back, the players will feel that strain too.

As for a striker, of course we would all have liked to see a big name-20-goal-a-season-striker arrive and own that No.9 shirt for years to come. But it hasn't happened and we need to move on, get behind the team (as the majority of us always do!) and get behind the manager (which a lot of us seem to forget is something that we NEED to do). We will get a striker, maybe in January, maybe next summer but lets make the most of what we have now!

Ba will come good. Best will get goals, as will Ameobi(s?) and we still have Ben Arfa to come....he will play central and he will be one to watch.

Sturridge would've been nice though :-)

Chris
(loyal Toon fan and optimist)

Makes me laff but werent nolan barton and jose all part of the team that got us relagated from the perm

The reason we were relegated was down to one man and one man only
need some clues
hes fat
hes a cockney
hes a lier
and hes a bar steward

{Ed042's Note - Because thats what people that buy clubs want.. to incur all the debt attached to the asset they bought and cost themselves even more money by cutting the value of that asset in half through relegation, cmon lad talk sense... it was the players we had that got us relegated, nobody else}

Agree but pardew is a puppet

Please man hes not a puppet he gets lied to more than we do, he hasnt done as bad with the lads as a lot of people thought he would (me included) but he seems to have the pulse of the group, so whilst i share your frustration with the board im going to ease up on Pards and hopefully it will all end well....

SAGEORDIE OUT

01 Sep 2011 00:26:35
fcb didnt spend a penny what a suprise
**cking hate the fat t**t

01 Sep 2011 00:17:27
yes ok we havn't signed any striker tonight (massive dissipointment) but why the hell is everyone called for pardews head! give the lad a break. hes done well since he arrived nd hes done extremely well over the last couple of weeks with the barton situation when all that exploaded. HE DOES NOT DISH OUT THE CONTRACTS! THE FAT GIT DOES! so let him do his job and manage the team we have got! unlike alot of people i have alot of faith in my team and always will what ever players they have. they have tried to get strikers in as everyone has seen on SSN roux, mainga, they were both pushed back last minute because the other clubs fkd us about. bryan ruiz fkd us about in the last couple of hours when twente had agreed a fee but he didnt show up at the hellipad like he was meant to and didnt get in contact with anyone! we have tried to get players in which is what pardew promised. he never once promised that we will DEFINATELY be signing other players but they tried.

yesterday the fat man did a great deal in santon and everyone was praising him saying hes finally splashing the cash nd hes done brill getting him in. WHICH HE HAS and putting in a 10.4m bit for ruiz and people say hes not getting his wallet out! hes willing to spend it on the rite deals for the club which is the right thing to do. and yeah it myt be frustrating but well try again in january and get a gd deal.

if he went nd got sturiddge for £15m we would be going back to the old days. getting back in the s**t and loads of debt. the bloke believe it or not is a good buisness man. have faith! weve had a cracking start to the season and there is nothing saying we cant keep that up especially with ben arfa coming back soon and santon. we are fighters and have an amazing team spirit. that and a little bit of quality can be leathal!

COME ON THE TOON!

keep faith in the owners
keep faith in the gaffer
and most of all keep faith in the players we have got!

jrob

I wanna pint of what youve had

Well offering 11m for a right winger who wasnt a target now that sounds like the old ways,paying 15m for sturridge, good business as long as he wanted to come and funnily enough is a centre forward and would be a great no.9.
feel the board missed a chance to get the fans onside...del

Yeah they may have missed the chace but its not like theve sat around nd done bugger all. for ashley its all about making sure he gets the player for a good amount of money which he certainly has (cabaye 4m nd santon 5m) absolute steels! but if the got sturiddge even on loan he wouldnt become the new 9 and neither would he if we signed him for 15m. yeah hes a good player but hes a kid! demba ba had a good a season as he did last season. and chances are if we spent 15m on him we wouldnt be able to sell him for more then that :/ theve done a good this window dissipointing last day but over all a good job. and alot of credit should go to the board and prdew for the deals they have been able to do with cabaye, obertan, santon nd ba :) ed what you think? jrob

{Ed042's Note - Some great signings, have a good team and a good squad, top business in the window let down badly by not getting a striker, cant defend it, had time and money to get it done... Lee Charnley and Derek Llambias are the men to be held accountable... Ashley is the money man, very frustrating he wouldnt go to £15m to get a top striker in late on but there was more than enough funds there to get someone good over the summer, even at £8m to £10m}

31 Aug 2011 23:56:51
james beattie just been released by rangers whats the odds hes our new shefki kuqi,ashley loves winding us up hell probably give him the number 9.

01 Sep 2011 00:04:01
we've been fu**** over again. Sky cant believe it and neither can talk sport.
even the makams have bendter a striker on loan.its only us and everton who have done nowt.

Santon, Cabaye, Obertan, Marveaux, Abeid, Ba = all that needs to be said

Everton signed 2 on loan

We did sign a few lads this window to be fair...... but no striker and unfortunately that was the position that was most crucial this window and that is why the board is going to cop a hammering from the fans........

SAGEORDIE OUT..

31 Aug 2011 23:58:30
is it ture we can only sign free transfers and not loans cos this rule dosent include premier league but just heard james beattie has been released and now on a free how much you bet we go in for him lol get behide the lads
cheers ed lad you been a star with info and banter
marknufc

31 Aug 2011 23:52:55
Can't believe that we have not signed a striker, we are woefully short of ability up front. Club are fast becoming a joke when it comes to transfers. What is going on!

31 Aug 2011 23:44:33
Ed when does the loan window close cos am cacking spiders right now at not having a striker in, think we will get bye but I want to see us progress not struggle to score. We have made some shrewd signings but aren't surprised that when the time came again to put some serious cash out for a player we are again going to have to hear 'we tried our best'. Don't believe in boycotting as that is not fair to the players at all I mean why punish them we should be behind them more than ever right now they will need the support and a 12th man to push them on. If we can get a loan Macheda is the likely option as AVB has constantly said Sturridge is staying and there is no substance to him leaving all paper garbage.

Cheers for today as well you deserve a few drinks for the work.

ToonstuckinStoke

{Ed042's Note - Haha cacking spiders, havnt heard that before.. cheers mate.. cant loan players in the Prem after deadline unfortunately, free agents only, havnt even looked into who is on that list today tbh lol genuinely didnt think it would come to that.. as for what you said about getting behind the team, great to hear from you and others.. think its fair to say we`re all gutted we didnt get a top striker in, but we have a good team and squad there that deserve the support and will do well imo.. not getting a striker doesnt all of a sudden make us a bad team}