Newcastle Banter Archive August 06 2011

06 Aug 2011 22:34:25
newcastle should definelty try and get sturridge on loan. chelsea have agreed a fee with anderlecht for romelu lukaku, who is another striker at the club. sturridge will not get in the team with anelka drogba torres kalou and now lukaku as strikers

Just been on sky sports,sturridge scored two against rangers yesterday and defo stopping at chelsea. so lets forget about him and keep hoping we get a quality striker in. if we get a good striker and areplacement for jose and barton stays ,we will do ok

06 Aug 2011 22:02:20
Just want to try and instill a bit of confidence regarding the signing of Obertan. I keep hearing Fergie wouldn't let him go if he was any good blah blah.... The lad asked to leave in January in order to get first team football but due to the Valencia injury they said no, now I know the price is cheap considering the current British market however let's look at some players who left Man Utd to gain first team football. Shawcross - Bargain for Stoke and is now valued between 10 & 20 million being chased by Liverpool etc.... Rossi - Has done nothing but score for Villareal and would command a hefty fee to prise away. Pique - Don't need say anything as he is at the heart of the defence of the best team in the world, Tevez - Again nothing needs saying, Veron - Awesome at Chelsea, Forlan - Scores a hell of a lot playing regular. So in a whole when you think back our current board has made more good signings than bad even though yes there are a handful who have been garbage so let's give the lad a chance as a lot of so called Man Who rejects have gone on to do more than well given time and games......come on the TOON, support the team not slate everything that goes on we could always be Sunderland fans which we know would always be much worse.

Good post mate

That of course only applies to the young Manu send-offs not the rubbish ones they keep for some reason till they're thirty then sell them on.

Can you not see how sad your comment is. Try writing an original post.
Its a pity you wernt given more homework for the holidays.

The thing is with Obertan.. He showed a lot of potential when he was getting first team football at United but then he dropped off. He is a decent player with room to improve and hopefully he can do that here.

Also, look at his competition at Man U.. Nani. How is he going to get into the quad over arguably the best winger in the league last season?

They keep them there till theyre 30 because theyre good

06 Aug 2011 18:56:30
Getting frustrated with my fellow NUFC supporters on the subject of the squad.
Screams of "the squads to small,got no depth,we have sold our best players"
Facts
We have sold Nolan,Routledge and released Cambell,Kuigi.would you want to buy any of themif to boost the squad??
We have secured 3 International players and look like we have secured a 4th International player plus the 2 players in the shape of HBA and DG.
The emergence of exciting young players to boost the squad has been the best news we have had for years.( contrast the help so called players with premiership experience contributed Owen Viduka
Please dont resort to Enrique/Batman to carry on your message of gloom they are still at the club and we can assess what is being put in place to cover their role in the squad.

06 Aug 2011 18:26:45
Leeds losin 2 0 at the Dell what they need is a SMITHY

Please give us smithy if I was ken bates and I wanted the fans off my back I'd get mr smith in

I don't know why we insist on hanging on to him. I like Smith, but his work here is done. He proved last season that he can't play at this level anymore, constantly getting booked if and when he comes on.

He'd still do a job in the Championship, he did for us since you can get away with more, so we might as well let him go. Doubt it though.

Wages might be a problem too, not sure how much of a cut he'd take, or how your finances are.

Ken Bates is flittering our cash away on the corporate side of the club but Gradel and Snodgrass looked distinctly disinterested yesterday and have long been linked with moves away. if we could sell either or both for decent money we could offer better wages but I'm a bit doubtful myself - couldn't even tempt Keith Andrews or Lee Bowyer lol
A shame really, as you say he's unlikely to play much and would kick arse in the Championship.

06 Aug 2011 17:38:46
Well i think after his recent displays between the posts maybe Pardew should sell Forster to Celtic for the 1m he was offered. Absolutely crap at Leeds and today,weather permitting obviously, but is miles behind Krul. Krul number 1 and Harper 2. Oberton on monday,is that Pardews exciting signing? Hope not STRIKER needed Mr. Pardew, a STRIKER

Forster was said to be alright when he came on however still think Krul is number 1.

Krul number 1, Forster number 2 for me.. Harper is getting on and probably won't have many seasons left in him. He's also pretty accident prone himself.

Need to develop Forster for when Harper quits, or buy in someone better as cover for Krul.

06 Aug 2011 16:26:23
match against fiorentina abandoned water logged pitch 0-0

Just tops off a great pre-season...NOT.

Sums up our pre-season perfectly... Waste of time.

Ashley 2 blame lol

I've heard from a reliable source that the game was going to be called off before half time but Ashley forced the game to continue so he could make more money on the half time refreshments. At £3.60 a hotdog he believes the additional funds acquired would enable us to be more competitive in the transfer market.

Omg if Ashley wasn't so greedy gambling all our money in the casino we'd have better drainage so the pitch wouldn't become unplayable.

Ashley won't splash the cash so we can sign some decent cover for our main drainage which is why we're going to struggle to maintain our pitch during adverse weather.. We have no depth.

Get out of our club Ashley.

Cant really complain considering several streets in the city centre had quite a few inches of rain flooding them

And that is Ashleys fault as well.

06 Aug 2011 14:44:33
Newcastle Starting Line Up vs Fiorentina

Tim Krul, Danny Simpson, Jose Enrique, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini, Dan Gosling, Yohan Cabaye, Haris Vuckic, Jonas Gutierrez, Peter Lovenkrands, Leon Best

Subs - Fraser Forster, Ryan Taylor, Mike Williamson, Sylvain Marveaux, Nile Ranger, James Tavernier, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi, Demba Ba

06 Aug 2011 14:37:38
said on here about 3 weeks ago and ashley with his shares rumours going round his company have lost 203mill with current crash and more bad news to come next week

Think its crap totally ashley floted sports direct and made nearly 800 million in a morning but kept him self as ceo and then ran the buisness down and last year rebought majority off shares back and the company (ashley) made another 400 million alone from that again..then bought blacks.dont really like him not spending on top players but give the man credit he knows how to make money and do you honestly believe the man has most of his money tied up in shares...check the times newspaper posts every think here is fact what do you think edd..

{Ed042's Note - There is some truth to the original post, combined with recent reports stating he has pumped approx. 20% of his total worth into Newcastle in four years and a lot of his said 1.3 billion worth is tied up in business and assets.. still no doubt he knows how to make money and is ruthless in doing it, recent Blacks takeover being another prime example of it}

Your probably right in some of ed042 but the post about ashley floating sports direct then running it down and re buying shares is true aswell making another 300 to 400 million buying some stock in jd sports aswell as addidas..the problem we have when you buy a football club its not about making money its an expensive hobby and i admit he,s running our club well money wise just he could give the go ahead for a well known proven striker and defender and sel enrique and buy a lb we might stand a chance of doing europe and he would make the money back what do you think agree or disagree

{Ed042's Note - Ah dont think anyone would disagree, pretty obvious we need a good striker, good young back up defender, and if and when enrique goes an adequate replacement, but europe is out of the question this season regardless, even if we did get all them positions sorted will still take a season for the team to have fluidity and real consistency, mid table is the aim, actually think we are in good shape for that if we get even two of them three}

06 Aug 2011 12:51:34
obertan from man u has agreed a 5-year with newcastle, and will sign for us sometime next week read all of the full story on nufc.com (rubbish singing) pardew said one more good player we are hoping to bring in is the good player obertan- hope not

Rubbish singing. do we have a song for him lyk ?

Obertan, Obertan
Running down the wing,
Obertan, Obertan
Here the geordies sing,
He dominates the left wing he dominates the right,
And all the mackem b*****ds claimed he was f*****g sh**e

what do yous rekon....I tried

Im a mackem and i like it mate and for 3 mill dont think ye can loose as you would get that back if he was sold on but from what ive seen and me mates who follow man utd say he hasn't been very good and that is in a very good man utd side.

Wasnt sure whether my song would be a fail or not but its going well so far haha

(Smithy434)

How about this, slightly more realistic version?
Obertan Obertan
Running with the ball
Obertan Obertan
Oops, another fall
Can't control it with his left
Can't control it with his right
Another pardew signing
That's absolutely s**te

Got a ring to it.

^that was funny to be honest haha

Sorry mate, couldn't resist it. He's not that bad a player. At least he's a known quantum that's got some potential :-)

06 Aug 2011 10:36:14
Now I'm not a massive fan of Mike Ashley by any means and we all know how many gaffs he has made during his ownership of the club, but I for one cannot understand how Joey Barton can be given any support for his latest antics. He has continually slagged off the owner and club in public the same people that have stood by him when he was being given b&b at the governments expense in Strangeways. Not many people spend months in there and still pick up their £60,000 salary up for doing nothing. Then there was his injuries in the earlier days of his career with us not to forget his abysmal display against Liverpool during Shearers short lived management and his subsequent outburst in the changing room. Yes granted he has pulled his socks up in the last couple of seasons and has been arguably our best player. But, he does not deserve any support and it is clear to see that he is and always will be a pain in the backside which in turn isn't good for the club. So come on lets save any further negative remarks against the club until we see what we have at the start of the season. The current crop of players don't need it, but what they do need is every genuine Toon fan behind them.................

{Ed042's Note - Well said}

06 Aug 2011 10:18:53
any player from man utd on loan is a bad thing saf states if ye dont play him he goes back so if his playing s**te he still plays. if the deals 3 mill buy then give it a go if it doesn't work any sell on should return the 3 mill.
one gary rowell

{Ed042's Note - Apparently if theres an option to buy in loan contract then a player can not be taken back before regardless of whether hes playing or not, looks like it will be a straight signing though}

06 Aug 2011 00:39:01
if we sign keirison and obertan i reckon we willfinnish in the top ten

I reckon you should stop sniffing substances

I think he's right its a tidy bit of business for 6mill.

05 Aug 2011 22:14:03
back with me kebab...about obertan hope we get him watched him play for the young french side before he went to man u ...was the stand out player in the tournament... but he's not had much of a look in since then... any news on a striker ED or is obertan the striker ... geordie tom

{Ed042's Note - Obertan looks extremely likely at this stage tom mate, wont be a striker no, but versatile player that can play right wing if Joey goes, or behind striker until HBA is back}

Hope we don't sign him struggles to control the ball, bottles everything and isn't much if any better than Routledge.

{Ed042's Note - Cant say Im sold on him yet myself, but one thing is for sure, he is in a different class to Routledge mate ha gave him a bit of stick last year by how much he was built up by Utd fans but was actually impressed by him in pre-season}

Will vuckic not play behind the striker when HBA is not fit. I'm actually fine with that. He's been scoring for fun in pre-season, and might be able to take advantage of Arsenals s**te defence (bar sagna).