posted Jul 7, 2009

Scouting system in place? Are you kidding me? This from the club that managed to scout a certain Mr Shearer so well that he started off at Southampton when in fact he was under their noses? And he is hardly the only such case. Newcastle have been a basket case for years on end, they have no apparent clue how to run a football club. To date I just cannot see what has changed. Thouston is certainly right - the only things worth keeping are the stadium and the fans. I can only hope midtable is not beyond their capability.

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posted Jul 7, 2009

The wage bill at Newcastle is preposterous, a lot of the players are on more than a lot of Utd's squad, and still will be if they're not sold. For Newcastle not to have in-built relegation clauses in contracts illustrates part of the problem, a lack of grip on reality. The reality was that NUFC were always going to be hit or miss and were only prepared, and prepared to contemplate, a 'hit' situation.....

If they had relegation clauses, meaning automatic reduction in wages, of say 20% then thats a saving of around £15m a season, and then with player sales and so forth the club would be in a healthy position financially...

It is good to see some realism from a geordie though, and I hope the majority take this route too, because as was said in the article, its going to take time.

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posted Jul 7, 2009

Anyone but Shepherd....Newcastle supporters deserve better than an opportunist money grabber who bites the hand of those who feeds him. Let the Hall/Shepherd days be dead and buried.

Time for new money and new vision in Geordieland.


West Ham supporter.

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posted Jul 7, 2009

Whatever happens, Newcastle United as a club need to get a move on. A club in crisis where relegation is more likely to be the breaking rather than the making of them, I am concerned about both their short and long term future. They need a solid platform and foundation with which to build from, but I just don't see it happening. Nothing is ever straight forward at St James' Park and this whole episode perfectly highlights this.

Since the end of that disastrous season which culminated in relegation where none of their players looked like having the stomach or courage for the fight, they haven't even sorted out their managerial situation, which should be one of their primary concerns. Without being able to appoint Shearer, Kinnear or whoever else until a takeover is complete, time is really not on their side.

Alas, how the mighty of fallen. What must not be forgotten is that as a club, they are going to be earning less money in the 2nd tier of English football. And, they have some players in the North East on big wages and in order to balance the books, the likes of Martins, Colochini, Barton, Viduka, Guiterrez and Smith need to be sold as a matter of urgency.

If I were a Newcastle fan, I would be concerned. They need to hurry up or they are badly going to falter next season. They should be under no illusions that the Coca Cola Championship is a lot harder than people give it credit for.

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posted Jul 7, 2009

malcfactor.

Believe me ...Pride of Lions... , we the fans are concerned. It's the bumbling idiots behind the scenes that are dragging their heels.

We would have liked the manager situation sorted out long ago so that we could be doing business in preparation for the new season, it's the powers that be who know nothing about football that don't seem to realise how important it is to get off to a good start.

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posted Jul 7, 2009

Barry_Sprout, I see your point there.

Quite unforgivable to have such poor standards of English on a forum run by the BBC.

Luckily you're here to point them out.

Do you have any views concerning the articles?, or are you just visiting the site in a supervisory role?.

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posted Jul 7, 2009

HereWeGanAgain - You seem to have altered your name?

Have you moved to France?

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posted Jul 7, 2009

shearer as manager. fighting for promotion from the championship.

nothing to worry about there then. should be a walk in the park, what with his amazing ability to inspire, his deep level of contacts on the players markets and his absolutely priceless command of squad tactics.

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posted Jul 7, 2009

Barry_Sprout, I see your point there.

Quite unforgivable to have such poor standards of English on a forum run by the BBC.

Luckily you're here to point them out.

Do you have any views concerning the articles?, or are you just visiting the site in a supervisory role?.

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LOL!

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posted Jul 7, 2009

All what you say is very true. It's about time someone that made sense put up a positive article. It is time for change, which lets face it we desperately need. I said it about february this year before we got relegated, that the best thing to happen to us would be to get relegated, clear out the deadwood, reduce the wage bill, rebuild the squad. This in turn would allow some of our younger players to shine through. Andy carroll will rip up the championship.

My only concern is the delay in the takeover. But time will tell

Toon Toon Army Army

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