more bad news at sjp... from nufc.com: Thursday brought confirmation that Newcastle had accepted bids for Habib Beye and Sebastien Bassong. Beye had been strongly linked with Aston Villa in recent days, but former suitors Hull City have now returned with an improved bid over their original £2m and expect to complete the signing by the end of this week. Tigers Chairman Paul Duffen commented: "Habib Beye is a player we believe can add quality to our squad. We are hoping to engage in conversation with him in the next couple of days. The latter meanwhile looks bound for Tottenham Hotspur, with 'Arry Redknapp telling reporters: "The chairman is talking. I don't get involved on that side of it. I identify a player and the chairman does everything else." Bassong - who was fined two weeks' wages for not travelling to Dundee on Sunday - is in London for his medical today and discussions on personal terms. News is still awaited on the progress of claimed bids/ strong interest in six other current United players: Butt, Coloccini, Enrique, Geremi, Gutierrez and Xisco.
are you mad? we could have done with keeping beye, bassong and butt. gutierrez, as quick as he is and as much as i enjoy watching him, has done nothing for us. can't clear the first man, can't shoot, no final ball. i really really hope we get taken over and appoint a new manager next week. if we are going to sell all of those players, we desperately need some new ones.
Gonna have a cracking 5 a side team on Sat with Alan Smith as Captain. What that fat cockney cunt has done to this club and this city man..
i'm still to see what alan smith gives to the team. too fat to be a striker, no ball skills to play centre mid, can't tackle...
We have sold 3 of our best players & haven't even bought any lower league scrappers to see us through until the Xmas transfer window. Butt & Guthrie are still injured & now it's looking very likely we'll go into saturday without Beye & most definitely without Bassong. W/Brom must be banging the drum. It'll take a good 15 / 20 years before Newcastle has any decent squad again, thats the reality of it. Clubs are growing so fast & wealthy these days literally overnight & we seem to be going so far backwards I cant see us recovering for a very long time. nearly 3 months since we were relegated & nobody has been appointed Manager, not even decent paper talk, absolutely heart breaking.
Bassong quoted as saying Toon players where "talking about their holidays a hour after relegation" fucking love that side mackem legends each and every one
Ah I see, must be true if it was in the back page of the Chronicle. Still reading the local Newcastle rag I see, good to see you keeping to those 'die hard' Sunderland / Manchester / Boro / roots mate
The Newcastle Local Sports pages are the main places i get my laughs, well worth 45p am in stiches most days
one one side we need them off the wage bill, but on the other we need them cos we've got fuck all to replace them...catch twenty motherfucking two.
With this and being at St James in 1992 i am fully loaded with smugness . I will never be conquered by black and white bastards . .. . ....
