Them up the road
Can you remember when we were in the Premiership and struggling to sign new players and in the end went for Flo and Stewart as the last resort and we know what Flo did for us - well seems them up the road may be in same situation with only 1 week to go before the window of luck closes. The following is a bit from todays article on Sky Sports about their failure to land the Deportivo striker Luque.
"We've made a fantastic offer for him (Luque), the chairman has, but as I understand it they've turned it down and we are going to move on now," Souness told the club's website.
"We have other targets, but the clock is ticking. We all know that.
"We've got to move quickly, but I can assure the supporters that we are trying."
Real Madrid star Michael Owen and Fenerbahce's French flyer Nicolas Anelka are still on Newcastle's wish list, but the club have just over a week to bring in support for Alan Shearer before the transfer window slams shut.
Newcastle have looked devoid of attacking ideas in their first two Premiership fixtures, with Shearer ploughing a particularly lonely furrow in attack, and the Magpies faithful will be extremely frustrated by this latest transfer snub.
Lets wait and see who they get before we start to take the pee!
Jim Gilling
FTM
posted by Jim Gilling - Secretary SAFCSA Coxhoe Branch @ 12:22 PM
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I have just been discussing this very subject with my Mag supporting storeman here ar work this morning.
I've made a suggestion, because the parallels are so strong, that they need to sack Graeme Souness soon, preferably before 8 games in and appoint Howard Wilkinson as a stop gap measure.
Naturally being a particularly insightless lot they spurn the very idea and do not agree that Souness's backside is lined up nicely for Fred Shepherd to kick it very hard out of Newcastle.
All joking aside I do think Newcastle are in a very precarious situation and there are strong similarities with the Sunderland situation of 2002/03 season. Throwing money at the problem is not the solution. It needs to be managed and they need to appoint a manager who can manage his way out of it. Newcastle need to learn the lesson fron the Sunderland experience but I don't think, because of parochial attitudes, they are big enough to do that, nor would we want them to.
There has been no succession planning and replacing Shearer is going to be the big one to tackle. We tried to replace Quinn with Flo and it didn't work. Replacing Phillips with Stewart never worked either. Newcastle can look back to allowing players like Robert, Solano, Bellamy,Hughes, Lua Lua
and O'Brien o whilst retaining the likes of Elliot, Ameobi, Chopra, and signing the Lee Clarkes of this world as fundemantal errors. It all suggests to me that, whilst some of these may have been rabble rousers they were all halve decent players, but players who were on good manoey. So is it a case of trimming the budegt to bring in even bigger wage earners?
How is the Mags debt serviced and how will they cope should they be relegated? Another Leeds Utd? I think they could be.
They just won't accept it though amongst the rank and file and even if it happened they still wouldn't view themeselves as anything other than a sleeping giant.
Well they need a good dose of amphetamines to wake them up otherwise it's going to be a regular doses of Mogadon for years to come.
Good posting lads. Just seen from the BBC that Everton made a bid for Michael Owen and were turned down http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/e/everton/4176576.stm so even they are having problems.
"Unfortunately Michael does not see Everton as a team he would choose at this present time."
In my mind Everton are 'bigger and better' than the Mags in all areas so they've got no chance on signing Owen UNLESS they throw LOADS of money at him. Interesting week ahead in prospect. Who in their right mind would come to Sid James?
Looks like we've lost Basilla though!
In all honesty could you see Owen ever going to Everton? It would be like Kevin Ball signing for the Mags.
It would never happen. Owen is no fool and it doesn't matter how audacious the Toffee's are with the bid they won't get him.
Neither will Newcastle either. Not in their current precarious and parlous state.
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