Qwpzxjor1 Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Isn't Xisco reported to be on 70k a week? 3 years left on his contract and no-one in their right mind will pay him anywhere near that now.. so he'll probably stay there for that money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Who the **** is Xisco? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Who the **** is Xisco? He's one we 'missed out on' last summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Who the **** is Xisco? One of Dennis Wise's wonder buys... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Who the **** is Xisco? Lets all have a xisco, lets all have a xisco, da da dah da, da da dah da ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Who the **** is Xisco? He's one we 'missed out on' last summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Newcastle are paying £200,000 A DAY in wages for players that they want to get rid of, but can't find a buyer. They are going to go bankrupt soon, unless they get taken over, or dump these players in a river. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I am still waiting for the moment where Mike Ashley reveals all along that he is a Sunderland fan. It would be brilliant, wouldnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 A good article in The Times: TIMES ARTICLE Pleasing deluded fans has turned Newcastle into a joke APPARENTLY, Newcastle United first learnt that their talented Canadian centre-back David Edgar had joined Burnley when they saw the news reported on television. They then rang the player to find out if it was true. “Um.....yes, really.....sorry, bye....” Edgar replied. I don’t suppose they were daft enough to ask him why he had left, although one underestimates the stupidity of the club at one’s peril. In the same week the players who haven’t quietly slipped away from St James’ Park while no one was watching returned to training, including a certain Joey Barton who had been told by his manager, Alan Shearer, that he should not bother to come back. But Shearer is no longer the manager. Or at least he might be, who knows. If he is, then Joey should get on a train to Birmingham sharpish and start lamping people at St Andrews. If not, maybe he has a gilded future at the club. You would need a heart of stone not to fall about laughing at the present plight of Newcastle United — and just wait until mid-August, when they step out at the Hawthorns in their new second strip which resembles the sort of pineapple cheesecake served in Italian restaurants in the early 1970s, a fabulously hideous yellow and cream concoction. I wonder how many they have sold. Nobody knows who will eventually own the club, only that it is for sale at the unfeasibly high price of £100m. There are persistent rumours that Freddy Shepherd has his cheque book out, but also there are mysterious Malaysians hanging around who, you assume, are considering buying it for a laugh. My guess is that the average Toon fan would rather the club be sold to Kim Jong Il than Freddy Shepherd — but, as ever, a fairly large number of them still believe that Newcastle will waltz the Championship and that the team has had imposed upon it a level of opposition not befitting to its status as the greatest football club the world has ever seen. There was one Geordie, writing on a messageboard, cheerfully looking forward to Newcastle’s Premier League challenge in the season 2010-11. You wonder, sometimes, how come Tyneside has a better supply of Class A drugs than anywhere else in the country. Football fans are almost always wrong; wrong about team selection, wrong about the manager, wrong about suitable owners and so on. The best clubs ensure that the supporters don’t have to pay too much to get in and are decently treated while watching their team, but otherwise ignore the demands from the terraces. Newcastle United’s main problem has been that there are so many of their loyal, committed and utterly deluded supporters that they are inclined, all too often, to listen to them. Hence the ludicrous procession of managers, always following the same pattern: first, sensible man with experience of performing adequately with scant resources (Joe Kinnear, Glenn Roeder) then, when relegation is competently avoided, delusions of grandeur set in and a Messiah is demanded (Kev, Al). I have nothing at all against Alan Shearer and I’m sure that one day he will make a fine manager. But what on earth convinced the supporters that he was the man to rescue them from oblivion with eight games to go? The fact that he once scored a lot of goals? The fact that he is more articulate on Match of the Day than Martin Keown? Or is it just that he is a famous Geordie? Someone probably could have rescued Newcastle with eight games to go — one of those managers the fans don’t think quite big enough for them, most likely. Shearer brought to the club belief, without doubt — but belief manifested in an unjust cause, unfortunately. I’m thinking of putting a bid in for Newcastle. I have only £400 in the bank right now but that seems to me a realistic estimation of the club’s worth. The temptation is to continue running it as a situation comedy, giving pleasure to millions and millions of people across the world. But the trouble is I would like the northeast of England to be a force in football and it certainly ain’t going to be Boro or Sunderland — so, the necessity is to resuscitate Newcastle. The first task, then, is to find a suitable manager and give him a three-year contract that will be stuck to no matter what happens. And it should be a manager who is adept at stabilising floundering football clubs and getting them up and out of the Championship. Neil Warnock springs to mind, so too a revisited Sam Allardyce. The fans don’t like the style of play? Lump it, in both senses of the term. Alan Shearer, meanwhile, will be offered the job of assistant manager just down the road at Hartlepool (I’m buying them too) for a year or two, to see how he gets on. Fellow members of my new board — and the new manager — will be enjoined to take absolutely no notice of the fans, even though there are a lot of them, on any issues other than stewarding, ticketing and the quality of stottie cakes sold on matchdays. The realistic target for the coming season, assuming there are any players left, is the top 10 with an outside bet of the playoffs. Once that is accomplished, we’ll take it from there. they are just too funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Sums up pretty much what I have been saying and thinking about Newcastle for several months though. The "best fans in the world" are as much to blame for this as anybody. They are the ones who hounded Sam Alladyce out of a job (they did the same to Roder and Souness too, but that was before Mike Ashley was in charge) and they are the ones who wanted Keegan back. Keegan clearly is yesterdays man, but they couldnt see that. When Keegan did what Keegan does, they put so much pressure on the club to appoint Alan Shearer that they couldnt really do anything other than have a temporary manager in charge like Kinnear because nobody in their right mind would take the job with the shadow of Alan Shearer looming over their shoulder. **** that for a game of soldiers. So Shearer gets the job, based simply on the fact that he is a geordie and was a fantastic player. For some reasons the fans remain convinced he is the man for the job despite failing to get the six points from the last eight games of the season that would have kept them up. The geordies who are still deluded enough to think he is the man will argue back that he took over a squad in absolute chaos and didnt have enough time to turn it round. Two points back at that, firstly why did Shearer **** about for so long before taking the job? It was clearly harming the club because as I said earlier, no manager in their right mind would take over the club while Shearer was in such a position of power and influence, and secondly, his half time team talk at Villa Park on the final day of the season. Seriously, what the **** did he say to his team? Every other result was going for them, the goal Newcastle conceded was unlucky, they werent being played off the park by any stretch of the imagination and they probably had much the better of the first twenty minutes of the game. If he couldnt convince his players that the game was winnable, then he has no right being in charge of them. We all saw the second half. Newcastle came out looking like a side who were 4-0 up and happy just to let the clock drift down to the final minute. They were awful, they didnt care about the biggest 45 minutes of football the club had been involved in proably since the season they got promoted in 1992. Newcastle have done next to nothing to sort out their squad for the start of next season. Nobody really knows who the manager is, nobody knows who will be playing and who wont be, nobody knows if any new players are going to be signed. They kick off against West Brom in about four weeks time. They are a **** shambles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted July 7, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted July 7, 2009 Problem is the fans have had to much say in what goes on at the club. Big Sam should have been given a real chance, not just sacked on the more vocal fans say. Fanatics do not always have the best judgement. Some F***a has been on this board and pinched my theory :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccerHQ Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I am still waiting for the moment where Mike Ashley reveals all along that he is a Sunderland fan. It would be brilliant, wouldnt it? Spurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I am still waiting for the moment where Mike Ashley reveals all along that he is a Sunderland fan. It would be brilliant, wouldnt it? Spurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 I am still waiting for the moment where Mike Ashley reveals all along that he is a Sunderland fan. It would be brilliant, wouldnt it? Spurs. haha, thats funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sureshot Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Former Sunderland shareholder Charlie Chawke is putting together a syndicate to bid for struggling Newcastle United. Click They're making it far too easy, aren't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 12, 2009 Moderator Share Posted July 12, 2009 Anyone else catch in one of the papers today that Newcastle have got to pay Owen £200k to make up for the short fall in his new deal with Man Utd for the first month of the contract??? They get more like Leeds by the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc89 Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Newcastle fans need to change their attitude and realise they are not a champions league club anymore, I just don't think they will tho, they have an insatiable desire for big name signings if things are not going too well. They never let the manager build something unless they are Keegan or Shearer, deluded is an understatement for Newcastle fans. They truly are a frankenstein club, its time Newcastle fans let people do their job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oaks Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 Newcastle fans need to change their attitude and realise they are not a champions league club anymore, I just don't think they will tho, they have an insatiable desire for big name signings if things are not going too well. They never let the manager build something unless they are Keegan or Shearer, deluded is an understatement for Newcastle fans. They truly are a frankenstein club, its time Newcastle fans let people do their job. They need to change there attitude and realise they are not a premier league club anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 12, 2009 Moderator Share Posted July 12, 2009 The amazing thing is people on here are getting far more worked up than people on the Newcastle boards at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddybloke Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 The amazing thing is people on here are getting far more worked up than people on the Newcastle boards at the moment. Id be suprized if the newcastle boards are enjoying thier plight as much as we are tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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