Yet another Toon takeover story!

Anonymous wrote...

newcastle are not a big club. all clubs make lots of headlines. You get more when you're in turmoil.

Posted by: Anonymous  | August 3, 2008 2:26 PM

jon wrote...

if the new billioniare will back us with substantial amts...den i dun mind is MA leaves...he aint dat free with his money n we wun develop under him

Posted by: jon  | August 3, 2008 2:28 PM

Big B wrote...

It would be a huge relief if the 6th richest bloke bought us off tight fisted Ashely...shirley he would give Kev the respect to spend the money much needed in today's cut and thrust premiership market!

I must admit I don't post comments very often, but a fair amount of the supporters that do appear to be pretty depressed about Newcastle's future under the scroogness of MA and who can blame them, so the hek am I...ring in the changes, cause it can't get much worse....sick to death of waiting for signings....KK went from saying we need 4/5 good quality signings...poor bloke hope to get only 2 now!

Posted by: Big B  | August 3, 2008 4:02 PM

James 09 wrote...

Lee please answer this: What exactly do you mean by "big" club?

Surely headline grabbing can't be a yardstick? Especially given the substance of the headlines right?

A "big" football club to me connotes at least some semblance of success compared to other "big" clubs. And there are very few big clubs in the Premier League.

Look behind the reasons for the vast majority of our headline hugging.
To name just a few in recent times - team-mates scrapping (in an actual match as opposed to out of the public's eye), a reel of failed transfers, a defence that has been laughable for season after season, successive managerial regime change (not without good reason) and finally a player....in jail. What club wouldn't routinely be the subject of media headlines with such matters?

If you measure a football club by only its cash, stadium size and supporter base then yes, undoubtedly we are a big club. If you factor in why we are in the headlines for the majority of the time and the crucial fact we aren't successful - in both relative and absolute terms - we certainly aren't
"big".

For me, there's only one "big" thing about Newcastle United - its supporters, the vast majority of whom are local, don't claim to support a football club for any bogus reasons and who are extremely loyal. Not many other football clubs would continue to have the supporter base, both in terms of numbers and passion, we have given our lack of actual success.

Posted by: James 09  | August 3, 2008 11:33 PM

Keith Hutton Africa wrote...

A new saviour this time from India, and why are we excited because we think he will put millions into the Club, did Ashley NO HE DID NOT!!!He will sell at a tidy profit and go back to Bucks. Do these non related investors feel anything for the club no its a toy, look a Man City's Frank, best finish for years happy crowd made decent money, he sacks Errikson, why because he can. Newcastle whether big or small is a peoples Club the Heart and soul of the Tyne definetly big in the North East so he cares what the cockney's think. Let's get back to the heart beat of the club players and officials who care. Woodgate and Bowyer kicked an Asian immigrant all over a shopping mall and we bought them, Barton is phycopathic but we bought him and we are not prepared to set standards. Standards of effort, loyalty and behaviour they play for the Town and we love them regardless, this is what is wrong it's a peoples club, hard working salt of the earth people who have a heritage steepe in honour and fighting for what we believe in. Get rid of anybody who doesn't understand this they are of no value including Ashley he is a gold digger here for the bucks and no other reason.

Posted by: Keith Hutton Africa  | August 4, 2008 11:27 AM

Mal wrote...

Well said James and I continue to be amazed at the continued criricism of MA. The problem is that we aren't a big club in terms of success on the field and that is why we are having trouble recruiting top players - not because MA won't splash the cash. I still think that by the time the transfer window closes we will have further decent signings in but it is going to be a long haul to be anywhere near the top 4. We have had a few years of bad management (including FF) and that cannot be recovered overnight and it'd no good continually blaming MA. Having said that we were truly dreadful last night and unless at least 6 or 7 of the missing players are back (plus 2 or 3 signings) for old trafford it will be more like a horror movie than a football match. I'm sure ma/kk realises this and something will happen before then.

Posted by: Mal  | August 4, 2008 12:03 PM

RAY WILSON wrote...

Hi Lee-Well we got what we deserved in the tournament -the wooden spoon.Kev is going to have his work cut out this season unless MA gets the cheque book out-the problems are all too obvious-the midfield is sterile and bereft of ideas and skill-we do not seem to have a player who can beat a man -run with the ball and craft out a delicate pass to open a defence- I fancy MO and Martins will be starved of service again this year. Oh for a Jinky Jim,Terry Hibbert, or Tony Green-our midfield has lacked such craft for many seasons now this does not help the strikers and in the end makes our defenders do overtime -how many times last season did we have a ball booted upfield only for it to come straight back to us.The engine room has not functioned for a long time now . This problem just has to be sorted and unless MA can see that { Does he actually understand the game }we are going to struggle big time GOALS WIN MATCHES and if we cannot engineer enough of them it looks like another failed season. We have a manager who understands that and likes his team to go forward but at the moment we do not have the players to be able to do that. looks like another up hill climb.

Posted by: RAY WILSON  | August 4, 2008 8:42 PM