A lot of hope is being pinned on this summer, particularly when it comes to player recruitments.
We have a good scouting department at the moment that, whilst being in it’s relative infancy, has already brought several youngsters to the club and has brought about the signings of Cheik Tiote and Hatem Ben Arfa. Graham Carr is the man tasked with scoring the continent and scouting players of a similar ilk to those two, but with the hours he has put in I’d like to think he can come up with another couple of crackers in the summer.
However, despite all the leg work that is being put in to make sure we can find the best players for the least amount of money, it is ultimately the word of one man that any transfer hinges on – Mike Ashley. Of course this is no different to any other club in all honesty as ultimately it is the man at the top that calls the shots.
“Myself and Derek are under the guidance of Mike. He is the owner of the club and he says yes or no. We’d like to think we can bring a few very good players here,” Pardew told The Chronicle. “Derek Llambias and our scouting team are concentrating on bringing players in.”
As I said, it’s no different to any other club with the exception of Manchester United and perhaps Arsenal who have managers who have earned a little bit of authority in the board room. I guess we just have to hope that Mike Ashley is in the mood to back the man that he put in charge halfway through the season.
Signing a striker is going to be the priority over the summer. I actually don’t think our team is bad at all until you look towards the attack, which is why I’d like us to beef up our attacking options. I don’t expect wholesale changes, but I would certainly like to see better than what we have currently. Alan Pardew feels the same way judging by this:
“Our pool of strikers needs boosting – there is no doubt about that. That will be high on the agenda.”
“You go about it like you do any other time, there’s always a situation where a club needs a new striker. You just find the best possible striker for your football club and that’s what we’ll do.”
Fair enough. Speculation and all the boring and repetitive groans from the same people will no doubt continue, but I guess we can only evaluate the squad once everyone is signed up and the transfer window closes at the start of September. Hopefully Mike Ashley will give us more thumbs up than thumbs down this summer.
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Good Read
Toonsy, do you no where we can drop down to today mate?
As you say Sy “no different to any other club”. I have no problem with the owner having the final say on who we spend money on as long as he’s not picking the players himself.
Any manager should have to justify why they want to spend large sums of money and persuade the owner that it’s the right thing to do.
I’m sure the club will spend a decent amount in the summer and we will end up with a much stronger squad.
13th is the lowest
yep 13th and that’s where we are now if the scores remain as they are – Blackburn and Wigan both winning, Mackems drawing and Villa winning
mackems losing
Gan on Fulham
Kenwyne Jones misses a sitter. Concentrating on that beach I reckon
I’m really not getting too excited about the summer transfers as I will ultimately be dissapointed.
Ashley’s record isn’t great so I would rather just be suprised come August,
Aye Stu, I’m just taking it as it comes. Bit of speculation is all good, but I’ll wait and see before I judge properly.
Toonsy-
love the new avatar, mate.
Stu,
I dunno, mate. Fingers crossed that Ashley will do what needs doin’, but I’ll be the blue guy in the corner holding my breath lol
Congrats Borussia Dortmund winning the german league title.
What a season for them.
AoD-
Fuk Dortmund. I’m a Gladbach fan lol.
Just love the german league this season.
Full of Surprises.
Bremen,Schalke 04,wolfsburg nearing relegation zone.
Bayern Munich going into europa league.
OH – Cheers
Your avatar if fecking butters though mate
Butters = Butt ugly
Reet, food shopping
Toonsy,
Cheers! And you’ve a canny eye, sir (sarcastically speaking). You could see how “butters” Pedro is from space like! HA! I thought in this one he looked even more like Quasimodo than usual
Come the end of season the other Newcastle United team take over.The last time they played was January and they went down to a last minute own goal!!This time they need to get off to a better start Pardew Carr Carver and the team providing the crosses and Ashley getting them into the net. I expect a hat trick by half time and it all to be rapped up by start of season
Toonsy,
Also- if ya’s shoppin for vittles, pick ya up some Sambal Oelek from the Oriental foods section. But only if you can stand hot and spicy food. Just found that shit a couple days ago and been hooked ever since. Fuk HP sauce lol.
LMAO…
throwing their manager in air,and accidentally let go to ground.
**Ouch**
Nutmag,
To be honest this is probably all pointless as I still believe Ashley will sell up this summer, or at least he’ll have a couple of offers to ponder.
wigan drawing
he could well do @21
Batty and Stu @ 21 and 23,
Doubt it mates. His vision is finally coming around. He ain’t gonna sell.
batty – there’s been rumours for months about some Indians and I’m suprised there aren’t more Indian owners as they have plenty of wealth and potential.
OHurley
Posted April 30, 2011 at 4:46 PM
What vision? It’s a pain in the arse for him. He’ll go if he gets an offer that he thinks is acceptable.
Maybe. Do you have that on good authority from MA himsel?
QPR into EPL next season.
Welcoming the next rich club next season.
agree with 25 and 26
AOD @28 not yet fa might have a say in it
OHurley
Posted April 30, 2011 at 4:48 PM
Maybe. Do you have that on good authority from MA himsel?
Obviously not but he’s not stupid and it’s obvious that he’d like to sell the club as he has tried to twice already.
think stuart is right , if ashley got a good offer i think he would sell. I dunno if he will get an offer tho. Even tho i think he would sell if the offer came in i think he is committed to us as the more successful we r the better price he would command for us in the future. not sure how good those results where for us today. Great 5under1and lost again
Don’t think Ashley has or ever had any intention of selling. I think that was all an act when he put the club up for sale to get the fans off his back.
Don’t think a man that has intentions of selling a club would put in a heating system in the training ground. Think it’s wishful thinking if you believe he’s selling.
Stu-
The only time that he tried to sell the club was when he was under great duress from the supporters. That all calmed down, and magically, the club wasn’t sold. Funny that the only “serious” buyer was MA’s buddy Barry Moat. I think it was all a PR scheme, tbh. I think he wants to make NUFC a profitable enterprise. I think he sees it as a challenge. Just my own speculation, mind. I got nowt against anybody else for making their own speculations as well
Jersey-
Talkin’ sense like always, mate
no doubt we’ll be linked to everyone come the transfer window, agents and media know we have cash so will naming us left right and centre, I’ll prob ignore if all until the club announce who we’ve signed, like pards mentions striker is top priority tho wouldn’t mind strengthening LB and RB presuming Jose is off
4411-
I hate presuming that Jose will be off, but I think he will be
JerseyGeordie
Posted April 30, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Are you seriously telling me that because the club have invested in under soli heating he won’t be selling?
Do you not make improvements to your home if you want to sell it?
I’m not saying your wrong, he might want to stay, but everything about what is happening tells me he could be selling.
Only my observations though.
Ashley don’t think he will go (Wished he would)
Jose think he will go ( Hope he won’t)
Stuart are you sure its not just wishful thinking , I would love it if he was to sell up
Dave – Probably, but it just makes sense to me.
The club is on a good financial footing, they’ve tied key staff to long term contracts, their improving the infrastructure of the club and there’s been rumours for a while that Indians are interested – is there really no smoke with out fire?
Agree with 39.
Stu going by what he has done up to now he is getting ready to stay for the long haul or he is getting ready to sell and get to fuk outta here I hope its the last option
Tell you what, just got back in, turned footy on. The lino in the Cjelsea match has just dropped a clanger hasn’t he?
That Cwarr on Twitter reckon there is Indians floating about aswell. I know it’s only him, but make of it what you will.
Even if it’s bollocks I still say the club is up for sale at the right price, much like any other business to be fair.
Toonsy not watching it, I see you were on talking to your old chum today
Anything is for sale at the right price, just ask Judas.
Judas of Iscariot sucks King Kenny of Liverpool’s todger.
Dave –
I just don’t think it will be as cut and dry as they are trying to make out. I don’t think the club will say “here is x amount” and that is your lot. I genuinely believe that if a player is available at the right price that represents a good deal for the club then he will be bought
DJG I just hope that someone thinks that MA’s price is right
‘I genuinely believe that if a player is available at the right price that represents a good deal for the club then he will be bought’.
And I genuienly believe he will then be sold if the club gets a good offer for him. We are little more than a sports direct store, buy em’ cheap, sell em’ high.
I wonder if Ice is pissed yet? Bet he is perving over the younger lasses (not too young mind but you know what I mean)
DJG
Posted April 30, 2011 at 6:46 PM
“And I genuienly believe he will then be sold if the club gets a good offer for him. We are little more than a sports direct store, buy em’ cheap, sell em’ high.”
And if the player wants to go of course
Thing is, if one of the European powerhouses comes on for any player at any club outside of those elite clubs they will be off. We are no different.
Of course they will want to go, because the club will be stuck in 3rd gear. All part of the business model.
Toonsy I tend to agree I dont think its a case of MA saying right theres £20mil and he go’s out and spends £20 mil on whoever he wants, But I do believe that if say we had spent £16mil and someone good became available for 6-7 mil that wasn’t available before we spent the £16mil I do believe that he would be bought if he was the right type of player.
The point is that every clubs better players if they were to leave would have to want to leave – it doesn’t mean we should let them leave though.
Players will be leaving also, so that will add to the pot.
The likes of Smith, Perch, Xisco, Enrique and Routledge will all be leaving so that should fetch in circa £15m. Plus there’l be a hefty chunk of wages gone too.
Toonsy @ 52 he is probably up giving it the wacko jacko moves or else he could be lying in a corner out for the count
Think we will get turned over once again at Anfield, we have never had much luck there.
Our away scoring record is poor which is a surprise given the good away wins that we have attained.
Which NUFC side turns up tomorrow is anyone’s guess?
Toonsy strech_armstrong=Wolf you reckon?
Stu @ 57 Enrique and Routledge yes we could get shot of them but who is going to take Smith Perch and Xisco Smith we dont know if he will be of any good to anyone Perch we know wont be any good to anyone as for Xisco I think we might be better off letting him go for nowt just to get him off the books
Spence – Most definitely
I was in the Fulham away end today, only cost a tenner on the door to get in, had a great laugh.
haha, I think has a tw’t
saw pictures on twitter Andrew, did the stadium get any more full?
Hope you wernt drinking underage
Andrew – I saw you were there. What was the attendance? How many left when the third went in? Did Widow Twankey get roundly boo’d? Is he now not the man to take them forward this week?
DJG
Posted April 30, 2011 at 6:51 PM
“Of course they will want to go, because the club will be stuck in 3rd gear. All part of the business model.”
Not really. Just part of the football food chain. It’s happened for years and will continue to happen.
Do you really think we’d have signed the top top players we once did, like Ginola, Asprilla, if we weren’t near the top of the food chain? Worst thing to happen to NUFC in this current era was Shepherd taking the reins IMO, or Sir John Hall handing it over, whichever way.
The fans are awful, they all sit down, it just shows how good our away fans are after experiencing that. We were at the back with these lads who were canny, never seen so many old men at a game in my life
Andrew – Were they offering sweets and puppies for everyone?
toonsy
It was a tenner well spent watching the mackems get tortured. Few of them got locked up for being drunk though – the sunderland stewards were harsh.
Andrew – Replace ‘harsh’ with ‘bitter at how shyte they are’ and I think you get the reason why they were harsh
Toonsy mate, is the blog doing abig away day mashup like .org did?
Spence – Not this season given that both away games are sold out
I did say about the home game against West Brom and think a few are meeting up for that. I dunno if I’ll be working or not though now
I meabt next season you absolute mess
And Im gunna WBA with my dad so i dont wanna meet you so
Fair enough. I mean if you want to spend time with your Daddy n all. Fair enough
hahaha
It will probably be the last one I go to with him for a long time.
And hes not working for once so he wants to get to it.
Daddies little blue eyed
He dosn’t want his Daddy to hear any bad stories about him
Dave
Daddy’s little prince 
feck off both of you
not like anyone eles from Sheffield wants to go
My dad no’s im a d1ck
He also no’s im a p1ss head
Spencer take no notice of them mate, it’s up to you if you want to go to the match with your Daddy mate…
Spencer, make sure he takes his wallet with him for the half time sherbets…
And make sure you hold his hand when you cross the road
Spencer make sure you dont buy any food from inside the ground, prices are a disgrace.
What stand you in by the way?
Food is also crap in the ground, like most grounds.
Spencer will be allright aslong as he has a bottle of pop
Gallowgat andrew mate.
and ive made that mistake before haha
And you lot feck off
least i dont slurp my old ale.
No. But you do slurp your rola cola, even if Daddy tells you off for it.
GET TO YOUR ROOM!
If Ashley did sell up I’d much rather get some Chinese investors like those interested in buying liverpool before the Red Sox guy got them. I know its stupid to judge on one example, but the Venky’s people who own Blackburn are nuts, wanting champions league next year and wanting to bring in all manner of Brazillians or whatever. Links with China would be brilliant marketing as well what with the rising middle class there and interest in football, far greater than in India. Plus if you’ve got links with the Chinese government you know you won’t be going bust any time soon…
Im already in my room, also thats not a punishment, my PC, decks, xbox and Tv are all in my room
and we can afford pepsi
What about Shirley.
Newkie
A man can dream eh
I’ve just got visions of Team America going through my heed
Newkie if we got Indian owners one would hope it would be Anil Ambani, who would without doubt run the club far FAR better than Venkys run Blackburn. Would love Ambani as our owner but surely to all those who hope the club gets sold in the summer, what about the Carroll money? Do you expect MA to leave it in the coffers as a goodbye pressie?
Devon-True mate, its pretty hard to base it on Venkys…its just they’re so terrible, must be maddening for Blackburn fans. Not that I care, was gutted they won today, would give anything for them to get relegated, can’t stand the b@stards! And don’t get me wrong, whilst I wouldn’t describe myself as “pro ashley” I’ve often voiced the opinion about the “devil you know” and all that-I’d actually rather he stayed. If he did sell then theres no doubt he’d take the money with him as is his right, I was just speculating if he was planning on doing a runner anyway, which wouldn’t surprise me.
totally agree about the ‘devil you know’, I’m used to Ashley and I’m looking forward to our transfer market come summer. If someone tried to buy us next year I’d be interested if they seemed decent, but for now Ashley, Pardew and Carr et al will do me fine. If I could fire ONE person at the club it’d be the deplorable and impish Dekka, he literally boils my piss. Smarmiest most un-likable kunt ever
Is Playstation Network back up yet?
Dont think toonsy, my brothers getting abit mad, whilst im just enjoying a game on fifa
I can play FIFA ye gonk. Just not online. I think some scally is emptying my credit card as we speak aswell
Devon-agreed, although I think I’d fire Lambias as well, he’s an absolute joke of a chairman.
-Toonsy, nope, still down
ye, getting all the credit card details
But sy, i can smash some kunts online, you cant
How embarrasing..blatently read that wrong, you already said Llambias, not sure what I read Dekka as >.<
Spence and Toonsy,
Wish I had a playstation and not an xbox so I could show how MEN play FIFA and not just boys
Ive got an xbox OH
OH – I have a PS3 but the online bit is down, still, after more than a week
And, youve got no money left on your credit card to buy an xbox
its allright sy, If they do take all your money ill keep clicking the ads
Spence – Like I said, if they can get money off that card they are more than just hackers
Er….. they didn’t get card numbers. Just names and email addresses ect.
haha, wulf seems clever when it comes to that stuff
Its stupid if people are able to get all that way to get credit card details, my dad always hated sony, and I can see why
Spence-
Lemme get my xbox live account set up, and we’ll have at it mate! I’ll go easy on ya and play with Bury
spence your dad hated sony because there alway bringing new things out that he has too buy you
If you change your password to your PSN account and if it is the same for other things change them aswell. Thats all you need to do and shouldn’t have a problem.
Toonsy-
Good luck with the playstation, mate! That’s a bitch. Too bad you ain’t local. Good buddy of mine is an engineer and could fix it for ya for the price of a six pack of shitty domestic beer lol!
Also, sent you a message on facebook.
no need for that mate ahah, I wont be on tonight or tomorrow, sorry
Batty-
Sounds like you got experience in that dept, mate
Spence-
Pussy
batty, the only sony thing I own is my laptop
I might be on tomorrow, depends how tomorrows game ggoes, we could get promoted
Not Nufc btw
The biggest threat from it is phishing and identity theft, not acually direct fraud coz they didn’t actually get any card numbers.
DJG – Not according to the e mail I got from Sony:
——————————————————————-
Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:
1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant to review your account statements and to monitor your credit or similar types of reports.
We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at http://www.eu.playstation.com/psnoutage should you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment Teams
Sony Network Entertainment Europe Limited (formerly known as PlayStation Network Europe Limited) is a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited the data controller for PlayStation Network/Qriocity personal data
The bold bit, half way down.
OH kids never stop costing you
shut up batty, im more intrested in cloths than electronics aha
Batty-
That’s the damn truth! Just as my dad!
Batty I think you need to give young Spencer a clip round the ear does he not realise who you are
OH hows tricks whats the craic
‘to be on the safe side’
It’s also basically telling you to be ‘red alert’ about checking your bank account, letters ect. Im with barclays and their pretty good security wise like, I think they reinburse you if anybody manages to steal anything.
OH are you still running the shine
last time some one clipped me round ear…. I did it back
Spencer we’re not talking about some kid in the playground
DJG – Aye, basically they have got the long numbers but they haven’t got the security numbers so it’s useless unless they can crack it. It’s only three digits and a random number generator will soon crack that. It’s a dead card anyway so they won’t get owt from me
spencer @126 do you still shop at scope
dave a divent hit kids ,but i just slap there fathers aroond
It will probably be some geek who’s got it and then trying to sell like 1000 accounts to various criminals. He will have to spread the info somehow. Hope they catch the c###.
batty, divint be silly, when it comes to cloths, im a right design freak, Ralph laruent, Lyle and Scott ect ect
DJG I dont think its some geek I think it will be a well organised group of geeks
Batts im sure you could make an exception in Spencers case.
I bet Ice will be well gone by now after all the moonwalking etc
Ralph Laurent? You’re either 80 or bent
DJG – 77 million accounts mate
Anyhoo, I’m away. Catch you al in a bit
Spencer are you in to them shit jeans that cost a fortune
sy- all kids are wearing it now adays. same with barbour.
Big dave-they cos a fortune but arent shyte
Toonsy take it easy, im sitting here debating wether to get mesel a cuff links or a kebab
toonsy 139 he must be the 2nd
go in a club and everyone has it on, your just old kunts
Reet Chow mein it is im away catch you’s tomorrow
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11678_6906742,00.html
Little warning to the club?
@stu
Don’t rock the boat. Surely a toon player can’t be asking to be in the top 4 or 5 ! Outrageous!
The bloggers will be calling him deluded!
Does Tiote not realise we can’t aim that high? It’s too ambitious. That would mean buying decent players and offering decent wages!
The bloggers will be furious with this one!
Bobby
Won’t be too difficult…just a monumental collapse for Liverpool and Spurs for the beginning of next season…..I think what Tiote is mainly aiming at is Europe, and providing we win a cup or top 4 teams do and we grab 7th then its all the same.
Now, if we can just spend around 50million in the summer….
Just thinking…for tomorrow maybe we should play Colo in Midfield and Taylor at the back? Line up with Shola up front with Nolan behind, or if injured loven? Try and defend for our lives and hit them on the break/at set pieces
Playing Colo in midfield just to fit Taylor in would be a huge mistake, there would be no need to do that.
Colo in midfield is a disaster for me. Colo and Williamson should retain their defensive places and Taylor on the subs bench until one of them loses form or gets injured.
I guess so..williamson/taylor partnerships do seem dodgy…just worried about Carroll really
livrpool 3 newcastle 4
bet it happens
Starbob. Are you going to pay my fare to the West Brom game or not, so I can have a drink with you and … er … yourself?
I’ll buy the drinks, mate.
@brisvegas
I conduct Elvis wedding ceremonies in Vegas in my spare time. I’ll pop in next time over.
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