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Just kidding , but if he really wants to play at home why all the turn downs ?
The Spanish league is good but thought he wanted to come home to the Premiere league ? Is it just money or did I miss read something , how does one stay match fit if your on the bench ? :blink: New Castle would be a nice fit no ?
I read about this site today too thought it was funny some Yank kid havin fun .
Manchester Buccaneers :
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He's fifth in line at Real Madrid so he would get maybe 2-3 games a year. He hasn't rejected Newcastle, he's waiting to see if Liverpool (his old club) make a bid for him, if they don't im sure he will go to Newcastle, he would just like Liverpool better because he's already a fan favourite, they are in the champions league and have a far better chance of winning something than Newcastle, also he would get much better crosses, and balls from Gerrard and co than Newcastle, so is likley to score more.
he would make a great partnership with cisse
Why :unsure:
There bother the same type of player, pacy, if anything you want a tall goal poacher with a pacy striker.
I think this is better than the Heskey/Owen partnership. I didn't like Heskey
We have a very good Midfield :snooty:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peerzy
Just no defence and one decent Striker with no upfront support..
And we only have a Team, not a Squad...
Souness really should just f*ck off, together with Shepherd... but unfortunatly, they are so far up each others arses, and dont give a f*ck what the fans or players want.
I'm not at all surprised that Owen doesnt really want to come to Newcastle atm... I dont think any player with a choice, in the Premiership, would unless they were mental.
You think Newcastle might be able to score now :unsure:
Dunno, guess it's good news though, be good to see him playing football, but i think he'll have to be ill for every away Liverpool match :lol:
I reckon so, hopefully Fulham get a drubbing Saturday week. If they can't score I might give up watching puntsphere and start watching some lesser sport like basketball.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
They play on Boxing Day, should be fun.:unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peerzy
I saw some girls playing that once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Withcheese
It looked a rubbish game. The fans of it are rubbish too, they seem to encourage cheating :dry:
Hey was reading in the morning paper Alan Shearer, was burning up the phone lines trying to convince Owen to come to Newcastle . Smart boy, he was always one of my favorites .
If he was smart, he would have just phoned.Quote:
Originally Posted by peat moss
Smoke signals are so passé :snooty:
I see he signed for 4 years at Newcastle .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...31/ixhome.html
4 years is alot. I think he'll be unhappy.
He has a clause in his contact that says after 12 months, if any club offers £12M or more, Newcastle have to accept it. Ofcourse MO might not want to leave after 1 year and he might like it with Newcastle. Remember hardly any players see out there contracts. Most sign for 4 or 5 years and are either sold after 3 (after refusing to sign a new contract) or after 3 years sign an 'extension' which means instead of having only 2 years left, they have say 4.
If they refuse to sign a new contract and arn't sold at the end of the contract there free to leave to any club for free, so most clubs try to sell before that happens otherwise they lose out.
Thats one of the reasons MO went to R. Madrid in the first place. He had 1 year left with Liverpool and had refused to sign a new contract. If Liverpool had not sold him he would have gone ot R. Madrid after the year for free, and not the £8M he went for.
newcastle are trying to ruin emres career... and now owens too :@
i mean which idiot manager plays a player who isnt ment to have played for 6 weeks straight into the first game after world cup friendlies? :@
Since Owen's lacklustre press conference and the pitiful get-out clause in his contract came to light, it will be interesting to see how Newcastle fans take to him.
They are among the best and most loyal fans anywhere in the world but he's certainly no Shearer (I don't mean that in a playing sense) and I would expect him to get shite from some quarters of the support.
It's difficult for me to recall any major signing being so melancholy about his new club.
His get-out clause seems a bit more complicated than just £12 million next year and he can go, it also depends on NUFC's league position and qualification for European competition.
It would be a fucking blow to lose Owen and Shearer at the end of the season. I'd be gutted, like a Liverpool fan who has just realised their goalscoring legend will be playing for toon this season.
I think, for Owen, joining NUFC is akin to taking home an ugly bird after a night out. You'd prefer to be shagging a cute blonde with pert breasts but any hole's a goal...
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Originally Posted by Withcheese
Noice.
I think he's damn lucky to be going there. The unique situation of his preferred clubs means that Newcastle is the best option he could have hoped for; the top three already having a full complement of top strikers, Liverpool being indifferent probably because of the way he blackmailed them into leaving and Real Madrid, plus other top foreign teams, not thinking he was up to the job.
Newcastle are a huge club who treat their players magnificently and the supporters treat them like gods. Maybe after he stops rolling his eyes, he'll realise that he's a fairly lucky chap to be playing for a team in which he could well be the final piece of the jigsaw.
Owen's sad because we didn't want him at Man U
He's happy because he is at the only club which would have been interested in him, for the reasons you stated.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
He's sad because his new manager is a dirty, hacking, cheating, hun bastard.
The boy is simply a wee bit amphibious just now.
They were too busy making people redundant to sign anyone...Quote:
Originally Posted by billyfridge
Im not sure about the League position but in his contract it says he "needs to be play European football" whatever that means.Quote:
Originally Posted by Withcheese
However i can imagine that NC are set to make massive ammounts of money on the shirts, and Owen related merchandise. If every NC fan buys the shirt at £30 then thats much more than the £4M difference between that the paid and his buy out clause.
If NC play there cards right they could make this move work for them as well as Owen.
Newcastle United fans buy the shirts anyway. If they just get a different name on it I don't see where the extra income comes from.
Apparently the get out clause isn't in the contract he actually signedQuote:
His get-out clause seems a bit more complicated than just £12 million next year and he can go, it also depends on NUFC's league position and qualification for European competition.
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Originally Posted by JPaul
JPaul, I know a few people that have 2 or 3 of the current shirts.. with the different names on them.
You'd almost think that they all need to be wearing the same players name at the same time... and the day of the week defines which name is required.
Owen will be popular, so there will be a number shirts sold with his number and name on them, in addition to the normal sales.
Bit pathetic really.. :blushing:
Have you got yours yet then? :unsure:Quote:
Bit pathetic really.. :blushing:
Mine's on order...Quote:
Originally Posted by DanB
:lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Withcheese
Speaking of which, does anyone know where i can order a kits with names and numbers on them. Ebay is just full of fakes and im sick of buying them and having to send them back to get my refund.
:lol: Newcastle and Liverpool, new rivalry?
The Kop > Rocks > Owens Head
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What does the Toon Army mean ? Saw a reference in the sports page about Newcastle fans .
It's a nickname, kinda like Man Utd are sometimes called the red devils, and Arsenal are the gunners.
Toon Army = Newcastle fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by peat moss
No it's not :lol: :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Peerzy
Toon = town.