The Newcastle United Blog

News, Views and Comment On Newcastle United Football Club By Ed Harrison, A Proud Geordie And Lifelong Fan

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Sam Allardyce Continues to Transform Newcastle United

July 11th, 2007 · 16 Comments

Sam Allardyce has talked to Lee Ryder of the Evening Chronicle and discussed how he will use the reserve team fixtures next season.
One good thing is that the reserves will now rotate their Barclay’s Premier Reserve League home fixtures between St. James’ Park and Kingston Park. This will give our youngsters more of [...]

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Newcastle Reject Michael Chopra off to Sunderland for £5M

July 11th, 2007 · 51 Comments

Cardiff City have today accepted Sunderland’s £5M offer for former Newcastle United striker and academy star Michael Chopra.
The Gosforth born striker has just returned from Cardiff’s training camp in Portugal - and is already in talks with Sunderland officials on contract details.
Michael’s contract is likely to be much improved over the one he had at [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News · Players

Major Newcastle News Stories - July 11th - 2007

July 11th, 2007 · 24 Comments

Here are the major news stories associated with the Newcastle club for today - in no particular order of priority.
The highlight (if you can call it that) for us today is that it would appear that we have missed out on the transfer of Habib Beye - which at one time looked very much like [...]

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Tags: Daily Roundup

Newcastle Seem to have Missed Out on Habib Beye

July 11th, 2007 · 11 Comments

Sky Sports is reporting that Habib Beye has insisted he wants to stay at Marseilles, despite strong interest from Newcastle.
The 29-year-old, who can play at right-back or center-half, is one of the best defenders in the French League over recent seasons - and Sam Allardyce is known to have been tracking him for a while.
But [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News · Players · Transfer News and Rumours

Ashley’s Newcastle Takeover at 95% and Going Smoothly

July 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Newcastle’s new owner Mike Ashley is set to complete his buy-out of all Newcastle shares after triggering a compulsory purchase of the remaining stock.
St James Holdings Limited, Ashley’s company created to execute the buy-out of Newcastle United PLC, revealed this morning to the London Stock Exchange they had reached agreement to buy almost 95% of [...]

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