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

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If Only Babayaro and Emre Could Stay Fit

July 31st, 2007 · 22 Comments

Lee Ryder of the Evening Chronicle reports today that Celestine Babayaro suffered yet another injury setback ahead of the season’s opener at Bolton on August 11th.
Sam Allardyce admitted today he is unlikely to be ready for the season opener. It seems to us such a pity that Babayaro is always injured – especially when [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News · Players

Major Newcastle Stories, 31st July, 2007 - Keep N’Zogbia!

July 31st, 2007 · 75 Comments

News today that we may be signing Alan Smith from Manchester United - reported via the Manchester Evening news. Not exactly what we need but Alan is a good player and it looks like Dyer is being moved on.
The problem Kieron may have is whether any club will be willing to pay him ₤80K/week in [...]

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Tags: Daily Roundup

Newcastle Fans Shocked by Lack of Funds

July 31st, 2007 · 51 Comments

The news on Sunday that the new Newcastle Board were only going to give Sam Allardyce ₤10M for transfers, after Sam had acquired four good players Geremi, Viduka, Barton and Rozehnal for a net ₤1.5M, was not believable and we said so.
However, the news since then seems to confirm this may well be the case, and [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News

Five Foreign Center-Backs for Newcastle

July 31st, 2007 · 53 Comments

Sam has already said he may have to look outside of England to bring in new defenders for Newcastle.
Following our article yesterday on four foreign full backs we’ll take a look at five foreign-based center backs who are still available.
We’ll attempt to see if any could fit the bill at Newcastle.

Sam Allardcye - frantically searching for center-backs 

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Tags: Newcastle News · Transfer News and Rumours

Will Martins Be Sold to Fund Defensive Reinforcements?

July 31st, 2007 · 97 Comments

It is unfortunately looking increasingly true that Sam Allardyce will be restricted to just ₤10M in transfer funds plus anything additional he can get from letting players go.
When you look at the current Newcastle squad one thing becomes very clear – we are overladen with good strikers.
So if Sam sells one of them he could fund transfers for [...]

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Tags: Newcastle News · Obafemi Martins · Players · Transfer News and Rumours