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• 1 GraemeR // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:37

  Id luv it if we sack him

• 2 Stamford Toon // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:38

  Time for him to go!!

• 3 GraemeR // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:38

  What was the name of the player that wouldnt cometo tthe Toon because of the little thug?

• 4 Graeme // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:38

  He should have been sacked the day he was found guilty and sentenced to 6 months.

  Retain his player registration and sell him to the 1st team that wants him and then sue Barton for any loss incurred by NUFC.

  Get him OUT of my club today.

• 5 broon ale // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:46

  graemme- silvestre

• 6 Robby Bobson // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:49

  GraemeR - Silvestre turned us down because he’s mates with Dabo.

  Sack him - hes had his chance and last season showed that he had not changed on the pitch (tackle on Etuhu etc). Only had a few good games for us anyway.

  Read something interesting, if Emre and Ameobi go as predcited the current owner will have broken even in the Transfer Market. Surely the club has money to spend, even if it isn’t out of ashleys back pocket!!!

• 7 micepie // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:50

  Hell yes. A friend of mine who is a West Ham fan was mightily relieved when they didn’t sign Barton last year. I wanted him to succeed but it appears it’s not to be.

  I’m surprised no one has mentioned Zoltan Gera. Worth buying, I think (2-3M?) along with a couple of younger, probably more expensive mf buys.

• 8 Gateshead Mag. // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:50

  Dorty prick can go. Hope he breaks his leg and can’t play again. Deserves it.

• 9 Hadrian // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:51

  i say we keep him to keep the peace around the training ground ,
  nobody step outa line or barton will chew ya face off !

  the way some of you are talking , its as if he murdered someone , not let us down by rising to the bait laid out for him by some scouse scumbag .

• 10 broon ale // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:55

  check this out.. very weird. blatant hair transplant

  http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://photos-548.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v142/68/68/749490548/n749490548_549647_6937.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thefootballforum.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php%3Ft132848.html&h=350&w=604&sz=46&hl=en&start=273&um=1&tbnid=y7ecwcdNgzgSAM:&tbnh=78&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpompey%2Bfans%26start%3D260%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN

• 11 Rich // Jun 11, 2008 at 16:55

  Bye bye Joey, we seriously need midfielders now though!! Emana is off to Betis it looks so there goes another target.

• 12 ANON // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:00

  Knobs!!!
  Its a lose lose situ for the club.
  Thats all it is and Greame, “get him out of MY club today”

  Are you called Greame or Mike??? As i am 100% sure a bloke called Mike owns the club!!

  Keep him, sell him at a decent price in January, and get over it. He’s not the first and I am sure he wont be the last football player to drop a major bollock and get banged up. But YOUR club graeme, needs to get something out of this surely!!

  Get rid, he’s horrible, I am going home and taking my ball with me…..children!!!!!

  The blokes an arse, he is paying for it now, we bought him for near on 6m, and we just “GET RID”!!!!

  Sensible!!!
  KNOBS

• 13 ANON // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:03

  ED, What has he cost us in bad publicity??? Millions of pounds??? Mmmmmmm
  Interesting.

  Didnt someone once say “There is no such thing as BAD publicity, and saying it has cost us millions of pounds?????????? Ludicrous.

• 14 euanpolo // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:06

  Good riddance, if he hasn’t got the honour to take a paay cut then he deserves to be sacked!

• 15 Nev // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:07

  until its confirmed by nufc its a load of bollox to me. newspaers just wanting to sell more papers

• 16 Leo // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:09

  “goodbye to barton”

  there ya go, as gordon ramsey would say DONE

  also fvck off out of my football club (kitchen)

• 17 Graham // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:11

  I said yesterday that the only way for Barton to come out of this mess with any dignity was to accept the reduction in wages and get his head down, get rehabilitated and show his commitment to NUFC.

  If what is being said today is the truth (and its only the mirror reporting it so could be made up twaddle) then Barton has no interest in anything other than himself and should be sacked.

  However, I must say that it does smack of a low shot by the club just to save some cash.

  We knew, however, what we were getting when we bought him last summer and can’t blame all the bad publicity on Barton alone - we’ve never been far from some scandal or other in the past.

• 18 Toon 85 // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:12

  talk of us wanting him to take a pay cut is embarrassing, we gave him the big contract. you would have thought that when we signed him, when we knew about the dabo case, we would have installed a clause that he would receive no pay if he got himself into trouble??

• 19 ScottyT // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:12

  exactly ed about time ppl saw sense!

  y we signed him in exchange for parker is still a mystery to me.

• 20 Jonny // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:15

  mice pie,
  gera signed for fulham a couple of days ago…

• 21 cathal // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:22

  go away ANON will u! no one wants to listen to your rubbish! your not wanted on this site! if u think any publicity is good publicity, ur a muppet. sack him and retain his registration. we’ll pick up at least 4mill in compo from it. thats more than any club would pay anyway for him

• 22 Toonboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:24

  Couldnt agree more cathal

• 23 craig chisholm // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:26

  i feel sad at the whole situation and i feel that while barton is a nut job he has talent. we have again handled this very poorly as a club. we look terrible, as bad as barton indeed. most things are what they appear i find in life. barton appears to be a thug adn he prob is. we appear to be a very money orientated, non caring football club these days, which is what i think we have become or are fast becoming. its a sad thing for everyone. he has to go now though that much is clear. Ed, of course we will not keep him until his gegistration runs out. We will sell this guy at a knock down 2 or 3 million, someone will take a punt. we are after money money money!!! sell sell sell. he will be gone before the season even starts, money on it.

• 24 The Entertainers // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:27

  I have always wrote on this blog with support for Barton and believed we should give him another chance. I still believe we should, however i certainly agree he deserves to placed on a lower wage scale. But this depends on all parties agreeing

  We knew when we signed him he was a thug, the Dabo incident had already happened. So we all know what kind of person he is……however we also know the lad can play a bit and i believe in general as a group of supporters we are the forgiving type.

  But we do need to see desire, loyalty and commitment.

  By refusing the pay cut i see known of these qualities and am afraid Barton has let us down ‘THIS WAY’ and leaving us with very little option.

• 25 canny1add3 // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:30

  THE TOON - CARTOON, In 50 life long blacknwhite thrunthru, there is no delusion that for the past 40 years we are and have been a second rate managed club with first rate support. This year once again, the management make demands on us paying this year hundreds of pounds each for the pleasure of subsidising their lifestyle for no reward. The lack of ambition in the transfer market when they have been looking for 6 months according to reports, so my title CARTOON, because we are a laughing stock. Barton and Smith last year were a joke on the pitch now Barton is one off it. Amoebi who supposedly loves the toon but wont leave it cos he is paid so well but who is a joke as a footballer. NUFC - Newcastle United Farcical Club, because to dream of ambition of winning something is a farce. I will support the toon until the end, but not financially MR ASHLEY, go and have a laugh at someone elses expense and take the dross & flotsum which is Smith and Barton with you.

• 26 Simen // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:31

  If Barton get sacked…. Do Newcastle have to pay him compensation??

• 27 Phani Tikkala // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:37

  Can’t understand some people on here.
  One side is saying he should have been sacked immeadiately he was sent down.
  The other side are saying the Club should stick by him.
  So the Club has 2 options
  1) Is that he needs some form of punishment from the Club if they are to stick by him after all he could be a liability. I’m sure he was told when he signed that this was a 2nd chance for him (lets forget about the Dabo case for now).
  2)They part services with him (the sack).
  So they offer him a new contract with a reduced wage (as punishment). How would the club have looked if they just let him waltz back in when his time is up. These are new times with a new owner who will not tolerate trouble makers at the Club. We’ve had a few in the past, but if we had took a firm line with the first one, the rest would have known not to test the owner (board).
  He seems to have turned that offer down? Now the club can say ‘we tried to stick by him but it had to be on our terms not his’ he takes it to court, if he indeed gets the sack, and the club says the same, no problems.
  Chris Mort is a very sucessful Lawyer he must have known that just sacking him immeadiately could be problematic, but by saying we will stick by him but on our terms it puts it all in the clubs favour.
  This reduced pay deal contract issue wasn’t about reducing the wage bill although had he signed it would have done. It was probably more about PR and making sure the club was seen to be doing the right thing by trying to stick by an employee and not letting it go unpunished.
  NUFC has essentially put out a statement saying this is a family club and we as a club will not tolerate this sort of behavior.

• 28 Davy C // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:45

  The ‘orrible greedy little sod. That’s me being nice cos i don’t want to swear on here. The club should sack him and as mentioned retain his registration so that if he goes anywhere else we get the transfer fee. Or do a Mutu and get rid before suing him for every penny. he obviously doesn’t want to stay and play for the club as he couldn’t need the money that badly!

  Good riddance if he goes - he wasn’t anywhere near as good as the player we hoped to get anyway.

• 29 geordie in taipei // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:46

  There wont be any sell on fee later, because even if anyone wants to take him, id be doubtful if anyone would want to pay for
  him.

• 30 steven1979 // Jun 11, 2008 at 17:54

  I said it before but repeat it again..
  Sionko from Czech team is very good right winger..
  best man of the team against switzerland and today he is good again..
  He plays in FC Copenhagen..Danish league..
  He can be a good transfer to us..2mn..not more..What we wait..

• 31 Ashton // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:04

  Sionko is too old mate

• 32 Nick C // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:05

  I think the club have given him a great opportunity for him to sue for wrongful dismissal. You either sack him or back him. Ashley has done neither. He (Barton) can quite rightly say that this is all about money, not punishment. Now we have to put up with prolonged legal battle. Messy.

• 33 Simon P // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:06

  bumwipes like Barton never learn. Fire him and retain the registration.
  Should never have been bought in the first place.
  Hope he’s having a good time in the showers !

• 34 NUFCFAN // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:17

  is it not MUTU????

• 35 ronaldeano // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:19

  @ANON, go and hump Winehoose you dick

  NUFC is MY club, Grahams club and everyone elce on this blogs club. MA has just got the money to buy it.

  Grow a brain you tosser

• 36 Ian // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:21

  Barton- Bright as a blackout.

  Afterall he is worth more than £1.56m per year, isnt he??

• 37 JohnB // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:24

  Great Comment Nick C, I totally agree

  It is disappointing, but the way our board has handled this shows it has nothing to do with morality or bringing the club into disrepute. Either we are outraged by his actions and sack him, or think he should have a second chance so back him. This ‘third way’ makes us look like penny pinchers that kick a man when he is down, and gives the little thug grounds for wrongful dismissal (i.e not accepting a paycut even tho he is contracted for another 3 years)

  SORT IT OUT MIKE…

• 38 oga // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:29

  If he has refused then he is a vile person, and I hope he is jailed for a further 5 years. He’s been handed a lifeline and he refuses? Who has ever heard of anyone receiving a wage while they’re in jail, let alone 30,000 a week.

  And to think we actually stood by him, providing him with character references and all sorts. If the reports are true then his career is over.

  Also didn’t Mutu have to pay Chelsea millions in compensation for not honoring his contract. We need to bleed him of any money he has.

• 39 GEORDIE GENIUS // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:34

  ANON-CE GO AND BOIL YER HEED YA TATTIE. GO AND HUMP BARTON HE’S GONNA BE ALL FOR THAT SOON.
  now clear off as you have triggered an aggressive streak in me that I was not aware that I posessed.

• 40 Frankieboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:36

  NUFC
  A laugh at everyones expense yet again.
  Why not just agree to pay him in phone cards cos they are the currency where he is and he may of accepted that deal
  It’s getting more embarrasing by the day for the club we love.

• 41 Ian // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:41

  Again a lack of PR is letting the club down, it all could be a load of bollocks.

• 42 ronaldeano // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:45

  @Frankieboy, it wont be embarrassing anymore when they sack the little shit and NEVER dream of signing a player with the personality of a inbred chimp again.

  It will take a while to get this clubs reputation sorted so it is not labeled a soap opera anymore. Thats why we have to rid ourselves of the skumbag who we pay to be banged up for a violent assault on a young lad

• 43 Nasty // Jun 11, 2008 at 18:47

  The whole “Wage Cut or get sacked ” hype is all pure speculation from the gutter press anyway, are there any quotes from Ashley or Mort backing all this up? - No!
  The lad is just like any other young lad but is a good enough footballer to play professionally - lucky sod.
  I don’t condone what he’s done but I’ve seen far, far worse. I agree that his contract should be terminated like in any other job but when there is serious cash on the line, and cash is the bottom line in football thesedays, it’s a different story.
  The lad needs to understand that if he’s in the public eye he needs to present himself in a positive light or he will end up on the scrap heap at an early age as nobody will touch him with a barge pole.
  If the pay cut thing is true then I for one would agree to it, damn, who wouldn’t want to be on around 30k a week in jail for around 2 months?

• 44 rob1892 // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:03

  all barton is is a bully,wasnt it a 16 year old whos teeth he knocked out and wasnt it if im not mistaken a 15 or 16 year old who he stubbed a cigar out in there eye while at man city,little bully boy who wouldnt dream of picking a fight with an adult…lock him in a room with those 2 kids dads they sack him

• 45 rob1892 // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:04

  then sack him even lol

• 46 The Entertainers // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:06

  I dont think the lack of PR from inside Newcastle is harming us. I believe Newcastle are keeping their own council for once, instead of publishing every detail, every day in the rags…..and we wonder why we we’re called a soap opera !

  Dont let nothing out until it is signed and sealed, thats everything from Barton to transfers, i applaud the silence treatment for once.

  Is’nt it nicer when things are just black and white?

• 47 Punk Skunk // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:13

  Weirdly,
  it costs us (the tax payer) 30 odd grand a YEAR to keep one person in jail!..

• 48 Dunc // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:16

  Next person I see I might just smack em in the mouth just to see if I can still get paid whilst I am in prison.

  Paper trash talk or not this guy is making us look like DICKS who will accept whatever a player puts in front of us.

  Make an example of him in whichever way we can is what I say.

  Too many people ( so called BAD BOYS) have been disruptive at Newcastle and taken the piss.

  I can’t believe we are giving him options.
  It’s time for the club to make a stand and not worry about what Barton thinks or wants.

  We paid for a player we haven’t seen that much of and when we have he has mostly been poor. And now we are paying for him to have fun in the showers and make a mockery of us.

  It’s time for some of the Newcastle board to get a prescription for a new set of bollocks if you ask me.

• 49 ronaldeano // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:18

  @Dunc, i totaly agree

• 50 neville brewis // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:21

  Really Joey Barton in jail, no one told me. What has he done? We had a guy once from Liverpool to fix our T.V. He took it away and did not bring it back. My wife thought that I had rang the repair man. But I had not, apparently there was nothing wrong with it. She was watching young Des O’Connor at the time. With Mel- what happened to them?

• 51 Bill F SPLASH THE CASH ASH // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:22

  Im repeating this only because of the last comment I made. I don’t know how other people feel but I am fed up reading about him. It wouldn’t bother me if his name was never mentioned again on the blog, at least till after his court case. How about some good news Ed.

  I think I made my position clear on this and it more or less agrees with stjames.
  Sack him or back him but don’t pis* him about, there is no honour bought to our club with these type of tacky dealings.

  The case hasn’t been heard yet but I don’t think Dabo actually needs to be there. Its a criminal case not a private one and as long as the CPS feel they have a strong enough case then they will prosecute. Some one correct me if I am wrong. As I understand it there are plenty of people willing to testify against him so the chances are that he will go down for an extended stay. In which case all of the other stuff will be irrelevent and his contract terminated.
  Might be an idea Ed not running this story again till after the case is heard as most of this speculation is pointless till then.

• 52 Frankieboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:22

  Correct ronaldeano we have gradually got rid of the spoilt brats and thier antics in recent years and remember it was those brats ( Dyer, bellamy, Jenas Bramble etc.. who all thought they were ireplaceable) who disrespected Sir Bobby in his time here,which eventually led to his demise under fat Freddy. Nobody wants a return to those days.
  MA has done it right thus far and lets just hope he now makes the only decision possible.
  Rid the club of the shit and all that goes with it.

• 53 Petworth (DC) Mag // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:23

  You what makes prison bearable?

  Knowing that you’re pocketing 60k a week while you are in there.

  At that amount I’d consider trading places

  Wonder what kind of legal leverage we have in this situation, surely Barton was advised by his lawyers. Do we have the grounds stop paying his wages?

• 54 looney_toon // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:26

  hey skysports are reporting carroll is set to leave, i liked him n thought he was much much better than smith plus he had potential to be the next mark viduka. Hopefully keegan has someone else lined up

• 55 Petworth (DC) Mag // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:26

  on another note it sounds like Emana would be interested in coming to the Toon but he is also open to Betis who appear to be in the driver seat. The first 6.3 M pounds gets the deal done.

  Only seen him on YouTube but looks very strong and probably good business at that price. Barton’s replacement.

• 56 Frankieboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:31

  Bill F cash splasher.

  HERE HERE I said a few days ago that the site should not waste any more time on this issue cos he is not worth discussing, but here am I again having been wound up due to the clubs indecision and assumably lack of bollocks to sack him forthwith.
  Ed…… No more please lets concentrate on the (possble) positives of incoming transfers and the new season.
  As from this moment on the thug does not exist. Anyone agree ?
  If so please take note Ed. NO MORE

• 57 ANON // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:34

  Ronaldeano & The ither non entity who hasnt got an aggressive streak!!

  VERY VERY MATURE RESPONSES BOYS. WELL DONE!!!

• 58 51times // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:35

  Turan starts tonight then…tbh I hope he has an average game.

• 59 CRAIGG // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:41

  I would wait for some comfirmation before i believe this

  We are going to be very short on midfielders now this could be true and Emre leaves, Zog Duff and Milner could go, Geremi shit, Butt ageing rapidly

  We need to bid for Lennon, Arshavin and McGeady before they go to other clubs or we or going to be very short.

• 60 Gateshead Mag. // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:43

  Turan’s playing lads.

• 61 Frankieboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:45

  ANON
  we have lost millions on players over the years but that was all down to bad management decisions and bad business.
  This situation on the other hand is about principles and the integrity of the club.
  Sack him now and withold his registration to recoup some of our layout on him but no point in paying his wages till January and be in the same position minus 26 x £60k.
  We are gonna be down a few quid either way but this way we are showing him who is boss and controling the situation.

• 62 Owen_10 // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:47

  I’ve just gotta say- how good does Turan look already!? He is already playing very well! sign him up quick!!!

• 63 GEORDIE GENIUS // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:48

  WHY THANK YOU FOR THAT A NONCE. now go and play with your marbles and leave me alone.

• 64 CRAIGG // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:52

  Crack open a can for Joes birthday and the aniversary of the Fairs Cup win and stop bickering, Barton as much as he’s a half decent player aint worth it

• 65 ScottyT // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:52

  turans started well actually…

  nd exactly craigg. theres a true legend

• 66 James // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:53

  watch the Turkey game! ARDA is running the show!!

• 67 Bob // Jun 11, 2008 at 19:57

  Turan has looked very impressive so far in the Turkey game!

• 68 Frankieboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:02

  He really looks the business and he is prepared to track back

• 69 nomis_jade // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:03

  Oh shit, Turan looks class! i really hope we can sign this guy!

• 70 51times // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:06

  I think it’s fair to say Turan has been the most impressive player thus far.

• 71 oga // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:06

  Arda is sick. Covering loads of ground.

• 72 51times // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:08

  Very nice pass by Inler.

• 73 NUFCFAN // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:14

  arda - is exactly what we need!

• 74 Bob // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:14

  LOL Arda just hit the post but didn’t mean it

• 75 Bob // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:16

  Worth mentioning that Gokhan Inler has been pretty good as well. Been involved a lot, couple of good passes.

• 76 broon ale // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:19

  i wish arda wasn’t playing so well

• 77 Jeff // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:19

  IF this is true im disapointed in him. Thought he would have repaid our faith in him - think he should realise hes lucky to be gettin a second chance at a club our size.

  I wouldnt be surprised if he didnt play again at all. He could afford to retire and dont think his head is right so he probably thinks he could do without the attention being a footballer. Maybe he could cos he doesnt seem to handle it well.

  We took a risk on him and it didnt pay off, stupid us for payin that much for him. Sayin that he contributed more than Albert Luque and was cheaper so its not the worst thing thats happened to us in recent times!

• 78 Hate Prawn Sandwiches // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:19

  Transfer Speculation Gossip and Rumours
  April / May / June 2008

  1. Eider Gudjohnsen 2. Steven Davis
  3. Vassilios Torosidis 4. Carlos Cuellar
  5. Miguel Veloso 6. Rui Patricio
  7. Aaron Lennon 8. Kevin Nolan
  9. Brian Howard 10. Aiden McGeady
  11. Deco 12. Moutinho 13. Jermaine Pennant
  14. Steven Pienaar 15. Thierry Henry
  16. Christoph Metzelder 17. Scott Brown
  18. Mbarek Boussoufa 19. Luka Modric
  20. Bafetimbi Gomis 21. John Arne Riise
  22. Artur Boruc 23. Fernando Amorebieta
  24. Allan McGregor 25. Peter Crouch
  26. Luis Fabiano 27. Giles Barnes
  28. Aaron Ramsey 29. Paul Scharner
  30. Tal Ben Haim 31. Anthony Gardner
  32. Achilles Emana 33. Lisandro Lopez
  34. Guy Demel 35. Simon Vukcevic
  36. Steve Sidwell 37. Klaas Jan Huntelaar
  38. Medy Eltio 39. Luis Antonio Valencia
  40. Andy Johnson 41. Richard Dunne
  42. Mamadou Sakho 43. Leighton Baines
  44. joaquin Sanchez Rodriguez
  45. Eren Derdiyok 46. Ivica Olic
  47. Jimmy Briand 48. Jean Makoun
  49. Darren Bent 50. Stephane Sessegnon
  51. Nelson 52. Zoltan Gera 53. Oscar Cardozo
  54. Hugo Campagnaro 55. Nicky Shorey
  56. Stephane M’bia 57. Bruno Alves
  58. Edgar Davids 59. Amara Diane
  60.Michael Dawson 61. Arstote Lusinga
  62. Abdeslam Ouaddou 64. Luis Boa Morte
  65. Djibril Cisse 66. Arda Turan
  67. Jonny Evans 68. Anton Ferdinand
  69. Tomas Ujfalusi 70. Fernando Amorebieta
  71. Juan Carlos Marino Marquez
  72.Mauro Zarate 73. Mario Gomez
  74. Justin Hoyte 75. Diego Forlan
  76. Yohann Pele 77. Loic Remy
  78. Wayne Hennessy 79. Eren Derdiyok
  80. Fabricio Coloccini 81. Alvaro Negredo
  82. Kieran Westwood 83. Pablo Aimar
  84. Gary Madine 85. Mikel Arteta
  86. Nikola Zigic 87. Roland Linz
  88. Roland Juahasz 89. Aaron Spear 90.Alexis
  91.Pascal Chimbonda 92. Seb Larsson
  93. Marcelo Mattos 94. Allan McGregor
  95. Antonio Reyes 96. Van Der Vaart

  96 Players and June isn’t over!!!

• 79 ende // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:21

  Here’s a better idea. Hold onto his contract rights, withhold wages based on his breach of contract, and revisit the issue once he’s out of jail, wiping our hands of the whole affair for the time being. Depending on how summer transfers go, however, as well as how we’re doing mid-next-season, we may be wanting him back in the lineup. Spare me the ‘honorable’ crap.

• 80 Oba // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:22

  Title should be, ‘Time to say goodbye to our chances of getting Arda and Derdiyok’

  Both are having great games.

• 81 Toon Yaka // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:23

  Good riddence. It’s about time the club dissociated themselves from such baffoons. He is not a good example to our kids and doesn’t even deserve to be kept on half wages. Sack him now!!! We need to start making a lead on good behaviour at our club and model professionals. Our name is crap at the moment and what french player would sign whilst we employ people like Barton. Taylor wants a new deal and isn’t even on half his wages if he was to take the 30,000/week. What do you think others would feel if they were on less and Barton was in gaol. get rid and take the money saved to keep taylor and Owen. Lets start being sensible for a change. Until we get real then we will remain to be a point of ridicule for other clubs. Barton out!!! Bye Bye - Jola anyone!

• 82 dick // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:23

  dont toon have some sort of agreement with man city they get compensation if he gets time for the training ground bust up, that trial comes up shortly may be wise to wait for that

• 83 Tom_Toon // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:24

  Why is Senderos so good for Switzerland!?

• 84 Punk Skunk // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:27

  @ TT, ‘Cos he’s a big fish in a small pond there mate!..All the other players respect him as he plays for the gooners, init?..

• 85 ScottyT // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:29

  and also cos its farcical conditions lol

• 86 Toonboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:32

  Arda looking very good,i hope no other scouts are watching.

• 87 Ashton // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:40

  We should definitely sign with derdiyok and turan

• 88 Toon and Proud… Shame Barton aint…. // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:43

  Its time we, as a club stood up and said enough is enough. lets stop the few over paid footballers who care more for themselves than NUFC taking us for a ride. If we want to bring in top names then we need to rid this team of them once and for all….

  Personaly, looking back to the point last season when it all started going wrong, ties in nicely with time Barton got a regular starting place…

• 89 51times // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:43

  So Shearer doesn’t want the Blackburn job…how could he turn down such a good chance? Small expectations, good squad and he’s a legend with the fans. Foolish choice Al, you should have thought it through properly.

• 90 Punk Skunk // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:46

  Well, well, welly, well…Shearer ain’t goin’ to cackburn!..

• 91 Toonboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:46

  @ Hate Prawn Sandwiches

  You put Allan Mcgregor twice 24 & 94

• 92 Punk Skunk // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:50

  Well spotted toonboy!..Are you a proof reader?..

• 93 The Entertainers // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:52

  Really enjoying Arda’s performance and looks a real Keegan player.

  Only hope out of the 90 odd players we’ve been linked with he is one that is cemented sooner rather than later.

• 94 Toonboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:53

  @ Punk Skunk

  lol no mate,after reading through it 3/4 times i spotted it lol

• 95 The Entertainers // Jun 11, 2008 at 20:56

  Wierd watching this game, as i normally would like Turkey to progress as their football is better to watch.

  But if they go out we may well be able to tie up any potential deal with Arda.

  Come on Switzerland….i think!

• 96 Toonboy // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:00

  1-1

• 97 51times // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:11

  Scolari for Chelsea…wonder how that’ll turn out.

• 98 GSfan // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:20

  Sheesh Nihat wouldn’t miss those =/

  Arda’s doing ‘ok’ btw. When he’s on fire he plays way better than this. I hope he gets involved more.

• 99 Danish_Magpie // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:21

  I just got back from holiday where I met quite a few turks, both Gala and Fener fans… All of them seemed to agree that Arda Turan is a spoiled little child. They think he is quite good, but not too impressed with him as a person. What do you think of that assessment GSfan?

• 100 GSfan // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:23

  Oh btw Semih shows himself again :p He’s our super sub. Semih started almost every match as a substitute for Fenerbahce this year and he finished as the top goalscorer lol.

• 101 GSfan // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:27

  Well Danish_Magpie, that’s just unfair on him. He WAS like that, that’s very true. But last year we appointed the German Karl Heinz Feldkamp (aka the fox) as coach. Arda was acting childish at the start but Feldkamp was known for his discipline, and he set Arda straight. After a while Arda adapted to Feldkamp’s conditions and he turned out to be a really hardworking player as well as having a great attitude. He eventually led us to the title.

  I’m guessing the Fener fans just said that cuz they’re jealous :p Even Alex de Souza (Fenerbahce’s captain) said Arda was the most impressive player in the Turkish league. Seems the Fener players have a way better sense of reality than their fans.

• 102 Danish_Magpie // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:29

  GSFan:

  Good to know! Thanks for the info. You are obviously more attuned to this kind of situation since you are in Turkey anf follow Gala and therefore know these things. Great thing about a forum such as this one, isn’t it?

• 103 matt // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:34

  turan and that young swiss kid, dyrdiek or whomever. and that wide right player for the swiss too, all hussle, all commitment.

• 104 GSfan // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:35

  Well I’m not in Turkey but I watched every single game Galatasaray played this season.

  We’re playing horrible in this game btw, that rain really screwed us up. I wish they would have called it off cuz we’re just pigeon holed to some lame Plan B tactic which our players’ characteristics really don’t fit with.

• 105 Petworth (DC) Mag // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:35

  P’Sarney how long did that take you?

  I usually don’t have time to watch both games in entirety when I get home, which one should I start with?

  Sounds like Turan’s show makes THIS the game worth watching?

• 106 Tom // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:36

  arda scores!

• 107 GSfan // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:36

  YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH 2-1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• 108 Tom // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:37

  f*kin hell turan’s just netted a screamer

• 109 GSfan // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:37

  **** YEAH ARDA!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD DAMN!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

• 110 Danish_Magpie // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:37

  Oh no… now he will be twice as expensive… even though it got deflected..

• 111 Danish_Magpie // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:37

  Happy for you though, GSfan

• 112 ScottyT // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:37

  also time to say goodbye to turan im afraid

  he’ll get snapped up by better clubs than us now after this performance. he looks class.

• 113 Danny // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:37

  Shit!!

  I hope we still get ARDA now….Even the commentators love him!!

  What a goal!!

• 114 Sun'lun's Burnin' // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:37

  there goes our chances of signing him

• 115 oga // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:38

  No chance of signing him now

• 116 51times // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:39

  I wouldn’t say that lads, I think we still have a chance.

• 117 Taiwantoon // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:39

  Arda has just made himself a hero in Turkey, hasn’t he?

• 118 Gateshead Mag. // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:40

  GET IN! TURAN IS UNREAL.

  MIKE ASHLEY! SPEND! SPEND!

  ARDA TURAN!!!

• 119 matt // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:40

  welcome to newcastle jimmy bullard!!

• 120 Tom4Nufc // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:40

  What are you talking about? Arda has stated he is waiting for newcastle to make an offer for him, keep the faith, as I am sure GSfan will agree with me, we still have a good chance of signing him

• 121 toon4lyf // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:41

  arda is klass a hope emre stays now him an arda wud be klass dey luk lik best frends r sumtin

• 122 Tom // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:42

  explain matt???

• 123 Graham // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:42

  There goes our chances lads That or we will see how ambitious Mike Ashley. He is f**king class aswell

• 124 Punk Skunk // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:42

  Bollox!..
  …Happy for you GSfan!..

  …But now others will be alerted to the man!..

• 125 toon4lyf // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:43

  we can still sign him

• 126 Tom4Nufc // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:43

  Tom, he was saying as Arda played well he thinks we dont have a chance of signing him, so instead we will get Jimmy Bullard- note I do not agree with this and still think we have a strong chance of getting him… But everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I will respect that

• 127 Ross // Jun 11, 2008 at 21:44

  try making the next article

  “time to say goodbye to arda” Ed, because after that 90 minutes, ther’s no way he wont be immediatly noticed and snapped up.

  Congrats to wise, jimiwhate