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Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

6:30pm Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Commented 136 times

The 2010 summer transfer window closed about 20 minutes ago and it doesn’t seem like Newcastle got anybody else through the door.

Mike Ashley – strengthened the squad again this transfer window – good

We would have expected something to be posted on the Newcastle web-site if we had been successful in bringing someone else in, but nothing, so we have to assume the five players brought in so far are all that we are getting this summer.

But with the acquisition of James Perch ( £1.5M), Dan Gosling (free), Sol Campbell (free), Cheick Tiote (£3.5M) and Hatem Ben Arfa (season long loan with chance of £5.5M transfer next summer), we are more than satisifed with the transfer work the Newcastle club have been able to achieve this summer. It’s the second transfer window in a row where the club have strengthened the squad.

The Tyneside club spent just £5M in the summer transfer market, but we still managed to get 5 good players in, and as Chris Hughton has said, the squad is now what we have until January, when the window opens again for a month.

By then we have to hope that Newcastle are somewhere safely in the middle of the Premier League table, and certainly if the first three games of the season are anything to go by, that’s where we could well be when 2011 rolls around – and that would be great!

Kazenga LuaLua got his move on loan to Brighton through the end of the year, but nothing at all on the possible Robbie Keane, Greg Cunningham or Ricky van Wolfswinkel deals.

Maybe these will be targets come January – who knows?

Comments very welcome.

136 comments so far

2_goal_tino
Aug 31, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Comment #41
Xisco is off for kicking a mackem- LEGEND
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aemagpie
Aug 31, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Comment #42
haha i was thinking the same monstermagnet
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Howay The Lads
Aug 31, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Comment #43
Let’s all have a Xisco is class 😆
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aemagpie
Aug 31, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Comment #44
xisco is a true geordie now
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hainesy
Aug 31, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Comment #45
Would be nice to see phil airey get a first team chance . He has been on great form for the reserves the past season or two
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thud and blunder
Aug 31, 2010 at 7:59 PM
Comment #46
@ MonsterMagnet
That game was against Gateshead, it was the pre season friendly
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Fantoon1
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:01 PM
Comment #47
Clerc and Assulin would be fantastic signings, we’d be mad not to consider a move for them
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ben arfa in toon
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Comment #48
Lets all have a Xisco
Lets all have a Xisco
La La La LAAA
La La La LAAA
Xisco kicks the mackems
Xisco kicks the Mackems
La La La LAAA
La La La LAAA
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Isaac Hunt
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Comment #49
Windows? Doors? Nee money? Sounds like the freemasons 🙄
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ben arfa in toon
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:08 PM
Comment #50
if you get a red in a reserve are you banned for 3 matches in 1st team ???????
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hainesy
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Comment #51
Xisco has performed a hell of a lot better than everyone expected by miles . Shola amedonkey you are well and truly bottom of our wish list
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hainesy
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:13 PM
Comment #52
45 minutes 🙂 well sol it’s a start !
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ben arfa in toon
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:14 PM
Comment #53
Xisco had a great under 21 record as good as if not better than Torres. Spains under 21 squad actually mean something rather than some countries
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moonraker
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:20 PM
Comment #54
Can’t believe some of you pricks are having a go at Shearer cos of his attitude to Barton getting kicked all over the place at Wolves and being totally professional!
That used to happen to Al every time he played! Dont talk about his ego please! He’s a true legend; and much as I admired Barton’s performance at Wolves, you can’t really mention him in the same Breath as Shearer!
C’mon stop the bullshit!!
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ben arfa in toon
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:22 PM
Comment #55
theres some quality post on today like
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Sinner
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:23 PM
Comment #56
Xisco
isco
sco
co
o
is the legend in the making!
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thud and blunder
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:25 PM
Comment #57
3-0!! haha stupid mackem tw@ts
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aemagpie
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM
Comment #58
3-0!
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Tom4Nufc
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:30 PM
Comment #59
^ 🙂
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Howay The Lads
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:33 PM
Comment #60
moonraker, yes, he’s a legend, but that doesn’t mean he can’t come up for scrutiny!
He laughed at the potential season-threatening tackles on one of his team’s players, showing no neutrality whatsoeve, yet calls us ‘they’.
He’s starting to become a BBC, cockney-loving fool.
The quicker he gets of that sofa, the better, in my opinion. He’s the same lad, but he’s being changed…
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ben arfa in toon
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Comment #61
ha ha
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Doocey
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:39 PM
Comment #62
http://www.nufc.co.uk/javaImages/c9/59/0,,10278~8935881,00.jpg
Such a picture. Ranger’s shirt all ripped, still scoring.
And who the hell is the guy in the white? Brian Badonde?
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ben arfa in toon
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Comment #63
thats a pic from game against gateshead
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ben arfa in toon
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:43 PM
Comment #64
airey on
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moonraker
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:46 PM
Comment #65
HTL he laughed cos basically they were tough but not particularly career threatening, although dirty tackles.
Barton did great but still got booked in the end.
I’ve forgiven him for that needless tackle at Liverpool when he got sent off, which may have cost us our PL status, but I doubt Shearer has and for me AS can do no wrong anyway.
He and KK are the only two who can do no wrong in my eyes and we will be talking about them long after JB is gone and forgotten!!
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Tom4Nufc
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Comment #66
3-1 🙁
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Cockney Magpie
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Comment #67
here here moonraker as much as i love Joey and always have even through the bad times. What has it come to when our own fans are slaggin off the one man most of us would feel no hesitation in mentioning in the same breath as Sir Bobby
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Mags
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Comment #68
scum get one back
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a.l 9
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:50 PM
Comment #69
Yeah I agree with HTL, Shearer is an absolute legend and my alltime favorite player, doen’t mean he’s imune from critisism though.
And Barton may not be a patch on Shearer, but he’s the one currently fighting for the club.
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Flop
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Comment #70
Haha hope the final score is the same for the first team against the scum. Xisco is a legend
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ben arfa in toon
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:57 PM
Comment #71
is xisco banned from the first team as well or just reserves
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Mags
Aug 31, 2010 at 8:58 PM
Comment #72
Shearer laughing was bang out of order. I thought he was man enough not to join in with those two other morons.
Remember your roots big Al and the black and white shirt. Do not refer to us as ‘they’ either, it should be ‘we’.
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Howay The Lads
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Comment #73
Nobodies picking sides over this! It’s just I thought Shearer would support the club, no matter what.
If he can’t put behind acts from years ago, how will he ever be able to manage a club?
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moonraker
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Comment #74
a.l 9
Criticsm is ok but slagging off someone who gave up the chance of countless honours to play for his beloved club, is a disgrace.
Make no mistake though; Barton is fighting for HIS career as he knows he’s in the last chance saloon, but good luck to him and I’m sure he aint worried about Shearer’s comments either!!
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Toon1978
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Comment #75
Nice to see the youngins beat the scum 1-3. They might out spend us but they will never be as big a club as NUFC.
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Toon1978
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Comment #76
I take it not many of you follow our future generation…hmmmmm anyway, im chuffed lol.:)
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Isaac Hunt
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Comment #77
If Barton had been a manure or chelskie player there would have been hell on. Support Barton not Shearer or Hanson.
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moonraker
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:15 PM
Comment #78
Too true Toon1978; they’ll never be as big as us.
Anyone heard how Sol played for the 45 mins he was on?
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Tom4Nufc
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Comment #79
@74, 100% right my friend!
Though re the Shearer situation, in my opinion he should not have laughed, and needs to get over the Barton situation. But I don’t think he should refer to us as ‘we’ on MOTD. This is because as a football pundit you need to appear to be completely impartial to maintain legitimacy to the viewers, also why does he need to re-iterate his support for the club when his years of loyalty are obvious for anyone who follows the game?
Just my view, of course others aren’t wrong though :)!
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dublin mag steve
Aug 31, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Comment #80
shearer has to try remain neutral and not give biased commentary or youll have every other moron in the country moaning and lookin to have him removed from the panel
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