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4 major signings in the summer

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  1. Albert's Chip Shop

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    So who will these major signing be?

    I reckon:

    R Taylor
    F Coloccini

    After all it will be 'like' new signings....



    http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport...le-will-target-four-summer-signings-1-6424449

    ALAN Pardew will target up to four major summer signings as he prepares to sit down with Newcastle owner Mike Ashley and plot a way forward.

    The 52-year-old will send his depleted team into Premier League battle at Chelsea on Saturday after another tumultuous week on Tyneside.

    The Magpies rarely do things by halves, but even by their stands, they excelled themselves by selling the best player, Yohan Cabaye, without replacing him, losing 3-0 at home to neighbours Sunderland and then witnessing the departure of controversial director of football Joe Kinnear inside six turbulent days.

    The transfer window debacle, and the derby defeat proved simply too much to take for some fans, one of whom ran on to the pitch to confront Pardew, while others have signalled their intention not to renew season tickets.

    However, asked what his message will be when he meets Ashley to discuss life after Kinnear, the manager said: “My message is always the same, it’s about taking the club forward.

    “We can’t stand still, we have to go forward, so it gives us an opportunity to do that.

    “Let’s be honest, it was an emotional game and the fan running on the pitch with a season ticket and all that, that’s what our fans are and they will never take that away from them.

    “They are passionate – they love the club – and the best thing I can try to do is get the best team I can out there to get results for them.

    “I have no problem with that passion. It comes to the surface. There was a bit of frustration this week with season tickets going forward.

    “But two years ago, we finished fifth. This year, are eighth, and we have done a brilliant job.

    “We have lost a great player, we know that, and in the summer hopefully we can bring three or four great players in. Let’s hope so because this club deserves it.”

    Pardew insisted he was “sad” at Kinnear’s exit – a feeling which was not shared by many on Tyneside – after his reign came to an end a little more than seven months after he was appointed.

    He left having made only two loan signings in as many transfer windows, and with many still wondering what his role was meant to be.

    The 67-year-old did not carry out any media duties after launching a series of initial salvos – the first came before his appointment had even been officially confirmed – and with Ashley happy to take a back seat, Pardew has found himself having to shoulder that responsibility.

    The role proved particularly uncomfortable in the wake of the Sunderland game when he was left to field questions about the Cabaye saga, many of which he could not answer.

    Pardew said: “Well to be honest, I have probably been in that position for a long time. I have to carry that responsibility, and I have no problem with that.

    “I don’t want to talk about other things other than football, if I am honest, but sometimes you do and I give the best answers that I can.”

    It remains to be seen whether or not Ashley decides to persist with a director of football, but if he does, Pardew insists he would have no problem with that.

    He said: “That decision is the Board’s, but I have no problem with directors of football. In the modern game, a lot of clubs have directors of football.

    “There is so much involved in transfers in terms of the other club, agents, the preparation for the bid and the finances that are involved now that it goes way past what we used to do 10 years ago.”
     
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  2. Keith Fit

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    First major signing will be Red Bull. I imagine mike would love to sell us to a marketing machine whose first priority is to rename the club Red Bull Newcastle
     
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  3. Albert's Chip Shop

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    I'd not be too against red bull involvement.
    They seem to win at everything they do.
     
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    Three or four major signings, most probably to replace, Krul, Tiote DeBuchy and Remy. None of whom l expect to still be at the club by the end of the summer.
    I have to say l agree with the sentiments expressed by Shearer when he said that the Cabaye sale may be the catalyst to a major exodus of those players we should be desperate to keep and build our team around.
     
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  5. Keith Fit

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    So is winning all that matters?
     
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    Nope.
    But it helps.
     
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    Cabaye to me sounds like the greatest player in the history of the game
     
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    Hey Fredor.. where's that pic of your house.
    I've heard that all the houses in Australia and like twice the size of the UK and only half the price.
    Have you ever seen any really poisonous snakes like the brown one?
     
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    That's just his suntan.
     
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    De Jong (loan made permanent)
    Fofana (replacing the outgoing Tiote)
    Duricic (back in for him)
    Kouyate (Coloccini leaving)

    Would be happy with this, Nathaniel Clyne and a new contract for Shola would be tip top.
     
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    Agreed. They have been probably the biggest marketing success of the last decade.
     
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    You'd be up for a complete rebranding of the club?
     
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    I wouldn't mind if SJP got called 'The Red Bull Arena' if it meant tens of millions in investment.
    I'd also sacrifice the name if we retained Newcastle United.. for example 'Newcastle United Red Bulls' if it meant again lots and lots of heavy investment in the club.
    As we saw with the SD Arena thing... it's just a marketing name... we would all still call it SJP... as we would always still be referred to as Newcastle United as most would drop the 'red bulls' bit.
     
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  15. LeFevre

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    The badge, too?
     
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    They could put a giant can of the stuff on our badge if it made us great <laugh>
     
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    Their logo under ours, yes.
     
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    What do you think by the way fella?
     
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    Well said that Yorkie :)
     
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    and reading this, Mike Ashley takes a long draw on his cigar knowing that his work here is done. This (or something like it) was what they claimed they were trying to attract by changing to the Sports Direct Arena. I wouldn't be totally against it either, but I was when Mike Ashley did it. Maybe he's not as daft we think.
     
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