Now this does worry me...

till fat mike goes we will always be a selling club but we will nt always be able to do so well with the replacements we bring in

 

exactly we will! everyone will learn this summer.

 

I think with the 'financial fair play' rules not too far away, it's a bit of an attempt at a 'fire sale' while our players stock is high.

It's the Sports Direct way, buy it in cheap and flog it at twice the price

 

they will find loop holes around this bullshit. Money talks mate. were a no frills operation in comparison to the big clubs. 5th is as good as we will ever get.

 

I think people are far too negative about this. In order to sell, there has to be a buyer. Who is going to do all this buying? Let's think about this for a second:

1. Man. City probably is pretty happy with their squad right now - on the whole - and they are skirting FFP rules, so I can't see them splashing silly money for any of our players.

2. Arsenal are total tightwads (sorry, just the way it is), so they aren't going to pony up.

3. Tottenham don't seem to have the vast pools of cash lying around, and have of late, been pretty cautious about the transfer market.

4. Liverpool, from what I understand, are now in a situation where they are looking for free/cheap talent. (And probably will never do business with us again for the foreseeable future).

5. Chelsea is skirting FFP rules too. So I don't see some sort of massive raid from them either.

Basically, that leaves Man U. Not sure who they'd want (I think maybe Krul). But it's not like there's a massive amount of teams out there ready to launch an asset stripping raid on Newcastle. Also, we've said that we won't sell players who don't want to go, and I have no reason to believe otherwise. Sure, if there's silly money involved it's going to happen, but where is all the silly money going to come from?

Also, I think if we add sensibly early in the window, players will want to stay since it's a commitment to improve and they will believe in the project. We were a ****'s hair away from the champions league this year, and with a bit more depth I think we can get there.



Naturally there will be some transfers, because there is in ever summer window. But the club's built a ****ing excellent team that has exceeded most of our wildest dreams a few years ago. At least wait until the worst happens before getting miserable, and otherwise have a little faith that we are finally on the right track.

 

I'm sure I heard all this "we'll sell them all" rhetoric in late December/early January time. Never came to fruition.

 

I've said it before on here, I can see them letting one player go (tiote) for silly money and bring in another 3-4 new faces. This keeps the funds coming in but pretty much the same squad.

Pardew said he wanted Ba's contract sorted and can't see any of the most recent signings going out so soon, because who ever comes in for them WILL have to pay well over the odds for them.

MA does things that piss us off, but it is usually for the right reasons as a business which the club is now. He earns a lot more by having the club doing well than selling off all our players and finishing lower down the league.