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Of all the defensive targets (allegedly) pursued by Newcastle United, Ajax's 24 year old Belgian
defender and captain, Jan Vertonghen, is by far the most interesting proposition. At a potential
cost that will almost certainly be over £10 million along with the abilty to command a Coloccini
sized salary package he shpuld be really However [.
First of all dear reader, I would like to apologise. I meant to have this posted yesterday evening.
However, due to a certain bearded Newcastle United shirt sponsor, his chronically unreliable
Broadband and constantly engaged customer service (who's existence I am beginning to doubt), that
sadly wasn't possible in the end.
Once again the tabloid media have attempted to test our credulity, this time with the risible idea
that Liverpool would be willing to dispose of Andy Carroll for a fraction of the £35 million they
paid for him just one year ago, and to Newcastle United of all clubs. Firstly the figure of £20
million [.
Virgin Money takes over where Northern Rock left off and sponsors Newcastle United's shirts for the
next two and a half seasons. As you could no doubt tell by the shirts the team wore last night,
Newcastle United have brokered a deal with Virgin Money until the end of the 2013/2014 season. Last
night Derek [.
Venue: Anfield Stadium, Liverpool. Date: Friday, 30th January, 2011. Kick-Off: 7:45pm. Referee: Lee
Probert. Hello, good evening and welcome to our regular match banter for this evening's game, which
sees the Magpies travelling to Anfield once again to meet Liverpool in a battle for sixth place.
For a more in depth look forward to the [.
Love him or loathe him, there is still a question which has not been answered about Andy Carroll, a
question which continues to split opinion amongst United fans to this day. Ahead of the imminent
game against Liverpool at Anfield, it might be timely to examine this question one more time. The
question when [.
Good evening Geordies and welcome to our latest "match banter" feature for this evenong's game,
which will be yet another battle of the birds. First it was Magpies v Canaries, then Magpies v
Swans, and now the Mags find themselves battling the Throstles of West Bromwich Albion for a juicy
three point worm.
It was four days ago when I learned of the tragically premature death of Steve Thompson, aka
"Thomma" to his friends, and in the NUFC blogiverse, "Bowburn Mag". He was a writer on this site
from it's inception in 2009, writing a total of 234 articles for us in our first year. It is
probably [...]
Venue: St James' Park, Newcastle. Date: Saturday 3rd Dec, 2011. Kick-off: 12.45pm. Referee: Mike
Dean. Newcastle United will be looking to maintain their fine home form (undefeated in ten games)
and increase the pressure on Chelsea's beleaguered manager, André Villas-Boas in the 12.45 kick
off at St James Park, Newcastle on Saturday.
As an addendum to my recently published transcription of Joey Barton's interview for QPR 'blog
"Open All R's," and also Derek Llambias' response to it, I'm posting the video of the part where he
lifts the lid on what was happening behind the scenes at Newcastle United during his spell there.
Thanks to Paul at [.
As I reported yesterday on these pages, Newcastle United's managing Director, Derek Llambias, has
responded to Joey Barton's allegations about himself and owner, Mike Ashley, with a threat of legal
action. This is almost certainly an empty threat by the perfidious M.D. as he knows what happened,
and what would probably happen if he attempted [.
Well, Joey Barton did promise on Twitta that he would "tell all when the time was right" and he's
finally kept his word. Speaking in a long audio podcast interview for the Queen's Park Ranger's
'blog "Open All R's," he finally lifted the lid on his time at Newcastle United and his strained
relationship with [.
I was planning to write a follow up to my
A few days after Newcastle United's already despised Managing Director, Derek Llambias, announced
the club's corporate renaming of the club's traditional home as "The Sports Direct Arena", it would
be hard to imagine his or Mike Ashley's reputation sinking any lower. However all that has changed
now after one simple drunken rant in a bar [.
Newcastle United Managing Director Derek Llambias serves up an expletive-ridden speech against
Keegan, Shearer, Hughton and Carroll. Amidst all the furore of stadium renaming, you'd think one of
the things our Managing Director would try to do is talk around the fans and sweeten them up to the
whole fiasco.
To say there's been some opposition to Mike Ashley's rehash of his previously botched plan to sell
the St James' Park naming rights would be an understatement. However as more details have emerged
it's become ever more obvious that this 2.0 version is scarcely better than the previous one, and
it seems more than likely [.
Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley's bright idea to change the name of St James' Park to 'The
Sports Direct Arena' is still dominating the Toon news. Just as Ashley was seemingly gaining some
ground with fans after a fantastic start to the season on the pitch, it seems he's now off a lot of
peoples' [.
Newcastle United are third in the league, were even in second place for a couple of hours, and
all is well on the football field. Fear not Toon fans, Mike Ashley and cohort Derek Llambias are
always here to bring us crashing back down to earth. Sure enough, they are going to rename St
James's Park to Sports Direct Arena.
After the uproar of the announcement this morning and much discussion with the lads at work, I've
come to the feeling that Ashley has completely lost any trust that he has managed to claw back over
the past few months. As a previous nufcblog.org article has already pointed out, Derek Llambias has
previously gone on [.
With the news that Newcastle United will be changing it's name to "Sports Direct @ St James' Park",
the Managing Director of the club, Derek Llambias, has sought to reassure fans that the St James'
Park name would remain so long as he and current owner, Mike Ashley "reigned" at the club. Firstly
though, he [.
Newcastle United defender Steven Taylor talks about the excellent team spirit at the club,
including good relationships all the way up the hierarchy. I was alarmed to see a headline in The
Telegraph that said 'Newcastle have Europe in their sights'. Admittedly the author of the article
intimated that European football is more likely in [.
Former Newcastle United owner Freddie Shepherd has surprisingly good things to say about the man
who took over from him. Freddie Shepherd celebrated his 70th birthday yesterday and in his
after-dinner speech he actually heaped a load of praise on Mike Ashley which, given some of the
criticism Shepherd has slung Ashley's way in the [.
It's somewhat of a rare occurrence to hear from Alan Pardew, as it's not often he conducts
interviews... Obviously, I'm being extremely sarcastic, and Alan Pardew has been talking once
again, this time in regards to Mike Ashley and Derek Llambias. I'm not entirely sure where the
interview originated from, but I picked it up [.
In the wake of Newcastle United's 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur this afternoon, Managing
Director, Derek Llambias, has released another club statement. The statement onve sgsin highlights
the clubs finances, summer transfers, youth development, managing / coaching staff, training
facilities and supporters.
As question's are asked over the alleged £2.5 million in agent's fees involved in Joey Barton's
transfer to Queen's Park Rangers, Newcastle United's Managing Director, Derek Llambias, washed his
hands of the affair, insisting that he is "more than happy" for Newcastle United to be probed by
the FA over the deal.
I swore to myself I wouldn't get involved and would stay away from this fight as Ashley has got the
fans at each other throats with the current state of affairs at SJP but after reading a recent
'blog by my colleague on here, and the fairly large response to it, I couldn't hold my [...]
Dear reader, my estteemed colleague Hugh has already touched on this story earlier today and
presented his own viewpoint on the matter. However, I am so incensed that I also feel compelled to
register my extreme displeasure at the latest utterings of our unesteemed Managing Director, Derek
Llambias. In case you are still wondering what [.
Speculation about any departure by Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew is incorrect according to
John Carver, but what of Pardew's prospects for the season ahead anyway? There has been some
speculation that Alan Pardew might walk after being let down by Ashley and Llambias in the transfer
window, although Assistant Manager John Carver dismissed that [.
Yesterday evening I attended a fan meeting at The Irish Bar. It was a bit weird being in the Irish
with 20-20 vision but once I got used to sobriety, we began discussing the items on the agenda. In
that meeting were some of the online elite of Newcastle United fan reporters. Malcolm Dix,
shiteseats, [.
Most of you will be aware by now that yesterday, Newcastle United's Managing Director, Derek
Llambias, issued a statement on the club's performance in the latest transfer window. It read: "Now
that the transfer window has closed, we have had some time to reflect on the business we have
conducted over the summer.
When Andy Carroll left Newcastle United back in January the fans were told that all of the £35
million would be invested in players. Here are the players we've signed since then:
- Yohann Cabaye (around £5 mil)
- Demba Ba (Free transfer)
- Silvain Marveaux (Free transfer)
- Mehdi Abeid (Free transfer)
- Davide Santon (Undisclosed thought to be about £5 million)
- Gabriel Obertan (£3 million)
- Rob Elliot (Thought to be around £250k)
In that same time period, we have let go or sold the following players:
- Sol Campbell (Free)
- Sheki Kuqi (Free)
- Kevin Nolan (£4.
Newcastle United must now face post-transfer window life and we'll just have to get on with it.
Apparently the club are due to make some sort of announcement today to explain their transfer
window failures. Newcastle United Limited has so far remained silent about the club's failure to
recruit a much-needed striker during the transfer [.
Newcastle United must now face post-transfer window life and we'll just have to get on with it.
Apparently the club are due to make some sort of announcement today to explain their transfer
window failures. Newcastle United Limited has so far remained silent about the club's failure to
recruit a much-needed striker during the transfer [.
I've spent much of the morning nursing a hangover after yesterday's debacle, and trying to organise
my thoughts and come to some decision on what on Earth happened in the past few months. Like all of
you, I'm racked with disappointment, anger, frustration but most of all betrayal. We pay our hard
earned cash for [.
Seven months after the sale of Andy Carroll, Newcastle United have, to the surprise of no one,
failed to sign a suitable replacement to fill the void up front. A day of deadline drama, in which
saw United lodge a "bid" for FC Twente's Bryan Ruiz, has ended up falling flat on it's face as
[...]
Inter Milan defender, Davide Santon, is currently undergoing a medical for Newcastle United on
Tyneside today. However, though there have been some reports that a deal for Santon has been agreed
in principle pending the medical, with a bid for 4.5 million euros, or 6 million Euros including
bonuses being allegedly accepted by Internazionale, Italy's [.
After all the fuss and bother of the past few days, the now ex Newcastle United midfielder, Joey
Barton, has finally mulled things over, and signed a deal for West London club, Queen's Park
Rangers. There seems to be some confusion as to whether Barton has signed for three or four years
at his new [.
In a rare interview, Newcastle United manager, Alan Pardew fas come out to firmly defend the way
Newcastle United conduct their business in the transfer market. He told local rag, the Sunday Stun,
that Newcastle United are no different from clubs such as Manchester United in their recruitment
policy, and added that he wasn't really [.
Alan Pardew intends to use yesterday's victory over the mackems as a springboard to entice more
action from the Newcastle United board in terms of transfers. Yesterday's result was extremely
satisfying as any win over the hapless mackems is but I think we'd all like to see a new left-back
and a new [.
With the exciting news of Rob Elliot's arrival at Newcastle United from Charlton, I've been asking
myself several questions about current predicaments at St James' Park. Firstly, this is not
Elliot's fault and I welcome him to Newcastle and wish him all the best. Right, I could now relay
my thoughts on to you dear [.
