I hate when people say all u should hope for is mid table/avoid relegation.. there should be ambition in clubs otherwise its the same old boring crap. Yea newcastle at the moment are a mid table team, but we used to be a champions league team not so long back. Which is why its so hard for the fans to get used to and why they demand more. If we spend a bit in the summer on sensible players we can make a push for 5th/6th again. The fact we lost cabaye, and remy's injuries ruined us otherwise we were looking pretty good before xmas!
Ive never liked pardew, but he isnt going anywhere so i just hope they get some good players in to get excited about for once.
Yup, no newcastle fans want to push for europe, none of them talk about being in the CL and wanting it back and being disappointed. One or two newcastle fans say the same thing in every other thread on the subject. Pretending they don't exist and shouting at anyone who points out that Newcastle fans DO say this, is just being ignorant newts, but there you go.
You randomly say rubbish to everything, even when you're completely wrong. You bang on about all the free advertising(worth less than a couple mil a year) bang on about terrible commercial(ahead of most teams and growing), bang on about how he's taking millions out of the club(complete and utter rubbish) while refusing to reinvest(more complete rubbish), it's embarrassing... for you.
Where is this year Newcastle had 40mil profits and then didn't reinvest?
In 09/10 you sold 25mil of players and spent 1.5mill, you were relegated, in that season alone you lost £34mil, bankrolled by Ashley.... more not reinvesting, rubbish.
in 10/11 you sold Carroll for £35mil, bought 10mil of players, had a net £25mil income(10mil less profit than the £34mil losses Ashley bankrolled the year before let's not forget).
in 11/12 you spent 25mil on players and sold Enrique/Routledge/Nolan for 11mil so about 13mil profit. However that is effectively across the two seasons selling four big wage players but in the same period you brought in 7-8 players intended for first team. That is a significant wage bill INCREASE not decrease.
12/13 you spent £26mil and sold 12.5mil. So that is that £25mil net increase on Carroll.... errm.... spent across the next two seasons. Wow, I would call that, reinvesting, but that is just me.
Lets list generally speaking first team players out:
Carroll, Enrique, Nolan, Ba, Cabaye and I guess you could count Perch.
Players bought in the same 3 seasons, Tiote, Arfa, Perch, Cisse, Santon, Obertan, Ba, Cabaye, Marveaux, Gouffran, Sissoko, Haidara, Mbiwa, Debuchy, Anita, Bigirimana and paid 2mil for Remy for a season.
You have to invest to stand still, rubbish, cliche spouted by pundits that is purely stupid. Some seasons you spend big and get lots of players, others you get few and spend little. That is football.
There is a current 20mil or so net profit from a single sale in Jan, yet we know Newcastle tried to buy in Jan, just not enough time left and the main target's club wouldn't sell in Jan.
In the past two seasons you've spent double what you've bought in from sales, you've bought more first team players than you've sold and brought in other potential first team players also.
Lack of reinvesting is simply a lie, even in summer you spent more (£2mil) on Remy than you got from selling (£1mil, perch). One transfer window since you sold Carroll have you brought in more than you sold, even the Carroll transfer window you signed 5 players and sold one(who was sold for £20mil + more than he was worth).
Where is the evidence of him taking millions out of the club or not investing. You use a single January transfer window to ignore all the previous ones.
) a cup run. Not win a cup just give it a go, no one in their right mind expects us to even get near the CL so instead get safe and stop trying no bother what so eber if that's what he wants. But to then combine that with saying the club will not try on a cup either is a disgrace. Get safe try in a cup and 95% of fans will be more than content (some idiots will complain but there is always a few) and it will give us something to look forward too.