It’s competition time at Newcastle-Online and thanks to our good friends at Mooart.com

we are able to offer you this great St James’ Park and Strawberry mounted print which is signed by the artist.

To win all you need to do is answer this very simple question.

What is the name of the bar built into the side of St James Park?

Competition Closed - Due to problems getting a reply from our previous winner and after the date passing in which to claim the prize we have drawn a new winner. That winner is Alan Johnson who’s prize will hopefully be winging it’s way towards him soon.

Also confirmed to the stock market today was the sale of Scott Parker to West Ham United. What makes the deal interesting is the fact that Newcastle will receive £6.5m for the player however the deal does include a further £500,000 contingent on future appearances bringing the total fee up to the suggested £7m.

Confirmation this morning that Freddy Shepherd has sold his shareholdings in Newcastle United football club leaving Mike Ashley with a 70% holding in the club and only needing 5% more to gain full control of the club. The following statement was released to the stock market this morning.

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Football has changed from the days of jumpers for goal posts and a £1m player being over priced, now we have horrible things like cheerleaders, coloured football boots and music for goals. JonnyRogers on the Newcastle-Online forum asked the question “what are your football pet hates” and he was inundated with replies, so we thought we’d open the question up to you our loyal front page readers. So come on what has changed about football which you hate, not major things such as diving/refereeing inconsistancy/Steve Carr but the little things in life?

The news that Luque had agreed terms to move to PSV during the transfer window were true however the player ended up staying at the club due to Newcastle’s failure to bring in French striker Frederic Piquionne.

All terms were agreed with Luque to join PSV on a 5 month loan deal costing the club $25k a week in wages but St.Etienne weren’t prepared to loan Newcastle Piquionne and were looking for a £5m fee at the end of the loan deal, which Newcastle refused to be drawn in to.

Quoted on the official website, Glenn Roeder said:

“There’s nothing we could do about that because he was St.Etienne’s player, I thought it would have suited them and it certainly would have suited us, but it wasn’t to be.

“I spent the whole of Wednesday ringing around to see what was available to bring in on loan in the striker department, but to be quite honest what was offered to me, in my opinion, fell way short of being good enough to wear Newcastle United shirt.

“I’m not going to bring in bodies for the sake of it if they are going to bring nothing to the squad.”

“Not being able to bring in another striker means that Albert Luque now has to stay at Newcastle,” said Roeder.

“He had a move to PSV teed-up on the assumption that we could get someone, but when that didn’t materialise he has had to stay.

“I’ve had a chat with him before the game and he understands the situation and he will work hard over the next three and a half months to do everything he can to get into the team.

“He is an experienced player and we need him in the squad at the moment. He is here until the end of the season and I’m sure he will feature in Europe, where we have used him before.”

He added: “It’s a rubbish time for a window - I don’t believe in it, but I do believe it’s a restriction of trade.

“Today I’ve spent six or seven hours on the phone and all we’ve got left on the circuit are players who are not good enough to wear the Newcastle United shirt.

“If we haven’t signed anybody, it’s not for the want of trying.”

The away trip to Villa this season can only be described as awful, with a terrible defensive display which gave us exactly what we deserved, a 2-0 defeat.

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Newcastle United completed their first signing of the January window with the loan deal of America’s Oguchi (Gooch) Onyewu from Standard Liege. The player has signed a loan deal which will take him to the end of the season but with his contract at Standard Liege running out in June he looks certain to stay on should he make the grade.

Onyewu will wear the number 15 last worn by Giuseppe Rossi our last loan signing from Man Utd.

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