Hey! Owen is not 31 y-old. He was the best english striker before getting injured. His value for the club is huge. Yes Gudjohnsen could help, probably even more than Dyer but again, it’s not a good idea to let go a guy when he’s not playing well, like Dyer. We need a better holding midfielder like Reo-Cocker. We need a strong-header-centerback with experience like Gavrancic form Kiev. Roeder could have give him a try in January but he decided not to. And the big joke after that, it’s that Roeder, at the end of the season, said they they needed an experience defender to be a model to the kid. Gavrancic is playing Champions league avery year, and he was the partner of Vidic during the worl cup qualifying that saw the Serbs give 3 goals in a dozen games.
Bring on Matthey Taylor as leftback, he’s more dangerous with the ball. And bring on a rightback like Coloccini.
So long

A couple of thoughts:

I wonder if FS is part of the reason why we seem to be slow to sign players? I know Sam is only just in the job, and we need to be patient, though it often seems that other clubs sign good players while we stand still.

Let’s say, by the way, that Mike Adhley takes over and provides very large funds for players. Obviously that would be exciting, but I’d still rather BS focussed first on building a great squad/team, and I think he would do that regardless. I look at Chelsea, and they have been very successful of course. But when, for example, they bought Schvenchenko and Ballack I thought those two way overrated and over-priced. Something which - so far - they’ve appeared to be.

If we had a large budget, I’d hope we used it very creatively and not necessarily on big names.

But let’s see what happens. Bains would be great, for a start.

… By the way… Does anyone think we have a chance of luring Fernando Torres to Newcastle if Mike Ashley takes over?

Jus’ a thought!

I heard that Ameobi was on his way to Portsmouth.
He tried to trap the ball & now he’s had to go fetch it back.

Michael - What kind of a line up is that (4 centre backs)? Heskey? Are you wanting to move the club forward or back. If the cash is there I would love to see Eider Gudjonnson, Ben Haim, Saviola, Campbell, Bridge, Hunt all come in. Dyer can go, everyone else to stay. This guy has cost us a fortune and nothing but bad publicity. He needs to take his over rated bling somewhere else.

Sell OWen for the 9 mill sell Martins for 12=13 Mil, Bring in Fowler for free, bring in bellamy for 5 get Anelka for another 6 mil, get Hesky for about 3-4 mil Sell scot parker for £7, sell emre for 6mill buy Nolan for 6mill get hyppia for 3-4mil get Makelele, for about 2 mill, get Distin, Wes Brown then line us up like this:

Given
Taylor
Hyppia
Brown
Distin
Milner or (Solano)
Dyer
Makelele or (Butt)
Duff
Anelka or (Ameobi)
Bellamy (Hesky)

A side with plenty of Pace and as Alan Hudson put it, it is vital in the modern game.

Not starr studded but fit for purpose.

Bit unfair on Ameobi, mind he can trap a ball farther than I can kick it.