Shane Ferguson could be terrific but we can’t depend on him at this stage. We need another center back. I said this long before Williamson got injured, but it is is now a high priority. I guess the ideal would be a good full back who could also play effectively at center back.

Despite the apparent numerical stength in midfield, we ended up with Alan Smith coming on yesterday. We lack genuine cover for Tiote and Cabaye in the centre, and are only an injury or two away from Guthrie being back in the team.

Gosling and Vuckic offer possible alternatives to Cabaye, but Gosling is still recovering from a potential career-ending injury, and for some curious reason wasn’t even on the bench yesterday. Vuckic picked up yet another inury yesterday, and seems to be on the way to becoming a permacrock.

We are desperately lacking a player who can effectively link midfield and the striker(s). Lovenkrands is simply not effective in this role, and we have to hope we can get Hatem Ben Arfa back, keep him on the pitch, and quickly.

Up front, I believe we need two strikers, not one. Lovenkrands is simply not good enough, and Ranger is on his way out. Best and Shola are barely good enough and perpetually injury prone. Imho, we missed a major opportunity by letting Shane Long go to WBA – he is playing well for the Baggies and would have been the perfect replacement for Lovenkrands. We might get by with Shola, Best, Ba and ANO if Sameobi can continue his current rate of development and make a genuine contribution.

Frankly, I feel we are about five players short of where we really need to be.

We already have Mehdi Abeid from Racing Club Lens and two more Lens prospects have arrived at Newcastle United on trials. Two of the new trialists are central defensive duo William Remy (20 year-old) and Darnel Situ (19 year-old), both are French youth internationals.

The two trialists are included in Peter Beardsley’s Newcastle reserves side closed doors friendly match against Gateshead reserves on Wednesday. Our youth team won it 5-0, Marveaux is having a good game while another new boys Mehdi Abeid and Yven Moyo both have their penalty attempts saved.

Shane Ferguson and United new signings Sylvain Marveaux both completed 90 minutes of play and it looks like Alan Pardew will include them on his senior team squad for Saturday’s match against the mackems.

Meanwhile, the race to land a full back and striker for the senior team is still not showing any clear vision to become reality, both of our targets are having walls to tumbling down. Modibo Maiga still on hold by his current club, while PSV’s full back Erik Pieters was in their starting line-up for today’s Europa League clash with SV Ried.

Another name who comes up recently, Lyon’s Aly Cissokho is probably will cost us more than £7m for the 23-year-old service as the price asked by the French club.

This Newcastle team is still in progressing, and only time will tell where we will be ended at the final season next year, which I hope we will stay as Premier League team.

I still gives a huge credit for what Chris Hughton has did so far for this club, and will never say that he’s doing the job half-heartedly because he doesn’t received a proper appreciation from the Toon management, in terms of good salary and a new contract.

Last night defeat was not 100% Hughton’s fault, even Maurinho can’t give us a win against a newly good solid Bolton team with our current squad, not to mention that we are playing without at least three of our first team players.

I want Newcastle to reach top of the league, and who doesn’t? But, isn’t it sweet if we can achieve that base on fight for it and not instantly like “Buy for It”, so please give him our 100% support, stop put the blame on him, we will be alright!

He has done wonderful jobs last season in Championships, and also did great this year in our bid to stay, I repeat, our main goal this season is to stay in Premierships and we are exactly still on the right track.

Until then, thanks for coming to this site and Howay the Lads!!!

I know this also too early to say that we can guarantee our place in the top flight and is not impossible to reach the top of mid-table, with little help of luck, we even have the opportunity to back in Europe.

Alright, let’s now be more realistic and back-to-earth. Our team now is relatively young in Premierships experience, some of them even have their debut in English football league, but not in quality. Hatem Ben Arfa, Tiote, and our own home-grown talent Tim Krul to name some of them.

Frankly, I am very impressed by their performance against Everton. Ben Arfa is a top class player and very interesting to watch him dancing with the ball. If he can maintain that kind of top quality display, I want him to get permanent contract.

In midfield, with the addition of Tiote alongside Barton, we have two rock-solid midfield while our two wingers Ben Arfa and Routledge operating in both sides were successfully resulting chaos in Everton defence.

I also surprised by Tim Krul performance in his Premierships debut. He’s stay calm and in full concentration during his sudden call for action following the injury of our main man Steve Harper.

The other lads performance are also great. They’re commanding each other and working hard to closed every movement from Toffees players. We successfully give them a hard game to deal with.

Newcastle was re-united, everyone involved in the game and when we look at our team average age it is clearly we have a very bright future, something that I haven’t thought before.

Stay positive, we will be alright this season and hopefully next year we will have more addition of quality players and ready to bid a serious challenge for the European place. Howay the Lads!

News from the L.A. Times reporting that Philip Anschutz has no interest in buying Newcastle United or any other English Premier League club.

Phil eventually did and emphatically denied any reports from several English newspapers that saying the Denver billionaire was interested in adding an EPL team to his portfolio. below are quoted from the site:

“Neither AEG nor anyone affiliated with the organization are in negotiations or are contemplating the purchase of Newcastle United Football Club.”

Other name that was being linked to buy United, Clark Hunt (the chiefs owner of FC Dallas, Columbus Crew, and Kansas City) and Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks and HDnet owner) also reportedly being on the very-short list of American businessmen interested in buying Newcastle United.

The link to Clark Hunt was established after FC Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman’s grandson, the 12-year-old Emerson who is considered as the future star in U.S. soccer, was being scouted by Newcastle United.