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Mike Ashley Arrange a London Meeting with Kevin Keegan

May 8th, 2008 by shearyadi

I once thought that Newcastle’ new owner Mike Ashley has matched with most of the Toon Army expectations of how this club should be leading to, but several of disagreements from Toon directors especially with previous manager, this club has relegation battle for months.

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And after Keegan wrote off United’s chances next season to closing the gap with the Premier League’s elite, Mike Ashley is starting to speak about Toon summer spending with King Kev.

Keegan also branding the League as one of the world’s “most boring” competitions. He insisting we were a “million miles” away from the top four and there’s nothing he can do next year to get near them unless Ashley backed him with major investment in the transfer market.

“I haven’t got enough money and I wouldn’t be able to get the players anyway, so I’ll soldier on.” Keegan said on Telegraph site, “Maybe the owner thinks we can bridge that gap - but we can’t. This League is in danger of becoming one of the most boring but great leagues in the world. The top four next year will be the same top four as this year.”

I believe Mike Ashley has the pride of the Tyne, and if that is the reason why he invite Keegan for a talk, it would be something that would be good benefit for this club future and not the other way end.

Telegraph said, Keegan is understood to have angered Ashley with his remarkably downbeat assessment of the club’s future and in particular the claim that they were “a million miles away” from the top four. I don’t see any reason why Ashley should get mad about what Keegan said.

Ashley was there, at St. James’s Park last Monday when he witnesses the lack of quality in Newcastle squad against the top four team. He also seen how we’re heavily beaten by Manchester United or Liverpool before, so Keegan is trying to wake him up about the current Premier League reality, he was simply being realistic.

From the news today, Keegan wants £80millions to strengthen his squad next season. For me, that amount of money is nothing if we compare to how much the Chelsea’s owner is providing to pursue Lionel Messi from Barcelona with the same amount of money that Keegan want to spends this summer to push for a place in Europe next season.

Kevin Keegan also confirmed on Tuesday that Stephen Carr, Peter Ramage and James Troisi will leave the club at the end of the season. That would make our team even more thinner, we need immediate action very soon from Ashley or we could face another bad season to come.

Howay Ashley! Keegan loves this club, and he will use your money for good and will not waste it like any other Toon previous managers!


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Handling the Football Administration Behind the Scenes

May 4th, 2008 by shearyadi

Speaking about how many transfer kitty that the top four would spend in the summer is like a daydreaming story for most of us, an ordinary supporters, who have to work all day and all night to collect pennies just for a ticket in weekend to see our team playing.

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These are coming the sunday newspapers and many of them circulating the old and new speculations about the premierships team summer transfers. From News Of The World article, believe it or not, Arsene Wenger being given the green light to splash £15m on Oba Martins.

Concurrently, The Mail recknos Wenger’s transfer kitty has been slashed to £25m, meaning he will only be able to sign three or four players in the summer.

Other news from NOTW also has Abramovich authorising a record-breaking £80m move for Barcelona’s, Lionel Messi, while Sir Alex Fergusson ready to make a £25m bid for Citeh’s Micah Richards. Newcastle also interested in Micah in January but the player choose to stay and extend the contract.

With the latest City situation where Eriksson is almost certain will not in charge again next season, the possibilities are now open wide again for other premier league giants to get some of their quality players out from City of Manchester.

Meanwhile, Kevin Keegan said once again that Michael Owen’s contract situation at St James’ Park remains unresolved and he was keen to open discussions very soon in the near future before it’s too late.

“He has every right to be free at the end of the season and go anywhere he wants,” Keegan said in The People. “That’s why I said eight weeks ago we should tie him up. If we don’t, and we lose him, then what can I say?”

Owen situation has been the subject of speculations from the start of the year of 2008. When we were still strugglin in relegation battle, Newcastle chairman Chris Mort preferred we secured our premier league status first before starting any new contract extention for Michael Owen.

Clarky, one of Magpies Zone contributor said that Mort’s policy probably reasonable when dealing with someone like Stephen Taylor. However, for someone like Owen, Kevin Keegan is spot on in believing we should be sorting his contract out just as soon as possible.

This kind of thing confirms to me Chris Mort’s worrying lack of knowledge and experience of the fooball game. I also worry about Keegan losing faith in those handling the administration behind the scenes, and how he might react to losing a player like Owen through sheer bloody-minded procrastination.


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I Wouldn’t Be Managing This Football Club

April 26th, 2008 by shearyadi

Kevin Keegan has insisted again that he and Dennis Wise has nothing to proof when talking about which transfer list that could act for Newcastle United. Keegan admits they both have a list of targets and he is “happy” and will be personally checking out Wise’s list.

King Kev also made it clear that if they bring players in who are not my players, I wouldn’t be managing this football club. He said there is only one list that will count and said that Dennis, Tony Jimenez and Jeff Vetere are here to give him the lists and had put a clear note that the final decision would be on his hand.

As for the latest Luka Modric transfer saga, Keegan said that he is one of the player who’s been identifying by him and Dennis. But, Keegan has told yesterday that the chance to sign him is slim and could be happen in a fantasy football. Today’s news reported one of Toon target, Luka Modric, has signed a 5 years contract with North London team Tottenham Hotspurs.

At the moment, Keegan is hoping that every Toon Army would have to be sensible and be realistic with any news about United’s potential targets.

More of the summer transfer possibilities, Keegan will be looking at ‘risky signings’ for less money, while at the same time he is refused to losing out to the big four. Keegan said there will still be enough ‘big names’ out there. But one thing that is beyond any possibilities, He will think twice to sign any players from South American country.

While still managing Manchester City, Keegan having had his fingers burned by signing Argentinian striker Matias Vuoso, but for United he will do a global search with Dennis Wise team and working together with them to find the right players to play for Toon next season.


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