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Alan Pardew puts paid to the idea of bringing in any free agents to plug any gaps in the Newcastle United squad, and he looks forward to the return of Hatem Ben Arfa. You are probably not surprised to find out that this is ‘it’ now in terms of the squad until January. Pardew has [...]

Right-back Danny Simpson will refuse to sign a new contract at Newcastle United according to rumours in the Sunday Sun. The Sunday Sun (bless its heart) is reporting that contract negotiations have broken down between Danny Simpson and the club. The Sun alleges that the club have offered Simpson a 5-year contract and aren’t prepared [...]

Newcastle United a reputed to be looking to strengthen things at right-back with Manchester City’s Nedum Onuoha allegedly being in the frame for a January transfer. I’m not entirely sure where the rumour came from originally, but there’s one on a mild simmer about us being in the market for a new right-back. Actually, come [...]

With talk of Davide Santon to Newcastle seeming ever likely, the obvious question is where will he fit into the squad? The 20 year old started plying his trade on the wing and gradually moved back to his current position as full back, or to be more precise, wing back and despite being right footed, [...]

Messrs Ryan Taylor and Ameobi Junior spared United’s blushes at Glanford Park, as Newcastle battled back from a goal down at half-time to put their name in the hat this Saturday for the League Cup 3rd round draw. As I found my way to the turnstiles, and to get me in the mood for the [...]

The transfer market is a strange and sometimes scary place, with confusion abound by exactly how much money we apparently have, others have the knowledge only provided by Football Manager and FIFA and you’d be surprised how correct that actually is. The long and short is, we have never had £35m to spend – never. [...]

On the pitch, what needs fixing? Most would point out the glaring lack of fire-power within the ranks, for the ‘number 9′ Shirt is lies dormant at St James’ Park. This of course has been true since January, when a certain someone departed to join Kenny Dalglish’s revolution, and our inability to act for a [...]

Press speculation suggests that Alan Pardew will be given £20m to spend on players at Newcastle United in the summer. If Louise Taylor of the Guardian is to be believed, Alan Pardew will have £20m of the £35m we got for Andy Carroll to spend in the summer. Taylor doesn’t say how she knows that [...]

Ex Newcastle United manager, Chris Hughton won the “North East Sports Personality of the Year Award” at the BBC North East and Cumbria Regional Sports Awards yesterday evening. The event, held at The University of Sunderland, saw Chris winning the award despite being sacked as Newcastle manager in December of last year, supposedly for being [...]

The man of the moment, for many reasons, seems to be Andy Carroll. For every negative headline that has circulated around the Gateshead lad, a positive one has closely followed. And things could get even more positive for the seven-goal hitman later on today when the England squad for the friendly match against France is [...]