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Contract talks have featured fairly frequently over the summer so far, although admittedly they have only made brief appearances in the news.
Steven Taylor, Andy Carroll and Tim Krul have are three players that have been linked with signing new deals at St James’ Park, although in fairness the Andy Carrol deal is not of the [...]

It has been confoirmed today that Newcastle defender Steven Taylor will be sidelined for three months with the shoulder injury sustained at Carlisle nearly two weeks back.
It’s a huge blow for both the player and the team as Newcastle look to use this season to consolidate their place in the Premier League, although the signing [...]

The treatment at St James’ Park is already beginning to fill up, even before a ball has been kicked in the Premier League.
It is worrying that we seem to be losing players left, right and centre due to injury, but an additional concern is the amount of time that players will be out because of [...]

Most of us are aware that our beloved Newcastle squad is, how should we say, a little thin on numbers at the moment.
Whather or not that gets rectified by signing players is something that we are waiting to see, but for now we find ourselves succeptable to an injury crisis.
We have already lost Danny Simpson, [...]

Pre-season kicked off properly this afternoon as Newcastle travelled cross country to Cumbria to tackle Carlisle in what was our first friendly match in the run up to the new season.

The game may not have panned out as easy as the headline or scoreline suggets and the Newcastle players will head home this evening knowing [...]

We haven’t heard anything from Steven Taylor for quite some time now, but that ended yesterday when he revealed contract talks were being held.
Now we are hearing from him again, which indicates that normal service is being resumed from him, about the whole Carroll/Taylor episode (aka Glassjawgate).
It has been a fertile source for rumour [...]

It’s been one of the most hotly debated topics of the summer, certainly amongst Newcastle fans anyway, and that is the subject of Steven Taylor and his new contract.
The will he/won’t he saga has rolled on for some time now and rumours have been perpetuated by the wall of silence that has sourrounded the Taylor [...]

There was a bit of news, well perhaps not news, but there was some speculation over the weekend regarding the future of Steven Taylor at NUFC.
We all know that Taylor has only 12 months remaining on his current contract and will be free to walk away from Newcastle at the end of the forthcoming season, [...]

It looks like Newcastle are beginning to pull themselves together and get the wheels in motion in a bid to secure the services of players who are nearing the end of their contracts, according to various sources.
I wrote an article a few weeks back that suggested Steven Taylor would be offered a new deal at [...]

The captains armband is up for grabs at the minute after being left vacant by the now departed Nicky Butt, but who, in your opinion, is the most deserving and most likely candidate for the role next season?
Newcastle are kind of lucky in that regard as we have a lot of players who have played [...]