Ben E.

Beye's a good buy for Villa at that price I think. Hopefully he does well there.

I'm really surprised we've got so much for our outgoing players too. I expected more to be gone by now, but I also thought we'd have brought a few in, along with a permanent manager.

About as happy as the fans have looked watching him play in it...

Yay, a new Newcastle Kit I like!

Manchester City "close to agreeing" a £16m fee with Arsenal for Kolo Toure. So, good/bad signing for City if it goes through? I think he'll be good, but at what point do the high profile players think of the club as a joke because of the money they're throwing around, and just not put in the effort they should? I think they might have already fallen into that trap with Adebayor.

Oh, and in the Newcastle- Orient game Tim Krul was shite. I only saw the goals, so I don't know how the whole team performed(probably in the normal 'don't give a fuck' mode), but watching the goals, I'm surprised we didn't concede more with that kind of performance.

Can he really have the desired impact if he's a director of football?

Loved the Notts fans on Sky Sports News. Maybe they borrowed some Newcastle fans, because it was that level of dillusion.

Not for sale just means what they were thinking for him before, plus another 10 million. I'd be surprised if Man Utd's summer spending is finished.

Sky Sports News say Manchester City have tabled a 15m offer for Joleon Lescott.

Reffering to page 12: What a twat.

He'll do well for Man Utd though. I still think with the right service he'll do well, which he'll get at Man Utd.

Ben Starosta was quality in the lower leagues on Football Manager 2007, so that guarantees he'll be good.

In Newcastle news, nothing's happening. I read a story that a Freddy Shepherd-lead consortium want to sign Newcastle for 60 million. I don't want to believe it though.

Yeah, I thought Villa had offered him a deal a little while ago?

Duff annoys me, because he drifts inside a lot and looks almost scared to use his pace. There's still something left there, it just seemed like his decisions let him down last season. I remember thinking he was a fantastic bit of business when we signed him at 5 million. He's on 50-60 grand a week though I think.

Chelsea are linked with Maicon from Inter Milan for 25mil too, can't remember what paper it was from, but it came up on Sky Sports News.

Picture of an apparent cock up on the NUFC website, showing the 3rd kit too early.

Can't really see much to judge it, but I thought I'd post the picture.

After seeing that, I now love the home shirt. Taylor's clearly took one look at that and burst out laughing, stopping only long enough to take that picture. I wonder if we'll get a less ugly third kit.

Newcastle have added another pre-season friendly, a true glamour tie as we travel to Scotland to play Dundee Utd!

The thing is, the top looks equally as bad without the number on...

Just heard Tevez' pimp on Sky Sports saying that he has too much respect for the Man Utd fans to go to Liverpool. So, not enough respect for them that he wouldn't go to Man City?

I'd have liked to see him go to Liverpool and see a partnership with Torres built. Shame it looks like he's going to Man City or Chelsea.

We played PSV and Valencia last year and we played Juventus at home the year before. I got to see Nedved play in person, and from what I remember, he was absolute quality in the game. Shame Newcastle are so shit that they can't even arrange attractive friendlies now. Although, I remember hearing that conditions of the Coloccini transfer were that we had to play in two pre- season tournaments, so maybe that'll be announced soon.

I might end up going to the Leeds game, just because it's at home, and a lot of my friends love going to friendlies. Fuck it if it's over £7 a ticket though. Season ticket holders in free would be lovely.

Newcastle Friendlies:

Sat 18.07.2009 Darlington (a) @ 12.30pm

Tue 21.07.2009 Huddersfield Town (a) @ 7.45pm

Wed 29.07.2009 Leeds United ( H ) @ 7.45pm

Don't really want to go to any of them.

No Football Manager hate yet?

Mine would have to be lower quality (and a lot of the time, lower league) teams turning into world beaters for the game you play them. Ade Akinbiyi isn't that good, so why has he scored 2 in 10 minutes?!

No weekend at Blackpool

Thanks, can't remember if it was on this site or not, but someone bought a Man Utd shirt from one of the sites, with Berbatov on the back, and from the pictures I couldn't tell the difference from a normal priced one. I feel like getting a shirt from one of them just to see what it's like. Hopefully they get the new Newcastle shirt in soon.

Does anyone know any of those sites that sell the football shirts for £8 or something. I remember there being a few of them.

Forgive the American, but what's the average cost of season tickets over there? When I see so many people talking about having season tickets, it blows my mind. But that's because of how insanely expensive season tickets for sports over here is. So would someone mind telling me, on average, what season ticket prices for your football games?

Mine for this season is £494, down from last season's £545. I sit in the Gallowgate, in area M on the picture.

Seating Category 1: £598

Seating Category 2: £494

Leazes Corner: £390

Family Area: £300

Platinum Club: £935 (£850 wings)

Bar 1892: £899 (£750 wings)

Sports Bar: £750