Author Profile - Dean Wilkins ( 1518 Posts )

Reports suggest MK Dons are going to take Alan Smith on and ready to pay a substantial part of the player’s ill-deserved £60,000 wages.

Top tip for MK Dons fans, back your goalkeeper for first goalscorer before you back Smithy!

What I can’t understand is fans happy to see Forster go because we’ve got Tim Krul, surely such a weak argument because stating the obvious here; what if Krul gets injured?

Can’t say I’d be confident going into important matches with Elliot between the sticks.

I bet out of everybody who watched Saturday’s match at Craven Cottage, whether in the flesh or dodgy satellite, not a single fan would have thought at half-time ‘I’d settle for a point here’.

Watch these match highlights from Saturday and you decide where it all went wrong.

A game of two halves…the good, the bad and the ugly…you take your choice.

If you didn’t see this match you might be very surprised by the final score, if you did see the match then you’ll still be in shock now after watching the first half.

Alan Pardew goes for broke with Cabaye and Ben Arfa both starting in an ultra attacking line-up of Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, Santon, Ben Arfa, Guthrie, Cabaye, Gutierrez, Best, Shola Ameobi.

Alan Pardew; “The priority for me is Coloccini’s new contract and one or two others. We are focused on that because we want to keep our best players. He is our captain and I want to keep him. Negotiations are due to restart shortly”.

Congratulations to the Newcastle United youth team who ran out 2-1 winners against Watford at St.James’ Park tonight.

Let’s hope there is a Gazza or Bobby Moncur emerges through the ranks as happened the twice Newcastle have won the Youth Cup.

Freiburg’s sporting director Dirk Dufner admitted it was always going to be difficult to retain the services of such a prolific striker

“It was clear to us that it was always going to be difficult to keep a player of Papiss’ quality”.

Now reported Newcastle have signed Papiss Cissé for around £10m from Bundesliga club Freiburg.

Watch this video and dream it is true!

Personally, the idea of Carroll playing up front with Ba has massive potential. I would confidently predict any vocal disquiet at the Newcastle end would be gone by the time we saw him on the pitch.

Funnier (and not so funny) things have happened before at Newcastle United.