NUFC.Com are carrying a story which they describe as unconfirmed, stating Emerton is due into Newcastle today for talks. If true, wee's won the lottery?

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

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We have

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Christ on a bike, what's an ageing Prog Rocker gonna do for us? I preferred them as The Nice...

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Another new rumour, but extremely dubious, is that Houllier is about to retire and Keegan is being 'lined up' for Liverpool. Heard from a drunken ex Pool player who was talking last night to a good friend of mine in Norwich. I suppose it's possible they might approach him, with Phil Thompson doing the tactics/training and Keegan the motivating?

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Good news...Assuming he doesn't mind it p******g down and storm force winds...

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Pardon my ignorance, but I thought Emerton was the defensive central midfielder we need to replace Lee, while NUFC.com have him down as a right sided player. I'm sure Niall and Biffa are right but any Aussies out there able to say more about him?

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Not only that, teletext are reporting Forest have accepted a £5m bid for Jenas. Up here today talking personal terms.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

It was on the radio this morning too - get spotting kids!

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

In Championship Manager (yes, I know) Emerton always plays right-back for Feyenoord.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Been said here before, plays RFB for Feeyenooord, but hates it.

Prefers RMF or RWB. Have seen him play a couple of cracking games in CMF though!

Can see a line up of

Given

Hughes, O'Brien, Distin

Emerton, Solano, Dyer, Jenas, Robert

Shearer, Bellamy

This could cause havoc on the "quality" teams around us at the mo!

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Looks a good side Gus. A bit on the short side perhaps, which could be a problem and would limit us at set pieces.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

No change there then. ;-)

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

We will have to start to accept that we do not have a best XI any more, but a squad to choose from. Lots of players seem to be indispensable but they are not. Next season we may well get to the point where we just don't know who the best XI is, (ref our centre halves) and Bobby just makes it up on a game by game basis. Only when we get to the Cup finals do we find out who he really views as the best XI, or not if we play Spurs and he plays 3-5-2 again !

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

Newcastle United moved today to quash speculation circulating in certain media outlets who were reporting that Feyenoord's Australian midfielder Brett Emerton is due in Newcastle today to discuss a possible move to United. A flabbergasted United Chairman Freddy Shepherd said: "I have no idea where these reports come from but I can categorically say that Brett Emerton is not due on Tyneside today." So that's that then.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

they must be trying to make his prematch appearance a secret

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2002

they still maintain contact between the Toon and Feyenoord is ongoing

a loan deal with payment in the summer being talked about ala Keane to Leeds?

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2002