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Surprising news of the day is that Steven Taylor has rejected a 5 year contract offer from the club. The contract included a 3 year option. Steven father Alf is acting as Steven’s agent and has rejected the offer out of hand.
We don’t think the club can win this one and the sooner it’s all [...]

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Charles N’Zogbia has spoken of his delight at earning his first call-up to the France Under 21 team.
The Newcastle star, who signed a new five-year deal with the club earlier this week, has been rewarded for a great start to the season by being called up by the French Under-21 squad for the very first [...]

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Steven Taylor has surprisingly turned down a new five-year contract with Newcastle United.
With Charles N’Zogbia and James Milner, the other outstanding 21 year-olds in the Newcastle camp, having just signed new 5 year contracts with the club we were fully expecting Steven to sign one.
This doesn’t sound like good news so we’ll take a hard [...]

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Wigan’s Emile Heskey looked very ordinary at Newcastle last Sunday and it probably shows the lack of choice Steve McClaren has in his England squad that Steve has recalled the former Liverpool striker to partner Michael Owen against Israel tomorrow in their European 2008 qualifier.
McClaren was at the Newcastle-Wigan game on Sunday and saw Heskey [...]

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Alan Shearer has been talking to Newcastle World TV about Newcastle’s solid start to the season under new manager Sam Allardyce.
Alan says that with the 9 players Sam has brought in it’s almost like a new team now.
But the Newcastle United icon has good things to say about Michael Owen, our new defense and of [...]

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A year ago today Shay Given had missed very few games in the then nine years of his time at Newcastle. But on September 17th against West Ham Shay suffered that sickening injury when he ruptured a groin in his accidental clash with Marlon Harewood at West Ham.
Shay, for the first time in his career, [...]

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