I'm not sure whether some newspapers journalists ignore it simply because they have to churn out so many absolute rubbish stories a day or whether some of them have just been under a rock for the last couple of years but I would just like to maybe help them and save them some trouble by letting them no Newcastle no longer buy hasbeen footballers for ridiculous money.

Yes we used to but it is well documented that with any transfer now Mike Ashley and the manager look for players that have plenty of years left and will hopefully have some kind of resale value.

So quite how the Daily Star have managed to come up with this corker today linking us with a move for 5 million pound rated 34 year old Ricardo Carvalho from Real Madrid is beyond me?!

Yeah we need a new centre half and Ricky C used to be a good player in his day and could still probably do a decent job there is not a chance he will be coming here.

Another slow news day I presume to the transfer stories just seem to get picked from a hat!