10 Players Newcastle Should Never Have Sold In The Premier League Era

4. Craig Bellamy

Many questioned the wisdom of Sir Bobby Robson when he parted with £6.5 million to bring Craig Bellamy to Tyneside from Coventry prior to the 2001/02 campaign. 10 months later and Sir Bobby - who dubbed him the "the gobbiest footballer I've ever met" - could afford himself a wry smile after the Welshman, in tandem up Shearer in attack, fired Newcastle to fourth in the Premier League and into the Champions League for the first time in five seasons. It was in Europe's elite club competition that Bellamy etched his name into Geordie folklore with two goals in the deciding Group E match at Feyenoord, the second of which came in injury time to settle a five-goal thriller and make us the first team to lose their opening three group matches and still progress to the second phase. However his feats on the pitch were often interspersed with bouts of indiscipline - he once threw a chair at assistant manager John Carver in Newcastle airport before a flight to Mallorca for a 2004 UEFA Cup match - and his Toon career would ultimately end in ignominy in 2005 after public fall-out (to put it lightly) with Graeme Souness just hours before a match against Arsenal.