Newcastle Banter Archive April 11 2012

11 Apr 2012 21:33:17
There will probably about 100 disagrees on this comment, but I think Lovenkrands should be offered a new deal and Leon Best should leave. Peter would be a useful squad player and never will complain about not bein in the team, he would also be handy to call upon for the UCL or Europa games as a substitute. On the other hand, Best is likely to moan when not in the team, and his technical ability is not good enough for a top 6 EPL side. Best is not fast or a prolific finisher and his wages are about the 15th best at the club. What do you think guys?

Lovenkrands??? he is about 46 now, keep Best and Shola as back up to Ba and Cisse

Lovenkrands is out of contract so he should and will go (thankfully) and Best needs to be sold, nowhere near good enough for top 8 never mind top 6/5/4, keep Shola, good squad player, useful when played for 20-25mins and defo wont moan about not playing, we could aslo do with a decent young ST as a second back up, would love to see Guidetti from city come in but doubt he would come here without assurances of first team football, hell of a player tho, lit up the Eredivisie this year.

One more point (sorry to waffle on) i reckon as things stand were probs only 3 signings away from a side capable of challenging the top 4 regularly, for me those would be CB, RB (expecting simmo to go) and LW plus some really good quality youth as backup (ST, CAM, CB, LB) this providing we hang onto our best players (Tiote, Ba, Krul, Cisse, HBA) opinions folks??

Best is far better than lovenkrands and has the goals to prove it

Don't forget about marveux he looked v promising and could add yet another dimension to our squad when fit

Dont forget vuckic and Abeid who i think will get better and better.

11 Apr 2012 14:38:47
i'm a spurs fan and i just wanted to say you've been terrific this season. I've also found the media's approach to newc a little patronising, i mean i've always thought of newcastle as a massive, top 6 club. However, just wanted to ask that now the media is talking about you as genuine top 4 contenders (which you are) you are worried the pressure might tell, as it did with us earlier this season when we were the media darlings? Also was wandering whether if you don't get champs league one or two will leave, and how ambitious will you be in the summer if you do qualify? Good luck for the rest of the season.

Thanks. I reckon 2 defenders for sure and maybe a big surprise signing ,also think Ba or Tiote may go sadly. Would like to see Pieters come in not sure about Douglas seems a bit too tempremental to me and don't wanna see the good vibe upset that we now have. Would love to see someone like Hiolett and Moses join us too. Good luck for the rest of the season hope you get a good successor to Arry too.

Read earlier that Douglas, if he does come it will be the latter end of August when he gets Dutch citizenship.

Would rather see us go for Vertonghen, watched him in the flesh for the first time when Ajax played PSV and he was head and shoulders above anyone on the pitch, him and colo at the heart of our defence would be nothing short of immense, Pieters looked OK but didnt stand out, Eriksen was awesome aswel, he would be a nice replacement for Guthrie.....I reckon if we get top 4 we could well see 4 new first team faces and a big influx of youth, that should atleast have us top 4 again next season