Newcastle Banter Archive July 14 2011

14 Jul 2011 22:48:40
Personally, I would love Newcastle to sign the likes of Adel Taarabt, a proven goalscoring midfielder-with some spectacular skills as well, and quite a few assists to his name last season. I would also think that Christian Eriksen, a young player from Ajax would be a great signing, as he ticks all the boxes such as youth, wont be too expensive, and would not demand great wages.
Now on the striker front, I am hoping that deals for the Bangura's could be done, as they look good for the future. Pards has now said that he is bidding for a striker(source-sky sports). I hope that this is either Erdinc or Sow, but I do not think that Lille are stupid enough to sell Cabaye, Gervihno, Sow, and with the possibility of Hazard leaving.
Finally, on defenders, Neil Taylor will NOT be sighning for us, as apparantly he has signed a new contract.

What do you think Ed? And are there any new players that Newcastle are close to signing/looking at/rumours of players possibly coming?

TOONJC

{Ed042's Note - Taraabt looks like a real talent when at his best, but is very greedy at times and doesnt work for the team off the ball, would have to be given a free role off the striker to benefit from him in the Premiership I think and we have Ben Arfa for that position

As for Christian Eriksen he is a really great prospect but has been reported interest from both Arsenal and Chelsea within the last week which would rule us out of ever getting him, interestingly Eriksen himself said recently he doesnt think his game would suit the Premier League so maybe wouldnt even want to move to England

Striker wise i`m with you on the Banguras, think theyd be happy to be 2nd string for this season and develop their games at a bigger club, both seem to have really good attitudes and a lot of potential, and wouldnt cost and arm and a leg to get

Erdinc, I personally dont rate too much, been made out to be a better player than he actually is, and seems to want to fight for his place at PSG, and aside from that hasnt shown a real interest in coming to us, dont want a player that isnt excited to be here

Moussa Sow apparantely isnt happy at Lille, got offered a mediocre contract recently and with the few key teammates leaving he might half an eye on doing the same while there is some big club interest in him, Arsenal have been linked along with ourselves, top scorer in french league, seen him play a few times, looks like a good player, better than Erdinc anyway

New players or rumours have been few and far between the last couple of days with the main stories being about Bartons Visa and Chelsea enquiring about Tiote... think the Shane Long deal may be still alive, and would involve cash plus Best or Ranger, but how much cash is anyones guess, could be anything from 5 to 8 plus a player

Personally, and a lot would disagree im sure, but I would like to see Bendtner be the striker we`re signing, think he gets a lot of undue stick because he is at a top club, but for the toon I genuinely think he would be a great signing

I'm with you on this one, I think Bendtner would be a great aquisition. Has some troubles finding the net but with enough first time action and that massive ego smashed down a bit he'd be a real asset.

14 Jul 2011 23:03:07
Fergy wether you like him or not is arguable the best and most successful manager in premiership. Ashley Young had about one year left on his contract and yet he still pays good money for him.

N'zogbia is approaching last year of his contract and all we here is we are trying to buy him cheap.

Some players like Cabaye you can pick up at a good price, but sometimes to get the player you want you have to pay the price, same as Sturridge. We should be able to but both players and still have change from the Carroll money.

We need to show some ambition or players will to leave like Enrique. We just seem happy to try and survive when we should be looking to aim high.

Ok realistically the league will be between Man Utd, Chelskis and Man City. With all the turmoil at Arsenal the following teams are all catchable.

If we could get Sturridge, Nzogbia and a defender who could fullback or central are the teams below any better than ours

Spurs looks like Modric is gone will Bale stay? Lennon is probably p***ed off with Harry. Sandro now injured.

Everton not got money to impove suad

Bolton similar

Villa have sold their two best players and keeper. But potentially have same money as us to improve their squad.

Liverpool blowing huge amounts of money on average english players but atleast backing manager and having a go

Scumberland Nearly 40m in for Henderson and Bent, bought three solid players in O'shea, Brown and Gardener but none of these are going to make that much difference,

I don't think so, if we can tighten up at the back a bit, we have a much more mobile and creative midfield than last season and even then there were games where we created loads of chances but our in effective forwards couldn't put the ball in the net.

We will create more chances this season with the likes of Ben Arfa, Cabaye, Marvereaux and if we can add Nzog so hopefully sturridge and Ba will score more than Ameobi, Ranger and Best.

No chance of signing nzogbia, deal is basically almost done with villa and Newcastle are now out of the running, plus Wigan now pumping price to 9.5 mil

14 Jul 2011 21:53:58
i am hearing a lot of worrying talk of major unrest among the coaching staff and g carr about the lack of new players and the weakness of pardew to stand up to ashley we have NOT BID FOR ANY PLAYERS IN THE LAST 3 WEEKS plus we will need replacements for players that are sold and there will be more of them the first team has no depth we need 6 players pardew talks about one or two the staff are not happy but pardue is just a yes man no love for the club carrs targets are not been acted on he is very unhappy a lot bad feeling among the staff which rubs off on the players OLD PRO

It's no suprise Graham Carr is unhappy all that time he spent in Holland and it seems were not looking at signing anybody from there now he could of spent that time with his family.

Told last night pardwho and carr have had major fall out rest of staff think think pardew not to be trusted

Joking aside don't look good being a newcastle fan at the mo, I'm a mackem and the only way you can move forward is to get Ashley, Pardew and Lambias out your club

14 Jul 2011 21:44:34
The Undersoil Heating was Paid for from the Olympic Fund Grant..According to Le Equipe .
ashley is takeing us fans for a ride again

Undersoil heating was already in SJP before ashley took over I thought it was one of the requirements of the premier league so winter games dont get called off unless too bad I can remember going to games ten year ago and them having undersoil heating then

14 Jul 2011 21:38:09
Apparently Mike Ashley is staying in the Wigan Travelodge, however he is not willing to pay the extra needed to secure the full english breakfast.

I like that one

14 Jul 2011 19:44:49
as per we are all waiting with anticipation to see who newcastle sign next heres a question? 35m from the sale of carroll..where is it at? we were promised at first that it would all go back on strenthening the team, now when the time has come to spend it comes all the crap about underground heating at the training ground , and a water hole. also the transfers we have already done have supposed to have cost a lot of money, that surely isnt true, nolans sale would balance up yohan and the rest were free as they were either out of contract or had a clause inserted in the contract in the case of demba ba that if relegated they became a free agent, so at this moment in time other than possibly signing on fees and agents fees what have we spent 2 or 3 million i would guess, so i reckon fat mike is sitiing with 32m that was promised on players in his back pocket... then my next point, season ticket sales and shirt sales etc, the revenue that comes with that wheres it all going? if we hadnt sold carroll would we not have had any cash to spend at all this summer, we are all getting strung along on empty promises, either spend some of our money what we put into the club or please sell up and go. p.s. stop the free french transfers and go out and get some quality proven players in ...

14 Jul 2011 07:42:27
liverpool agree fee with downing, maybe villa going to move for nzogbia?? and we would lose out on another top player as villa have the money there to offer. liverpool also have now shown an interest in sturridge, but would he start every game for them if he went?? we will end up losing out on him too.. going to be a bad few weeks, thought pardew would have signed a striker before the USA tour, would make sense to have done so. ED What do you think? and will sneijder join man utd?

{Ed042's Note - Villa will go for him, we`ve opened the bidding today, obviously wont be 4m he goes for but its a smart move to start... as far as Sturridge goes, we are not chasing it up right now, and only option on him is a loan deal I think, unless you want to pay stupid money, but dont think he`d move to the pool without a lot of 1st team games guaranteed.. as for wes to man u, would have to ask a utd man, is interest but could be a drawn out fabregas type situation}

14 Jul 2011 07:50:12
Did anyone else's eyebrow raise when they heard that we bid £4m for N'zogbia? I was suprised as the figures being thrown around were over double that. It will no doubt be rejected though.

£4m bid in for nzogbia. SSN. What happened to the £10m valuation?

By offering this sort of money , they hopethat the savings will pay his wages.

I'm a mackem and not going to take the piss just going to state a fact that the money isn't there for you thats why you offer 4m for N'zogbia, you may have 10m but that money would be used for wages and agent fee's also, Ashley is running his business the way he wants and if he wants to keep the money made off sales and not spend much then thats his choice, he is a business man not a true fan

They've made a low bid because thats how haggling works. Wigan want £10m, we don't want to pay that. Start low and gradually work your way up til you meet in the middle.

Ive heard its 4 million up front and add ons included like international honours, goals, success and sell on percentage which might not be that bad I still dont want the mercenary tho

Newcastle are out of the running for N'Zogbia as he is about to sign for Villa it's ridiculous wish Ashley would just pay up for him most of his stats are better than Youngs.