Newcastle Banter Archive July 03 2012

03 Jul 2012 17:44:49
The Mackems are now after Anita SSN... Shall we make an improved bid or let him go?

Why don't he come to us and you pay his plane fare SGBS!

Improved offer

Do not remenber any player we wanted and he chose safc..theres plenty we spoke to and then never went back in for them and bought better..smb

Would be gutted if the mackems got him over us.

He's been way overpriced imo .Let the Mackems blow their cash not us.

Let him go they are looking for 8 million, far too much to pay for an over rated unproven player, there are many good other defensive mids/versatile players out there who would not cost that much

Would rather spend £8m on a proven left back and see Santon in midfield.

We had 6 million turned down for him dont think i would give any more for him.....k

You could get wanyama for 5.5m

03 Jul 2012 10:21:26
Surely if De Jong is going to cost us closer to £14million we would be better off going and buying:
Kevin Gamerio - £7.5million
Ola Toivenen - £6million

Spending £13.5million on two quality strikers rather than £14million on one who is inexperienced? What do you think ED..?

GeordieToon {Ed022's Note - De Jong is better than both of them combined in my opinion. If Newcastle manage to get De Jong, then the prospect of Cisse and De Jong up front is truly mouthwatering - and could be the best partnership in the league.}

Got to agree with you ed,and why two strikers (average) when they would prob never start a game together

Disagree on Gamiero ED, he is quality and actually pacier than De Jong although I make you right on Toivenen.

However for what we have offered for LdeJ could we not get Sturridge? {Ed022's Note - No, Sturridge would cost around 16 million, and Sturridges wages are double that of LDJ. Honestly, you Geordies don't know how lucky you are if you end up signing him.}

Get Sturidge,if the offer is no good then tough
We have seen how Torres & Carrol have panned out

Carrol is still a decent player its just liverpool dont play hin to his abilities...k

If gameiro is so good why are psg selling him? and hes obviously a money grabber we offered him the chance to sign for us before and he chose not to, would much rather de jong than either of them or both as that would be signing players we really don't need

Agreed would rather have LdeJ but the post was about value for money and if we can get Gameiro for £5m less then we use the difference to strengthen elsewhere and Gameiro would score goals in the EPL.

Don t get sturridge he won t get played coz of his meningitiis

03 Jul 2012 00:15:03
Best gone to Blackburn for 'over 3mill' on SSN... will miss him and won't forget his goal in the comeback game against arsenal... Ed, does this mean Newcastle will be forced to look at more than 1 striker, especially with the ACON... Any news on the striker front Ed? {Ed001's Note - there is a definite intent to sign a striker, difficult to gauge if the club intend to get a second one as well though. There have been a number of enquiries go in, not just in Holland, but in France as well, apparently. I am told that Maiga is also of interest to Newcastle, as well as West Ham, though I honestly know nothing of the player, so don't know if he is even a striker.}

I'm sure we were interested in Maiga last year, but he failed a medical. Don't think he will be our target this year. Hopefully, Newcastle are looking at Guidetti and Castaignos as well as de Jong.