11 Dec 2012 15:45:45
Have heard from a friend in Istanbul that there were Newcastle scouts at Galatasaray's game against Gaziantepspor.
I have no idea who they were watching, but I can only hope that it was Semih Kaya, one of the best up and coming CB's in Europe and has had Van Persie and Cristiano Ronaldo in his back pocket in games for Turkey against Holland & Portugal respectively.
Or it could be Burak Yilmaz the goal machine, although he is nearly 28.
Really how much is he worth?
If £5m or cheaper that would look very good. Get Debuchy for £6m. Hooper for £5m
That is £16m.
Then Douglas, Ince for free in summer
Hooper will cost a lot more than 5 mil
If Jelavic costed £5.5m. Jelavic had a longer contract i think Hooper's runs out in the summer or next
Celtic have already said they want 15 mil for hooper
Hooper's contract runs out in the summer because he wants 25k/week which celtic won't pay so they'll sell him for whatever they can get or he'll leave on a free in the summer
Cheikhou kouyate would be a good buy fast strong young and would cost about 5m at most
Hooper has about a year or 2 left on his contract so the fee would probably be between 5 and 10m {Ed007's Note - £8 million is the fee Celtic are looking for.}
8m not bad could be better could be worse
Hooper isn't anywhere near being worth 8 million. I know he's scored goals in Scotland but Barry Ferguson looked good up there and Samaras!
Scunthorpe sold him for 160k to Celtic cos he not good enough for English football. Scores goals up there cos of standard of the league!
8 million would be better spent on our shambles of a defence! {Ed007's Note - Celtic paid £2.4 million for Hooper PLUS Scunthorpe are due another £250k after Celtic reached the last 16 of the Champions League. He has also scored 7 goals in 16 apps in Europe, 4 of them in this season's CL.}
A doubt that a good finish is a good finish he will always get chances, he proved against Barca. I hate Celtic, I am Rangers fan as well as Newcastle
Barry Ferguson at his prime was a sensational player there is no doubt about that and you would've said the same about jelavic but look how decent a signing hes turned out to be.