Newcastle Rumours Archive July 08 2013

08 Jul 2013 22:43:33
Tick the unbelievable box all you want but remember this is where you read this first. Newcastle United are almost close to completing deals for both Siem De Jong and Luuk De Jong.

A bid for Siem (thought to be 10 million Euros) has been accepted by Ajax and Newcastle are waiting for him to return from his holidays before finalising the deal.

As for Luuk, Newcastle are far into negotiations regarding a deal. Monchengladbach are currently in negotiations for Nikica Jelavic and want to try and recoup as much as they can from the £10 million they spent for De Jong. The sticking point, as always, is the fee. Newcastle have offered 8 but Gladbach want closer to 10.

Luuk won't leave mochengladbach so early into his contract.

Siem may not make the same mistake as his brother and may actually sign. I hope so anyway.

After signing of the year 'Joe Kinnear', Newcastele will only sign Emile heskey and give a comeback to Vinnie Jones.
Kinnerar's kind of player {Ed013's Note - Vinny Jones was a great character and player}

I think Luuk would be very happy to link up with his brother. He's not happy in Germany and has been a relative flop there. 8M seems very reasonable.

More chance of getting luke skywalker and using the force to get rid of mike but I like your optimism

Cant see this happening, we need to spend our transfer funds on a striker and cb. As below I can see us spending a small amount on a midfielder like Huddlestone but nothing more than that. Unless we sell.

We have more chance of signing Jelavic then either of the De Jong brothers.

Luuk is probably valued at £8M roughly, why would we spend this much on a player who has struggled to score in germany? weaker defences in holland mean goals there don't convert to goals in stronger leagues

for the same-ish (buy out) or less remy looks a more solid buy due to record with qpr in the prem

although I don't want him bent also has shown the ability to score in the prem so don't see why we would look at Luuk now

As for siem, i've seen/heard nothing about us going for him, where's this rumour from?

I have genuinely also heard this

Bent is nearly 30. de jong only 23

08 Jul 2013 17:12:59
Have heard that we are looking at Tom Huddlestone from Tottenham, Pardew seems keen and they are looking to get rid so only looking for a nominal fee. (Maybe £3-£4mill, money well spent IMO)
Looked like he was over the most of his injuries towards end of the season so this could be a good capture, plus he's English and still quite young.

No thanks. There is a reason they call him Tom Hundredstone.

Huddlestone would be a good signing. A defensive midfield who can pass and start attacks unlike Tiote who is strong but doesn't offer anything else to the team. Hope we go for him being English is even better.

If you can keep Tom Huddlestone fit and playing then he is an absolutely cracking player, he is one of the best ball strikers there are around at the moment and has a cracking delivery as well, but that is a big IF.

The only snag with this one is Huddlestone is going to Sunderland

With Huddlestone covering 2/3 of the pitch just standing in the centre circle it would free up Cabaye and Sissoko to attack at will. Actually, with that in mind, maybe JFK could do a job for us in goal.

The reason the Sunderland deal is taking sooooooooooo long is that he doesn't really want to go there but they are the team that have made an approach at the moment.

08 Jul 2013 12:59:35
Any Idea what is happening with Christian Ericksen and De jong of Ajax. Is Newcastle interested?

Will go to bigger clubs than us.

De Jong might happen although I think he wants to see out the last year of his contract with Ajax. As for Ericksen, don't get your hopes up.

I do believe now with Everton signing kone today that we're the only club to buy somebody meaningful this summer well done Ashley