Kevin Keegan has told his Newcastle players to secure their Premiership status quickly to allow him to start overhauling the squad.
Kevin Keegan – who’s on his transfer list?
Newcastle United have not won in the league since mid-December when Joey Barton scored a penalty in the 92nd minute at Craven Cottage, with just 20 seconds before the end of the game to beat Fulham 1-0. Were we lucky? You bet we were, since we gave a poor performance and didn’t really deserve the win. We’ve had 9 league games since then and collected 3 points and haven’t had a win since then. 🙁
Kevin talked about the league position recently :
“First we have to get the players to ensure our safety because we’re not safe yet,” “We need a win. That’s all we lack at the moment.
“Then, when safety is assured, we have to start thinking about pre-season and then in the back of our minds there are players whose contracts are up.
“Then there are players we are looking to in terms of thinking can we get a wish list and can we get people to go and watch them?”
It’s always interesting to try to guess which players could be coming in the summer or even which players would really strengthen the side.
Well, here’s a first pass at various player lists:
Players who we would see leaving:
Player Club Fee Shola Ameobi Norwich £2M Stephen Carr ? contract up Peter Ramage Norwich contract up Alan Smith ? £6M
Players we’d like to see join the club:
Player Position Club Fee Wayne Bridge Left Back Chelsea £7M Wes Brown Center-back Man United free Giles Barnes Midfield Derby £3M Lubos Kalouda Midfield FC Brno £2M Andrei Ashavin Midfield Zenit * £7M Steward Downing Winger Middlebrough £9M Peter Crouch Striker Liverpool £8M**
* Full name of club – Zenit Saint Petersburg
** Could be free if he buys out his contract
Other players who are possibilities in the summer:
Player Position Club Fee Nickey Shorey Left Back Reading £5M John Arne Riise Left Back Liverpool £5M Goran Pandev Striker Lazio £8M Dean Ashton Striker West Ham £7M
There seem to be quite a few good players that could really strengthen our squad. But we’d also have to ship some players out.
Looks like we could bring in around £8M with the players moving out, but that would also relieve the wage bill. One unknown is whether Charles N’Zogbia will want to move on, and if he does, that would increase our coffers by another £10M.
The first list of those we’d like to bring in, would cost us around £36M, so if we got £16M into the club in outgoing transfers, and lost Charles in the process, that would be a net outlay of £20M – not too bad. Of course, the transfer amounts are just best estimates.
Of course there are players in the second list, who may also be targets, and we’ll just have to see who we can attract to the club. It would help if Alan Shearer was Assistant Manager by then.
What do you think – and who are the other players we should go for.
Comments always welcome.
56 comments so far
Leo*
Feb 18, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Comment #41this would be my absolute dream team, never going to happen unfortunatly
Harper
Beye faye kompany Enrique
Bentley carrick diego nzogbia
Berbatov owen
MichaelAwin
Feb 18, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Comment #42Out:
Carr
Ramage
Rozenhal
Enrique
N’Zogbia
Barton
Butt
Viduka
Shola
In:
Wes Brown
Richard Dunne
Wayne Bridge
Urby Emanuelson
Bentley
Diego
Carrick
Van Der Vaart
Downing
Huntelaar
Ashton
Pandev
If only that could be done. And in one summer 🙁 Has anyone else got to the point now of not even celebrating when we score? – because you just KNOW we will concede inside the next 10 or 20 mins? Its got that bad.
Tom_Toon
Feb 18, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Comment #43The only players id defintely buy off your list are Pandev and Bridge, maybe Arshavin and Crouch at a push.
leavy
Feb 18, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Comment #44i really think we should go after diego he can run at players cut them open with his passing and score good goals he is also a fantastic set piece taker.i am a big fan of emre but he hasnt produced the goods.
Bucks1985
Feb 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Comment #45This is my prediction for the summer… with limited bias of course…
Out:
Carr
Rozehnal
N’Zogbia
Butt
Ameobi
Ramage
Viduka
In:
Finnan
Bridge
Dunne
Campbell
Bently
Carrick
Crouch
Pandev
What I would prefer…
Out:
Carr
Rozehnal
Barton
N’Zogbia
Smith
Butt
Ramage
In:
Sorin
Seitaridis
Dunne
Van Buyten
Joaquin
Appiah
Lucho
Pavyluchenko
Geordie Joe
Feb 18, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Comment #46We should bid for carrick. They may be willing to sell with scholes anderson and hargreaves all ahead of him.
chuck
Feb 18, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Comment #47Out
Butt Given
Carr Brown Taylor Dunne Bridge
Owen Bently Arshevin McGeady Duff
Viduka Huntelaar Martins
Geremi A team with pace,skills & youth
Ramage
Barton
Emre
Ins
Brown
Bridge
Dunne
Arshevin
McGeady
Bentley
Huntelaar
ADAM
Feb 18, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Comment #48Out
carr free
enrique 6m
rozenhal 2m
duff 5m
gerimi 2m
smith 6m
ameobi 2m
emre 5m
cacapa 2m
30m
In
carrick 16m
henry 25m
bentley 10m
riise 6m
shaun wright philliphs15m
huddlestone5m
richards15m
=92m
total = 62m
given
beye
s.taylor
richards
riise
milner
n’zogbia
carrick
sw philliphs
henry
owen
subs
harper
huddlestone
martins
bentley
a.faye
Ben
Feb 18, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Comment #49Out
Carr
Ameobi
Duff
Smith
Butt
N’Zogbia (if he wants to go)
Geremi
Viduka
In
Aimar
Vieira
Bentley
Noble
Bridge
Yobo
Crouch
Huntelaar
In reality we’ll probably end up with the average players listed and have to build over the next few years. A lot like Keegan did in his first stint
Tom_Toon
Feb 18, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Comment #50Start with a central midfielder like de Zeeuw.
Len
Feb 19, 2008 at 1:46 AM
Comment #51Looking through these posts I only notice one which talks about our young talent and that was about Ramage. There are hundreds of ideas for wasting tens of millions on high profile high risk big names. I say give Zog Taylor Edgar and the rest a chance and keep our money for players who will bring something special.
Mehzeb
Feb 19, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Comment #52Realistically, I’d want. and we’ll probably get the following:
INS:
1) David Bentley
2) Giles Barnes
3) Lubos Kalouda
4) Goran Pandev
5) Nicky Shorey
OUTS:
1) Stephen Carr
2) Shola Ameobi
3) Charles N’Zogbia
4) David Rozehnal
I’d also like to see Alan Smith, Nicky Butt, and Claudio Cacapa leave the club, but that may not happen.
Alot of people have mentioned Wayne Bridge, and Stuart Downing, but we could not attract them even if we seriously wanted to. The trouble lies with their respective ambitions. I’m even confused regarding Bentley, would he join the Toon Army? Hard to say, but lets hope for the best.
Mr T
Feb 19, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Comment #53Signing players is like a domino effect, if we sign one key one, then it’ll be far easier to sign more as good with the whole potential hype of the keegan effect. As mentioned several times, drawing up a list now is a waste of time in effect. but me personally would like to us bring in:
Ashton
Crouch
Riise
Bullard
Brown
And we should not lose Emre!!
Smithy should go though
CJ
Feb 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Comment #54Craigg-Are you serious keep Ramage he is in my opinion the worst player at the club by a long way as soon as the ball gets at his feet he panics like Rozenhal just not good enough prob won’t even end up in the Championship.
Nufc_mad
Feb 20, 2008 at 3:04 AM
Comment #55Were just awfull it seems like a new manager every 6 months sam even said it would take a couple of years to transform us and if we aint patient were gonna end up going down 🙁
richie
Mar 3, 2008 at 1:47 AM
Comment #564th from bottom this season will do
outs
capaca
butt
milner
nzogbia
carr
smith
faye
beye
ins
brown
kilgallon
jagielka
campbell
bridge..yes 5 defenders
carrick
owen garven (young ipswich mid)
crouch
van der vaart