21 year-old Olympique Lyon forward Loic Remy is attracting Premiership interest, and Newcastle United have been linked with the player for at least nine months.
Loic Remy - class player would be great young signing on Tyneside
Lyon is Remy’s home town club and they are now reported to being open to selling the youngster this summer, and have already been contacted by Newcastle United, Portsmouth and Tottenham about the player.
We have Lyon’s former captain for the last 5 years – Claudio Cacapa - at the club and he can let Kevin know exactly what Remy is like.
We also have N’Zogbia playing in the French Under-21 squad – and young Charles will have trained with Remy during the French Under-21 training sessions.
We also have a lot of French speaking players at the club right now in Geremi, N’Zogbia, Beye, Faye and N’Zogbia to name but a few, so if Newcastle do sign the youngster, he could acclimatize well and get plenty of support both on and off the field at the club.
Who is Loïc Rémy?
He is a promising young right-footed French striker, born on January 2, 1987 in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France and can play as a striker or on the right wing.
He plays for his hometown club Olympique Lyonnais, for whom he has appeared 12 times.
He has been on loan to Lens this year and appeared 6 times for them and scored 3 goals.
Loic stands just over 6′ tall and has played once for the France Under-21 team and has also represented France at Under-18 and Under-19 levels.
Sounds to us like he’s the type of player we are looking for. Tottenham are also said to be interested - unfortunately.
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1 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 13:25
i never seen him play
2 Ben_BKK // May 21, 2008 at 13:29
Well if Spurs are interested, we may as well give up now…
Seriously though, it depends on how much he’d cost. If we could get him for around 5 mil or (hopefully) less, then I’d say give him a shot.
3 Leo // May 21, 2008 at 13:33
as ive said when we talk about players newcastle may be interested in we dont need to mention spurs interest. its so obvious to be the case as with the other players we look at
4 Bill F // May 21, 2008 at 13:36
I would take 5 or 6 of the current Lyon team given the chance although I have to admit Remy did not figure among them. Benzema, Kahlstrom, Fred, Cris, Keita, Junhino, Toulalon. And I am sure I have missed at least one.
5 Hammy // May 21, 2008 at 13:37
Have we 2 N’Zogbias’ Ed? left AND right wingers?
Cool.
6 John // May 21, 2008 at 13:39
this is getting boring now…How many players have we been linked with…Its so unbeleivable now..
Give me one siging and i’ll be happy..Im sick and tired off reading every day we have been linked with this guy and then that guy and this other one…Its boring now
7 Hamas (51times) // May 21, 2008 at 13:42
Never seen him play, must be decent though.
8 Ed W // May 21, 2008 at 13:45
Is anyone else slightly concerned that our all new superstar recruitment team don’t seem to have got any further than France yet?
9 ronaldeano // May 21, 2008 at 13:46
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTXH9X1wQhI
Good strike with his ‘left’ foot!
10 James // May 21, 2008 at 13:48
bored already john? how long have you been a Newcastle fan? It’s like this every year. lol
11 Newcastle United. // May 21, 2008 at 13:50
Never seen or heard of him.
12 figsdad // May 21, 2008 at 13:51
might as well give spurs the whole list of players available and say who do you want as we will be feeding on the scraps…
yes its paper talk and this is the worst time for players being linked the window isnt even open yet..
13 Ian // May 21, 2008 at 13:56
Could be good for the wing, I would be surprised if he would replace one of our current strikers, if we are after him as a future striker then my old question remains, why are we keeping Carroll??
One potential good striker required-I thought that was Carroll’s job, and please one proven goalscoring striker to rotate and cover for injuries, ie Cisse, Johnson or Kitson, our current striker line up is good, we need additional cover not a youngster, picture it, Owen gets injured and has been scoring all season, no pressure for a debut then!!!
Otherwise sell Carroll bring in a youngster and an established proven goalscorer. Young strikers rarely work straight out of the box.
14 John // May 21, 2008 at 13:56
Ive been a fan since i was in the womb…
But its just silly…I seen a list of players we were linked with since April and its omething like 40 players…
I think nobody knows who we are actualy after..Just all speculation…
15 GM // May 21, 2008 at 13:57
@figsdad : when does the window open? i thought it opened at the end of the season ??
16 ToonKing // May 21, 2008 at 14:00
good player, would have him, 5 mil tops though.
17 Eric // May 21, 2008 at 14:00
One to consider. Spurs and Pompey again. What is it with those two? Seems they cannot do anything without seeing where NUFC looks first.
Can’t we wind both of them up and get KK, Mort, and Terry Mac to watch a game at some
Paris or Amsterdam playground? Then see what that sparks off in the Daily Mail, Sun, and NOTW.
18 ToonKing // May 21, 2008 at 14:01
window opens on 1st of July.
19 t-g-w // May 21, 2008 at 14:07
We may have been linked with so many players because no one knows who we’re going to buy, or it may be that for the first time that I can remember as an NUFC fan that we have a half-decent scouting network that is looking at many different options for the same position.
That’s a good thing to me.
We’ve probably been linked with 40 players cos we’ve scouted 40 players.
And I don’t think this time of year is boring, I love all the speculaiton - it’s our only time to dream of players like Veloso, Turan and Gomez who we will probably never get. No harm in dreaming though. Gomez especially looks awsome. Well worth a £25 million bid I would say.
20 Southside Jordy // May 21, 2008 at 14:16
Another french league player……..how many players are we looking at ay!!???
21 toonoholic // May 21, 2008 at 14:17
if we buy turan , veloso and gomez. i will fly every weekend from this part of the world to watch newcastle play !
22 Az // May 21, 2008 at 14:19
There are going to be many more players linked to Newcastle this is just the start, the papers are getting bored and Newcastle are keeping their cards hidden from the back stabbing press.
I’m excited but it’s a good thing that NUFC are being so secretive
23 Piers // May 21, 2008 at 14:25
This information is useless unless its definate. Newcastle needs to actually sign someone and then the rumours might become valid but as for right now it doesnt mean much
24 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 14:29
im getting bored, take it no1 knows any news on turan? concrete news doesnt come about till night times really though does it. i just wish we would hurry up and sign the lad
25 craig chisholm // May 21, 2008 at 14:31
i dont think we will buy anyone ever again. i think our board is full of shit and i am gettign fed up of the wankers to be honest. gala president has came out and said if we pay 13 million we can have turan tmrw, today i see that turan himself says he wants to c ome but that as of now, we have made no offer but only an enquiry. May i ask what the hell was the point in making an enquiry and then not bothering once you know you can get the player?? just watch this space, frigging turan will win man of the tournemant at the euros and be worth 40 million over night. he fits the ’so called’ criteria of what cock end mort wants, young and a massive prospect. what is it with our board. they wont buy dunne cos he is too old at 29 and they wont buy turan at 21…. begs the question what the fcuk do they really want? they aint gonna get any budding stars for peanuts! anyway, i see they are saying the mortisha himself is wrapping his hand in…. good job too i say…. i think that ashley once wanted david dein, now thats better!! as for this player in this blog… i forgot his name already, doesnt matter though cos as long as he costs more than 40 quid and is 29 or over or as young as 21, is black or even white then we are out of the running. mort and wise, you are a pair a bull shitters.
26 NUFCFAN // May 21, 2008 at 14:31
buy the under 21 french team! Remy is a handy player.
RE: Ian, I am all for buying as many promising players as possible. Worrying about Carrol isnt an issue. He will go back out on Loan - he needs to step up, either when he goes away on loan or when he plays for the firsts.
And when you compare him at his age to these wonderkids of Gomez ,Gomis, Rooney when he came onto the scene, even Shearer when he did. He has a long way to go.
The whole point is to buy these players for a sell on. Carroll could end up being one of these. I would rather have a great players in the team than putting Carroll in for the sake of having a geordie in.
However dont get me wrong i would love to have as many in as possible but they have to be good enough, which i think lua lua will be - was actually disapointed he didnt play as much as he should of last year. Like the fact he attacks players and beats them unlike milner
27 Tommy // May 21, 2008 at 14:31
Didn’t realise we had two N’zogbias
28 Newcastle fanatic // May 21, 2008 at 14:33
Piers, you’re an idiot. You have no faith in your team. It’s fans like you who are bringing Newcastle down. Remy will be on Newcastle, guaranteed.
29 NUFCFAN // May 21, 2008 at 14:35
Toonaholic - am with you on that
30 Gary Mac // May 21, 2008 at 14:43
Perhaps if people stopped broadcasting who Newcastle were interested in signing, Newcastle might find it easier to sign people. (Why didn’t NUFC insist on the Modric deal being kept quiet instead of allowing it to be plastered all over the press, I do not know!)
99.9% of it is paper talk anyway.
31 Ben_BKK // May 21, 2008 at 14:44
The whole thing about the transfer window: You can acquire a player’s signature once the season has ended (might actually be at any time, not too sure) but they don’t join you until July 1st, which us when the transfer window officially opens, and players can move to their new clubs.
32 toonoholic // May 21, 2008 at 14:52
well said craig .
what confuses me is that , we bid higher for modric and lose out on him.
and when we get the chance to sign a much better player ( watch out this space) , at a much lower cost , for the same position as modric , our board shies away.
I wonder what the problem is . I hope its not another turmoil with chris mort wanting to leave and so everything is in a standstill like last year .
33 ToonPhill // May 21, 2008 at 14:52
“Arsenal have clinched a £10m deal for Olympique Marseilles Samir Nasri”
Looks like other teams are startin. Hopin we will soon, startin with turan. Wish he would sign soon so i can get his name printed on my shirt.
34 stk // May 21, 2008 at 14:56
bodmer is class too!
statement opf intent, with a billionaire owner, lets get remy, turan, veloso/seesegnon, and a defender, preferably cuellar, despite playing in scotland has been fantastic in the uefa cup this season, until arshavin showed up!
35 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 15:00
im getting sincerly f***ked off
36 Az // May 21, 2008 at 15:02
There are articles all over the net about teams signing players - arsenal this tottenham that etc etc, all there is about newcastle is barton being jailed!!! WHAT A JOKE
37 stk // May 21, 2008 at 15:03
why we havent snapped the galatasaray presidents hand off now we have a quoted price for him i dont know. i think the muppets are starting to show themselves for what they are - incompetent. good points craig.
c’mon nufc! you want good young talent, at this stage you’re gonna have to spend! unless there’s a clone of arsene “whinger” wenger around. until we can find the 15 year olds and entice them to us, ashely’s gonna have to become cashley if he wants a team to compete in the champs league.
c’mon nufc, move your arses!
38 craig chisholm // May 21, 2008 at 15:05
gary mac….what you on about mate…gala prez says he is ours for 13 million, turan himself says he wants to come….christ man, even mort should be able to sort that one out - in this case the press have helped us, they have been told by the prez and the player that the deal is sitting there (and has been for a week) waiting to get done. the good thing is, at least we know that mort cant bullshit us now when he does not land turan! Now with barton finished, carr gone, ramage gone, ameobi as good as gone, owen/taylor/harper all running out of contracts plus the others that have left, does no-one else think we should be signing?? our squad is paper thin. all it takes is a few of the good ens to get injured at the euro s and we are out of it man.
bkk what is the point you are making exactly ? the deals are still getting done now ready for the window opening hence modric down the shitter etc and nasri to arse!! we are sitting around like a bunch of dicks.
39 Steven1979 // May 21, 2008 at 15:06
we don need loosers..Remy all the season in bench in Lens(They RElegated )and this guy seated all the time in bench(Lens didnt have striker all the year,if i was there may be i have more chance than this Remy boy)..they want to bring new shite to here..
we need Mario Gomez..or cheaper version Patrick Helmes( Fc Cologne)..
And if we have this 5 million why we dont raise our offer for TURAN and get him..and Owen and Martins are 100 times better than this REmy..
40 Yahya Ahmad // May 21, 2008 at 15:06
We should go for Andrés D’Alessandro from relegated Real Zaragoza! He has world class dribbling and a is a tricky midfielder!
41 Oba // May 21, 2008 at 15:11
Probably more bullshit. How many players are we going to be ‘linked’ with? It’s all made up, to get our hopes up.
42 Az // May 21, 2008 at 15:14
Theres definately something not right at SJP like, I can’t understand for the life of me why we haven’t signed Turan yet and why we let Modric slip away.
We seemed to show more ambition when fat Freddy was in charge, we certainly had more balls thats for sure.
How the hell are we going to break in to the top 4 without spending big?
The whole country are taking the p*ss out of us
43 Matt // May 21, 2008 at 15:15
Yeh agree Yahya and why not Aimar and Diego Milito while we’re on. Both fill positions we need players in.
44 ToonKing // May 21, 2008 at 15:15
the matches are really starting to burn our fingers now, we need to act or we’ll loose every decent player we a have a chance of signing. Arda will be be snapped up sooner that Fat Sam eats a pizza (which is pretty darn fast ), we need to act NOW !!!!!
45 Ben_BKK // May 21, 2008 at 15:18
“bkk what is the point you are making exactly ? the deals are still getting done now ready for the window opening hence modric down the shitter etc and nasri to arse!! we are sitting around like a bunch of dicks.”
My point was to clarify things for a few people earlier on who didn’t seem to know the full workings of the transfer window. I wasn’t saying that we can’t make any deals until July 1st…
46 Az // May 21, 2008 at 15:21
Sky Sports News are constantly reporting about other premier league teams signing players left right and centre, the only thing they report on Newcastle is the Joey Barton saga!!!!
WHAT A JOKE
47 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 15:21
im getting sooo pissed off. can anyone that wathes the bundesliga tell me what steffan keissling is like?
48 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 15:23
bkk- ofcourse we can make deals before then
49 Steven1979 // May 21, 2008 at 15:39
kiesling play in Leverkusen 24 years old, attacking mid and forward..good and fast..this year 9 goals in Bundesliga..good if we can get him..
his teammate Simon Rolfes midfielder is good player too…
50 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 15:40
It really is starting to seem to me as if we drew up a list of targets. And we set a maximum price we would pay and now they are either unavailable or unaffordable or just not interested.
The other names banded about are just because agents (devils) always use our club to promote players.
Turan doesnt seem a geniune target… the people who mention Henry and co are only kidding themselves. And Quite honestly I think that players are on holiday and agents are just doing some pre promos before the real transfer action begins.
I cannot remember the last time we signed a player before the Euro Champs ended.
The Barton issue has left us desperately short in midfield and we definately have to give NZogbia a go on the left now.
Milner would be first choice on the right so our best midfield at the moment looks like this:
Milner Butt Geremi N Zogbia
I dont know about you but I dont see thoe centre pairing scaring the daylights out of any team with pace or creativity!!!!!!!
We need another versatile winger, we need a defensive midfielder and we need a creative midfielder. We need a striker for Viduka. We need cover at left back and right back. And we need another central defender.
That is 7 players that are musts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have no choice. So if we only have 20 Mil to spend we are in deep sh1t! Means we can only bring in very mediocre players or bosmans.
The sales of Duff, Smith, Ameobi and Rozenhal could give us another 10Mil so say we have 30Mil. We cant waste 15Mil on ONE player. That is perhaps why we cant offer more for players like Turan.
- (DC) Campbell would be good in defense (bosman)
- (DL) Shorey would be our cheapest option at LB at around 3Mil
- (DR) Aaron Hughes, could cover in any position at the back and never let us down (2M).
- (ST) Gudjohnssen would be a bargain up front at 7M
- (DM) Sean Davis would make good cover at around 2M
- (AM) Yossi Benayoun, we could get for around 6M and is a good affordable play maker.
- (AM/R/L) Park ji Sung would be a great versitile signing who could play on either wing at around 5M.
That would be 25M spent and you cannot tell me these arnt realistic buys. All of them would add value. All have premiership experience.
That would leave us with 5Mil to spend.
So we swap Emre 5M for Guran and we have this squad for a total of 30M spent.
GK: Harper/ Given
DR: Beye/ Hughes
DC: Faye/ Campbell/ Taylor/ Casapa/ Edgar
DL: Enrique/ Shorey
DM: Butt/ Davis
CM: Benayoun/ Gudjohnssen/ Geremi/ Barton
ML: N Zogbia/ Turan (R orL)
MR: Milner/ Sung Ji Park (R or L)
ST: Martins/ Owen/ Gudjohnssen/ Carroll and Viduka.
So in my humble opionion, we would be much stronger at the back. Have more depth in midfield (Turan and Benajoun would be our “creaters” along with some real flair on the wings. Gudjohnsen culd create up front and hold the ball. Some thing neither Smith or Ameobi offered.
51 Ian // May 21, 2008 at 15:41
NUFC fan - agree about Lua Lua he should be permanent first team.
Not worried about Carroll, but if we bring in a youngster I would like to see him sold and for us to bring in a proven striker for back up, we have good strikers but the team standard drops as soon as one of them isnt available and Owen and Viduka arent the most reliable players for fitness. I am not bothered if it was just Kitson from Reading as he is still a very good solid player and we would be grateful for him if Owen or Viduka went down for a few weeks. One young striker may be no improvement at the front, or if everyone remains fit he may not get a run out at all.
I would like to see two good midfielders for each position if possible as this could only be an improvement, two of those could be youngsters with potential.
Again at the back if possible, two good proven players for each position.
Splash the cash in the right areas, if we moved up the table again, then next transfer season we would have our pick of the top young strikers if we wanted some.
52 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 15:43
i have heard he is the next best thing, (keissling) is he a podolski kind of player?
53 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 15:43
If our current sqaud could finish 12th then this one could definately challenge for top 6. And I would be happy with that!
Then the following season we would be looking at what we are looking at now with a stronger squad and hopefully European football to draw top players in such as a top DC, and two top CM. Perhaps one top striker. That would really give us a great squad.
54 Zhun // May 21, 2008 at 15:44
Hard to believe that nasri is cheaper than modick!
Wenger is really a wise man compare to their rival
55 Obafan // May 21, 2008 at 15:48
And another forward. We have got top quality in front and all we need to do is give them new contracts, but nothing happens it seems.
All these rumours I can’t see the trees through the forrest anymore. What is true what not? We don’t know, even the press doesn’t know. I think it is also very hard to point the finger at Wise, Mort, Ashley, … cause none of us knows what is true, so we don’t know exactly what they are willing to do or what they are doing at the moment. How many times did the Arda story change in the last 3 days???
I still have my confidence in the board about getting new good players to the club, but I would ask them urgently to give new deals to our strikers Owen and Martins. That at this moment is TOP PRIORITY IMO!!! Cause what would happen if one day we lose one or both of them. I can’t think of that. If those deals are clinched then step uf the buying new players process and we will be a good solid team next season.
It really is possible to build a good strong team for next season (even without UEFA Cup football), but the board and managerial staff need to act step by step!
56 Steven1979 // May 21, 2008 at 15:50
kiesling is much faster than podolski..but they are different players..Kiesling is not a striker more forward..kiesling can play as a winger too..if we play 4-3-3 he can be more effective..but i still prefer mario gomez..
and about TURAN, KK speaks with gala chairman and they want 13 million..no second to wait about that..
57 toonoholic // May 21, 2008 at 15:51
JJ , if we cant try and fork out 15 mn for top players like turan or veloso.
then we can kiss champions league good bye .
58 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 15:53
Haha, at this rate of rumours I can see Shearer coming out of retirement to play one last season. I bet he’d score more than Smith, Ameobi and Carroll put together. Oh wait… he only needs one goal to do that!!
59 OzZyMagpiE // May 21, 2008 at 15:54
he aint dat good…newayz lets be realistic. we wud never get veloso or mario gomez(hope we do) but they r longshots… turan is a possibility along with zarate…. i come back here after work everyday n scroll all da way down n slowly scroll up hoping to read some news of us clinching a siginin or agreein a deal……. guess not eh? u guyz r right.. our squad is paper thin… wud love it if we sign some1……. atleast 1 to shut our mouths n keep us a lil happy…. jeez hurry up mort/ash
60 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 15:54
Toonoholic - I dont think the CL is realist next year. That should be a two/three year plan.
We need to be making the UEFA Cup next year.
I believe the players I mentioned could get us there! Then we can try attract the like of Veloso
61 Az // May 21, 2008 at 15:56
@JJ
I understand what your saying and some of the players you listed would be a good addition, but why the hell would we only have 20m to spend?
Sunderland spent 50m last season and are getting another 40m this year!!!!!
IS MIKE ASHLEY REALY A BILLIONAIRE OR FAT FREDDY IN DISGUISE?!?!?!?!?
62 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 15:57
where you from steven 1979? how do you know about that turan thing?
63 Steven1979 // May 21, 2008 at 15:59
and JJ : u want all the avarage players..with avarage players u can finish 11th or 9 th..like this year..better buy 2 stars they push the other players too..i still believe Emre is a great player and wait from him next year world class football, if u add him as a new one (he didnt still play anything for us), the picture changes.. and we can sign some free players like campell too..
look arse get Degen(can play DM and DC) from Dortmund free..why we cant find such team players i really dont understand..our scouts still sleeping..
64 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 16:00
Az, I think he feels the club got into trouble spending big amounts without achieving success.
So his policy is to spend small on young signings hoping that they develop into World class players. (alla Arsenal). The problem is Arsenal have actually gone down in recent years. And Keegan is the type of manager that needs big money. I hope Im wrong but I dont see us spending more than 30M even after selling this season. Remember we have no Europe and he just cleared our 70Mil pound debts.
65 toonoholic // May 21, 2008 at 16:02
JJ suppose we buy the players and we get champions league in 2 yrs from now . Let us also suppose during these 2 years , turan , veloso have gone to new bigger clubs . then the question to be asked is wld we be able to get these quality players again ?
if turan stars in the euro and so does veloso , their asking price wld double .
The answer to this is availability of players . Turan would not be available every transfer window . we shld have snapped him up in january itself when he was around 8mn , now his asking price has uped to 14 !
66 Steven1979 // May 21, 2008 at 16:04
G.Saray Kulübü Başkanı Adnan Polat, Newcastle United Teknik Direktörü Kevin Keegan ile yaptığı görüşmede, Arda için 13 milyon pound (yaklaşık 16 milyon euro istedi.
Arda Turan’ın transfer haberleri, Ä°ngiliz basınında geniÅŸ yer bulmaya devam ediyor. BaÅŸkan Adnan Polat’ın, Newcastle Teknik Direktörü Kevin Keagan ile yaptığı görüşme sonrasında yıldız oyuncu için 16 milyon euro istediÄŸi belirtilirken, Alman kulüplerinin devreye girmesiyle Arda’nın bonservis fiyatının yükseldiÄŸi ifade edildi. Kaynak: Fotomac
this is the news from turkish newspaper today..Can somebody translate..I can read KK, Polat and 13 million pond but the rest..
67 Ian // May 21, 2008 at 16:04
Obafan, I agree sign up the forwards we already have straight away, they are hard to improve on, then get one other proven scorer as they are going to have to fill the boots of an excellent player.
I dont know why Owen and Viduka arent sorted and some sort of confirmation on Oba, is it true his get out clause is still there?? I thought they re-negotiated it out?
The speculation could get worse not better as top players get signed up and we could lose some. West Ham want Taylor.
68 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 16:06
Steven 1979 - the reason I say this is we need to build up slowly. We need to add depth to our squad before we can look at World Class players.
No good us buying another superstars and he gets injured like Owen, Emre always are because then we’ve slpashed out big and we have the same squad only weaker!
Plus I dont think the likes of Gudjohnssen, Campbell and Shorey are average…
Park Ji Song and Benayoun both played in the Champions league Semi’s so they cant be that bad. And Aaron Hughes is an execellent squad player.
I doubt we can get Veloso BUT if we can and we have an extra 10Mil to spent then swap his name for Davis and see how our SQUAD not team starts to shape up. See… starts to look like top 5 material.
69 scottish mag // May 21, 2008 at 16:08
where did u get that steven, link plz
70 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 16:09
Toonaholic - we would probably miss out on those buys, because of the mistakes we made in the past.
The trick would be not to repeat those mistakes.
We need to build and there will always be another Turan, Veloso coming through.
Plus big money doesnt garauntee sucess.
I will name one player - Hugo Viana.
71 Steven1979 // May 21, 2008 at 16:13
http://www.fotomac.com.tr/gal119.html
72 Az // May 21, 2008 at 16:16
JJ
Big fat sam wanted to build up slowly and look what happend!!! Also Mike Ashley has told KK he wants a big improvement this season, so how the hell can we do that without spending about £50m?
It can’t be done, if it could every club in the league would be title contenders!!
73 toonoholic // May 21, 2008 at 16:21
JJ , buying a player is always a risk .
surely we can name right from luque to boumsong to viana to marcelinho. But also some of the risk are worth taking.
A very good example is Manchester united . They almost spent 15 mn each on nani and anderson , and i think anderson is much better than all of our midfielders put together.
We can buy players u suggest like davis and gudjhonssen, but at the cost of what ? uefa cup ?
what i am trying to say is , we need to splash money when it comes to midfield because it is midfield that can make or break a team!
look at united , they have ronaldo , scholes etc who can fire at cruicial moment . for arsenal , they have fabregas or hleb or had flamini .
chelsea have geremi or lampard or ballack
and liverpool have mr dependable named GERARD !
As a newcastle supporter i think we are very unlucky when it comes to getting quality midfielders from our youth system . It might be a flaw with our youth system as i recently saw that we did not sign aaron ramsey 2 years back and today he is linked to united and arsenal ! lennon was offered to us for 1 mn during robson era and we thought it was a shrewd deal then and look at him ? wont u like to have a player like him !The last i remember is jenas who has come out from our youth academy.!
when it comes to cb , rb and lb , i would be content with shorey , campbell etc. though i wld love to see a Cb with more flair .
Strikers , i think we just need a replacement for viduka .
Speaking about caroll , Its time he shines up . At this age , rooney was worth 25 mn . If caroll was worth the hype , he wld have proved a point or two . He might become and england internation but then what ? fade out like emile heskey and james beattie ? I think his growth has stagnated , within a year or two if we see no improvement , it looks like we have another championship player in the making .
I rest my case still saying SIGN TURAN and VELOSO!
74 Steven1979 // May 21, 2008 at 16:22
JJ: i have to remember u justC.Ronaldo. Manchester got him 12 million, he was 18. now they want 100 million for him..
Gudjohnsen 7 million u wrote. u can never get this money back..and he is not good enough for this money..but if we get veloso, turan or gomez may be we have to pay more but its possible that they can achieve great things..we need a Star..
75 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 16:25
Big Sam was useless, you cant compare him to KK. The football he played was negative and he never played to win.
Im not saying get in rubbish players. Just affordable good ones. Because I honestly dont see us attracting top top players at the mom.
If we could we would still need to bring in 9 players to have a decent sqaud with depth.
Do you see our board buying nine players?
Ok get Veloso instead of Davis and Arshravin instead of Benajoun if it pleases you BUT they wont come here (and both are unprovenin the EPL) .
76 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 16:30
There are no garauntees, transfers are always a gamble.
To be quite honest I think our biggest mistake was Owen at 17Mil.
We wouldnt get more than 8mil for him now. And he is nearly 30.
Just think of what young star striker we could have brought in for 17Mil.
8 Mil on boumsong, 10 Mil on Luque, 9 Mil on Viana but where are they now! All big name signings that cost us 30mil and what return did we get? Nada
77 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 16:37
im sooo pissed off today. i thought today would be the day, oh nooooo- just see arsenal spending 13 mill on nasri on the “JUST IN” on sky sports
78 Stami // May 21, 2008 at 16:39
is it just me, or does this kid have the SKINNIEST legs you have ever seen!!! they wont last 5 minutes against the likes of John Terry etc…lol!
79 Ian // May 21, 2008 at 16:39
I agree with JJ, we do need to build up at a sensible pace, the front is good it just needs one solid player to rotate and to cover for injuries, for example Cisse, Johnson or Kitson.
Midfield needs both solid proven older players who dont excite easily and some new talent. The back needs two good players for each position if possible.
Midfield and defense is going to be expensive.
80 Ian // May 21, 2008 at 16:41
Agree about Owen too JJ, Anelka was begging to come to Newcastle and we could have had Andy Johnson too!!
81 Geordie Gerrard7 // May 21, 2008 at 16:46
this remey fella or whatever he is called will end up at arsenal. they signed three more french fellas today
82 Az // May 21, 2008 at 16:49
Arsenal will be a major force next season as usual, the way things are going it looks like we are in for another crap season and won’t qualify for europe
83 nightfall // May 21, 2008 at 16:50
stop talking trash about ashley..at least wait ’till september 1st…
84 JJ // May 21, 2008 at 16:51
Toonaholic - no arguements, our youth system has been a disaster. But that could also be because we get expensive buys in and dont give them a chance.
Jenas unfortunately wasnt our product - he was from Notts Forrest. : (.
Only decent player to come through has been Steven Taylor.
Huntington looks good but they moved him on too. Dunno why.
85 toonoholic // May 21, 2008 at 16:59
yeah hunti was good . was shocked to see him go last year .
86 Ashton // May 21, 2008 at 17:15
Remy is not good enough for us imo
87 Spyro // May 21, 2008 at 17:20
some people on here need to relax, we have ages left
88 craig chisholm // May 21, 2008 at 17:39
toonaholic, not bad comments jenas was a forrest lad, i think he came for around five million eve nall those years ago. the five million then is the equivilent of alot more now thats for sure. oh yeah, chelsea dont have geremi any more, alas we have the donkey! i am just confused about our whole newcastle set up these days, honest. who is runnign what, what the fcuk any of them really are doing, the only one who we knwo for sure what he is doing is kk himself - he is runnign the first team. there was a bloke on here earlier on who said a good point, he saidthat fat sam got the bullet cos he was not giving results fast enough and that ashley has said repeatedly in the early days that he was going to make us great, now he wants top six blah blah… the fact is though, he does not want to spend any money on us… with mort jacking his hand in soon - RIGHT AT THE TRANSFER WINDOW!! - are we seeing them loose interest already i wonder? For sure they do not want to financially back up keegan, we already know that. they wont spend 6 million on the 29 yr old dune cos he is too old, but they wont spend 13 million on turan who is a world class promising talent at 21? what do our board realy want……i have no idea anymore, i certainly dont think they are bothered too much about what goes on on the field as they have no ambition. paying off debt is great and very admirable but it does not have any meaning wotsoever regarding expecting results o nthe pitch and i wish mort would stop harping on about it trying to link the two together…. does he think we are as thick as wisey? so i dont know lads, get a blog going Ed - what does mort and ashley really want??
89 tapir // May 21, 2008 at 21:26
mort have got to comeback here and explained to us what MA and you want!!
Mort
If you are reading this please stop playing your lawyer thing
This is a soccer game you re playing and you need to be fast and not delaying like a court case!!!!!!!!
90 neeraj // May 22, 2008 at 6:45
who other than spurs
dont they have any scouts, they say they would be in top 4 next season and newcastle would not
surprisingly the go for same player as we.
point is get the first signing its getting boring with all this speculations
at least start
91 Piers // May 23, 2008 at 15:10
Newcastle Fanatic…..you have no idea what you are talking about, its people like you who start these worthless rumours which get people like me to have their hopes up for absolutely no reason!
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