Our former stalwart central midfielder, the great Gary Speed, has said today that he believes Newcastle United new boy Danny Guthrie will be a great signing for Kevin Keegan.
Gary Speed – great midfielder for Newcastle United
Gary Speed, who is now 38, should know what he is talking about, because not only did he play over 200 games for Newcastle United between 1998 and 2004, but he also played alongside young Danny Guthrie at Bolton Wanderers last season.
Speed thinks the 5’9″ midfielder will prove to be a very good buy for the Newcastle club.
The former Welsh international talked to the Evening Chronicle today:
“Danny is a very good player and he will be a great signing for Newcastle.”
“I know because I played with him at Bolton last season in the same team and he did very well.”
“He did take a little bit of time to settle into the team but he is still a young player.”
“And once he was in the team he stayed there and became a regular.”
“He did well once he was in despite Bolton struggling.â€
Speed knows that Bolton Wanderers wanted to keep Guthrie, but we think once the player knew Newcastle were after him, he made up his mind to join former Liverpool legend Kevin Keegan on Tyneside.
Speed, who played 85 times for Wales, and is tipped to be a future manager of his country, feels that Bolton Wanderers fans will be disappointed to see Danny join a rival Premier League side.
Several weeks ago Danny had told his friends in Liverpool that he would be joining Newcastle United in the summer.
Speed added:
“The Bolton fans took to Danny straight away and they wanted the club to sign him from Liverpool.”
“I think the Newcastle fans will like him too.”“He’s energetic and an honest lad. He should do really well.â€
Guthrie is from Shropshire and has starred for England at youth levels, beginning with the England Schoolboys side in 2003, while he was with Liverpool.
Danny is one the fringe of the England Under-21 side, and he made 7 appearances for the Liverpool first team, in all competitions.
He also played a total of 35 appearances in all competitions for Bolton Wanderers last season.
Comments welcome.
152 comments so far
Seymour Butts
Jul 12, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Comment #81saying that we NEED to spend lots is extremely small minded and as shown in the past can fail miserably! you can get very good players for small amounts of money as shown with arsenal, portsmouth and everton who are all very tidy when it comes to buying good players on the cheap. clichy for example cost 250k. daiv, are you saying you wouldn’t take that just because its cheap??? who cares if we havent spent very much in getting these players in i’d prefer we didn’t to be honest and if the other clubs think that we’re losing our grip then so be it we’ll show em all next season.
harrier
Jul 12, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Comment #82normski you were saying that this is going to be the start to some more ambitious signings and i was agreeing. I am in a bad mood right now cause i am hungover and i am sick of seeing these idiots slating keegan’s purchases. What do you guys want? Another new owner and manager? Another season of instability? Judge them on their product once it is complete. “just see NUFC play average football, getting now where fast!!” You haven’t seen them on the pitch once. How the hell do you know how good they will be? If we are in midtable by january, i will agree, but let keegan do his thing.
normski1930z
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Comment #83fair enough harrier all am saying is “get your head checked”is abit of a personal attack at me for no reason…..and for the record i havnt slated any of the signings i am just hoping for more..
HATE PRAWN SANDWICHES
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Comment #84Obafan2 – here were Chelsea before, Abromovich?? look at them now!! Im not asking for that but Im asking for more money to compete!!! when we all insomeway or another invest into the club to watch good football!!!
Spyro
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Comment #85Chelsea were a good club before Roman
normski1930z
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Comment #86yes but they wernt in the top table bracket before roman came along they were 90 million in debt and were giong to have to sell players off…
9 Shearer
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Comment #87Lets all relax a big signing is coming. KK loves the club and he will only bring quality to the club. THe quality signing will come remember guys this transfer season is full of surprises so stop speculating it all sucks.
Line up for friendly against THe POOLS.
………………….Given…………………………
Beye…….Taylor…….Cacapa……Enrique
Milner……..Butt……….Guthrie……..Duff
……………Owen(C)……..Martins………….
We will see how owen and martins play up front together. I jst cant wait.
HATE PRAWN SANDWICHES
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Comment #88Do Chelsea fans care????
I certainly would love NUFC to be where chelsea are now!!!
London Mag
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Comment #89Daiv, do you fully understand that without MA’s purchase of the club we would very likely
be in administration with a minus 15 points to our name. Some supporters are being totally
unrealistic. I ve watched this club for 45 years and also spend a fortune travelling home and away, and home is a 700 round trip. You and others need to understand that 72% of total income was going on player wages. That doesn’t leave a great deal to run the rest of the business, which costs a fortune to run on match days alone.
Where is the profit you talk about. There simply isn’t one.
You are obviously a fan who appeared around the early to mid 90’s and think it is our god given right to be at the top. Unfortunately football isn’t and has never been like that. It has to be earned. It took Ferguson years to win his first trophy. If we had beaten them in a cup tie in
the 80’s he would have been sacked. How did he
succeed, with kids.
Wenger likewise. Toure £750,000, Clichy nowt
and it goes on.
They both proved you don’t need to put the club into hock to build a football team.
Lets just get behind MA and lets see if his youth policy works.
Taiwantoon
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Comment #90@Seymour Butts
I don’t think anyone is saying that we need to spend big. What ppl like daiv are saying is simply that we need a few more proven quality if I am not wrong.
We are all aware of the fact that the club is not in the position to attract the likes of Ronaldo, Etoo…etc. Anyway, I like the policy to sign young talents, just like the good old Sir Bobby era.
Our problem is that the club seems to put too much emphasize on re-sell value of players. Our current policy is as unbalanced as the FFS one and this could backfire us.
DG is very likely to turn out to be a good buy for us in 2-3 years time, but we also need someone now. As much as I dislike Joey Barton, I don’t think DG is already as good as he is.
London Mag
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Comment #91Daiv, another thing, you support your team through thick and thin regardless. SJP would probably be a better place without the likes of you. Gan shoppin wi your lass on a Saturday instead. Or do you go to the game to have a good
old moan. Divvy!
normski1930z
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Comment #92Taiwantoon you are making a very valid point there dude……
9 Shearer
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Comment #93As said earlier by one of our mates we ve many proven players many clubs would love to ve. Lets forget the last 2 seasons we ve hard wrong managers bt now we ve KK. You are using previous results to judge our players which aint right lets judge them from the pre season games.
Hadji
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Comment #94HPS….They dont care atm,but do you realize that its all down to one man and that man is Roman.What happens if he quits one day,they’ll ship out Chelsea to 4 th league to play agains Forrest Green and Stafford Rangers.
Always think 10 years ahead HPS and not just for tomorow.
Angryman the Angry Fan
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Comment #95SPYRO, you say a proven player could come in and be crap for us and be a waste yeah, so what makes you think an unproven player is gonna come in and light the place up? And if he doesnt? 1mill 2mill threemill whatever, would that not be a waste?
If i were a betting man, I would bet that the proven player would be better than an unproven player anytime of the day!!After all, they are PROVEN!
You say you havent seen guttierez play and yet you say he is a good signing??
I am interested in your logic on these comments.
PS your comments also contradict themselves with your constant slating of Taylor, you advocate signing low cost, players for the future…..This lad is free, 21 year old and learning his trade. Danny Guthrie 1-2mill, learning his trade and 21 years old. Similarities are remarkable yet you would drop Taylor??
Taylor is the under21 captain, remind me of Danny Guthries International record?
Lets have a bit of parity in your comments lad!!!!
AndyNUFC
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Comment #96you never no he could either be a gem like speed and lee
or a disaster like viana n jenas
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Firstly, Viana wasn’t exactly a disaster, he just lost form. Jenas however was a heartless cockney who was stupid and young, the handball against Arsenal a prime example, he loves London, the ****
Angryman the Angry Fan
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Comment #97Joe, if Ashley was indeed ‘stitched’ by Shepherd…he has one person to blame!! Yip you got it, himself……
Before the purchase of any company, the buyer, by law, must be given access to the company accounts to carry out due dilligence on the financial health of the business they are about to purchase.
If this isnt carried out correctly, then the purchaser has only themselves to blame. Which leads me to the analogy used by Mr Ashley ‘ that is a very expensive seat i am sitting in’ he knew that before he bought the club and promised us the good times back!!!
9 Shearer
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Comment #98Lets talk abt something else u all seem to pissed off
Hadji
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Comment #99Daiv….Thats the beauty of the transfer market,you buy for 1,5 mill then you sell him for 10.
Adebayor was bought for 4-5 mill and will be sold for at least 23 mill pounds.
How much Spurs paid for Carrick,was 2.75 mill i believe,and 15 mill pure profit
how much we paid for Jenas….4 mill
I have at least 50 players in my head right now who dont worth more than 2 mill but will worth at least 4 times more in few years.
HATE PRAWN SANDWICHES
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Comment #100Hadji – All im saying is if the club (MA) spend money in good quality investments such as a mixture of talented youth, and quality experience ! and not waste money!! every season!!the fans would be happy!!
Davey G
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Comment #101Angry Fan,
SPYRO/Dragoner thinks that Cacapa is the best defender at the club and allardyce was the best manager we had. Honest!!
that is why he has it in for Taylor. Its not about ability or anything with the lad!!He just hates being wrong!
Mitch H
Jul 12, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Comment #102Daiv, you sound a right bitter little mug.
Why on earth would you slag MA, when he has sorted our club out.
Debt paid off, youth policy sorted, KK installed.
60 days till the transfer window closes?
Take your negativity elsewhere mate, it aint the geordie way.
Joe
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Comment #103Angryman the Angry Fan in response to your comment I am well aware the purchasor in any transaction may carry out a due diligence prior to completing a given transaction. However, there are ways to manipulate financial statements and company records to hide the true extent of a companies financial position, an individual may also undertake window dressing to further cloud the true extent of the position. I do not want to analyse this too much but Newcastle were extremely highly geared (an accounting term) meaning they have high levels of debt in relation to equity. This makes the company more susceptible to insolvency.
The point I was making was that we were fighting relegation for large chunks of last season, if we went down, the so called balloon payment would not have saved us. Ashley has taken on Newcastle investing circa 1/6th of his own money, cleared the debt. The Glazer bought Man Utd but passed the debt on to the company, they owe nearly 700m to Banks. Ashley, does sit in an expensive seat, but he also understands there is no such thing as a quick fix, give it time, we will reap the rewards.
Shearer4eva
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Comment #1044 some reason, i think we have the money but we just coundnt attract.. how much player has snub us anyway by now? I think KK had to do us all again, rebuilding us from basic.
Those who said ashley never spend is a bit weird. Fat Sam did buy last season couple of quality with beye n enrique? the others well.. not quality just overrated
Kaler
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Comment #105Like others on here I am starting to get pissed at Ashley… However, the transfer window is still open and i’m going to keep myself from slating him until it closes. If by then we haven’t spent at least £5mil on a player then i’ll be joining the crowd on the steps on St. James’ in protest at the f..
I mean, we were in for Modric right? We must have bid at least 10mil for him, fingers crossed we will pull at least one 10mil+ star signing out of the bag before the new season.
canmag
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Comment #106buying expensive doesn’t always work , look at some of the big buy’s that came and were pure rubbish ,remember rob lee what we payed for him and what a player he turned out to be.
Mitch H
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Comment #107i’d much rather bring in 10 good young prospects than spend the same money one one or two trophy signings.
This club’s been neglected for years & we are way behind the top 4.
MA’s investement in youth is the way forward.
3-4 years down the line, we may well see a young newcastle side to be truly proud of.
The last time we could honestly say we had a team to be proud of was the last time KK was in charge.
HATE PRAWN SANDWICHES
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Comment #108Mitch H – MA knows exactly what he is doing!! he brought KK in knowing the fans would buy up any left over season tickets!!!
He Bought the club for an estimated £135million and paid off the debit of £80 – 100million, redeveloped an up and coming youth policy!! why???
To make the club as attractive to potential buyers!! investors??
where is all of our money as fans pay going???
In his pockets!!!!
yes we need a youth policy but we also need quality experience!! and that cost money!!
You are the “mug” if your willing to pay a geat deal of your own money to watch average players!!
Spy
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Comment #109Ooh look, Huntelar is on his way or is it Modric or perhaps its Diego..Why the hell would these top class players want to come to Newcastle when you have nothing..No Champions league , no EUFA cup etc you dont even have any truely world class players..I am not a WUM but its fact..You cant even pay decent wages anymore and your boss is trying to reduce wages and cut costs . Until you guys get to the form of yester years, then you can forget all these pipe dreams. The best you can hope for at this time are the Guthries of these world..Good luck!
Mitch H
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Comment #110hate, shush mate your embarrassing.
Your paraniod mate, i’d get to the docs if i where you.
Oh & while yer at it, find yourself a new club & give us all a break, from your constant utter drivel.
Spyro
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Comment #111how many times has wheater been captain of u-21 england again? who was recently called up to the senior squad? was it taylor? ermmm….
Dan13
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Comment #112Am sick of all you ‘mugs’ thinking MA has some sort of conspiracy for the club. He bought the club as a ‘toy’ and for some fun.
I believe he’s a genuine guy and he put KK back at the healm because he enjoyed watching the entertainers back in the day.
He’s obv gave a half decent budget in we were in for Modric.
Whether you want to buy a season ticket to see our club develop and generate a good atmosphere which us Geordies are known for is up to you.
Stop all the bitching on here man lads, Its worse than big brother.
Dan.
Mitch H
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Comment #113I watch my team, come rain or shine, good, bad or indefferent.
Thats whats called being a true supporter.
Yer comments say it all really.
Mitch H
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Comment #114Nice 1 Dan, spot on !
Dan13
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Comment #115🙂
AndyT
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Comment #116I really hope we sign Inler, but I’m glad we have signed Guthrie. He might be young and less well known, but he has played a bit for Liverpool and got real Premiership experience with Bolton. Inler certainly looked good for Udinese and Switzerland. But just in the back of my mind is Albert Luque. Fantastic at Deportivo, big money signing, coudln’t do it in the Premiership now doing ok with Ajax.
Mitch H
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Comment #117Inler would be a great buy 4 sure. Its whether we are a, after him & b, whether KK etal can pursuade him to come to SJP.
Lets hope KK can convince the lad to come to SJP. He’d certainly be a Toon favourite in no time, if KK managed to get him in.
Matthew
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Comment #118HATE PRAWN SANDWICHES // Jul 12, 2008 at 18:22
Mitch H – MA knows exactly what he is doing!! he brought KK in knowing the fans would buy up any left over season tickets!!!
He Bought the club for an estimated £135million and paid off the debit of £80 – 100million, redeveloped an up and coming youth policy!! why???
To make the club as attractive to potential buyers!! investors??
where is all of our money as fans pay going???
In his pockets!!!!
yes we need a youth policy but we also need quality experience!! and that cost money!!
You are the “mug†if your willing to pay a geat deal of your own money to watch average players!!
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How about posting some figures to back up your claim that Mike Ashley is pocketing the profits, how much profit is the club making exactly?
That’s open to Daiv and craig chisholm too if they feel like answering.
Dan13
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Comment #119he isn’t doing ok with Ajax
he played very little and is now up for sale after a bust up
normski1930z
Jul 12, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Comment #120andy luque has just been released by ajax mate…