Newcastle United have been interested in Argentine and Deportivo La Coruna’s central defender Fabricio Coloccini for over 18 months now, and reports today, in the Independent, suggest that Kevin Keegan and Newcastle may be after him again.
Fabricio Coloccini – Newcastle after him again?
Fabricio would cost around £8M and Coloccini has been known to Premier League scouts over the last few years, but there are some nagging doubts about his suitability for the English game. Glenn Roeder first became interested in the player back in January, 2007.
We’ve always liked Fabricio, but it’s difficult to know how big defenders will do in the Premier league, and you must be physical or else you just will not do well, as we witnessed last season with David Rozehnal.
An advantage with Coloccini is that he is versatile, and has played both at right-back and as a defensive midfielder for Deportivo in Spain.
Coloccini is 6′0″ tall and has appeared 99 times for Deportivo and 27 times for Argentina, and he was was born in Córdoba, Argentina.
He went to AC Milan in 1999 but was loaned out to a number of clubs before he joined Deportivo permanently in 2004.
Coloccini is a good player, but since he’s untested in the English Premier League, he would still be some level of risk if Keegan does sign him.
Coloccini is contracted to Deportivo for the next three years, but the fact that we have just signed another Argentine, Jonas Gutierrez, should help him settle on Tyneside, if he does finally arrive.
Only yesterday, Keegan challenged the club to bring in two defenders, before the squad travels to Mallorca next week.
We’ll have to wait to see if we can achieve that goal, but time is starting to run out in the transfer window, and we just must start bringing some top players to the club.
Comments very welcome.
91 comments so far
Taiwantoon
Jul 25, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Comment #81Not sure if we had tried to sign Aimar, the club hadn’t and wouldn’t make any comments on these kinds of affairs…
Piers
Jul 25, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Comment #82Exactly the type of player we need at this club….would be a terrific sign!
Obafan
Jul 25, 2008 at 5:25 PM
Comment #83I’m getting tired of those rumours. I don’t get carried away anymore (like I did with Aimar). I will be happy if nufc.co.uk gives the news.
Coloccini would be a very good player for us. That’s all I’m going to say.
Jimi
Jul 25, 2008 at 5:42 PM
Comment #84Jesus wept……why does everyone here lick up the bad taste that all the cynics and muppets of our media world leave hanging around the street corners when they know nothing at all!!
I really enjoy coming to this site and reading the articles, even if some of them turn out to be balloney, and I used to enjoy reading the comments…now the comments just depress me. Most of the slagging is completly unfounded. What happened to belief and eternal optimism 🙂
Jimi
Jul 25, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Comment #85KK reigns….
Frankieboy
Jul 25, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Comment #86Collicin and Evans will do for me.
hitman
Jul 25, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Comment #87its all doom and gloom on tyneside jimi
normski1930z
Jul 25, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Comment #88apprently the makems made a bid of 10.5 million for evans and man u told them he is not for sale.;…
Toon raghav
Jul 25, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Comment #89club wouldnt be struggling last season also if kk ws given transfer responsibility.kk rulezz
Toon raghav
Jul 25, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Comment #90we cant afford Coloccini .MA wants to take us to championship & win it,he wants to win something atleast.
NUFCAl
Jul 25, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Comment #91This guy fits the bill of what we need, but it’s just all conjecture. Simply recycled speculation because they’ve run out of names to pluck out the air.
I’ve decided I’m not going to judge until the season starts.