We are linked with lots of players in today’s papers, but that’s hardly surprising because we’re always linked with players in the summer.
Florent Malouda – are Newcastle really interested?
But it’s especially true now when Kevin says he wants to bring in three or even four new players in the next 8 days.
The latest player doing the rounds as a Newcastle target is Chelsea’s Florent Malouda, but exactly which source this is from is hard to tell.
It looks like it’s The Daily Mail but they have a whole list of players they say Newcastle are interested in – just in case they may actually get one right. 😀
The players they link Newcastle with are Malouda, along with Antonio Valencia, Marek Jankulovski, Michal Kadlec and Philippe Senderos. We may even be interested in one of those, since we think Kevin still wants a left back and a center-back for our defense, and maybe a central midfielder and one new striker up front.
The 28 year old Frenchman is a good player and very experienced, having represented France 42 times and played for Châteauroux, Guingamp and Lyon, before moving to Chelsea in 2007 for around £13M.
Any move for Malouda is reportedly dependent on Robinho moving to Chelsea, but if he becomes available we’re sure there’ll be more than Newcastle in for the player.
The fee is said to be around £12M, but we see no real proof that Newcastle are even interested in the player, but he would no doubt be a skilled and experienced addition to the squad, but whether he’s worth £12M is the real question.
We have a feeling there’s better and younger available players for less than that figure.
But we’ll see soon, since there’s not too long to wait until midnight of September 1st coming around, and it’s looking like that could be another late night for Newcastle supporters.
Comments welcome.
71 comments so far
clinta
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Comment #41testing… testing….
Davies
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Comment #42I hear Saviola’s interested in coming if Real will let him go.
Matthew Tom
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Comment #43Saviola would be good. Malouda’s done nothing in a year and I’d need some serious convincing that he has anything to offer a team where N’Zogbia, Duff and Gutierrez are also fighting for the left wing spot.
Paulie Walnuts
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Comment #44Cant even see the blog unless I use a proxy server. Maybe that nice Mr Ed has banned me for some reason!
big al
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Comment #45its all paper talk dont believe for one minute where in interested in molouda are senderos aint no better than what we got rid off !
shearer4pm
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Comment #46nightfall
LB – zhirkov
MC- ribery
ST- benzema
i would love that, if you let him know, and if he comes thru i will get is face tatooed on my left nut
haha
neeraj
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Comment #47http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florent_Malouda
i know its wiki………….
HATE PRAN SANDWICHES
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Comment #48there’s better players out there for that sort of money!??
toon head
Aug 24, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Comment #49…..
Piers
Aug 24, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Comment #50No…. he’s a good player but we already have too many players on the left
richie
Aug 24, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Comment #51please try fix blog,posts not showing or delayed
harrier
Aug 24, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Comment #52where is fernando? tee hee
mtltoon
Aug 24, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Comment #53Good result on saturday , clean sheet and 3 points ,carn’t wait to see who signs next week after being linked with anyone who plays football , hopefully not malouda though
The Entertainers
Aug 24, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Comment #54It puzzles me why alot of players of late linked to us are left wingers / left midfielders.
Arda
Reyes
Malouda
The new Argie fellow @ the olympics
Do we really need a left winger when we have
Duff
Jonas
Zog
and even Milner
The only positive i can see is having a quality LW, say Arda or Malouda and play Jonas on the right and have two very positive wingers playing.
Kev loves his wingers, the fans love attacking football and Ashley loves fans …..(filling his stadium).
Perversely an average result against Bolton and less than 50,000 fans in the stadium culd work for us and get Ashley to dig deep !
Heres hoping.
sirjasontoon
Aug 24, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Comment #55Not working does not compute..no to maluda too old too slow not a wow signing does not i repeat compute bleep bleep
sirjasontoon
Aug 24, 2008 at 7:24 PM
Comment #56This blog is a nause these days zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Tom_Toon
Aug 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Comment #57NO! Malouda even manages to look crap in a good Chelsea team!
Ammo
Aug 24, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Comment #58Hi there guys,,
Just have a little bit of information. I was stood around byt the St james main reception yesterday waiting for my mate who had my season ticket. he didnt appear until about 3.05pm but i was more than interested in what was going on in the reception.
Two of our players – Kezenga Lua Lua (on crutches incidentley) and Wesley Ngo Baheng were chatting to a south american looking lad.
Now ive spent the majority of today trying to find a player that looks similar and the closest i can get is that De Maria guy, though the guy in the reception looked far more well built than the pics ive seen of him.
Im Sure it was a potential signing, looked in his early 20’s with olive skin.
So remeber you heard it here first.
Ps- it could just be a mate of the boys though i hope not!
ToonRich
Aug 24, 2008 at 8:13 PM
Comment #59A question to the fans that dont want Malouda or another winger…
Q: Who do we play on the wing if Milner does get sold, and if Duff is out for more than a month or two??
IMO Malouda could be a better option than Duff, allowing KK to play Jonas on the right 🙂
daiv
Aug 24, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Comment #60This blog only sends one in five posts. i’ve got better things to do than get frustrated here. I watch NUFC.
justeye
Aug 24, 2008 at 8:16 PM
Comment #61whoever newcastle sign in the next 8 days have to be the right personality to fit into our squad we are in desprate need off top class young player like arsnals adybyor or cesc fab or manus rooney ronaldo ,we should also pick up sendros not the most fashionable choice but a fairly tidy defender whos done all right 4 the gunners so why not us also we need a good right back and why not go for finnan from liverpool would prove v good competition to beye apart from that most importantly offload ameobi and bring in bianchi from man city would prove an excellent signing under keegan and his style of football that guy is some player if you cater for him
Toon Graeme
Aug 24, 2008 at 8:48 PM
Comment #62I think it will go down to the wire this week!
scottish mag
Aug 24, 2008 at 8:52 PM
Comment #63u guys cant tell me u wouldnt of had him if he played like he did for lyon, i mean he must have shown something for chelski to splash out 13m on him
skin d
Aug 24, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Comment #64according to the ever reliable wikipedia,malouda is a newcastle player.
nightfall
Aug 24, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Comment #65shearer4pm – 😀
personaly i’d love if we got AT LEAST zhirkov from that 3…i mean jonas and zhirkov bombing from the wings…good luck gallas, toure, etc. 🙂
Dave
Aug 24, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Comment #66No Chance on Malouda.
If any Chelsea players come here in the next week it’ll be Wayne bridge and Shaun Wright-Phillips….mark my words.
Lee H
Aug 24, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Comment #67Well we have a history of signing players from Chelsea, who knows ?
Hardly a wow signing, but a decent one if no one else appears.
Ben_BKK
Aug 25, 2008 at 6:19 AM
Comment #68justeye – Bianchi has recently signed for Torino…
WesToon
Aug 25, 2008 at 7:38 AM
Comment #69MORNING LADS!!!
Great result on the weekend,Bolton are a very difficult team to break down & then we go and beat them with a HEADER??? AHAHAHAH…football is a funny game
Also on Mickey Owen,(from last season too) for a small man he scores a lot of headers(name one other small man who scores more headers) We NEED him to SIGN ASAP 🙂
We also need three more in ATLEAST!!!
LB,AM,STR
PLS THE TOON!!!!
t-g-w
Aug 25, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Comment #70Don’t rate him at all. We already have better players than Malouda at the club.
Don’t believe this is a true story either as I thought Malouda was unhappy in England full stop so wanted to move abroad. hence the poor performances for Chelsea.
scott9
Aug 25, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Comment #71i agree with the person who said jimmy bullard would be a gud signing he is outstanding i dnty see why we dnt go for him he is an exellnet player he can pass cross tackle everything and wudnt come to expensive.