There is news today that Tottenham Hotspur want to beat Manchester City and land Newcastle’s Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given.
Shay Given – Newcastle’s world class goalkeeper wanted by Spurs?
This is news from the Daily Mirror so take it with a huge pinch of salt, but Harry Redknapp still needs to bring an a goalkeeper to replace Brazilian Gomez, who just doesn’t look the part in the Premier league.
Apparently Man City have already bid £8M, but that’s probably above the £6M second bid from Eastlands that has been widely reported.
Man City say they will not overpay for players, but when you bid 100M for one player – give me a break – please.
So we’re hoping that Man City will make a stupid bid for Given, because then the Newcastle club would find it hard to turn down.
We don’t want to lose Given but anywhere in the range of 14M would be very hard for the club to turn down for a 32 year –old goalkeeper, especially when we have local lad Steve Harper as a ready made replacement, and we need to let one of these top goalkeepers go otherwise we’ll probably see Tim Krul leave the club in the summer. For pastures anew.
Apparently Brazilian keeper Heurelho Gomes now wants to return to the Dutch Eredivisie, with his old club PSV Eindhoven ready to pay £5M to Spurs for his services. That would be an honorable way out for Gomes, who makes too many mistakes to be a top level goalkeeper.
The news is that Daniel Levy and his representatives are preparing a bid for the Irishman.
The Arab billionaires of City have been a little silly in their bids for world-class Given, when you consider they paid a whopping £14M for West Ham’s Craig Bellamy, who is lucky to be fit for half a season every year, and the same amount for Chelsea’s reserve team left-back Wayne Bridge.
Neither player is worth that amount, and they’d be lucky to be worth even half the amount, which would nevertheless be closer to their real value.
The news that midfielder Jamie O’Hara could be included as part of the package from Tottenham is especially interesting, since this lad looks like a winner, and even scored against Newcastle when they won 2-1 in the Carling Cup earlier in the season.
Whether he would want to come to Tyneside is of course another matter, since we’re hardly the club we once were when Bobby Robson was managing things on Tyneside. That’s before Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall sacked Bobby, for finishing in 5th place in the Premier League – after previous seasons of being 3rd and 4th respectively – just not good enough. 🙁
We are so unbalanced right now as far as players go, that we need defenders and central midfield players, but on the other hand we are very well off in the goalkeeper spot.
And it’s because of that reasoning that we think a big bid for Given, could be accepted by Newcastle, although we’d still be sorry to see Given, the best goalkeeper Newcastle have ever had, leave the club.
What do you think?
Comments welcome.
405 comments so far
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Comment #41ryan toon it’s not a f**king lie
my mates uncle is a blackburn scout and he is going there tommorrow or something so i dnt know full details and why would i make up a lie about blackburn
tosser
Doocey
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Comment #42Shay not Shea lol!
Doocey
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Comment #43Tom_Toon, have to disagree, Given is the best in the Premier League.
Cech is poor from crosses as is Reina, Given is pretty good at them.
Given is a wonderful shot stopper yes, but he has so many other qualities as well.
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Comment #44ltoontomarmy
LEEDS PLAYED TODAY, IDIOT
BT9MAG
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Comment #45Doocey how much is he on a week – I thought Rio Ferdinand signed a ridiculous deal a few years ago that put him as the highest – Terry must be up there aswell!
Brazilian Geordie
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Comment #46Doocey, just visited your blog. Terrific!
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Comment #47come on, people saying shay isnt a good goalkeeper, hes the fifth best in the world!
Doocey
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Comment #48Jermain Beckford? Good striker but Blackburn can have him
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Comment #49beckford scored two today, so how are blackburn gonna scout him tommorow? liar
Alex
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Comment #50Letting him go to the spuds would be a fu@king disaster , we would be giving our relegation rivals a world class keeper . Lets face it they are in as big a mess as we are , so letting them have Given is a massive NO , NO , NO . If he leaves let it be to Citeh for massive money plus a couple of their players
Tom_Toon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Comment #51Given is vastly overrated, cant command his defence, flaps at crosses, his kicking is diabolical, he never comes off his line.
Doocey
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Comment #52Thank you Brazillian Geordie, Glad that you liked 🙂
Your Brazillian footballing knowledge could come in handy for my site, rumours in Brazil etc. Have you got a hotmail address?
BigB75
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Comment #53hey guys would we have a better chance at getting the leeds players as the Midget is our director of football?
Doocey
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Comment #54Tom_Toon. What defence?
If he played behind a reliable defence you would change your opinion.
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Comment #55Ryantoon
Just becaause they played today doesnt mean he can’t scout him
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Comment #56http://www.staderennais.com/index.php?rb=22&id=AT4659
mbia played tonight, so we can forget him IMO
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Comment #57Ryantoon
turns out he went today, i know this looks like i am trying to lie
but my friend dan is from leeds and his uncle is a blackburn scout and he went today
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Comment #58toontomarmy
usually when you scout you watch and he WONT be playing tommorow FACT
Tom_Toon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Comment #59Oh yeh and Given’s positioning is poor.
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Comment #60toontomarmy, get you facts right then i wouldnt question it
tyneside tommo
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Comment #61Just a reminder. In our haste to sell our best ever keeper and current player it should be remembered that Harper has so far failed to sign the new contract offered to him last year.
I also recall recent speculation that he too was to prompt a £500k bid from the Spuds.
Still, I’m sure JFK will explain it all in his usual honest fashion!
The fact that we’re also being linked with strikers would suggest approaches have already been made behind the scenes for Michael and that Ashley is set to off-load him too.
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Comment #62Ryantoon
if you read what i last posted he watched them today i am not saying he is going to sign for them his uncle just scouted him today
Brazilian Geordie
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Comment #63Of course Doocey, I’d be delighted to help you.
My hotmail: joaolutterbach@hotmail.com
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Comment #64Ryantoon
i have my facts right now, so don’t question it
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Comment #65ok toontomarmy, but it seems youre lying but forget it
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Comment #66in all fairness i wouldnt probably believe you if you said it and made a mistake about the day
but i am just saying this is what my friend say
and if i was going to lie i would go on a blackburn blog
tool
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Comment #67also youre attitude is a bit nasty aswell
Doocey
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Comment #68RyanToon, you always try to start an arguement lol!
M’Bia playing tonioght means nothing
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Comment #69i know it is because i can’t stand being called a liar when i am not lying, maybe my friend is lying and his uncle isnt a blackburn scout but he sounds pretty devastated
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Comment #70I am with doocey just because he is playing tonight doesnt mean we wont sign him
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Comment #71RyanToon, you always try to start an arguement lol!
M’Bia playing tonioght means nothing
seems like you want one LOL, no doocey he comes on here saying beckford will be scouted tommorow when he played today so in my eyes he lying but really i dont care about him
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Comment #72if mbia played tonight then he could of got injured and ruined a potential move so im not sure hell come, doocey well get skjelbred anyway 🙂
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Comment #73i got one fact wrong, and i don’t understand why you think i would lie over a player possibly going to blackburn
TOONtomARMY
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Comment #74skjelbred wont come
BigB75
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Comment #75TtArmy how do you know that….?
Doocey
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Comment #76Don’t be too sure Ryan..
Tom_Toon
Jan 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Comment #77Shut the **** up!
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Comment #78toontomarmy
how do you know? have you had him scouted? LOL
doocey, im 90%
RyanToon
Jan 24, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Comment #79tomtoon
why?
Tom_Toon
Jan 24, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Comment #80Cos you are both acting like 8 year old’s, it is embarrassing