Manchester United have today announced that Frazier Campbell, Danny Simpson and Darron Gibson will be on the transfer list and should go looking for new clubs.
Danny Simpson – good young player
And manager Sir Alex Ferguson is hoping the sale of the players will raise as much as £10M.
Hull City, who only escaped relegation because Newcastle had even a worse record than theirs this year, had tried to sign Campbell last summer, and are now pursuing the England U21 International. once again.
He is expected to cost around £5M, but news that both Birmingham (promoted to the Premier League) and Newcastle (relegated from the Premier League) are interested in the £1M Simpson. Newcastle should be able to afford that, once the club sells some of its overpaid, under-performing and disgraced players that took the club down last season.
The 5’9″ 22 year-old right back, had previously been on loan to Royal Antwerp (30), Sunderland (14), Ipswich (8) and Blackburn Rovers, (12) and looked a more than decent player. So the lad has 64 first class appearances under his belt.
Danny was born in Salford, and came through the Manchester United Youth Academy, made 3 appearances for the Red Devils first team, and has one year left on his contract.
But it must be difficult for the Newcastle club to recruit any new players, until they know who the next manager will be, and if it is Alan Shearer the club will still be a big draw, even in the Championship, and have a much improved chance of signing some of these excellent youngsters.
Newcastle seem determined to have a more balanced squad for next season, and are looking for cover at full back with Bristol City’s Bradley Orr, who is also a right back.
Either of these players would be excellent buys as back-up to Habib Beye next season, and it will probably depend on the asking price, as to who Newcastle would bring in.
But that is very much dependent on who the manger will be, of course, as Mike Ashley continues to have the club’s hands tied behind its back, as he seeks a new owner at a most unfortunate time.
There’s no shame in being laid off by one of the best club teams in the world, and all three players should attract considerable interest.
Comments welcome.
50 comments so far
ian
Jun 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Comment #41Supposed to be something about to happen, end of this week early next week, dont know any more than that but it is from a good source.
G 2
Jun 4, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Comment #42Take Gibson in a heartbeat. Campbell won’t come (how bad is that, we cant attract players like this) and Simpson is not good enough to get past Beye or even R.Taylor for right back.
Macas35
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Comment #43Ian – Martins is indeed more effective as a sub, but who else were we supposed to play? And Viduaka looked incredible against Boro, so are you saying it would have been better to leave him on the bench? People seem to be overly critical of Shearer when he took over a bottom 3 side with 8 games left to play, with quite a few tough fixtures. Stoke scored against us courtesy of a corner that shouldn’t have been, we created 3 great chances against Portsmouth but the strikers couldn’t put them away, we had a legal goal disallowed against Fulham and then later a man sent off which meant we had little chance of winning the game, and against Villa we were the victims of a freak own goal. Yes, we got an offside decision against Boro but I would have fancied us to win that one anyway the way we were playing. The stick Shearer gets is unfair, we can only judge him when he has a chance to bring in his own players and had time to settle into the role.
ian
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Comment #44Macas, carroll is who i would have played, I would have stuck with the injured Martins as a sub and Lovenkrands for the rest of the season, if you have a winning formula stick to it.
This is the problem with Shearer, people defending him because of his brilliant football career, that is gone this is management I think he is a bad choice of manager, he has never had anything to do with the championship, he has only known topflight football which is fitting for a player of his quality.
We need a full championship squad and if ashley still has the club every penny must count as there will be no extra to throw at it if it is going wrong.
Rangerman
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Comment #45Carroll and Viduka would be an awful partnership, zero pace or movement between them and both want to play as a target man.
If we had a better option I would agree with you but I don’t agree with throwing the first 70 minutes away by playing an awful partnership in the hope Martins can come on and save us in the last 20.
ian
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Comment #46It may be a waste of 70 minutes it may not, but there is no rule that Martins had to be put on so late, as long as the pace of the game had slowed anything after 50 would have done. Carroll would be better than Owen he was terrible in the last games.
We will never know, but I would have repeated a formula that worked not ones which had failed.
If Martins had been 100% fair enough.
Shearer is getting all of this attention because he was such an outstanding player, local boy and because of Kevin Keegan’s brilliance, but this is so different it is unreal, money was thrown at Newcastle and Keegan used his friendship and networking to attract the right players from top flight football, Keegan was very outgoing, Shearer cannot bring in premiership players he is in the championship on a budget, totally different scenario unless someone hellish rich jumps in and throws money at the job.
AndyT
Jun 4, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Comment #47Macas35, amazingly good points. You can’t judge Shearer on his lack of results on the pitch. The Fulham goal disallowed, and the freak Villa goal are enough to talk about to say that things were just stacked against the guy.
ian
Jun 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Comment #48Andy T so you think they were good results to have on your CV for a job?
Many people thoought one of the best players in the World Gullit would be a superb manager and attract top players.
I think people have lost their heads in a romantic notion. I hope it works if it happens.
Macas35
Jun 4, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Comment #49Ian – I understand where you are coming from in terms of knowing the players in the championship, but the one thing Shearer showed in abundance while he was in charge were his leadership qualities. I just thing we need that so badly right now, and the attraction of playing for Shearer at Newcastle may well bring in players we might not have got otherwise. I just think it’s worth a shot as the positives outweigh any inerxperience he has in the job. He may end up being a brilliant manager or a terrible manager, we just don’t know that yet, but we do know he has a lot of good qaulities that the club will need as it tries to turn itself around.
Tom_Toon
Jun 5, 2009 at 12:04 AM
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