Even though Jose Enrique has been forecast to leave Newcastle for several months now, the player was given a good welcome by the fans on Saturday at St. James’ Park.
Jose Enrique – excellent for Newcastle over the last two seasons
Apart from a wayward tweet that Jose made while on the American tour, he has kept his counsel well, and hasn’t been much of a problem to the Newcastle club.
And of course whatever happens with Jose, and he is till likely to leave to join liverpool soon, he has been magnificent for Newcastle over the last two seasons.
That excellent play started with the promotion season, when he was judged Newcastle’s Player of the Season, and then he helped the team last year consolidate their position in mid-table of the Premier League.
One of Jose’s major concerns at Newcastle is the lack of investment in new players, and Alan Pardew is hoping the signing of Gabriel Obertan, which is imminent, and perhaps one more player this week will help Jose decide to stay on Tyneside.
Pardew has talked about Jose over the weekend, and he had this to say to the local Newcastle press today:
“Jose was in good shape against Fiorentina and you know I want him to stay.” “I can’t make that statement any more clear – no fan out there wants him to stay here more than me.”
“Jose will determine his own future.” “I thought Jose was brilliant and he was up against top players and none of them got any joy out of him. His pace was there.”
“What you saw was a player who has worked hard in the background, even though he hasn’t played recently.”
We don’t know if Pardew’s hopes are simply that or whether he has had some commitment from Jose if Newcastle sign some players and show they are serious about building a good new team, he could stay.
Certainly the acquisition of Yohan Cabaye, Sylvain Marveaux and Demba Ba are three good players who will make Newcastle a lot more skillful than last season, and with Ben Arfa and Dan Gosling coming back from long term injuries, they are like two new players too.
We hope Jose will stay, but Alan says Newcastle are not the only club that are in danger of losing some of their best players:
“You hear lots of rumors and when you are out of contract almost, players are vulnerable.” “When you have players in that situation you are vulnerable.”
“We are almost in the identical situation as Arsenal. They are vulnerable.” “They have Fabregas and Nasri – both of them being hunted by top clubs. And we have the same situation here.”
“I’m afraid that is the way it will always be until we are big enough and strong enough to compete with those top teams. We all know we aren’t near them at the moment.”
There’s a chance, although it’s an outside chance to be honest, that Enrique will finally decide to stay on Tyneside, and if you want to send him a message to ask him to stay at Newcastle you can do so here.
There’s no harm in trying, and Jose is hardly a trouble-maker at the club, and of course he’s an excellent player.
Comments welcome.
247 comments so far
JAMSHA
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:46 PM
Comment #11st
Dannyo
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:47 PM
Comment #2Will give it a go, but it’s hard to stand in the way of a players aspirations and ambitions.
If he goes, i’ll wish him luck.
If he stays, i’ll buy him all the women i can get. Plus he’s one for the Hall of Fame for us imo.
JAMSHA
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:48 PM
Comment #3Osvaldo score’s 2nd goal. We should get him, but will neva happen 🙁
Andy
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:49 PM
Comment #4After the happy birthdays to gervinho i think i’ll give this a miss haha
ilovetoon8788
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:49 PM
Comment #5The french trialist who played for us in the 8-2 win against middlesboro reserves played the first half as a right back. No chance it was Sanogo. Probably an unknown.
smythurs
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:52 PM
Comment #6as long as we have someone lined up and ready to bring in will cushion the blow slightly.i wud be amazed if he stays to be honest,wud love it tho as he has been outstanding in the black and white shirt!
nufc.romania
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:52 PM
Comment #7What are the chance’s to get one of this strikers?
Seydou Doumbia,
Yannick Djalo,
Roman Pavlyuchenko,
Peniel Mlapa,
Danny Welbeck,
Jeremain Lens,
Obafemi Martins,
Rowan Milsted
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:53 PM
Comment #8dannyo
Agreed. I won’t begrudge the bloke, he’s been great for us, I really hope he stays though.
I thought that Sanago stuff was too good to be true. All seemed a bit weird with him not being named on the website’s match report. You never know though, eh?
gonz
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:53 PM
Comment #9Where did you get that information from ilovetoon8788?
gonz
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:54 PM
Comment #10Also, wasn’t Pardew quoted earlier today talking about Jose Enrique and saying something daft like ‘I smiled at him and he smiled back?
Dannyo
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:55 PM
Comment #11@ ilovetoon8788
You’ve misread that part mate, it was Airey who played RB, he’s done it before.
Dannyo
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Comment #12@gonz
Aye, Pards said that, apparently its gone further than just a “Manager-Player” relationship now 😛
KingforToon
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:56 PM
Comment #13@gonz
sound they are gay…haha
ilovetoon8788
Aug 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM
Comment #14@gonz // Aug 8, 2011 at 7:53 PM
From the official site. They were just trying him out on a different position to see where he is most effective. Not Sanogo who is definately a striker and it would be dumb to play him, a fully capped youth international, at right back? He would probably walked off the field insulted.
Most likely he’s just an unknown.
ilovetoon8788
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Comment #15@Dannyo // Aug 8, 2011 at 7:55 PM
Yea just noticed. I probably mis-read that part. It was Airey. My bad. But i just can’t believe a player of his reputation would be allowed on a trial for us. No chance.
Dannyo
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM
Comment #16@ ilovetoon8788
Yeah, if it was him, it’d be extatic, but i cant see him having a trial, as he’s pretty proven already.
Altho he has scored two goals in two matches, must’ve got something in him.
We’ll know within the week me thinks. They’re never here for more than 1-2 weeks.
ilovetoon8788
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:02 PM
Comment #17Scottwilsonecho Scott Wilson
The #NUFC side featured a French trialist up front. Would be signed as a reserves player – should be more details later.
Sums it up. Sanago is a first team quality player and no reserves. Stupid Cwarr07 at it again.
gonz
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Comment #18ilovetoon8788,
I still don’t see where it states your claim on the official site. I read it earlier and don’t remember a mention of a trialist playing at RB. It doesn’t mention any trialist at all, but he did score.
gonz
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM
Comment #19Disregard my last message ilovetoon8788
Mancgeordie
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Comment #20so lads whats the latest? obertan signed yet been speaking to munichs all day about him they can’t believe that red nose taggert is just letting him go for 3m they reckon he is going to be quality, trickey pacey winger very direct a couple even said given games probably gona be better than nani
boonarmy
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Comment #21anyone else excited for the new season regardless of all this transfer hullaballoo!!
Mancgeordie
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:16 PM
Comment #22@boonarmy
yes can’t wait on paper we have potentially a very good squad/side probably could do with a really good strong not very injury prone cb like Dann, Cahill, Samba or Shawcross
Dannyo
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:17 PM
Comment #23@boonarmy
It’s gonna be a hullaballoo of a season mate 😉
I think we’re building on something good, just wish we could build it quicker 🙂
Colo2
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:22 PM
Comment #24@ Kurt // Aug 8, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Found a picture of Yaya Sanogo:
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur35293.html
And here is a picture taken from a Newcastle training:http://www.nufc.co.uk/page/News/Gallery/0,,10278~2411410,00.html
look at the player wearing nr 49, early in the picture gallery. Is it the same player ?
I think it could be him…he’s with the other French players Ba, Cabaye and Marveaux. Would be great if it is him.
danishmag
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:22 PM
Comment #25Jose Enrique has been sold to Liverpool for £5.5 million….
From the Telegraph!
tequilamag
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:23 PM
Comment #26Why bother trying to persuade him to stay? He is going to either bail at the last minute leaving us in the lurch or see out his contract without showing true commitment. The quicker he goes the better
Mancgeordie
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:26 PM
Comment #27lineup everybody fit as we stand atm.
—————krul——————
simo–saylor–colo–jose—
——–tiote—cabaye——
obertan————marveux–
————ben arfa———-
—————ba————–
carling cup team
———–harper———-
raylor—willo–kadar–fergie
——–gosling–guthrie—-
abied——————-jonas-
————vuckic————
————-best————
not bad really and yes no barton because for me he can go
tinoo
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:27 PM
Comment #28# 7
Seydou Doumbia did gestures at the Zenit fans in the match against them. May get a ban and make a move more likely. Who knows!
People talking about relegation need to calm down. Blackburn are far worse than us. You got the newly promoted teams and Wigan.
Wolves not mentioned because of Roger Johnson even though he did relegate with Birmingham. IMHO I think we are just a couple of players short to fight for at least one of the Cups. That’s our shot for Europe as I see it.
Shame though, because if we really did spend most of the money we could be up there. Excited for Saturday.
tinoo
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:29 PM
Comment #29Also, I don’t know much of this Pieters of PSV. LB I’ve read, but what can we expect to see from him?
Toon1978
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:29 PM
Comment #30Colo2
It certainly looks like him lol.
Toon1978
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:31 PM
Comment #31People are now saying the player was Mamadou Doucoure.
ToonAndy
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Comment #32What day and time do France play this week ? Wanting to watch Cabaye
moonraker
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:34 PM
Comment #33danishmag @ 25
F**k off man; my missus will know before the telegraph!
danishmag
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:38 PM
Comment #34moonraker…
thank you for calming my nerves.
Beeing danish i do not know which paper to trust the most.
The Telegraph is a duck, as we say in Denmark.
Andy
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:40 PM
Comment #35http://www.nufc-forum.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=40113.30
Appears that the trialist is mahamadou doucore. Good player on fm also but not as good as sanogo haha. Another ex lens guy. They have a v good rep in france for bringing players through
shearerno9
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Comment #36it has it donw on wikipedia that it was yaya sanago, cant rely on it though….
kilcline
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Comment #37Jose would stay if he got a call up to Spain! Someone needs to do a better job of letting the spanish coaches know!
If he goes he must go play in Champs league, something them dirty rotten bin eaters can’t provide.
Obafan
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:47 PM
Comment #38I think Enrique is gone, why would Pardew go to Holland to watch Pieters. And perhaps it was not coincedence that Pieters did not play. Normally he is their 1st choice LB.
If I would take another player from PSV, I should go for Lens, he has got pace, technique and he is a good finisher.
bosamuelson
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:48 PM
Comment #39@ Colo2 regarding 24 you are wasted on this blog. That is detective work of the highest standard.
Don’t think it is him tho, 😉
gonz
Aug 8, 2011 at 8:49 PM
Comment #40I too want us to go for Lens if Erding is definitely out of the running now