News today that Newcastle are eyeing a move for Birmingham City goalkeeper Jack Butland, who at 19 is one England’s most promising goalkeepers, and of course he represented Great Britain in the London Olympics last summer.
Jack Butland – a Newcastle target in January
And since Steve Harper will be leaving the club when his contact expires at the end of June, we need another goalkeeper coming in – but spending £4M on one in January, doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to us.
Goalkeeper is not a weakness in the side through the end of the season, although Tim Krul has not shown the excellent form he was in last season, and surely Newcastle should be bringing in a striker and some defenders and also a creative central midfielder in the short time left in January?
Jack stands 6′ 5″ tall and would give good competition to Dutch International Tim Krul, but we hardly need to spend time trying to get another goalkeeper in, when other positions in the side are so lacking in competition.
Of course Jack is a perfect recruit for Newcastle, and it seems Birmingham City need the money and will sell the Great Britain goalkeeper this month – so if Newcastle really want him – we suppose they will go after him now – although they will face competition from some bigger clubs.
Butland has made 27 league appearances for Birmingham, and 24 appearances on loan at Cheltenham over the last couple of years, and we’d be very surprised if big Jack arrives at Newcastle this month – but there again – we’ve been wrong before. 😀
What do you think?
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744 comments so far
t00ntime
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Comment #721QPR play tonight i’m 99% certain if he did/is signing for QPR dogchops will say so in pre match confrence OR he will be in the stands. So we will find out at around 20:00pm
boater
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Comment #722By the way ‘Williamsosuks’ – to choose a username that abuses a player of the club you ‘support’ is about as cowardly and low as its possible to get on here. I don’t like getting personal – but I can’t tell you how badly that reflects on you as an individual – whoever you really are.
GAZ09
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:16 PM
Comment #723@721
Fact is williamson does suck!
toonLYF
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:16 PM
Comment #724Aubamayang seems like a right cnt to me. He has a pair of boots completely covered in diamonds, that probably about 20-30 african children lost their lives whilst mining for them.
He is also not as good as everybody on here seems to think, and Wissam Ben Yedder would be a far better option, and cheaper i imagine.
Rotonda heights
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:18 PM
Comment #725boater
Well pardew’s style dictates we won’t score many, what was it – 1 real shot in anger at Norwich in 90 mins.
Pardew tries to nick 1-0s and sit on it, never goes for a second goal. So on that basis we are better off with a great CB than forwards.
Kind of glad we missed remy. he’s 26 and a bit injury prone and that type of striker relies on explosive pace. when that’s gone, little else in his armoury.
Sazzer
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Comment #726Tsunki, Nothing or wait only got 999 and 1001.
jammylambo
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Comment #727i have to say thankyou to “TINO99”
the link to the article on talksport made for very good reading.
cheered me up a bit considering the absolutely dour news that has been blown our way for, well quite some time now. i hope this window doesnt end up starting brightly but piterring out into nothingness, its not fair on us as fans , and frankly its not fair on debuchy , hes a great signing and im very excited to see him at our club , just hope a depressing transfer saga doesnt drag his name through the mud of this blog either. or worse the transfer gets ignored entirely .
Williamsonsuks
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Comment #728@Boater expected some flack for the name, that’s what I see when ever he is on the park.
Jackel001
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:20 PM
Comment #729Hey. I’ve browsed this Blog for a long long time and now I decided to sign up so Howdy!
This is the last thing I wanted to see, to me this could pave the way for Krul to Man U and De Gea to Madrid!
By the way, anyone think that this suppose “Medical” for Remy at QPR is taking a hell of a lot longer than usual?
Adssy Mccc
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Comment #730This is such a distraction. I don’t have time to keep checking for updates/rumours, but I feel compelled to do so…
I was lifted when I thought we’d get Remy, in a really good mood in general. Now I feel like crap again! Most of us get optimistic ahead of each window – because we want it to happen so badly! BUT in reality we get let down more often than not.
Frustration and disappointment don’t even come close, but then if we were to sign just two decent players that most agree can help us out, all of a sudden the blog is buzzing again and we feel optimistic again.
They don’t even realise or give a flying toss about how the fans react to all these situations. Pardew may do for a second or two and then he’s moving on to focus on the next crisis at the club, which you have to say is expected in some ways (who else is there to do it!).
GAZ09
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Comment #731does anyone actually know when williamson’s contract runs out?
Toon-Prodigy
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:22 PM
Comment #732Remy completed medical.
Will be training with QPR on wednesday.
Finishing touches with marseille and QPR.
boater
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:22 PM
Comment #733papiss9 – Marveaux ? – who had one good 90mins against a ten man team? Has scored 2 goals in 18months – Plus a few flashes here and there whilst we plummeted down the division? That’s your answer to losing Ba? I take it all back – that’s a genius plan.
Last season – 5 against spurs, 5 against fulham last season plus, 4 against norwich and west brom – before manu / arsenal we had only conceded 2 more goals than last season.
We don’t create chances and score goals all season – eventually the defense creaks when there’s no threat going forward.
Before the Man U/ Arsenal games we had conceded only 2 more.
Sazzer
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:22 PM
Comment #734Haidaira says he prefer Roma but if he can’t go there then Newcastle is an option.
Rotonda heights
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:24 PM
Comment #735boater
williamson does suck and if we go down a lot of individual mistakes can be put at his door. he’s not a shrinking violet and he’s paid thousands for impersonating a footballer!!
hadthetshirt
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:24 PM
Comment #736apologies if this has been said but 700 posts to read didn’t inspire me.
AC Milan enquired about Krul so maybe that’s why were after this young keeper.We could do with one as Krul’s form not been too clever this year.
Williamsonsuks
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Comment #737http://nufc.com/2012-13html/squad.html
Gaz all the players contracts.
Munster Mag
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:26 PM
Comment #738Jay at 448 , very true re QPR and the quality of players they have / may have. If we had these, and those they propose, we’d be talking of winning the Europa!! No wonder that journo in tne Sunday Times laughed at the geordie dreamers.
Sazzer
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:27 PM
Comment #739Gaz Willo contract ends 30,6, 2016.
John Tudor
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:27 PM
Comment #740boater @721 for all you know his name might be williamson and he might suk too
liam1985nufc
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Comment #741First post on here, but I regularly read the blog!
I’m really undecided which I feel about Remy joining QPR. Part of me is furious as we should have had the deal tied up a long time ago. When he is at his best, he is pretty lethal, but from other angles (media tales of him turning up drunk for training, £85k p/w (say no more) and being badly out of form at the moment), it makes me think we’ve definitely dodged a bullet for the time being. I wish Sky Sports would stop hanging out of Redknapp’ ar*e though, it is infuriating!
We do really need to pull our finger out now transfer wise. 2 CB’s (if Collo leaves) and an ST are absolutely bare minimum. I would have Danny Graham as a short term option for sure, he will give 100% for us and is a good professional, plus he is still scoring when coming off the bench. As for CB, it’s got to be a toss up between Mbiwa and Sakho if we can get them, plus perhaps getting in a younger CB (preferably English, as we need to have x amount of players from England in a squad).
Once we have these, and finally stop playing bloody hoofball (yes Willo, it doesn’t matter that you are a solid pro, but I’m looking square at you on this one!), and use what served us so well in the second half of last season, I’m convinced we will recover and finish mid-table.
Failure to do this, and a long struggle awaits, and praying that we won’t be doing ventures to Derby, Wolves and Blackburn next season.
Papiss9
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Comment #742boater
Marvaux has done more than that, especially the last month. As long as we were in the game against arsenal, marvaux was one of the best.
And for the goals conceded. look at our back 4 in the games we concede 4 or more goals.. willo and perch are often present. against norwich is was simpson and perch vs holt morrisson.
If your point is, we dont’t need CB this window, i don’t agree with u.
Spreadthetoon
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Comment #743Looks like Proud was full of BS. Well it happens.
Remy looks QPR bound tho weird that nothing has been officially confirmed? Anyway if he wants big wages then he should play for them? In the event that QPR were relegated which I would not wish on any club….but if that happened and then Remy approached NUFC….I would PERSONALLY tell him to Jog on…
So half way through the window and no bites…..I really hope for the sake of the club that we do get the players we need past the line…..cos’ sadly this has got EXACTLY the same hallmarks as last window. If that happens I would table a petition to MA to fire DL and appoint a director of football, someone who understands the game and has contacts and has the same philosophy as the mgr. Anyway still got another 1/2 of the window….so I guess things can only get better….they sure as hell cannot get worse!!
Munster Mag
Jan 15, 2013 at 5:30 PM
Comment #744Prodigy, I didnt get the chance, or have the inclination to dig through your previous messages to check your opinions etc. I just feel there is a massive naivity out there about why players go to certain clubs. So lets bury the hatchet if there was one – we’re all Toon brothers !