Newcastle United are reported to be interested in 20-year-old Cape Verde defender Pecks, who has also attracted the interest of both Manchester City and Tottenham.
Cape Verdi born Pecks – looks older than 20 – he must worry a lot
The six-foot defender broke into the first team of Portuguese side Gil Vicente only last season, and his powerful and skillful play has attracted some of the top Premier League sides to watch him play in the Portuguese League.
Pecks has played only 10 times for Gil Vicente so far, and he is listed at around £500K by transfermarkt.com, which is within the budget of Newcastle, but that fee doesn’t seem to be very accurate – read on.
But we’ll not have much chance of signing this lad if Manchester City and Tottenham are really interested in him, and City are said to already be in the driver’s seat to get the Cape Verdi born youngster.
Cape Verdi is off the west coast of Africa, directly west of Senegal capital Dakar.
The right footed center-back has already played for his country of birth, and was in the Cape Verde squad in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year.
But if the news that the Gil Vicente President has already slapped an £8M fee on his head, then Newcastle will exit right – and quickly too.
Gil Vicente President Antonio Fiusa had this to say:
“The player has a contract until 2017 and we will not sell for a low price.”
The report is that Manchester City will move in with a £5M offer for Pecks, after they have already watched the 20 year-old several times already this season.
Why is that we think Newcastle will have no chance of signing this player?
Comments welcome.
Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook and +1 us on Google+:
You can also reach Ed at admin@nufcblog.com
157 comments so far
Transfer Sage
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Comment #41TDS
I think most of us, 99% + i dare bet, have accepted that Ashley will not do whats best for the club, he will do whats cheapest.
I think a lot of us think the only way we will kick on is to get a new owner. Therefore trying to get ashley to sell is the only option. We can’t personally do much about getting a new owner, we dont know billionaires who are interested in buying clubs (unless you do then please have a word haha).
Trying to get him to put the club up for sale and actively seek a buyer is probably the most we can do. As for it getting clubs relegated..not sure where that comes from, Blackburn? There fans were appauling protesting during the full 90 mins…not before or after the game.
Everton did it well, protest before games, still finished 6th and the owner came out and explained the situation with selling on sky sports goals on sunday (said he wants to sell as he can’t give them the money they need but he wants to sell to a proper football fan/ambitious person not the first person to offer to buy…even if it means he doesn’t make as much money).
Our Toon
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Comment #42On the subject of our centre halves:
I agree with TDS: Colo, MYM, Saylor (Liability) Williamson (Shocking)
Jail for Ashley
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Comment #43TDsarf,
The fans are a smuch to blame for the breakdown in the relationship with Ashley as much as him, are these the same fans that buy tens of thousands of shirts and fill the stadium just about every other week, how would you have reacted to club legend being shat on from a great height, a midnight candle vigil singing kumbaya my lord, you’re not a fan you cretin.
Transfer Sage
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Comment #44tinman
I think mbiwa doesn’t pick men up well from corners/crosses and also drops too deep playing people onside as he can’t hold a line well.
Now that could be him settling into a new league/team with a bad defensive/coaching system…or he couldbeterrible, who knows.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Comment #45Tinman
The problem is that our “wing backs” are supposed to be full backs! We demanded more attacking play and we have it with 2 attacking full backs, but they need to learn when to attack and when to defend in this league.
As for Saylor…look how far down the pecking order he is for England. I’m not saying he’s useless but saying that he’s a bottom half PL player is hardly a huge insult considering where we finished last year and that 7th or 8th is about the best we can hope for this season.
Tinman
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:51 PM
Comment #46Alright Jail, I admit, that made me laugh… Much better than your Ashely one liners!
Did you see the Lazio protest before the Roma game mate?
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:51 PM
Comment #47MAOC
here are two teams Liverpool and Manchester united both owned by very bad owners called gilletts and glazers. both sets of fans wanted them out both had lots of protesting first year.
Manchester united held onto their great manager
Liverpool lost rafa brought in and football legend Kenny daglish.
the time come and Liverpool were sold in 2010 and brought in a different owner yet not once have they managed to reach the top4 or even get near this year they are no even in Europe
Manchester united have the same owner they all hate still to this minute as the red knights failed to get rid of the owner and arejust gettingon with things like normal. this year things are not looking as good butthey don’t seem to blame the glazers they blaming players and moyse lack of xp.
the best way for the chaos we have with our owner is to just take the stories relating to the owner like a pinch of salt.
he has had the club up for sale for years. he has put money into rangers the players he gets now seem to be panic buyes and the main aim seems to be avoiding relegation.
this is all the plans that a business man would do if he is ready and waiting to leave for another business.
rangers I think are bad into the SPL in two years time so in the mean time instead of letting him pubish more headlines into papers which will involve the world owner of sports direct we should just support the team.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 12:55 PM
Comment #48TS
Ashley won’t do what is cheapest, he will do what brings in the most return for investment.
The Everton owner already listened to the fans, the problem was that he didn’t have the money to invest. For me that’s the way it should be anyway, clubs should only spend what they earn and FFP is supposed to address this. Kinda pointless closing the door when the horses have already bolted though…what chance do the rest of us have of catching the top 6 if we can’t get a little boost?
Blackburn fans were an absolute disgrace, I’d be ashamed if I supported them and saw those kinds of protests. They truly were moronic.
I think the club is always up for sale really. What is needed is for a billionaire to want to buy a football club to see that we have a fanbase that are crying out for our club to be run differently and then he can approach Ashley.
Don’t expect a new owner to get more involved though…but at least hope that he appoints an experienced football person to be the conduit between him/them and the fans.
Transfer Sage
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Comment #49TDS
Well getting the most return long term would be to do what city do….buy big, win things, get champs league and ‘build the brand’ globally. Look to build a huge academy and staff it with the best.
Ashley does everything on the cheap, even delaying sigings at the potential cost to the clubs season.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Comment #50JfA
So that’s my point. What is more important? KK or NUFC?
We know KK is a maverick, he’d walked out on Newcastle allegedly because he refused to sign a new long-term contract to help the flotation of the club and he’d walked out on England too. KK is a passionate man and he’s passionate about this club but his passion can get the better of him as we all know. Should KK have walked out on us the first time or should he just have signed the contract for the good of the club and continued being our manager?
Ashley clearly made a mistake in appointing KK and made another mistake by going up against him. Had it been anyone else (other than Shearer) then he’d have won that battle as he expected to. He didn’t anticipate the feeling that fans have towards their legends.
I could either blame both parties or I could say that the fans were no more to blame at defending a NUFC legend than Ashley was in running the club like he would have run any other business.
Tinman
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:03 PM
Comment #51Of course the club is always up for sale, everything in football is for sale at the right price… Just ask Qatar.
Wish people would stop using that phrase, its so foocking obvious.
JAMSHA
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Comment #52gona play pes 14
roy
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Comment #53Next time you attend a game take note of how many times Colocini is caught by a ball over the top or out of position and of how many headers he actually wins. The lad used to be a good player but now he just flatters to decieve age has caught up with him. Taylor is a Championship player just like Simpson and Perch.
Tinman
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Comment #54Haway Roy, who sh!t in your cornflakes lad
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Comment #55Funny who is perceived as a good owner then…
Man Utd – bad owners as the Glazers have saddled the club with debt and don’t invest enough in the squad
Man City – good owners from their fans’ perspectives but bad from the rest of us because they play fantasy football
Chelsea – as above
Arsenal – good owners from a financial perspective but bad from most fans because they have invested more in the new ground and houses and not much in the squad so have lost ground in competing for trophies
Liverpool – bad owners because they appointed Dogleash and wasted loads of money in the transfer market, plus more debt I believe
Spurs – good owners?
Everton – good owners in that they communicate with the fans but bad owners because they are incapable of getting investment to push them to the next level
Sunderland – ha!
Villa – A club of similar stature to ours reduced to buying youth players and hoping they turn out well
Blackburn – Oops
Wolves – Oops
West Ham – seriously? Yo yo club
You could look at some of the smaller clubs (Norwich, Saints, Wigan, Swansea) and think that they have decent owners but it’s on a totally different scale there and they are just delighted when they get into the PL. When they do get into the PL, their revenue is nearly as high as ours.
So some fans want the kind of owner that Chelski or Citeh have. Personally, the only way I’d like to see the club run is the Spurs way.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Comment #56TS
No it wouldn’t. There’s far too much competition to do that and guarantee success. If a new owner wanted to do that at Newcastle then it would cost much more than it cost Chelski or Citeh. Besides, if we tried to do that now wouldn’t FFP stop us? We’d need to spend about £200M for about 3 years in a row to get a squad to compete for the title every year. Insane!
There’s no guarantee that the owners of Citeh or Chelski will make money. But they do have a fun vehicle to invest in and enjoy. Probably a few tax breaks there too…
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Comment #57The mistake wasn’t in appointing Keegan, as he has more tactical nous than any manager we had before him since Sir Bobby, and any other manager we have had since, and are likely to have in the foreseeable future.
The mistake was not backing this manager, and then undermining him at every turn round to such an extent that his only recourse was to leave the club. Yes he has shown a propensity to walk out on clubs when the going gets tough but that was NOT the case with his departure in 2008 and you are being mis-representative of one of the best managers we have had in living memory by claiming otherwise.
Your distortion of the facts with statements like “everyone knows it was a mistake to appoint KK” – where the hell do you come up with that sweeping statement!?
Everyone knows it was a mistake to rename St James’ Park. Everyone knows it was a mistake not to build on the momentum of a 5th place finish by making only 1 first team signing. Everyone knows it was a mistake to sack Chris Hughton. Everyone knows it was a mistake to hire Alan Pardew. Everyone knows it was a mistake to hire Kinnear as Director of Football. Everyone knows it was a mistake not to make a solitary permanent signing in the summer.
But everyone does NOT know that it was a mistake to hire a club legend in a bid to unite the fans and finally see attacking football back at St James’ Park. The mistake was not allowing that legend to do his job properly.
You are an utter disgrace of a Newcastle United fan.
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:14 PM
Comment #58tinman
yes it is up for sale and any owner who wants to buy it would want to be attracted which is something protesting doesn’t do unless you are a mike Ashley type owner who likes to get easy advertising using the papers.
owners who want to run a club successfully will not want pressure from fans so if they see fans putting pressure on the current owner for the mistakes he did then they would be put off.
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Comment #59The problem is Ashley thinks he’s bigger than NUFC,Keegan didn’t he knows what the club means to the supporters and knows Ashley for what he is.
Ashley has had over six years at the club and we are no better off.The man still doesn’t get the passion of the club and it’s supporters and never will.
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:17 PM
Comment #60Also fans claiming to know the mindsets of would be investors are wildly speculating. Unless you have tangible proof that potential investors are put off by a passionate fan base protesting against their owner, don’t make the claim.
Tinman
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:19 PM
Comment #61TDS,
just one point before I go. Before you were ranting on about opinions, Taylor being down the England pecking order is just another opinion, so don’t use it as an argument.
And if you still want to be nitty gritty about it then I would go as far as saying Woy’s opinion means bugger all, he is the same guy who has Milner, Welbeck and Cleverley right up the pecking order.
But then again, thats just my opinion.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:21 PM
Comment #62Ciaran/Ruddy
You are in fact a complete and utter moron I have come to realise.
Considering the way that MA (the owner) wanted to run the club, I’m very surprised to learn that anyone thinks that KK was the right choice as manager. There was no way that MA (the owner!) was going to cede control to KK for who to purchase as it was his money.
Have you heard about the queue of clubs wanting to hire KK after he left City or after he left us? Nope. He’s a one dimensional manager who was fantastic for us at the right time but that time has gone. He was no more the right choice as manager than Shearer would be the right choice as out replacement number 9 now. The time has passed on both of those legends in those roles.
You are exactly the kind of moronic Newcastle United fan that so many people take the piss out of when thinking of our club. The reactionary idiot who thinks we should have everything and gets aggressive when we don’t.
I’m not saying that about everyone who campaigns to get something better for our club, but you just really take the biscuit.
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:22 PM
Comment #63TDS wasn’t it Keegan’s brand of football and the signing of Shearer that got you to fall in love with our great club,yet you constantly slag of both.
Tinman
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:23 PM
Comment #64toonking,
The type of men with enough money to own a football club are usually very self confident / arrogant. I doubt they would care about fan pressure when an owner makes mistakes because in a their eyes they never make mistakes so there would never be a need for protest.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:24 PM
Comment #65Tinman
Opinions are interesting. And seeing as Alex Ferguson had Cleverly and Wellbeck playing fairly often for him, I think it’s fair to say that they are pretty decent players. Milner also cost £24M? I think so must be pretty highly rated. Aren’t some NUFC fans still annoyed he was sold? I can’t imagine many fans being unhappy if Saylor was sold for £10M or so…
It is just about opinions and you’re welcome to yours of course. But I don’t think you’ll find many football fans who rate Saylor that highly these days.
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:24 PM
Comment #66You do not represent Newcastle United fans. You do not represent what this club needs, or what this club should be striving for. It is people (not fans because you are a disgrace to the name) like you who are propagating the mistreatment we are receiving from the fat man because not only will you roll over and take it, but you attempt to justify it.
As for your insults? If I had any respect for you, or thought you had any credence as a supporter then perhaps it would bother me. You don’t, so it won’t.
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Comment #67the problem owners face is football is something they don’t know enough about for instance
leeds and pompey went into dept probably because their owners were spending too much.
glazers and gilett thought they could make money from united and liverpool but what they didn’t know was united are meant to be a consistant top 2 finisher always challenging for the title Liverpool top4 which means money needs spending also united has loads of debt.
QPR spend masses of money on random players but didn’t get what they were expecting as them players were more the sort who want to join for the money.
city and Chelsea good to their own fans but hated by most other fans who are in the country that team are from becaue they are destroying the national side and making football more and more greedy
boro sliding further and further down with a support getting smaller and smaller due to and owner that was taking too much health and safty risks and also spending too much on the wrong players.
Blackburn owner again another owner not favoured by the fans, he gets forced out who comes in another awful owner by the sounds of it.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:27 PM
Comment #68daztoon
It was KK’s brand of football yes. I was already a fan before Shearer joined.
You think I’m slagging Shearer off because I said that he wouldn’t be a good signing as a PL striker now?! I think even he would accept that that boat has sailed!
Should Arsenal sign George Graham? Should Southampton bring Le Tissier back? Maybe Bobby Charlton could come back and score a few goals for Man Utd from midfield or O’Leary could manage Leeds back into the CL?
KK and Shearer are both club legends for damn good reasons. It doesn’t mean that they are the right men for any job and they weren’t the right men to manage us at that time either. Especially not under Mike Ashley.
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:31 PM
Comment #69Seems like he is not willing to consider the fact that both Keegan and Shearer may have been hired under false pretences. Ie Keegan was told that he would be in charge of spending. Shearer may have been told that he would be allowed to manage the club in the Championship.
In that instance, neither Shearer or Keegan are to blame for what happened thereafter. Ashley is the instigator. However, he is defending Mike Ashley, and claiming that both Keegan and Shearer were a wrong fit.
In the scenario you are describing, who is a right fit? A manager who is willing to accept being lied to by his owner? Willing to roll out in front of the media and justify the unjustifiable? And willing to deceive, con and lie to the fans in order to twist the facts? If that’s the case then Keegan and Shearer were most certainly not a right fit, and I am glad they are not.
It would seem Pardew is exactly the right person for this job then….
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:33 PM
Comment #70tinman
maybe them very rich owners might be willing.
but they are few and far between
Liverpool are a bigger club than city yet they couldn’t find an owner who spends mega all they got was another American who had stories reported this summer that they were planning to sell the club.
Manchester united the biggest club in Britain yet their city rivals were who got bought when surely the biggest club would be expected to be first choice.
it’s all just random choice really because if an owner were to buy a new buissness he is risking masses of money.
city and Chelsea managed to get good spenders but leeds pompey and QPR all went wrong two are now in admit.
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:33 PM
Comment #71Should read *his boss or the owner – although Pardew does act like Ashley’s lapdog so the Freudian slip may still apply.
Tinman
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:38 PM
Comment #72TDS,
In pre season I agreed with most of what you said, we both agreed that the doom mongerers jumped onto the Ashley out boat too quickly. They did.
We both agreed that we thought a fully fit side would change our style of play and fortunes. It hasn’t.
We gave Pardew the benefit of the doubt, one good season one bad, maybe he has learnt from his mistakes. He hasn’t.
We both thought that we would see 2-4 signings come through the door and they would improve our team dramatically. We bought no one.
We thought Cisse might regain his form when we had more creative players in the side. He hasn’t.
Before the blog was split about 50-50, now I reckon 90-10 in favour of big changes. (owner, manager, DOF, ambition, philosophy, tactics..etc)
You have been reduced to pointing the finger at fans and club legends. Then claiming the grass isn’t always greener using Liverpool as your example, yet after a change of ownership and manager and transition period and not a whole load of cash, they are playing good football and the future looks promising for them.
Our fans are not crying out for a title challenging team, we are not asking for 200m investmet a year, we don’t expect to be a Champions League side each year.
We want a team which is consitently top 10, usually in the Europa League and occasionally pushing for Champions League whilst having decent FA and Leaue cup runs every few years.
For a club of our size, with our stadium, with our support, with our fanbase, with our history we are not actually asking for that much.
I’m all for being positive mate, but things are looking dark at the moment. It IS Time For Change. Slagging off people who are protesting and complaining is not cool.
So please, give it a rest mate. Your obviously an intelligent guy, but I feel you have been so sucked into the idea of being ‘the positive fan’ that your not making much sense anymore.
Take a step back and look at how many people support your arguments and how many people disagree with them.
daztoon
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:40 PM
Comment #73TDS
You constantly slag off KK the man who was turning the club around slowly and the man has probably forgotten more about football than either you or will ever know. KK could have had loads of offers but maybe the way he was disgracefully treated by the fat man he may have opted against managing another club you don’t know so wind yer neck in.
As for Shearer it’s nothing to with him being a good PL striker now it’s the way you slag the man off after he was in charge for eight games on an already sunk ship caused again by Ashley.Also saying he should keep his mouth shut regarding the Toon on many occasions.
Some of us didn’t pick our team because a player Shearer signed for them it’s in the blood through generations so maybe you don’t get the passion of the many
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:41 PM
Comment #74Ciaran
You are a moron because you state this as “fact” all of the time. Can you just stop responding to my posts so I can easily go back to ignoring you?
You have no idea what the agreement was. The only thing that came out at the court case is that the contract wasn’t clear and therefore Keegan had every right to assume that he would have the final say on transfers. Final say doesn’t necessarily mean that a DoF can’t work with him. He was the wrong appointment because there was no way that MA was going to give a maverick full control over transfer spending.
As for Shearer…well isn’t the rumour that he asked for £20M to get the club promoted while the club was obviously trying to cut costs? A man with zero track record as a manager…sure, legendary striker but novice manager. We’d have had a better chance getting promoted with Tony Pulis.
You consistently look at things with black and white tinted glasses, and while that’s sometimes a very admirable thing, it because very irritating when you actually can’t see the wood for the trees.
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:41 PM
Comment #75Tinman
Could not have put that better myself. Well said lad.
JaxtheMag
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:42 PM
Comment #76cisse needs to play againsed leeds.
toonking
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Comment #77TDS 67
very well said.
daztoon
why did Newcastle fans slag daglish?
he was a great footballer you tell any Liverpool fan that he was rubbish and then will call you the rubbish one.
arsene wenger had only made 67 appearances as a footballer in his whole career!
his time at arsenal has been a great management.
so just because someone was a excellent players does not mean they are an excellent manager.
Ciaran
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Comment #78T.otally D.eluded S.ap
Not responding to you per se, just picking fault with the chasms in your argument.
Through being as objective as I possibly can, there still is no defence for Mike Ashley’s ownership. Go ahead, ignore me, fight the completely wrong fight, and see how many people agree with you.
I have no wish, want or desire to engage with you, as this is a forum for Newcastle United fans. Of which you are not.
ToonDarnSarf
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:48 PM
Comment #79Tinman
I think my arguments get distorted by some people who simple don’t understand them.
I’m all for “time4change” and I don’t know how many times I can make that clear.
But I do think it’s ridiculous the amount of praise the team was getting before Hull and then the amount of stick that it’s getting afterwards. People were praising Pardew for playing an attacking style of football and then suddenly we have a bad defensive performance and fans are slating him for having full backs who can’t defend. It’s just one game!
JFK was a bad appointment, I’ve never sad different the transfer window was poor but not horrendous, I think it’s too early to judge Pardew based on this season, but I’m all for a new owner if one can be found. But when has that ever actually worked? When has an owner ever actually sold a PL club for big money because of the fans?
I’m definitely not slagging off club legends, I’m just putting them in perspective. KK and Shearer have their skills and they will be legends for what they did for this club, but it doesn’t mean that they can just do anything.
I think KK was past it in 2008 anyway but even if he wasn’t, then the only way to let him manage was to give him money and let him buy whoever he wanted to. The very fact that Ashley didn’t want to work that way makes him a bad appointment. I could hire the best person in the world but if he wasn’t willing to work the way that I wanted him to, it would be a bad appointment.
jimmysmith
Sep 24, 2013 at 1:49 PM
Comment #80What price do you put on all that free advertising to a global audience. Six years of it and barely a dint in the loan he claims the club owes him, all the while operating on a shoestring, and Wonga to add even further insult to injury. Quite disgusting!