Newcastle on-loan midfielder Mehdi Abeid picked up a Greek Cup Winners medal at the weekend, with Panathinaikos getting a 4-1 win over PAOK Salonika, and Swedish International striker Marcus Berg scored a hat trick for the winners.
Mehdi Abeid – at Panathinaikos for the season
Nikos Karelis also scored for Panathinaikos, and Zvonimir Vukic scored PAOK Salonika’s consolation goal, after Mehdi Abeid brought down Lino inside the penalty box after 70 minutes, and Vukic converted the penalty. 🙁
Abeid has had a very successful loan spell this season in Greece, and he’s had first team football every week and has played 34 times with 8 goals and 7 assists for the Greek side.
Panathinaikos are 4th top of the Greek Super League at the moment on 66 points from 34 games, and they are only three points behind second placed PAOK Salonika.
Olympiakos are running away with the title (again) with a massive 86 points from 34 games, and they are 17 points ahead of PAOK Salonika.
And news today in the Chronicle that Newcastle officials are very happy with the progress being made by the Algerian U23 International, and will give the young midfielder every chance in pre-season, to show just how much he has progressed playing for the Greek side this season.
Mehdi has five appearances for Newcastle United – so far – and the youngster turns 22 in early August.
After the game and cup win on Saturday, this is what Mehdi had to say:
“I have made progress as a player and as a man.” “It has been a fantastic season.”
Newcastle could loan out their younger players more regularly, so they can get first team football and have a chance to show what they can do – and they should progress much more quickly than playing for the Newcastle U21 side all season.
What do you think?
Comments welcome.
153 comments so far
toonarmydownsouth
Apr 28, 2014 at 5:54 PM
Comment #81Inspirational words from are wonderful manager ahead of tonight’s game…..
@shiteseats: “We can’t determine the result at Arsenal” – Alan Pardew. Our manager lads and lasses. Our. Manager. #nufc
Fills you with hope and excitement doesn’t it?
Tsunki
Apr 28, 2014 at 5:55 PM
Comment #82Validator, are you Spoof? You’ve obviously got some grudge. And how did you know about my Eton days?
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 5:56 PM
Comment #83I also wanted to get back to my player recruitment program for the Toon this summer. It’s coming along will. In addition to Faty Papy, we’ll have Tsarengav Enkhjargal, Batbold Tugsbollocks, and Norjmoo Sitonballz. All coming in for very small fees! Huzzah!
MacToon
Apr 28, 2014 at 5:57 PM
Comment #84Fire away Online.
toon kk
Apr 28, 2014 at 5:57 PM
Comment #85I was watching sky sports Monday night football commentators and they spoke some true words about Newcastle, saying we were the team to play at the moment, Cabaye leaving and injuries but main reason for our poor form was we over preformed earlier in the season and now we’re showing our selves for what we really are.
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:00 PM
Comment #86Has anybody seen Batbold Tugsbollocks play by the way? I’ve heard he’s perfect for Pards. Very tall, no skill with the ball, no shot. A perfect target man for wor set pieces in other words. 😯
validator
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:00 PM
Comment #87@82 it’s all down to your scant disregard for sphere shaped objects, your obviously a closet rugger man.
Spoof
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:01 PM
Comment #88Tsunki
leave me alone bonny lad, I’m just watching from afar and minding my own business lol.
Big Pappa Cissé
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:02 PM
Comment #89Also you can credit Pardew for keeping the Mackems up as we have gifted them 6 points this season .
Ketsbaia9
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:02 PM
Comment #90Personally, I think Abeid will be more influential than Cabaye. Abeid has everything and he’ll become one of the top players in europe in the next few years. I can’t believe we recalled Gosling instead of Abeid. Gosling is useless.
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:03 PM
Comment #91Norjmoo Sitonballz is the perfect winger for us. Cataracts on both eyes, tremendous pace, but often runs right of the ground or into the hoardings. Has never been know to cross a ball accurately.
MacToon
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:03 PM
Comment #92and will you be attending the meeting on Thursday OG?
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:04 PM
Comment #93Damn it ! It’s too hot today – I need to go and make myself some buttermilk “koldskål” (cold bowl)!
…see you in a jiffy 🙂
Ian Toon
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:05 PM
Comment #94And know for something entirely different from a Geordie and lifetime toon fan who sees us playing a role in determining who’ll win the CL and still claims to recall every twist and turn of Peter Beardsley- mind he does get paid for writing such stuff:
John W Henry, owner of Liverpool Football Club, will know all about the Curse of the Bambino. Henry also holds the keys to Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, who failed to win a single World Series between 1918 and 2004. That 86-year wait was attributed by superstitious types to the 1919 sale of Babe Ruth – aka the Bambino – to the New York Yankees, a franchise that went on to become the most successful in the history of baseball. During that long drought, the previously dominant Red Sox – winners of five World Series between 1903 and 1918 – occasionally threatened to reclaim the title, but always fell just short, most notably, agonisingly and sickeningly in 1986 when first baseman Bill Buckner let a simple ground ball against the New York Mets roll through his legs with the holy grail within touching distance. The Mets staged a grand comeback, and the long wait for the Red Sox went on.
Henry might not, however, be aware of the Curse of the Bambeardo, a similar spell which hovers like a dark cloud over Anfield. This particular hex concerns Peter Beardsley, who was deemed surplus to requirements in 1991 by Graeme Souness, the new boss having decided that Liverpool’s continued dominance would be more likely maintained by Dean Saunders and Mark Walters than a two-time title-winning twinkle-toed genius. Beardsley left for Everton, taking Liverpool’s championship-securing mojo with him (although sadly for the Toffees, and later Newcastle United, he accidentally dropped it en route to Goodison down an open manhole cover along Anfield Road). Liverpool haven’t won the league since, and their wait for another title has now stretched to 24 years and counting. The comparison between the curses that have afflicted Henry’s baseball and football teams is downright eerie, no? Though having said that, the Fiver can’t think of a Bill Buckner figure at Liverpool to complete the analogy. No, we can’t think of a Bill Buckner figure failing, agonisingly and sickeningly, to deal with a simple ball on the ground with the holy grail within touching distance at all.
Steven Gerrard didn’t do particularly well on Sunday, mind, unless his primary goal was to restage the opening sequence of Norman Wisdom’s 1965 classic The Early Bird. And thanks to Chelsea’s mightily impressive 2-0 win at Anfield, this season’s Premier League title is now Manchester City’s to lose. “We must win the three games,” said City boss Manuel Pellegrini after his team brushed aside Crystal Palace to move within three points of Liverpool’s lead with a game in hand and goals in the bank. “Now we must just think what we can do. It does not depend on other results. It’s very important to play a good game against Everton and then the last two games. We’ll see if we cope.”
Given that voodoo master José Mourinho has brusquely announced that Chelsea have “no chance” of becoming champions despite picking up three precious points from their masterclass at Anfield, the Fiver is now convinced that the title is somehow heading to Stamford Bridge. Don’t ask us why. City at least have it within their power to ensure this is not so. Liverpool however must impotently hope that rivals Everton do them a favour next weekend; that the mere presence of Henry breaks the Curse of the Bambeardo, just as it did for the Bambino a decade ago in Boston; and that a strange glowing box is fished out of the Anfield Road drains and returned to the stadium before the next round of fixtures.
toonarmydownsouth
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:07 PM
Comment #95So were back to a near on full strength squad tonight, manager back in the dug out and full of optimism right Pardiola?
Pardon? No? Why? Oh because they have a near on full strength team back as well
Even still though, we’re going to give them a right old battle and make sure there not too cocky about sealing 4th place right?
“We can’t determine the result at Arsenal”
Oh………
But top 10 is still our minimum target?
“10th was never a set target just a goal set by us and the players”
Ah reet…..
Nothing like using the build up to what used to be a great fixture to lower expectation
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:07 PM
Comment #96Spoofy mate that’s completely unacceptable! Harrumph! We don’t watch from afar! And we never mind wor own business lad! We dig into the dark hidden things. We expose the NoNuts! Huzzah!
toonarmydownsouth
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:10 PM
Comment #97Kets
Let’s hope so would be great to see one of the youngsters step up and i can’t see us shelling out for a Cabaye replacement
guvnor
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:14 PM
Comment #985-1 victory to Newcastle United tonight.
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:15 PM
Comment #99It’s a nasty business exposing wor NoNuts but it must be done! But once they’re exposed what should we do about them? It nearly killed me poor honey badger when he tried to bite them off. Harrumph.
Spoof
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:15 PM
Comment #100GT
actually I work night shift and have just got out of bed and I have no idea what debate Tunski was having, I just saw my name and assumed that I was in trouble, so how many will we lose by tonight, or will over confidence from The Arsenal bite them on the bum ?
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:15 PM
Comment #101As long as Arsenal don’t turn up guvnor.
guvnor
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:16 PM
Comment #102Geordie two what the hell are you blurting on about?
Spoof
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:18 PM
Comment #103guvnor
that’s 300/1 with the bookies, if you have a bet and it comes up then it’s your round bonny lad lol
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:18 PM
Comment #104The Arsenal will never bite there own bums Spoofy. We may do that but only in the second half when we’re desperate. In the first half we’ll focus on clever back passes and some clearing out of bounds by Krul. That will tire them out and we’ll pounce in the second half with a deadly one pronged attack by Shola. Some lads on here were calling for a two pronged attack but Pards has vetoed that!
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:20 PM
Comment #105Well exactly guvnor. Now we’re on the same wavelength. Huzzah!
Mister Tuff
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:21 PM
Comment #106validator – who are you really – seemed to have just appeared. What we do known is that you are crap at Roman numerals – perhaps your “ability” on this subject extends to your knowledge of football viz Colbeck good payer. In the meantime a language lesson for you :-
Tu es stultior quam asinus.
Himanshu Dhingra
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:22 PM
Comment #107Kets
What do u think?
Martin Harnik – Perfect replacement for Cabaye
guvnor
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:22 PM
Comment #108Look Pardews back on the touchline which is bound to give the players a psychological advantage, so it’s 5-1
Marty-Toon
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:22 PM
Comment #109Gonna be at least 1-0 down within 20 minutes and with that I’m really lookin forward to the game 😉
How much more of this dross can we take?
Spoof
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:22 PM
Comment #110GT
I don’t know what the situ is with Ben Arfa but it’s a shame he isn’t playing tonight, against Arsenal you have to either out muscle them which they don’t like or give them something to think about in an attacking sense, sadly I don’t feel we are capable of either, but Benny could have helped.
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:23 PM
Comment #111Comment by Pards: “Two pronged attack? Harrumph! Never! Not on my watch! We only need a single prong, and Shola is it!
toon kk
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:23 PM
Comment #112The only way we’ll have any influence on champions league and relegation in the premier league is by the guarantee of teams we play will all get tthree points. And Pardew will have broken a record of losses at Newcastle, something to be proud of.
Wandering Geordie
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:23 PM
Comment #113@our toon
Plenty of talent here in South America.One in particular I keep on raving about German Pezella.A natural replacement for Collo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UjTH_Nu4Dg
Angel Romero -Paraguay-Attack
Eugenio Mena- Chile -Defender
Leandro- Brazil -Attack
To name a few
All have awesome talent and comfortable on the ball
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:27 PM
Comment #114If Arsenal don’t turn up we’ll score 5 against them (with some difficulty due to our inaccurate passing) and an own goal. A shame really because Tim could have used the clean sheet. 🙁 Watching us right now is quite similar to watching Monty Python play footy. We’re a little bit worse.
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:28 PM
Comment #115The situation with Benny is that he is quite cross with Pards Spoofy mate. Alan has hidden his meat pies and refuses to let him wear a beret during the game. It’s all too much so Benny has gone to Paris.
Spoof
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:29 PM
Comment #116hee haw ?
Himanshu Dhingra
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:29 PM
Comment #117Wandering
You remember why we signed Ignacio Gonzalez, as a sweeetner to an agent
Yet we have not signed any southamerican players after that.
toon kk
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:31 PM
Comment #118Wandering G
any new signings coming to Newcastle will be coming through the chanel tunnel. Bonjour.
GeordieTwo
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:31 PM
Comment #119How do people feel about one prong in general? Is one prong the right way to go against Arsenal? What happens if wor prong gets isolated and cut off? Do we send someone forward to re-establish contact? I mean Shola is good at wandering around doing nout but will that be enough to make us happy? Colour me concerned. 🙁
Spoof
Apr 28, 2014 at 6:33 PM
Comment #120GT
I believe that you must have taken the super strength pills this morning ? lol