Surprising news tonight that Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa could be headed on a season long loan deal to AS Roma and not Marseilles, according to reports in Italy.
Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa – could move on loan to AS Roma
Mapou cost Newcastle £6.8M in January of last year from Montpellier, and it’s unlikely that a club will come in for him with that amount of money, after he hasn’t played particularly well for Newcastle over a season and a half.
So the main thing Newcastle want to do is to at least get his wages off the wage bill for the season.
The way to do that is to get the lad out on loan, with an option to buy next summer, if the Frenchman does well while on loan, and according to reports that figure has been set at around £5M – so if Newcastle finally get that money, we will have lost around £1.5M on the player in transfer fees.
You win some and you lose some.
As far as the day-to-day finances are concerned, the only cost of a player to the Magpies are his wages, so if Newcastle can get the player out on loan then all – or a large proportion of his wages – will be paid by the club he’s loaned to.
There was some disagreement on wages with Marseilles, and it’s Newcastle’s right to get the best deal they can from a club paying his wages – and essentially loan deals are all about that – how much will the club pay of his wages – and save Newcastle money.
The news was that Newcastle wanted Marseilles to pay 80% of Mapou’s wages and maybe AS Roma are willing to pay that.
We were thinking that with Newcastle finding it difficult to bring in a top central defender before tomorrow night, they could be having second thoughts on Mapou, and maybe even have kept him at the club, so he would be another defender for Newcastle to choose from.
Our defending yesterday was poor and even worrying the way we looked so porous at the back against a mediocre side.
But if the Magpies are still willing to allow Mapou to leave on loan, it tells us they are either confident of getting a new center-back in tomorrow, or they are confident that Curtis Good or Lubo Satka can do a job in case more than one of our three remaining center-backs are injured this season.
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42 comments so far
WestOzMag
Sep 1, 2014 at 7:38 AM
Comment #41Happy Transfer Day to all clubs that have an ambitious owner! Yep that excludes us
Mag52
Sep 1, 2014 at 7:49 AM
Comment #42Once again we are getting the same old crap from those who can’t stand Pardew. This time the stick to beat him with is Mbiwa.
Whenever he played there in central defence he was, let’s be honest, a liability. Williamson, who is coming under a lot of unjustified criticism because he is preferred to Mbiwa was, don’t forget, voted our player of the year last season, and Collo is a class above them both.
I wouldn’t sell Mbiwa because he is young and can get better, but any decision on selling or loaning out is made at a higher level than that of manager in NUFC and Pardew will have no say in it.