One of our readers has alerted us to the form of 27 year-old Brazilian striker Luiz Adriano at Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, and he certainly seems to be able to score the goals.
Luiz Adriano – scored five Champions League goals last night
Last night Shakhtar Donetsk recorded the joint-biggest away win in Champions League history, as they beat Belarusian side 7-0 and Adriano hit five goals.
He became only the second player, after Lionel Messi, to score five goals in a single Champions League match and the Ukrainian side were 6-0 up at half time – which was another Champions league record.
Luiz was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil and started his career at his hometown club Internacional and scored 3 goals in 12 games for them before joining Ukrainian club Shakhtar in 2007, for around €3M (£2.4M).
Adriano has been in the Ukraine for over seven years now and he has a terrific goal scoring record there – having played 246 games in all competitions with 115 goals, and he is Shakhtar Donetsk’s leading scorer of all time.
His record includes 28 goals in 61 appearances in European competition.
Luiz has never played for the full Brazilian side, which seems a little surprising, although he did pick up 11 caps for the Brazil U20 side back in 2007.
We’re not sure how much this lad would cost – but the 6′ tall Adriano looks a very good player, and maybe somebody Newcastle should be looking at, as we look to strengthen the saud in January and next summer – especially in the striker department.
Luiz is 27 years old, so that’s maybe a little old for Newcastle, who like to bring in players who are 26 or younger and who are also cheap – so maybe those two things could rule out the Brazilian joining Newcastle?
What do you think?
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68 comments so far
welshgeordie9
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:31 PM
Comment #41i wonder if we can get cabaye on loan for the rest of the season.
welshgeordie9
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:32 PM
Comment #42Time for a joke.
I backed a horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.
Ha ha ha
welshgeordie9
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:32 PM
Comment #43Oh come people somebody join in ffs.
ravz09
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:32 PM
Comment #44Two spares for spurs this sunday. Pm me on ravz_09@hotmail.com if you are interested
welshgeordie9
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:33 PM
Comment #45Ed I’ve told you once and I will tell you again, I should be getting paid for this.
santonthenewmaldini
Oct 22, 2014 at 7:40 PM
Comment #46Hope Liverpool get pumped like Roma last night ! They will then be demoralised for playing the Toon next week !!!
I think the Toon will get a draw against Spurs this weekend I just have a feeling Pardew is going to go on one of his fun runs where we pull wins from nothing and win 5 in a row keeping him in a job paving the way for Tiote to be sold in January as we will be close to safety ……
jimmysmith
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:09 PM
Comment #47Gerrard has become ‘leggy’, by some accounts, which is sad to note in any great player, particularly an English one, but it’s good news for us, because he’s consistently been a one man wrecking crew against Newcastle, home and away, almost to the point of taking the whole thing personally. It was remorseless stuff, from the original Captain Cnut, can’t say I’m overly disappointed in his apparent decline as a result.
welshgeordie9
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:10 PM
Comment #48Goooooaaaallllll
Roooooonnnnaaaaaallllllllddddddddddddoooooooo
Ha ha ha
catchy in norway
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:10 PM
Comment #49beer
that il be about right , it’s sad to listen to the players thinking we are in a false position , this is pardew talking through them , I don’t think the players are watching the matches after they have played in them, I think they only look at stats ,
how far they have ran
how many passes
how many completed passes
how many shots
I don’t think they look at the zones of the pitch they play in
I don’t think they think about attacking play
they just expect something to happen , 1 or 2 chances per game and luck
we do prepare for games , but only on how to stop the other team , not on our strengths
the game agains LC on Saturday is a prime example , playing one of the weakest teams in the league at home , and we set up defensively , they make there attacking subs on 56 mins and are going for the win , we save ours until much later , when we should have been forcing the game to them much earlier,
it was a fluky win again
our first sub was switching LB , nothing wrong with dummett , so it was a wasted sub, if we have to do our attacking from LB it just shows you how poor this guy is
tequilamag
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:22 PM
Comment #50Catchy it`s amazing you things so much clearer than the players as to what they are thinking and doing.
Big Pappa Cissé
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:28 PM
Comment #51Real Madrid play football on a whole other planet .
Seriously reckon if we ever played them with our defence it would be double figures .
My bet for a Bayern V Real final is looking good 😉 .
beermonkey
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:30 PM
Comment #52catchy
I don’t even read what the players say there not going to come out and tell what they really think its all scripted for them I would think the way the club ban most of the press even question are vetted
I think the only time we ever played to our strengths under pards was when we had Nolan and carol up front
santonthenewmaldini
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:35 PM
Comment #53@beermonkey
Carroll hardly played any games under Pardew !!He played and scored against Liverpool on Pards first game and then hardly played at all after that !!
mindshaft
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:38 PM
Comment #54perfect – binders getting a football lesson – now just need Sterling to pull a hamstring so he can’t play against us
manxpie
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:40 PM
Comment #55Catchy our 1st sub was Perez who played well wen he came on literally straight after there subs did ya actually watch it or were ya just lookin at the obviously wrong stat league that ya obsessed with?
beermonkey
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:42 PM
Comment #56santon
ok forget the pards bit then but when he had them we played to there strengths
we don’t play to any1 strengths any more
Average_Contents
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:42 PM
Comment #57Wow! Top 10 is the target this season! I thought they wanted to progress season upon season? Fcuking lying scumbags. They were basing being in the top 10 with SDJ in the team but since he got injured they understand why the club’s in the current predicament! Lmfao, what a load of fcuking shite!
Newly released Fans Forum minutes confirm that the top ten is the minimum target for Newcastle United this season
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Lee Charnley
Newcastle United board members have stated that there can be “no guarantee” that they will sign a striker in the January transfer window.
United told fan forum members that the club are looking at possible signings ahead of the next window but re-iterated that they’d signed nine players in the summer window.
Board members – including Lee Charnley – said: “It was stated that the club had brought in nine players in the previous window in order to take the team forward and that additional attacking players had been pursued.
“The club are continuing to look at potential targets but stressed no guarantee could be made in reference to January.”
And when asked by fans if the club’s stance was the squad was in better shape, board members said: “The club’s view is that the squad is ultimately different.
“The club continues to assess its playing squad and any areas in which it feels it needs to strengthen.”
With United in the bottom three though there was some acceptance that the team’s start to the campaign was below par.
The board said: “The obvious consensus was that the club and fans expected to have more points at this stage of the season.”
However, United chiefs stated that – like last season – the aim was at least a top 10 finish.
The said: “The club’s minimum target this season is to finish in the top ten of the Premier League.”
But it was underlined that the untimely injury to Siem de Jong had been a major factor in Newcastle’s poor start.
De Jong, who is injured until December, signed from Ajax but picked up an injury last month.
The board said: “It was suggested that Siem de Jong had been purchased as a key part of the team and his injury had a knock-on effect offensively.
“The club had searched for the number ten it wanted and had secured him. Papiss Cisse’s return to form was also noted.”
Average_Contents
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:45 PM
Comment #58More fcuking dribble.
Newcastle United have admitted that on-loan players Karl Darlow and Jamaal Lascelles, can’t be recalled this season from Nottingham Forest.
The pair were purchased for a reported £7m combined fee and instantly loaned back to Forest for the season.
However, when Lascelles was named by the club as one of the young players who could potentially play this season, when naming their official 25 man squad of senior players, many assumed that he could be recalled while Darlow could not.
Responding to a question at Monday’s Fan Forum the club confirmed;
“It was stated that the club are delighted to have secured both Jamaal and Karl Darlow and while they will be big assets to the squad in future, it was not true that they could be recalled from their current loan deals until the end of the 2014/15 season.”
From one young incoming centre-back to an older outgoing one, Forum representative Brian Parkin asked;
‘What was the thinking behind getting rid of a centre back (Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa) on loan?’
The club’s reply;
“The move was sanctioned in the interests of all parties. There is the possibility that the transfer could become permanent at the end of the loan period at around the fee Newcastle United initially paid for him.
“The club added that it had initially reached a verbal agreement for a replacement defender in the summer. Because the deal with AS Roma took longer than expected, the replacement transfer was no longer possible. The club’s view was that the deal to allow Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa to leave was in the interests of all parties and, after taking the medium-to-long term view, the club let him leave.”
This is of course at odds with what Alan Pardew had to say in the closing stages of the summer transfer window, the Newcastle manager saying that they had replacements lined up and only needed to make space in the squad – only to then get rid of Hatem Ben Arfa and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa and bring nobody in.
Average_Contents
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:51 PM
Comment #59Some of the minutes from the fan’s forum. Got them from the mag and chronicle.
Mister Tuff
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:55 PM
Comment #60Just had an initial read of the Forum Minutes – and in effect did not learn a lot. I’ll maybe have a re-read later.
santonthenewmaldini
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:56 PM
Comment #61@beermonkey
I do agree but thats Pardews fault for not playing to the teams strengths !!
He seems to only want to play one way which is his way and does not seem to really look at how the players would fit into anything else which is why we look clueless in so many games because our players are being asked to play a style thats alien to them
The worrying thing is Pardew actually thinks we play a passing and attacking game on the front foot which is where the problems lie he thinks he is not doing any wrong
manxpie
Oct 22, 2014 at 8:59 PM
Comment #62It’s all pointless average its like asking the government for answers even if they are telling the truth ya won’t believe em
santonthenewmaldini
Oct 22, 2014 at 9:02 PM
Comment #63I dont understand why we had to wait till Mbiwa could leave before we had the centre back signed ?!? We got millions in TV money which have not been spent at all !!???!?
Looking at those minutes I honestly worry that we might not sign anyone in January if we are mid table by then the only hope is if we are in the bottom 3
I think we will be looking at players who are out of contract in the summer like Ings , Gaitan with some other freebies and bringing the Forest boys back and that will be our lot till January 2016
SHOCKING !!!
beermonkey
Oct 22, 2014 at 9:05 PM
Comment #64santon
we do knock the ball about but its all in a line along our back 4 and tiote then its gets to willo if he is pressured up the pitch it goes HOOOOOF
its all meaningless
it wouldn’t be so bad if we used that to regroup and start an attack but we don’t this is cluelessness starts
santonthenewmaldini
Oct 22, 2014 at 9:15 PM
Comment #65@Beermonkey
Yeah we dont even hoof it properly either !! Allardyce and Pulis would launch it and get bodies to win the knock downs and can score from different set pieces Pardew and can defend properly !
Its going to be pretty embarrassing that West Ham will pass us off the park in November with Big Sam as manager
stretchintoon
Oct 22, 2014 at 9:15 PM
Comment #66I keep seeing adverts on news now newcastle ‘in carr we trust’….yeah to point us in the direction of another DUD!
beermonkey
Oct 22, 2014 at 9:19 PM
Comment #67santon
cos we were late kicking off I was watching some of the palace game and they said on that this season they have scored 5 times from set pieces in 8 games
it made me cry we have scored once in about 18mnths from set plays
optimistic prime
Oct 22, 2014 at 9:36 PM
Comment #68The fans need to be aware the club brought in 9players in the window.
The fans are fully aware!
Aware we let 13 players leave.
Aware we loaned out 2 of the 9 we brought in.
Aware a loan player Ferreya hasn’t been seen yet.
Yes the fans are aware the club is run by a bunch of liars and inept fools who keep gambling with the clubs future to save a few quid for the parasite who owns the club!