There’s some good news today that Tim Krul started training yesterday and it looks like he will be fit – all being well – to start the game at Chelsea next Saturday, and number two goalkeeper Rob Elliot will resume training next Monday.
Tim Krul – expected to be back for game at Chelsea
Tim has been out with an ankle injury picked up in training around November 27th, the week before the game at West Ham, when our six game winning streak came to an end.
Jak Alnwick had a (very) good game at Leicester City on Saturday, one of the few players who did, but that could be the last time he ever plays for Newcastle, having made eight appearances, in which Newcastle’s defense have conceded 19 goals.
We put it that way because the defense hadn’t really been of much help young Alnwick, who was often exposed by some poor defending.
In the previous 8 games before the Chelsea win we had conceded only three goals.
Jak’s contract runs out in June and with Karl Darlow coming into the first team squad for next season, we should hopefully have three experienced goalkeepers in Krul, Elliot and Darlow.
And if one of those three is sent out on loan we need to have a clause in the loan agreement, that the we can recall them in case our other two goalkeepers are both injured.
The Shields Gazette is also reporting that Fabricio Coloccini, Moussa Sissoko, Daryl Janmaat and Jack Colback – who all surprisingly missed the 3rd round FA Cup tie defeat at Leicester on Saturday – will be fit again.
Ayoze Perez is not injured, but he was rested last Saturday by John Carver, so the very impressive Spanish U21 International will be available, so that’s six players who could return for Newcastle at Chelsea on Saturday – we’ll need them.
Cheick Tiote has linked up with the Ivory Coast squad for the African Cup of Nations, so we may not see Cheick again until next month – the Group games start on 17th of this month and the final is on 8th February.
It will be good to have some of other players back soon too, and Davide Santon returned on Saturday, and Ryan Taylor and Mehdi Abeid should be back in a couple of weeks time – according to Physioroom.com.
Maybe we can change things around and start playing well defensively and start winning a few games?
That would be good.
Howay The Lads!!
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95 comments so far
Our Toon
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:08 PM
Comment #81Tbf lads we can’t judge until the accounts come out, if the debt had reduced then we know the TV money has helped service that reduction but if it hasn’t then questions will need to be asked.
A man with his businesses and the money men he employs it’s quite easy for him to make money disappear!! For example he could charge the club for utilising his warehouses for merchandise!!
lesh
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:08 PM
Comment #82welshgeordie9
Settle down now before you start rattling folks’ cages.
You know it’ll end in tears if you don’t.
Our Toon
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:10 PM
Comment #83Marty
Cheers bud will defo give it a go. Keep fighting though mate, the more the better!!
p
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:11 PM
Comment #8410m was for year ending in June, figures are not out for this year.
As for selling players, that would be included in those figures.
Interested in which players people think we should have not sold when the fee or the desire of the player probably dictated it.
The crime is rarely selling a player, it is not finding an adequate replacement in a timely manner.
Still, as I say, we have player wages that are 65% of turnover, that is pretty normal for the PL though.
Here is the article I refer to for those who missed the link yesterday…
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/01/premier-league-accounts-club-by-club-david-conn
Big Pappa Cissé
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:11 PM
Comment #85Imagine if we got Garde and brought in Lacazette & Grenier :
—————————-Colback—————————-
——–Sissoko——————————-Grenier——–
—————————-De Jong—————————-
——–Lacazette——————————–Perez——–
Those players with an attack minded manager would be unreal .
Our Toon
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:14 PM
Comment #86P
65% of turnover but what would it be if merchandise of 3.5m went to the to the club rather than mash holdings. The 15m or 20m loss of advertising money. Expectations are managed by shady deals especially this free advertising and Wonga deal.
Marty-Toon
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:15 PM
Comment #87Our toon
I’m not really taken up with accounts and how much in the red or how much green we have.
I actually think it’s great if we can run the club on a tight ship but if he just kept our best players and bought in a couple of good defenders and a decent striker then we’d actually have a good team worth cheering on.
I don’t think many fans expect the toon to be in the top four but we’d like to think that we could be in and around the top six and actually have a team that we could believe in.
Marty-Toon
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:19 PM
Comment #88@P
As you say “the crime is not finding an adequate replacement ”
The reason for players wanting to leave is also the fault of the owner as who in their right mind would want to stay at a club that doesn’t want to challenge for honours?
Our Toon
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:21 PM
Comment #89Marty
The idea is good, MA is right to want the club to be self sufficient but we aren’t even maximising revenue streams because of shady deals….This has a knock on affect to the quality of players coming in.
This current model with lack of maximising revenues is a way of managing expectations and enhancing SD and other Mash Holding companies.
welshgeordie9
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:22 PM
Comment #90lesh
it’s not my fault they haven’t got a sense of humour, perhaps I should try and cheer them up with one of my jokes, maybe not.
Ha ha ha
Tsunki
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:22 PM
Comment #91Bpc and Our Toon – yes and those are nice stats I love stats me. Thing is, when Cisse isn’t playing, someone else is, and as we saw last year, goals can from elsewhere on the pitch when your number nine continually blanks. Dont get me wrong, I knew he wasn’t a flash in the pan as some would have had us believe during his lean spell, but I believe that the chance for other players to step up in his absence might be a good thing for us, as our forward play has been pretty one dimensional and easily read. Cue the new coach and hopefully a more creative system, involving strike options from attacking midfielders as well. Perez I think can score goals and with Ameobi, Aarons and de Jong hopefully lining up for return out options fir variation will increase. Nobody is indispensable is what I am saying.
welshgeordie9
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:23 PM
Comment #92Why haven’t we got a new manager in, should have had one by now.
jimmysmith
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:34 PM
Comment #93The free advertising seems at face value reasonable to me considering the investment he’s made so far, and the profits from the merchandising would seem quite small. You might accept that as owner he’s entitled to take this, if that’s indeed all he’s taking. I don’t even mind the sale of players, so long as the squad is ultimately strengthened, and seemingly we now have a squad with the depth that might allow cope better with the immediate loss of a player we can’t hold on to. But it only holds water if the profits otherwise generated are reinvested. If not, really, he will deserve real and lasting abuse, and it seems to me if we are going to see the investment we want, in a better side, we’ll start to see it now or very likely never.
lesh
Jan 6, 2015 at 11:36 PM
Comment #94Big Pappa Cissé
That line up of yours suggests that Ashley’s gone.
lesh
Jan 6, 2015 at 11:40 PM
Comment #95welshgeordie9
You’ll never learn to behave yourself.
It’s the naughty step for you if you squeak again.