27-year-old Henri Saivet has finally joined Bursaspor in Turkey on loan for the season, so hopefully, he will be off the clubs wage bill for another year.
Saivet has only played 6 first team games since he joined Newcastle from Bordeaux for £5M in January 2016, when Steve McClaren was still the manager.
It’s another very poor acquisition by Newcastle and Rafa has not used the central midfielder since the Spaniard arrived on Tyneside.
Henri Saivet – after scoring at West Ham last season
Saivet has three years still to run on his five and a half year contract so we will be trying to loan him out each summer to get him off the wage bill.
Maybe we can get a permanent deal for him before the summer of 2021?
The 22 times capped Senegal International spent the second half of last season on loan at Sivasspor in Turkey.
He passed his medical late last week, so this loan signing was expected.
We now have to offload Rolando Aarons and Achraf Lazaar before the end of the month.
Comments always welcome.
80 comments so far
Essex Geordie Bill
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:09 PM
Comment #41The patent attempts are in response to Proctor and Gambles attempt to have LOL, NBD and WTF patented, previously mentioned on an earlier thread and missed off my 2nd attempt to post the comment.
Genjikai
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:09 PM
Comment #42Ashley is obviously profitting from Newcastle because the team certainly isnt.
Out of our players now which players are an assest that are worth much?
DubaiMicky
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13 PM
Comment #43To be fair lesh, the steaks are great, as are the pizzas, as for anything else, I couldn’t possibly comment…
Essex Geordie Bill
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13 PM
Comment #44Don’t know about trying out new tactics, I reckon Rafa will stick to tried and tested methods to keep our GD balance looking as healthy as possible over the next few games.
And I also reckon Dubkravka is really going to be earning his corn over the next few games.
Jail for Ashley
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:16 PM
Comment #45dig,
I’ll be honest and say I don’t know a great deal about John Mcain other than seeing his flight suit in the war museum. You’re calling the guy a traitor because Donald Trump called him one, you and catchy need to cut out your correspondent with Anders Breivik.
AncientC
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:16 PM
Comment #46I am 2nd bottom in the blog fantasy football league. Looking on the bright side, it cannot get much worse.
Genjikai
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:17 PM
Comment #47Youve got jono, ritchie and lascelles that are worth the most and the only assests that will get close to 20 mill. (Shelvey and lascelles deffo over 20 mill) apart from them no one of value, ashley has assest stripped already.
lesh
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:18 PM
Comment #48Posada
Tributes to McCain from among many, Bush and Obama but Trump remains silent. Silence from a critic who unlike McCain, dodged the draft? Silence from he, the draft dodger whose supporters refer to McCain as a traitor? Disgraceful but not surprising.
Catchy, Dig-n-Dig22
Up until you two attached your colours to Trump’s mast, I’d assumed that it was only the extreme right, the gullible and the less bright among the population of the US supported Trump. If you don’t fall in with that group, I’m clearly wrong!
Jail for Ashley
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:18 PM
Comment #49Ancient C,
I got ten points yesterday.
AncientC
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:19 PM
Comment #50Jail, about half my FF team still has to play today but I am well adrift. Oh well, still early days.
catchy in norway
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:21 PM
Comment #51Who Will Become Starters This Season
Ki Sung-yueng
Fabian Schar
Yoshinori Muto
Salomon Rondon
Federico Fernendez
IMO, there is very good reason for everyone of them to be starters ahead of what we have, and I dont see why we have let 2 very winnable games go by not playing them.
call me old fashioned, but none of these were injured, and all they seemed to need was to get up to Rafa match tactics, so by playing them for the first 60-70 mins would be of greater value to the team and Rafa, then maybe playing them for 25-5 mins.
It seems he has a plan to introduce them into perfect match conditions, but no matches seem to go to any plan.
jezza442
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:21 PM
Comment #52So what do you think the value of our new players,I know we got them all on the cheap but there’s got to be at least 30m worth
lesh
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:22 PM
Comment #53DubaiMicky @42
Wouldn’t have expected anything less of such a pillar of society as you sir. A good meal, a bit craic and back home for a nice cup of cocoa sounds like a good night by anyone’s standards.
DubaiMicky
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:23 PM
Comment #54Sunday Supplement, quoting Chris Holt.
https://www.facebook.com/SkySportsFootball/videos/475096616328402/
Mag52
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:23 PM
Comment #55With JJ out, I’ll have to revise my lineup:
Dubravka,
Fernandez Lascelles Clark Dummett
Ki Diame
Ritchie Perez Murphy
Joselu.
Ron Knee
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:32 PM
Comment #56Notts County FC@Official_NCFC
Notts County Football Club have today parted company with manager Kevin Nolan.
Genjikai
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:35 PM
Comment #57Hopefully all the new players do well i like the look of muto and ksy obvs dubs is a steal.
posada
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:36 PM
Comment #58Lesh
Yeh I’ll agree with that as far as the Strawberry goes.
Still think it is a side show, but it may be the principal involved.
Thing is owners can take money out if they want.
Look at the other lot. Where did the 30M for Pickford go.
Could only be the owner recouping his outlay or some of it.
The big issue is that supporters, communities, the city itself. They have no rights at all.
Clubs are just regarded as any other business.
Hard to make it a political issue as when elections come round folks focus probably rightly on the NHS, jobs Brexit etc.
The Germans have it nailed though. Clubs owned 50% by supporters.
Also, would the Government ever want change. These footballers should pay tax at 45%.
Sky should pay corporation tax.
Should being the key word.
AncientC
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:37 PM
Comment #59I see Jib was calling for me to be banned from the blog earlier, along with catchy. The hypocrisy that Jib IS banned from the blog under a different nickname.
Give it a break you gaffe-prone hypocrite.
Genjikai
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:41 PM
Comment #60I just dont see how we cant sign players like pascal gross of brighton they signed him cheap. About 6 mill if a remember correctly, creates and scores majority of their goals. Was the most creative player in german league the year they signed him (most chances created) if we are in the bargin bin shopping atleast make it worth it. Its not about the price its about the quality. Juat sadly quailty in football now means money
catchy in norway
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:41 PM
Comment #61Lesh
the gulf of tonkin was a false flag, so how was it a bad thing to dodge the draft? would you send your son of to a false flag war, or send him of to a war you new was wrong like the Iraq war?
LBJ lied, Blair and Bush Lied.
or do you have to be a far right nut to believe the truth.
THe American poeple had 2 choice, Clinton or Trump, Trump was by far the right person for the job out of the 2 if we are talkinng about liars, him being the lesser evil of the 2.
Killary should be in prison for many of the decisions she has made, Bengazi, Uranium 1 deal, secret server where she bleach bitted the server, going to war in Libya. thats just 4.
Killary+Bill left office in 98 with less than 1 million in the bank, now they have between 350-450 million, without making anything, selling anything, If TRump has made money in a dodgy way, there is at least some buildings golf courses to show for it, and to use tax laws that all the rich do is not a crime, IMO its wrong, as we the little people pay for everything, whether it be his Tax or Wars we dont need.
catchy in norway
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:45 PM
Comment #62Im up to 19th, 45 points yesterday
AncientC
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:49 PM
Comment #63Slightly off topic, but this has to be Sacha Baron Cohen’s best character to date:
https://twitter.com/BillyWRuddick/status/1020385995928113152
Bladey
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM
Comment #64Everyone with a footballing brain/ not many on here
Know when we have beat Chelsea in the main they have had nothing to play for
If we beat them today and I sincerely hope we do it will be a fantastic achievement given the dross we have in the team
ASH OUT
ronaldo aarons
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:53 PM
Comment #65So jonjo is out today. Would normally be a big miss but don’t worry, we still have £20m+ profit sitting in the bank! Perhaps Fraser could get his run out too at his record £90m signing.
Bobbybee
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:55 PM
Comment #66Use the device you post with. John Mccain was accused of being a traitor in 2008. Not by Trump, by the way, but by other PoW’s.
His accusers blamed him for the deaths of over a hundred Americans due to what he allegedly told his captors.
His war record has been ‘sealed’ so chances are we’ll never know the real truth, but why did he have his record sealed if he had nothing to hide?
You’ll never get the truth from MSM because they’re propaganda devices.
The truth about most politics is nasty, but you have a device in your hand where you can gather evidence and draw your own conclusions. One thing is for certain, he is despised by the vast majority of vets.
Maybe now his records will be unsealed, but I suspect not.
Jail for Ashley
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:56 PM
Comment #67catchy thinks that the Vietnam war was started in the gulf of Tonkin and Rafa is a know nowt. So glad he can’t buy a gun at Wal-Mart.
Bobbybee
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:57 PM
Comment #68Chelsea had to beat us last season and hope Liverpool slipped up in order to qualify for Europe. Absolutely nothing to play for. 🙂
Bobbybee
Aug 26, 2018 at 12:59 PM
Comment #69Jail, ffs, it was. It was a false flag attack carried out by the US on their own ships. The truth came out years, ago.
Off to the game anyway. Later.
catchy in norway
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:02 PM
Comment #70Jail
its not because of trump, if you where to dig around you would find a lot of stuff from the time he went up against Obama, in 2008
catchy in norway
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:04 PM
Comment #71jail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved either one or two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.
catchy in norway
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:06 PM
Comment #72Jail
are you really that indoctrinated? or just stupid?
ronaldo aarons
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:07 PM
Comment #73To chime in on this off topic McCain business, always felt the chips were overrated.
Regarding John McCain, he’s just a wannabe John McClane.
On a more serious note, forgetting his history with Vietnam, PoW business. His recent endeavours with the US in meddling in Syria and meeting the the so called ‘moderate’ opposition just shows he is not a good person and will not be missed. Supporting these groups and being pictured with them when they are just kidnapping, head chopping, heart eating ‘moderates’ is quite unreal actually.
How is this relevant to nufc, it’s not. Even though I am now guilty of adding to this it should really not be discussed on here.
What is relevant though is where has the Ed sheeran money gone? How will we set up to beat Chelsea? Is jonjo injured? Where is the Ed sheeran money?
catchy in norway
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:07 PM
Comment #74jail
just for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH8dejYGa5A
Jib
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:16 PM
Comment #75ronaldo aarons
Where is the Ed Sheeran money?
Probably in Ed Sheeran’s bank account.
SredniVashtar
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:17 PM
Comment #76Where has this news of jonjo’s injury come from? I can’t seem to find any news anywhere about him being injured. Would appreciate a link
Essex Geordie Bill
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:17 PM
Comment #77Time to KO 2 Hours 42 Minutes
Ron Knee
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:22 PM
Comment #78Sredni
Seems to be only on this blog for the moment.
posada
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:44 PM
Comment #79Well it’s time. Got me phone, specs, wallet and keys.
Metro Mover and ticket and it’s time to head.
As Forest Gump said. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get.
dig-n-dig22
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:55 PM
Comment #80Jail 44
You are right about me being opinionated, and I say what I think and I expect everyone to question what I say but if they don’t come up with facts to prove me wrong then I will go with what I believe. You assume I am a Trump lover, nothing could be further from the truth I view politics be it Conservative Labour Democrats Republicans as a 2 headed snake it doesn’t matter what head you vote for,you get the same snake. What I said about McCain I stand by. The funny thing is I didn’t scratch the surface The guy was pure evil but you won’t find out from the mainstream media If you really want to know what people think about McCain then go to zerohedge.com the site boasts well over a million hits per day people go there to read the posts, there were well over 600 posts about McCains death on there this morning. I doubt even one of them had one decent thing to say about him.