News from Sky Sports this evening that Newcastle may be interested in Stoke City play-maker Glenn Whelan.
Glenn Whelan – while playing for Ireland
Other clubs said to be interested in the player are Wigan and West Bromwich Albion, but this is a surprising player for Newcastle to be linked with.
Newcastle do need more creativity in midfield, especially in central midfield, but we wonder if Glenn is good enough to be a first-teamer at Newcastle – we doubt it.
The 26 year-old Dublin-born midfielder started his career at Manchester City in 2001, but moved on to play for Sheffield Wednesday in 2004 after playing just once for City and 15 times on loan at Bury.
Glenn was in the side that won promotion to the Championship in May of 2005, and then in January of 2008 he joined Stoke City for a low £500K.
The 5’10” tall player played 159 times with 17 goals for Sheffield Wednesday, and has so far played 100 times with 6 goals for Stoke City.
We’d be very surprised if Glenn Whelan ended up at Newcastle United, but if he does he would simply be a squad player in the attacking central midfield positions.
Newcastle have little cover for Nolan and Barton in that area of the field, with Danny Guthrie not seemingly coming through much on Tyneside this season.
In total Glenn Whelan has 275 first class appearances in his career with 23 goals.
And in addition he has played 26 times for Ireland with a couple of goals.
What do you think?
Comments welcome.
189 comments so far
lewytoon
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Comment #121we neeed craigcoosy or an insider lol! nowt on twitter….
tjshawsey
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:25 PM
Comment #122Elia has a transfer value of £15mill. No chance of him signing!
kevymartins
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:27 PM
Comment #123anyone know when wor bennyboy is back??
GeordieGerman
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:30 PM
Comment #124kevymartins, Apparently end of February mid March.
kevymartins
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:32 PM
Comment #125cheers GG
everytime i go onto injury updates on .co.uk it says updates will apear shortley…but never do
GeordieGerman
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:33 PM
Comment #126kevymartins, be like a new signing 🙂
kevymartins
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:36 PM
Comment #127ano 🙂
gaspin for some news 🙁
wonder if weel get a we surprise in 2mara’s line up?? not likely tho:(
kevymartins
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Comment #128What you’s think about the scum going after muntari?
davybtoon
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:47 PM
Comment #129we cud sign someone tomorro be they wont play
kevymartins
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:52 PM
Comment #130yea but we could of signd some1 2day an the club might not of announced it yet
so ya neva know
kevymartins
Jan 7, 2011 at 10:58 PM
Comment #131who thinks tiote should be in the pic up top with ben arfa
maby the celebration of the goal vs everton when tiote grabd him?
hitman
Jan 7, 2011 at 11:45 PM
Comment #132http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Newcastle-s-Andy-Carroll-injured-in-six-hour-30-Jagerbomb-bender-Exclusive-article666569.html?utm_source=footballURLs&utm_medium=twitter
Howay The Lads
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:17 AM
Comment #133What absolute lies in that Mirror article! Carroll clearly got injured in the City game and was visibly limping!
slazberger
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:17 AM
Comment #134have the press got nothing better to do? i thought they had to write stories that were in the public interest?
quote fron the sky commentary of the game –
“50 Carroll is okay to continue after picking up a knock that briefly required the referee to stop play.”
seems fair to say he had a reaction to this knock rather than some bloke saying he got injured two days later and a source (reliable bloke this mr source) close to the player
GeordieGerman
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:21 AM
Comment #135hitman, Like someone says. Just southern media crap.
Thump
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:22 AM
Comment #13630 Jagerbomb’s? Andy wishes he could knock that amount back lol
slazberger
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:24 AM
Comment #137by the way i gave this article the thumbs down ed because the headline seems to suggest we are after the wigan chairman.
Thump
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:25 AM
Comment #138As well as FOUR Jagerbombs, 6ft 4in Carroll downed TWO pints of Fosters and around SIX bottles of Peroni.
Christ almighty, he had a warm up before a night out! Lads! Phone an ambulance!
GeordieGerman
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:28 AM
Comment #139What’s Peroni?
Howay The Lads
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM
Comment #140Unless Peroni is quite strong, I could handle that I’m I’m barely 6 foot, so I dunno why it’s so amazing a 6′ 4″ can
slazberger
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:31 AM
Comment #141i wonder if the only player we had lined up was bentley. i may be looking for excuses but the fact that pardew said we were only after players who would fight for a place hours before news broke of bentley going to brum.
just a suggestion but maybe they have guaranteed him first team football.
prefer our stance to be honest if thats the case and as its been pointed out may allow us to sign seb. although i do think it could drag on all transfer window if brum think they have a chance of renewing his contract unless he says he will defo not sign.
Howay The Lads
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:32 AM
Comment #142Jynx, GeordieGerman!
slazberger
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:32 AM
Comment #143peroni is just italian lager yes?
Thump
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:34 AM
Comment #144Peroni is an Italian lager and is rated at 5.1% (unless it’s the normal stuff then it’s 4.something%) – and it comes in a bottle.
I’m sure we’ve all drank more than that and haven’t managed to fall off two bar stools.
GeordieGerman
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:39 AM
Comment #145A lager? a couple of jägermeisters and a couple of Fosters? Effin joke… !
Howay The Lads
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:40 AM
Comment #146I couldn’t handle it like too well, but I drink like a girl 😉
slazberger
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:41 AM
Comment #147agreed geordiegerman. even if it is true which i very much doubt.
slazberger
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:43 AM
Comment #148im 6’4″ tall and have had to remind my wife i cant drive the car after drink a few sherberts cause it has little effect on my overall attitude but then im not a lean mean goal scoring machine.
Thump
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:45 AM
Comment #149Exactly GG, Corona is stronger than this (with or without the lime depending on preference)!
@HTL: Like a girl? 😉
GeordieGerman
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:47 AM
Comment #150Strange that the cockney press haven’t said that he was in the toilet cubicles a couple of times. effin Wan… masturbatersr.
Howay The Lads
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:50 AM
Comment #151Err, err, no ‘like a 6 foot 8 powerhouse Irishman’ is what I meant.
No lack of manliness with me.
Grrrr
GeordieGerman
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:51 AM
Comment #152Effin W**kers? That has to be a contradiction.
slazberger
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:51 AM
Comment #153maybe they could have put he was in a building, in a city where someone once took drugs “a source” said.
Howay The Lads
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:53 AM
Comment #154Or he was actually alive when Hitler was around and so must have collaborated with him in his reign.
Oh, wait it’s Barton they save the neo-Nazism for
Thump
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:54 AM
Comment #155I once took drugs in Aspers.
Paracetemol never tasted so good.
GeordieGerman
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:55 AM
Comment #156Howay The Lads, who knows? I mean I could be a lass, you could be a lass. It’s internet.
Howay The Lads
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:58 AM
Comment #157Nah, I can actually confirm I AM a man. I have no way to prove this to you, so I guess you’ll just have to… trust me 😉
But seriously would a woman seriously know as much about football as I do 😉
I’m just digging a bigger hole here. I’ll stop nooo
slazberger
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:58 AM
Comment #158lol Howay The Lads. if barton was with hitler maybe carrolls drinking mates were bin Laden and Kim Jong Il, wownwee im so wownwee
GeordieGerman
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:59 AM
Comment #159Hey Thump, the daft b*st*rds made a mistake there. Instead of larger and jägermeister, they could have wrote drugs. Alcohol is a drug.
Howay The Lads
Jan 8, 2011 at 1:00 AM
Comment #160wownwee im so wownwee
America: fudge yeah! 😀