toontownman

Surely Man City dont need him, they have De Jong and Kompany for DM. Wigan need a coup like that, if he would consider Bolton he would certainly be looking at Wigan if they paid his wages. Depite the fact they dont need him I'd expect him to end up at Man City or maybe Spurs.

Bent would be good for the right price. Still think Saviola on loan (who could also play as an attacking CM like Owen last year) M'bia/Donadel/Veloso/Garcia some random CM Defender that can maybe cover LB? Wouldnt rule us out of trying to Hijack Hyppia. (Dunne as part of the Given deal might be a possibility too)

Spuds bolton drawing is probably alot better for us. Still always nice to see them fucking it up.

If that happens it will have been a tremendous Jan window...provided they are of the right quality of course. IE not Lee Naylor, Nigel Quashie and Kris Boyd.

I dont know why but he feels like an exact fit for us right now. Time will soon tell, he wasnt a player I'd thought about but I think he is exactly what we need. If we get a proper DM to play next to him hopefully we might see the odd goal or two come from midfield again, I dont remember the last time that happened regularly.

Sorry, im sure most people would like to have this thread buried and forgotten about. Dont think either would really be of much use to us. Naylor has never been a premiership level player, McGregor is'nt better than what we have.

I'm quite happy having S.Taylor at RB, he will be fired up for this one (hopefully not too reckless though) and normally plays pretty well there. Think the game is too important to just throw a new boy in without any training or meeting his new collegues, we dont have alot of choice with Nolan though.

Pretty confident we will get at least one more after Taylor. Kinnear has eluded to an experienced CB being close to coming not that Kinnear seems to have much more of a clue than we do, he expects at least one more anyways. The Veloso/Mbia bids will be ones maybe we arent expecting that might come off. Hopefully we will be looking at getting a striker in too, quite how we look to be coming out of the window without getting our priority in a LB who knows. I think it will actually be an exciting finish to the window though. I think Geremi will still follow Given and N'Zog out. CM, Defender and Striker would be fantastic if we can pull it off.

In probably the most sensible comments JFK has made, blaming the agent is bang on. Like Bernard before him its always been about the agent filling his head with grandeur and false hope pumping his ego up, unfortunatley for the lad he has let it get into his head and believed it. Whilst the gullible frenchman is getting abuse (and rightly so) its hardly fair the agents get off with this every time. Strangely I cant find the quotes anymore, I dont know if they have retracted, but Kinnear launched into one about Charles being messed up in the head due to the agent, Sky Sports have taken it down and changed the article, weird.

I havent seen much of him, wouldnt do well because of his physicality? or the fact his game might not cope with the pace. LB should be the easiest of the three positions for him to ease into.

i really carnt see spurs going down, id rather they just won today, pull clear now, and leave Bolton nearer to us. This really, same goes for the Stoke/Man City match. Its nice to see them down there but realistically its only a matter of time before they click and storm up the table then things might not be looking so clever for us. Pompey, bolton, smoggies, the scum, stoke and west brom are the teams we need to be losing.

I had totally forgotten he could play LB and CB. Would make alot of sense if we can get him in, if we dont slot him in at CM we can ease him in at LB with Enrique. Still not convinced we are actually in for him though, even less convinced we are even close to be getting him.

Yep, paperwork wasnt done in time, so wont play tmrw. Think it says so in the chronicle article today. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2009/01/31/kinnear-hails-versatile-defender-ryan-taylor-72703-22825382/

Money from the Given sale used to pay the next installment to Deportivo? That is if that rumour is true. ah right. seems pretty ridiculous that we cant play the lad till the window passes. really pointless paying £6m for him in the first place. its probably Kinnear not liking the guy. Id like to see him get a proper chance. Could have some much needed goals in him. If Martins aint fit for tomorrow. Xisco could be really useful The rumour was that we have paid so much to Deportivo up front, with the rest coming after he makes 10 appearances (apparently £2.5m). With the club as skint as it is, we might have to sell a player to fund the next installment, which would maybe explain why he hasn't got a look in but wouldn't explain why we would agree to that especially if we have no money to pay for it. Imagine if he had set the world alight and then come 9 appearances, sorry Xisco lad you're being benched. So confusing.. Ye it is. His scoring record in Spain wasnt what you'd call exceptional but he was supposed to be canny. He's more than worth a go for us at the moment, though. He played well against Hull I though yet was dropped the following game! Such unprofessionalism at this club. Yeah, I'd like to believe thats true but maybe its just the fact that Xisco is shite and not suited to the league at all? More than likely its both knowing this club.

Looks like Taylor is tied up now, medical is completed just ironing out the contract. Lets hope N'Zog and his Arsewipe agent dont throw the toys out of the pram at Wigan and fuck everything up. On the outside it looks like we are selling two big players, but I think both deals are for the benefit of the club, both players also wanted out so its best that they go. Will the money be invested back in transfers, I bloody hope so but watch this space. (dont literally)

Why? If we get 10M the last minute I'll be happy. We need the money asap if we are to bid on other players. If they sucumb to letting us have a player or two in exchange with some cash a last minute deal wouldnt be so bad. As it stands however we need the money to push through the deals we want. The other advantage might be seeing the Citeh arseholes twitching and bidding a bit higher if we take the hard line, certainly working at Blackburn.

If this isnt wrapped up by sunday afternoon we should pull the plug.

Answer phone? or fax? or maybe telepathy.

If anything we were overstocked on the left wing, Taylor should bring a bit of balance, albeit not quite the same league of excitement as N'Zogbia is capable of. would like to see us get another pacy right winger, but we need a LB, CM, Striker and experienced CB before then! I'd rather have Taylor than N'Zog as it stands (don't think he's a better player mind). If we can reinvest the money I'll be happy. Unless we somehow spend it on Alan Smith again.

Harper S.Taylor Bass Colo Enrique Duff Nolan Butt Jonas Caroll Lovenkrands subs: Krul, edgar, Smith, oba, Lua Lua, Ameobi, Is what I'm expecting, I would be happy with that too.

Nice business out of both Shay and N'Zog who cost us a pittance, almost makes up for the fact Owen will leave for nothing.

14m on Bellamy, 12m on Bridge, looks like 20m at least for Santa Cruz.. but 5m for Given? He will bring more to their team than any of the other three, absolute fucking disgrace we should have point blank told them to get fucked and ignored their calls until they stopped taking the piss. Cant believe we will take less than 10m for him, we really have no need to sell. If we manage to get some players in return I would be happy but even that looks off the cards, bastards.

This. Shay will be applauded no matter how much of a cunt he is being right now.

bit of a shocker, essential we get another CM now. Suprised it hasnt been mentioned officially, although that will probably come out tmrw.

Looks like this one is going to happen, doesnt look like it will be in time for Sunday though. Expect him to be wrapped up tmrw, watching the game on Sunday.