Teasy

Parky's a prophetic!

Modric a far better player? Have you seen them both play a few games Parky or just basing that on the Euro's? If its the Euro's Modric played well for about 25 minutes and scored a pen, which lets face it is just about the least impressive goal you can score.

Had a decent game, looked lively and scored the winner at the death. Like it being deflected makes any difference. He had an ok game, not bad, but also no wanking material either (as it seems to some). Why do deflected goals not make a difference? Nobody wants to take the goal away from him, but 'keeper would probably have saved it otherwise, so it was less a matter of skills than of luck. 9m is overpriced imho anyway and I can't see any increase of value just based on this performance (which would be ridiculous anyway, even if he had played really well). How the hell do you know? He struck the ball well and for all we know it could have flown past the keeper without any deflection.

Moutinho looks class, I'd love to see him in a toon shirt.

He looked a bit like Emre but with more skill to me, and AFAIK he's not injury prone.

I wouldn't buy Deco even if he'd come. He's 31 in two months and they want, what?, £15 million for him? Then he'd want massive wages on a decent length contract. We'd end up spending £30 million on a player who's legs would fall off within a couple of seasons, he'd end up like Viduka but on even higher wages, hobbling down to Gregg's on his zimmer frame to spend his £100,000 a week on sausage and bean melts.

Yeah like I said, I havent followed that closely. Who confirmed their valuation? They wanted £10.3 million (which probably was over there normal valuation due to the Euro's coming up) and apparently we offered £9 million.

Not talking about being high profile, I'm saying that its not guarenteed for a players price to increase during a tournement. Had Turan had a bit of a nightmare today with Turkey crashing out of the tournment then I really couldn't have seen his price rising. definitely not, but it is worth his club waiting to see if it does, theyve nowt to lose. I agree they didn't have anything to lose given the current situation. But what this discussion stemmed from was the suggestion that Newcastle had taken a risk by not offering more money in the first place. Offer over the players valuation and Galatasaray do then have something to lose if they reject it.

I'm sure they would now.

He's played 20 something games before the Euro's, so a few games won't make much difference without a good performance or two to catch the eye. Obviously the more games for your country can't hurt. What I was saying is that if we offered over Galatasarays valuation of the player I couldn't see them telling us to f*** off because they know he'll be worth even more after the Euro's.

Not talking about being high profile, I'm saying that its not guarenteed for a players price to increase during a tournement. Had Turan had a bit of a nightmare today with Turkey crashing out of the tournment then I really couldn't have seen his price rising.

Could have gone straight in without the deflection to be honest, he struck it very well, we'll never know nor does it matter.

Eh? What gamble? They just didnt want to sell him before the euros as they knew that what ever happened they'd get more after it. Or are you whoooosing Where on earth does this idea come from that a player can be s***, break both his legs and still be worth more then he was earlier simply because he's played in the Euro's?.. Aye, cos that happens all the time. Even if a player is completely s*** in an international tournament, his club can and will say 'he now has more international caps - give us more money'. I was exagerating you know Dave. I just don't know where people get the idea that every players valuation will sky rocket after a tournement no matter what. It just doesn't work like that at all.

We need 5 or 6 players, so why waste half the likely transfer budget on him? Well why waste is on Modric? I know Spuds fans would disagree but Modric isn't 5-6 players on his own Newcastle seem to think we can afford to spend that kind of money on one player, so my question is if Modric was worth it then why not Turan?

Eh? What gamble? They just didnt want to sell him before the euros as they knew that what ever happened they'd get more after it. Or are you whoooosing Where on earth does this idea come from that a player can be shit, break both his legs and still be worth more then he was earlier simply because he's played in the Euro's?..

Agree with Kimbo, we put in a £16 million bid for Modric, so why not offer something similar for Turan before the competition, with Galatasarays money problems they wouldn't be able to risk turning down that kind of offer.

Turan wins it!!!!! Fuck!!

Bright shut the fuck up about Turan FFS!! Its a Newcastle secret!

Scholari's Chelsea's next manager?!

Fantastic turn and through pass by Turan.. and Tuncay fucks up the one on one. Why do people seem so eager to give the ball to Tuncay in the first place?? I mean he was the obvious option for Turan's pass there, but in general the team just seem to want to pass to Tuncay for to often.. its as if they think he's there star player or something

HAHAHA, what a spastic!! (the Swiss miss that is).

Wave goodbye. I knew it was gone as soon as the ball hit the post

Now the swiss score with the help of some water, bang goes £105, I hate posts and water!!

f***!!! Turan just hit the post, I've got a fiver on him to score first at 20/1

Lovely pass there from Turan.