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Ha ha ha, Sunderland and Tottenham above us, the bloke who wrote that had obviously zeroed-in his beer goggles before visiting those grounds!

It seems to be confirmed by a few papers, just over 12 million and only the formalities before he is signed. Hat off to keegan!!! Excellent signing. Can we have a new left back and a creative midfielder please?

Just read in the sports dailies that they have signed a greek central defender which means coloccini is definitely leaving. No quotes from them saying we have confirmed the deal or that one is done, must be in the pipeline...

Nothing new in the Spanish sports rags, same old quotes and an apt title in marca saying the deal is like a car left in nuetral, standing still, neither forward or backward... They also said our alternative was Burdisso from Milan for 6 million.

He's a typical argentinian centre back; Tough tackler, good in the air, no fear and can bring the ball out of defence. He's not huge but is very strong and determined, a very consistent performer, doesn't really make any clangers... The closest comparison I could make would be Vidic from man yoo. Very similar...

It was the agent who presented the bid to Lendoiro, he was quoted as saying words to that effect... Apparently Lendoiro had told the agent that if he could negotiate a bid of 10 million the player was free to go, went back on is word and we have the present situation which is also a bit "deja-vu" with the Luque deal...

His agent has given an ultimatum to Lendoiro, that he agrees to the 11+1 million € deal or that he goes to FIFA and invokes article 17, he has given him until the first of august (Friday). A four year deal has been agreed between player and Newcastle subject to the deal going through. "My responisbility is to the player, not to the club nor to the president"

still nothing new on the spanish websites.... nothing happening here! Forget the hair bear bunch and let's see what happens with Burdisso?

Lendoiro is known to be a hard negotiator, I suppose we will have left the offer on the table and will wait for any changes (most probably through player pressure)...

p.s. this is from Coruna's equivalent of the chronicle and the writer is amazingly called Pablo Oliver!!

The article below states that Coloccini's agent has been working on this transfer for 3 months, he has been able to persuade Newcastle to up their initial offer of 8 million up to eleven million + 1 million based on appearances. The dirty pirate tw*t that is Lendoiro has gone back on his word (to player & agent) and won't sell. The agent now threatens him with invoking article 17 of UEFA rules which allows the player to terminate his contract and for fifa to organise a compensation payment. Coloccini has refused to go with the team to Venezuela until his situation is sorted. Ha Ha Ha... we have our own Cristiano ronaldo here!!!!! Coloccini no viaja a Venezuela para forzar su salida del Dépor Según su agente, que amenaza con acogerse al artículo 17 de la FIFA, el central espera que Lendoiro "dé la cara" y le explique por qué rechaza la oferta del Newcastle de 12 millones. 01:13 VOTE ESTA NOTICIA Fabrizio Coloccini, reclama en una jugada del partido contra el Valencia C.F de la temporada pasada. Biel Aliño A CORUÑA. El agente de Fabricio Coloccini, el argentino Marcelo Lombilla, amenaza con acogerse al artículo 17 de la FIFA para que el central pueda abandonar el Deportivo, después de que Lendoiro rechazase ayer una oferta del Newcastle de "casi doce millones de euros". Además, el jugador no ha viajado a Venezuela junto a sus compañeros. "No tiene ganas de viajar, porque está a la espera de una resolución y de que alguien dé la cara y hable con él después de haberle prometido que lo dejarían salir", explica su representante. Según dicho artículo, Coloccini podría abandonar el club y sería la FIFA quien decidiría el precio de la indemnización que le correspondería al Deportivo. Lombilla tenía previsto acudir ayer a la sede del club coruñés para cerrar el pase del jugador al Newcastle, tras presentarle a Lendoiro en la noche del sábado una oferta de once millones de euros y casi uno más por objetivos, pero éste lo llamó por teléfono para decirle que la rechazaba. "Prefirió que no fuese por allí porque había periodistas, y al ver mi estado de tensión no quería que yo hablase", explicó el agente, muy enfadado. "Ya me cansé y me voy. Mañana (por hoy) tomo un avión a las 13.35 horas. Llevo trabajando tres meses para que suban la oferta de ocho a once millones, y cuando lo logro y la traigo por escrito, no sirve", se quejó. "A lo mejor lo que quiere es que el Newcastle venga y le ponga el estadio nuevo", ironizó Lombilla, que se confesó "desilusionado". "Cuando alguien (por Lendoiro) te mira a la cara y te dice que Coloccini va a poder irse y luego no lo cumple, eso es faltar a la verdad", argumentó el agente, que puso como alternativa la posibilidad de que el Deportivo estudiase una renovación y mejora del contrato de su representado. "Ni come ni deja comer. Ni lo deja marcharse, ni estudia su situación en el club para valorar a Fabricio como merece", afirmó. Además, se refirió a las palabras de Lotina, que definía como "la gran putada del verano" la posible marcha del central. "No me gustó nada lo que dijo, no vino bien", aseguró Lombilla, aunque entiende que el técnico "quiera tener al mejor en su equipo". Una norma que podría abaratar el traspaso y perjudicar al Deportivo El artículo 17 de la FIFA, al que amenaza con acogerse el agente de Coloccini, es una norma según la cual un jugador puede dar por finalizada su relación con el club luego de un llamado "período de protección" y de pagar una compensación a ese equipo de origen. Este período de permanencia en el club que debe darse es de tres años para un jugador menor de 28 años, algo que Coloccini cumple, ya que tiene 26 y lleva cuatro campañas en el Deportivo. El implicado está obligado a notificar su decisión quince días antes de que haga valer su derecho de cambiar a otro club, el cual tiene que pertenecer a otro país, como sería el caso del Newcastle con el central argentino. Lo que dice este apartado de la reglamentación FIFA, es lo siguiente: "Cualquier futbolista podrá rescindir unilateralmente y sin causa justificada el contrato con su club siempre que tenga al menos 23 años y esté en su tercer año de contrato aunque le queden más temporadas por cumplir. El club recibirá una indemnización establecida por la FIFA a partir de la legislación nacional, el salario del futbolista, el tiempo de contrato restante y otras consideraciones similares". El artículo entró en vigor en julio de 2005 y según el mismo, la FIFA podría decidir la indemnización que recibiría el Dépor por la marcha de Coloccini, que sería menor a los doce millones que ofrecía el Newcastle.

If the rumours are true about Colloccini, we should all be very happy. Haven't seen the bloke put a foot wrong last season, a 100% player who is very consistent, and consistently Good!! P.S. Favourite Spanish team is Depor (Noisiest fans by a long way)

You'd think a pro wouldn't need these ridiculous gimmicks to help them play??? Maybe he's suicidal?

I'll go for eighth place, I reckon we'll sign two defenders and a few more young 'uns and the not so young ones we have will start to come good. The long term startegy starts this season, consolidation...

I think we'll see a couple of defenders coming in before we start looking at midfielders, we've got a dearth of wingers anyway...what's the point?

we could sign Cuellar from Glasgow and that would pacify me, we could also sign Huntelaar from ajax and that would literally zombify me!!

Aye, Anelka and owen would be a decent front pair, stick martins out on the left and jonas on the right and we'd have a quick goal threat...

His nickname in Spain/Argentina is "El Galgo" which means "The Whippet"... Wooohooo fast as funk then this boy. Just think, his team mate Danny Guiza was the higest scorer last year, means he must have supplied a few of the crosses. Looks better by the minute...whippet!!

Ha..Ha..ha How do journalists get away with that? Can anybody tell me where to send my CV for football hack? Easy money it seems... no knowledge necessary only active imagination!!

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Pathetic.

Works out at 30 quid a game for the cheapest seats then...

My take on this is that we are willing to take 7 million for Milner and are trying to replace him with Arda Turan who will cost us considerably more, has no prem experience and from what I have seen he isn't exactly pulling up trees... I would take 7 million for him but would prefer to go for SWP or somebody we know who has pace and will offer us something different. Arda Turan would fit better into the middle three in our 433, I don't see him as an out and out winger...suppose we are sticking with the 433 then...

Cheers..

Anyone notice Elmaander on the wing; pacy, good technique and had em worried a few times??