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Rest assured guys. If this has been dragging on for over three months now, then I'm sure we'll have other options to quickly turn to if this doesn't come through. The Depor chairman really is a pain in the backside.

£9 million is an outstanding offer. They need the money and the agent has said this is the absolute best offer he could get for Coloccini, seems like the president just has to get his head around the fact that Freddy doesn't live here anymore. Hopefully, it should happen soon enough.

So I take it Gerrard will play out wide this season (on the left) then, as appears to be the case with England under Capello also. I don't think would be looking to move out left as he has made the England Squad as a very effective defensive midfielder int he centre of the park.

Oh shut up duck face!

Hopefully everything finally kicks into gear this week. So Liverpool have signed Keane for £18 million. Hmmmm ... Gareth Barry might have to start backtracking pronto. Anyone else think it came down to either Barry or Keane for Liverpool. Not sure they would go after both. I think if they had got Barry they would have gone with Barry and Mascherano in midfield and gerrard continuing behind Torres. However, now they will likely opt to return Gerrard to midfield beside Mascherano and have Keane play upfront with Torres.

Well keegan did manage Distin for a while so he might see that in the young lad. Assuming we get Colccini and we have him in the first team with Faye, then Taylor as a third CB and this fella as a fourth wouldn't be a bad idea I don't think. also pretty handy that he can cover at LB if necessary. David Edgar appears to be talented but I'm not sure if he is up to it physically. Maybe we are looking for another stronger more athletic youngster to bring through.

The thing is though, we have apparently already agreed terms on a 4 year deal with the player. Not sure if Depor are in a position financially to give him a new contract that would match our offer. "Apparently" Yeah, I know ... the agent does seem to be making a real push to get the player to Newcastle though, so I'm hoping it's because we have already found agreement on a nice deal for him and his client. Guess we'll see soon enough.

The thing is though, we have apparently already agreed terms on a 4 year deal with the player. Not sure if Depor are in a position financially to give him a new contract that would match our offer.

I'm as nervous about Spurs as the next man, and I can't stand them, but would they really pay £8 milion for a 26 year old Argentine international on sizeable wages who they couldn't promise a regular starting spot. As of right now both Woodgate and King appear to be fit so I'm thinking they would bring in someone a bit younger and cheaper who wouldn't be as high profile to be their 3rd centre back.

Yeah, that does sound very difficult tbf.

Same as usual then

Put some Barry White on in the background and we are sorted.

But I thought the buy out thingy had to be done a few days after the season ended. Not really sure if that is the case, but some of the Colccini articles claim that his agent threatened to invoke the rule, so it seems it can still be done.

Jonas was eligible to buy out his contract and move to a foreign club. Coloccini is also eligible to do the same. Also, it appears that Baptista is too, as he signed with Real on the 25th of July 2005, so as of the 25th of July 2008 he has been at Real for three years and is under 28 years old, and so is also eligible to buy out his contract and join a foreign club. Intersting little strategy we have going here ... nice little prompt we can use when encouraging clubs to accept our offers. Expecting Baptista to sign as soon as we can find a scrap heap for Alan Smith and Shola Ameobi.

Apparently we had a number of people watching the south america qualifiers for the world cup this summer, which were on at the same time as the Euros. So far we have signed Jonas and hopefully, Coloccini, both of whom were involved. Did baptista feature in any of the games for Brazil? If so maybe that rumour has a bit more to it too. Another interesting thing is this new rule of players being able to buy out there contracts and move for free after a certain number of years. Jonas qualified for this and Colccini also qualifies for this and it puts their clubs under considerable pressure to sell. Has Baptista been at Real for up to three years yet? And does he fall under the same conditions?

So now we're spending too much? Couldn't make it up. What's wrong with paying a reasonable price for a player? I don't think colocini is worth 15m. The less spend on one player, leaves more money which we might need for other players... It's not that hard. Well it appears they rejected our 12 million Euro bid, although they promised Colo's agent they would accept a bid of this size. There was also a bit in one of the articles about us wanting to pay in installments. I'm guessing the bid of 12 million Euros was probably rejected because we wanted to pay the fee in installments while Depor wanted it all upfront. Perhaps we came to an agreement to pay in installments but then pay a higher fee overall i.e. 15 million euros rather than the initial 12 million. In that case it's fair enough imo.

Have an 18 for tackling, marking and concentration, eh? Nigerian international. I knew of him before you even knew what a football was.

Obviously not as gutted as me because I was moved to create a new thread about it! I would be devastated!

... to Sunderland?! Now this would just crush me. I love this guy's game and I always wanted us to sign him. PLease tell me they are getting us mixed up with Sunderland! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article4393355.ece

Saw N'gog feature at the Emirates tourney last summer. Looked a promising youngster for sure.

Will be Mourinho's new Essien in a three man midfield. Kind of agree with you 1878. He didn't really add too much other than his long range shooting.

Cattermole started off looking quite bright but then degenerated into another overly agressive midfielder who thinks that clattering people unnecessarily means that he is a committed tough guy. Run of the mill.

Crack pipe? You just wait and see pal. Now Keegan's recognised the Wise men's skills after they delivered Gutierrez, he's going to stop waiting around for experienced Brits to gather off of the big fours scrap heaps. We will see some more quality young foreigners come in and all will be well in the world. Never doubt me.

Not really who else commands a starting place regularly?, Butt, Beye, Faye possibly What? I don't understand what you're on about. My point was that it looks likely that his contract is likely to be sorted out soon enough otherwise they wouldn't have announced him as captain so early on.

I assume his contract is pretty much tied up then. Let's hope he can stay fit, as he's already started the season off with a strain.