Realistic Summer Targets

[Cajun]

If we're looking for a young "back up" right back, I think Ryan Taylor from Wigan is a great shout! He cant get a game as Melchiot is there so played left wing yesterday! He's pretty versitile and scores a couple of goals. Was pretty impressed by him to be honest! Any views?

 

I like him, bit injury prone though.

 

He isn't all that young either (about 25 I think).

 

Edit: 24 in August.

[simmsy10]

If we're looking for a young "back up" right back, I think Ryan Taylor from Wigan is a great shout! He cant get a game as Melchiot is there so played left wing yesterday! He's pretty versitile and scores a couple of goals. Was pretty impressed by him to be honest! Any views?

 

I like him, bit injury prone though.

 

He isn't all that young either (about 25 I think).

 

Edit: 24 in August.

 

Still younger than Beye but still a great back up! Maybe we could the best out of him?

[Mowen]

If we're looking for a young "back up" right back, I think Ryan Taylor from Wigan is a great shout! He cant get a game as Melchiot is there so played left wing yesterday! He's pretty versitile and scores a couple of goals. Was pretty impressed by him to be honest! Any views?

 

I like him, bit injury prone though.

 

He isn't all that young either (about 25 I think).

 

Edit: 24 in August.

 

Still younger than Beye but still a great back up! Maybe we could the best out of him?

 

Would be a good signing for the squad imo. Can play a lot of positions and takes a decent set piece.

[Guest sicko2ndbest]

If we're looking for a young "back up" right back, I think Ryan Taylor from Wigan is a great shout! He cant get a game as Melchiot is there so played left wing yesterday! He's pretty versitile and scores a couple of goals. Was pretty impressed by him to be honest! Any views?

 

I like him, bit injury prone though.

 

He isn't all that young either (about 25 I think).

 

Edit: 24 in August.

 

Still younger than Beye but still a great back up! Maybe we could the best out of him?

 

Would be a good signing for the squad imo. Can play a lot of positions and takes a decent set piece.

 

Not going to happen

 

Remember Keegan is looking for 4-5 players to go into the first team therefore need to be better than what we have

[simmsy10]

If we're looking for a young "back up" right back, I think Ryan Taylor from Wigan is a great shout! He cant get a game as Melchiot is there so played left wing yesterday! He's pretty versitile and scores a couple of goals. Was pretty impressed by him to be honest! Any views?

 

I like him, bit injury prone though.

 

He isn't all that young either (about 25 I think).

 

Edit: 24 in August.

 

Still younger than Beye but still a great back up! Maybe we could the best out of him?

 

Would be a good signing for the squad imo. Can play a lot of positions and takes a decent set piece.

 

Not going to happen

 

Remember Keegan is looking for 4-5 players to go into the first team therefore need to be better than what we have

 

But we only have one left back and when Carr leaves, 1 right back. Going to need cover somewhere! And i think we are prett settled for our starting full backs, just need good cover!

[STM]

Possible centre backs;

 

Wes Brown

 

Tal Ben Haim

 

Gerard Pique

 

Cuellar

 

 

[Guest sicko2ndbest]

Possible centre backs;

 

Wes Brown

 

Tal Ben Haim

 

Gerard Pique

 

Cuellar

 

 

 

Brown from that list

 

Cuellar has had rave reviews but personally dont know much about him

[STM]

I've only seen him play a couple of times and it's hard to tell from the scottish league but he looks a good player and would not command a huge fee.

[Thespence]

If we're looking for a young "back up" right back, I think Ryan Taylor from Wigan is a great shout! He cant get a game as Melchiot is there so played left wing yesterday! He's pretty versitile and scores a couple of goals. Was pretty impressed by him to be honest! Any views?

 

I like Ryan Taylor but I think we need to improve the starting XI before we sign back up players.

[Guest pont-toon]

Possible centre backs;

 

Wes Brown

 

Tal Ben Haim

 

Gerard Pique

 

Cuellar

 

 

 

should probably add daniel van buyten to that list - keegan signed him on a 6 month loan deal for Citeh and he was well impressed iirc

 

[STM]

Possible centre backs;

 

Wes Brown

 

Tal Ben Haim

 

Gerard Pique

 

Cuellar

 

 

 

should probably add daniel van buyten to that list - keegan signed him on a 6 month loan deal for Citeh and he was well impressed iirc

 

 

Good shout. Him and Faye would be a nice combination.

[Guest LucaAltieri]

Possible centre backs;

 

Wes Brown

 

Tal Ben Haim

 

Gerard Pique

 

Cuellar

 

 

 

Not good enough.

[LoveItIfWeBeatU]

Cough up cash Ash

 

Apr 6 2008 by Neil Farrington, Sunday Sun

 

KEVIN KEEGAN last night challenged Newcastle owner Mike Ashley to bankroll a Magpies’ glory bid next season.

 

Having tasked Keegan with winning a major trophy, the United manager wants the billionaire benefactor to put his money where his mouth is . . .

 

And splash enough cash to give Newcastle a chance of competing with the Premier League elite for the best players this summer.

 

“Mr Ashley said he wanted to win something in three-and-a-half years. When we sit down in the next few weeks we’ll see how desperate he is to win something in that time!” Keegan said.

 

“That will become clear when we see the players this club will go after in the summer.”

 

Regular first-team football at St James’s is what Keegan hopes will persuade top players to come.

 

Keegan admitted: “We’ll be going for the very best but there might be a failure rate this time around way above what we had last time.

 

“But you hope you could appeal to some of the players who go to the top four clubs and don’t play every week that here at Newcastle you’d get regular first-team football.

 

“Those players, like Hargreaves and Nani, go to places like Manchester United wanting to play first-team football every week. I’d like to think we can still go for those players.”

 

And Keegan added: “I’ve said we need four or five players, but that doesn’t need to cost a lot of money.

 

“You can get Bosmans worth £10 million, so we’ll see what we can do there too.”

 

That's the second time I've heard Keegan mention signing Bosman players since his return. Does anyone know if there is a list of players available on Bosman frees in the Summer?

[Dave]

Oh god. Here it comes.

[Pilko]

Heard a few whispers recently that we're in for Cardiff fullback Tony Capaldi.

Know nowt about him, how old is he, what foot is he and is he good?

 

[Baggio]

That's the second time I've heard Keegan mention signing Bosman players since his return. Does anyone know if there is a list of players available on Bosman frees in the Summer?

 

Wes Brown

Flamini

Mellberg (signed pre contract with Juventus)

Carr

Ramage

[Ridman]

That's the second time I've heard Keegan mention signing Bosman players since his return. Does anyone know if there is a list of players available on Bosman frees in the Summer?

 

Wes Brown

Flamini

Mellberg (signed pre contract with Juventus)

Carr

Ramage

 

Hary Kewell I think

[Guest LucaAltieri]

That's the second time I've heard Keegan mention signing Bosman players since his return. Does anyone know if there is a list of players available on Bosman frees in the Summer?

 

Wes Brown

Flamini

Mellberg (signed pre contract with Juventus)

Carr

Ramage

 

Hary Kewell I think

 

And which of these are worth £10m?

 

Flamini possibly.

[LoveItIfWeBeatU]

Does anyone know if there is a list of players available on Bosman frees in the Summer?

I've found this but you have to register: -

http://www.givemefootball.com/transferdirectory/proregister.cfm

It seems to only cover PFA players. It has a ringing endorsement from "Sam Allardyce, Manager : Newcastle United"!

 

Also, found this list dated 27/02/08, using Google. I'm not sure how accurate it is: -

http://www.talkceltic.net/forum/celtic-chat/33092-summer-bosmans.html

 

Jorquera

Sylvinho

Edmilson

Santiago Ezquerro

Jose Izquiredo

Bernardo Romeo

Pasqual Cygan

Robert Pires

Wes Brown

Sami Hyypia

Harry Kewell

Hilario

Zoltan Gera

Patrick Muller

Bernard Mendy

Mario Yepes

Sylvain Armand

Johan Micoud

Abdelaziz Kamara

Jonathan Perina

Ludovic Magnin

Daniel Bierofka

Zlatan Bajramovic

Gustavo Varela

Pierre Wome

Jurcia Vranjes

Ivan Klasnic

Athrison

Carsten Ramelow

Dmitri Bulykin

Veljko Paynovic

Maxi Rodriguez

Ewerthon

Loukas Vyntra

Turaci

Soti Kyrgiakos

Alexander Meier

Javier Zanetti

Olivier Dacourt

Hernan Crespo

Luis Jimenez

Santiago Solari

Antonio Cassano

Pavel Nedved

Nuno Frechaut

Ivica Krizanac

Anthony Seric

Ezequiel Gonzalez

Tomas Sivok

Angelo Bassinas

Thiago Motta

Juan Valera

Nuno Valente

Danny Murphy

Phillipe Christinval

Nobby Solano

Wilfred Bouma

Roman Bednar

Lee Wallace

Kanu

Geovanni

Dietmar Hamann

Kasper Schmeichel

Fabio Laverani

Tomas Ujfalusi

Eugeni Aldonin

Marcos Assuncao

Kanga Akale

Vadim Karlaschuk

Antonio Nunez

Jorge Larena

Vlad Munteanu

Mama Bagayoko

Alan Rochat

Jerko Luko

Olivier Veigneau

Sebastian Kehl

Philip Degen

Thomas Chatielle

Guillame Gillet

Sherif Ekramy

Edgar Davids

Sammy Kuffour

Puis Ikedia

Leo

Andrea Luiz

Marat Izmailov

Moura Pinherio

Derlei

Mark Fitzpatrick

Ross McCormack

Guillaume Beuzelin

[spizz energi]

Seeing as Bolton look set for the drop, anyone there worth a shout? Nolan maybe?

[Mowen]

Maxi Rodriguez might be worth a shot, assuming that list is accurate.

[Tooj]

Seeing as Bolton look set for the drop, anyone there worth a shout? Nolan maybe?

 

Nolan. Gerraway man.

[junkhead]

there's plenty of people on that list that'd not only provide competition, but some of them would improve our first team..

[Guest LucaAltieri]

Assuming that's accurate then a few of them are worth going after.

 

Zoltan Gera

Bernard Mendy

Pierre Wome

Alexander Meier

Luis Jimenez

Antonio Cassano

Pavel Nedved

Wilfred Bouma

Sebastian Kehl

 

Can't see Cassano or Nedved going anywhere for nowt, though.

[Taylor Swift]

there's plenty of people on that list that'd not only provide competition, but some of them would improve our first team..

 

..by a lot.

 

But of course, many of them will be snapped up by foreign clubs who are in Europe. Just skimming the list you can see names like Magnin (quality LB), Crespo, Solari, Seb Kehl, Assuncao, Dacourt and Ewerthon.