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Teasy

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Out of interest is this lad any good?

 

Never seen him play.

 

Fast, powerful and often shows some good skills, but his touch can be inconsistent.  Pretty good goal scorer though, a goal every 2.8 games over his career and over his last two seasons he's been a one in two striker (45 goals in 93 games).

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Village Idiot

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Remember him scoring against Real Madrid and looking really a handful against them, a couple years ago.

 

He always seemed one destined to do great things when he first broke in, but he never quite got there, despite becoming a decent enough player.

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Remember him scoring against Real Madrid and looking really a handful against them, a couple years ago.

 

He always seemed one destined to do great things when he first broke in, but he never quite got there, despite becoming a decent enough player.

 

His problem has always been inconsistency, always had the raw tools to get to the top but could never use them consistently.

 

More than good enough for our lot though despite that.

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Out of interest is this lad any good?

 

Never seen him play.

 

Fast, powerful and often shows some good skills, but his touch can be inconsistent.  Pretty good goal scorer though, a goal every 2.8 games over his career and over his last two seasons he's been a one in two striker (45 goals in 93 games).

 

Sounds disconcertingly like Martins tbh.  :hmm:

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Teasy

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Out of interest is this lad any good?

 

Never seen him play.

 

Fast, powerful and often shows some good skills, but his touch can be inconsistent.  Pretty good goal scorer though, a goal every 2.8 games over his career and over his last two seasons he's been a one in two striker (45 goals in 93 games).

 

Sounds disconcertingly like Martins tbh.  :hmm:

 

Well I mean personally I'd like to have Martins back in his prime.  Gomis isn't as quick as Martins, though I think Gomis isn't quite as inconsistent either, certainly a more consistent goal scorer and less injury prone.

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Super Duper Branko Strupar

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Remember him scoring against Real Madrid and looking really a handful against them, a couple years ago.

 

He always seemed one destined to do great things when he first broke in, but he never quite got there, despite becoming a decent enough player.

 

His problem has always been inconsistency, always had the raw tools to get to the top but could never use them consistently.

 

More than good enough for our lot though despite that.

 

Aye, when I saw him for St Etienne all those years ago when we were looking at him I thought he was going to be amazing. Explosive he was. The kind of player you thought when he learned the game and understood how to use his skills appropriately he'd blossom. Seen him a handful of times at Lyon and he seems slower. More predictable. I'd still take him here in a heartbeat, though.

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Newcastle eye Bafétimbi Gomis and Loïc Remy

 

Alan Pardew is finally set to complete his first senior signing of the summer at Newcastle United with a £6.9 million deal for Bafétimbi Gomis.

 

Pardew has been growing increasingly frustrated at a perceived lack of action in the transfer window but Joe Kinnear, Newcastle’s director of football, is negotiating with Lyon for Gomis and an increased bid was tabled on Friday evening.

 

Kinnear is yet to deliver a signing since his controversial appointment, despite Pardew cranking up the pressure while away on the club’s pre-season tour of Portugal, but Newcastle are confident of completing a deal for Gomis early next week.

 

Newcastle have also approached Queens Park Rangers to take forward Loïc Remy for the season, offering a substantial loan fee with the promise of a permanent deal next summer.

 

Rangers only signed Remy in January for around £8 million from Marseille and would prefer to offload him permanently now, with a set price of £6.8 million inserted into his contract, but could settle for a temporary transfer in order to ease the club’s mammoth wage bill.

 

The tension has been building at St James’s Park after a summer of apparent inactivity but the return to training of Papiss Cissé, who has resolved his dispute over the shirt sponsorship deal with payday lender company Wonga, and the impending signing of Gomis will ease Pardew’s frustration.

 

Gomis, a France international, is believed to have forced the issue by going on strike at Lyon and has only one year remaining on his contract at the Ligue 1 club.

 

Swansea and Cardiff City have also tabled bids for the 27-year-old in the last two months but Gomis, who is close to many of Newcastle’s French contingent, could arrive on Tyneside for a medical in the next 48 hours.

 

Newcastle’s interest in Gomis and Remy may end their long-standing interest in Aston Villa forward Darren Bent, with Kinnear and owner Mike Ashley understood to be reluctant to pay the asking price.

 

Villa paid a club record £24 million to Sunderland for Bent in January 2011 and would want to claw back at least a quarter of that for the England international, even though he has been marginalised by Paul Lambert and told he will not play for the club again. Bent suffered further humiliation this week when his old No 9 shirt was given to new signing Nicklas Helenius.

 

Pardew is keen to offer him a fresh start on Tyneside but Newcastle only value Bent at around £5 million and are also aware they will have to offer him a substantial salary close to his current £65,000 a week package at Villa.

 

Fulham remains a possible destination for the 29-year-old, however, while Wolfsburg have also shown tentative interest.

 

Barry Bannan is expected to be the latest casualty in Lambert’s squad trimming with a £600,000 move to Blackburn Rovers.

 

The Scotland international is training away from the first team but is set to revive his career at Ewood Park, after Blackburn tabled a bid late last week.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/10206430/Newcastle-eye-Bafetimbi-Gomis-and-Loic-Remy.html

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Encouraging in the Telegraph for both Gomis and Remy. Think they are speculating on QPR being willing to loan him out though.

 

Still want Sinclair tbh.

 

Sinclair got mention somewhere earlier today. Gazette?

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