Colocho Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 £5.5m, bargain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 £5.5m, bargain. for whichever club signs him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 You negative ninny Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colocho Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 £5.5m, bargain. for whichever club signs him. If it's a clause in the deal and we make the offer, surely they have to accept it? Unless he wants to go somewhere else ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 They have to accept it yes, the only way we wouldn't sign him is if he refused the move. IF he refused, he'd end up going for a lot more then £5.5m IMO as that would mean there'd be some pretty big clubs interested and Marseille have no reason to accept that kind of fee from anyone but us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Watched his goal more than 20 times now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 They have to accept it yes, the only way we wouldn't sign him is if he refused the move. IF he refused, he'd end up going for a lot more then £5.5m IMO as that would mean there'd be some pretty big clubs interested and Marseille have no reason to accept that kind of fee from anyone but us. except he'll have one less year on his contract and the same desire to get away from marseilles. hope he ends up here but could quite easily see him elsewhere after showing up well in the window and him dictating the price and destination. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 I still can't see Marseille selling him to anyone else for that kind of fee without a fight (assuming that if he's not willing to sign here he must have had an excellent season and attracted some very big clubs). We'll see though, everything we've heard about him suggests that he thrives on adulation, which is quite encouraging for our chances of keeping him IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 I still can't see Marseille selling him to anyone else for that kind of fee without a fight. We'll see though, everything we've heard about him suggests that he thrives on adulation, which is quite encouraging for our chances of signing him IMO. we know he's up for a fight and he'll go where he wants, all marseilles can do is accept the best offer from the club HBA chooses.......and naturally i hope its us. there was a great paragraph in the independent on sundays match report........"newcastle crowds demand several things as the price of their love. they expect hard work but they relish the sort of skill displayed by hatem ben arfa, a wayward child of french football, whose record of on field brilliance and off field indiscipline make him a footballer born to play for newcastle" i probably shouldn't but i love that our club is viewed this way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 He's certainly stubborn, I just think Marseille's resolve would be strengthened a bit if he has a excellent season in the Premiership. I agree with the rest though and will leave it at that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Ben Arfa will love it here, I don't think he'll go anywhere else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Logic Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Ben Arfa will love it here, I don't think he'll go anywhere else. You know there wasn't a flicker of a smile following his goal. Considering all the comments regarding wanting to show what he could do you'd think he'd be a bit happy about a goal like that. I reckon he's having second thoughts already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Ben Arfa will love it here, I don't think he'll go anywhere else. You know there wasn't a flicker of a smile following his goal. Considering all the comments regarding wanting to show what he could do you'd think he'd be a bit happy about a goal like that. I reckon he's having second thoughts already. he didn't play that way, i think the reaction was more of a steeliness. seen it many times before, quite often from kevin nolan away from home and duncan ferguson done it all the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Ben Arfa will love it here, I don't think he'll go anywhere else. You know there wasn't a flicker of a smile following his goal. Considering all the comments regarding wanting to show what he could do you'd think he'd be a bit happy about a goal like that. I reckon he's having second thoughts already. I think it was more, "I just scored a fucking screamer on my full debut, and guess what? I didn't expect anything fucking le different." The alternative been his mind shouting this at him post goal, "Don't look bothered but....OU LA LA..OU LA LAAAAAAAA." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Apropos of nothing... http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/ben-arfa-rewards-exotic-enterprise-by-bringing-his-goal-to-newcastle-2083891.html In the tunnel at Goodison Park, the 23-year-old with his wispy beard looked the model of a young footballer, wonderfully happy to have scored on his full debut, let alone with something so special. "It was a very important win because, after losing to Blackpool, the pressure on us was enormous," Ben Arfa said. "It was building up inside our heads, so we are very relieved and happy to have won. Losing to Blackpool was something we didn't expect; we knew Everton would be very hard and to have won here tells you something about what we can achieve." Thus far Ben Arfa's only problems have been that he does not speak English and, apart from Cheik Tiote, Newcastle's Ivory Coast midfielder, nobody at St James' Park understands French, although the Tunisian's family have accompanied him to Tyneside to make settling in easier. His first impressions of Newcastle were of "a big, big club with some really astonishing supporters" and, as Ben Arfa acknowledged, you could say the same of Marseilles, the club he had just left. And yet, to have exchanged the French champions for something as uncertain as Newcastle, when the likes of Werder Bremen were offering Champions League football, was something of a risk. "No, sometimes in football you have to take a risk," he said. "When I came to Newcastle for the first time you could see how big it was. It may have been newly promoted, but it didn't feel like it. There are so many good players at the club. You could see that on the pitch. And it is a great thing when you play in front of passionate fans. You want to give them something back." Sounds miserable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Logic Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 You're probably both right, those explanations also work. I just wanted to stir fuck the shit a bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 i still worry he sees us as the perfect opportunity to put himself in the window......................hope he falls in love with the place mind, many do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 I hope he doesn't become a cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 In the warm up, Enrique and Routledge were explaining things to him and he seemed to be speaking back to them. Would have been interesting to listen in on that conversation. A bit later when they were doing their shooting practice, Nolan was trying to get him to join in but he obviously didn't have a clue what he was being asked to do and when the ball came to him, he just hit it to the other side of the pitch instead of passing it for one of the strikers to shoot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 In the warm up, Enrique and Routledge were explaining things to him and he seemed to be speaking back to them. Would have been interesting to listen in on that conversation. A bit later when they were doing their shooting practice, Nolan was trying to get him to join in but he obviously didn't have a clue what he was being asked to do and when the ball came to him, he just hit it to the other side of the pitch instead of passing it for one of the strikers to shoot. Kill him imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 To be honest I doubt half the team can understand Kevin Nolan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 In the warm up, Enrique and Routledge were explaining things to him and he seemed to be speaking back to them. Would have been interesting to listen in on that conversation. A bit later when they were doing their shooting practice, Nolan was trying to get him to join in but he obviously didn't have a clue what he was being asked to do and when the ball came to him, he just hit it to the other side of the pitch instead of passing it for one of the strikers to shoot. probably understands english perfectly well just thought that would be more fun. come on. wouldn't you ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 i still worry he sees us as the perfect opportunity to put himself in the window......................hope he falls in love with the place mind, many do. This has always been likely - if he has a good season with no dramas it will be interesting to see if he stays at NUFC. Not many French players have stayed long at the club... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Ben Arfa will definitely pick up a knock around game 23/24 and this place will go mental with conspiracy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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