Jump to content
Newcastle-Online

Cheick Tioté (1986–2017)

madras

by madras
in Football

 Share

Recommended Posts

wormy

wormy

Posted
Posted

I think what I really enjoy most about Tiote is that he rarely goes to ground for a challenge, he's generally beating the opposition to balls, reading the game and making a challenge, or simply standing his man up and out-muscling him. 

 

Whatever. That just means he doesn't have the same dedication to the cause that ol' Smithy has.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Kanj

Kanj

Posted
Posted

I think what I really enjoy most about Tiote is that he rarely goes to ground for a challenge, he's generally beating the opposition to balls, reading the game and making a challenge, or simply standing his man up and out-muscling him. 

 

Whatever. That just means he doesn't have the same dedication to the cause that ol' Smithy has.

 

Haha! Very true, waht was I thinking.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Geordie Ahmed

Geordie Ahmed

Posted
Posted

I think what I really enjoy most about Tiote is that he rarely goes to ground for a challenge, he's generally beating the opposition to balls, reading the game and making a challenge, or simply standing his man up and out-muscling him. 

 

Agreed - he rarely goes for the slide tackle, which I guess you dont really need to do if you have the awareness, positioning anf strength that he has

 

Quality player

Link to post
Share on other sites
taxfree

taxfree

Posted
Posted

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/AwesomePossum-AmericanOpossum.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/Smileys/Lots_O_Smileys/tiote.jpg

 

 

 

 

http://gfx.dagbladet.no/labrador/147/147331/14733129/jpg/active/729x.jpg

 

Link to post
Share on other sites
Flip

Flip

Posted
Posted

Was just thinking, thank f*** there's no African Cup of Nations this year.

 

Playing one in 2012 and then in 2013 :facepalm:

 

Don't worry. By then Chel$ki or $hitty will have bought him for around £20 million.

Link to post
Share on other sites
taxfree

taxfree

Posted
Posted

Was just thinking, thank f*** there's no African Cup of Nations this year.

 

Playing one in 2012 and then in 2013 :facepalm:

 

Don't worry. By then Chel$ki or $hitty will have bought him for around £20 million.

 

Nah. Newcastle for life. Let's get him a french friend (Sow? or another talented guy) and he'll be fine.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Cajun

Cajun

Posted
Posted

 

Ashley runs his businesses completely separate from each other, which is probably the sensible thing to do.

 

Let's face it, he won't be spending £10m+ on one player.

Link to post
Share on other sites
Guest palnese

Guest palnese

Posted
Posted

 

Ashley runs his businesses completely separate from each other, which is probably the sensible thing to do.

 

Let's face it, he won't be spending £10m+ on one player.

 

You're right, we can only dream. :snod:

Link to post
Share on other sites
Dokko

Dokko

Posted
Posted

IN JUST three months Cheik Tiote has proved himself one of the Premier League’s top midfielders.

 

That’s not bad for a player who feared he couldn’t play football the first time he put on a pair of boots nine years ago.

 

For Newcastle’s £3.5m buy fro m Dutch outfit FC Twente spent his formative years in the Ivory Coast playing the game barefoot.

 

WIN A LUXURY CRUISE TRIP FOR TWO WORTH £2,500!

 

Growing up in the dusty, crowded streets of Abidjan may have been a million miles away from his life today as a millionaire footballer.

 

But Tiote’s was a happy childhood, until one day when he was 15 and he finally wore football boots for the first time.

 

Suddenly the youngster who had stood out among his peers when they kicked a ball about wherever they could find the space to play, was filled with self-doubt.

 

“I played for nearly five years barefoot,” he said. “I rarely even saw a pair of boots. I started playing when I was about 10 but there were a lot of basic materials lacking.

 

“The pitches were basic and it was obviously very different to England. When I first started wearing boots, it felt very strange. But gradually I got used to them and was OK.”

 

Tiote became so accustomed to his boots, he soon attracted Belgian scouts and left Africa bound for Brussels and a spell at Anderlecht.

 

His big break came at Twente, where he helped the club, then managed by Steve McClaren, win the Eredivisie title.

 

That feat earned Tiote his move to Newcastle and the former England coach a switch to Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg. These days, the 24-year-old owns so many pairs of boots, he sends many of them back to the Ivory Coast, so today’s kids don’t have to play barefoot.

 

Not that Tiote regrets his upbringing. He added: “In a way I think playing in my bare feet helped me a lot. It teaches you how to control the ball and pass correctly.

 

“If you are playing with the protection of a boot, sometimes you can get away with your mistakes. When playing just with your feet you can’t do that. You have to learn technique.”

 

Tiote is proud of his roots and while he is not yet rivalling compatriot Didier Drogba for popularity – “he is even more important than the President!” – Toon shirts are becoming more prominent in Abidjan.

 

“The lifestyle of a Premier League player is obviously very different to what I grew up with,” he said. “Then, I did not own a pair of boots and now I have at least 10 pairs. In fact, I have so many, I send some of them back home to my brother. I also send Newcastle shirts, shorts and socks, the type of stuff I’d love to have owned when I was growing up. It’s nice to be able to help the children back home.”

 

Newcastle fans can vouch for Tiote’s superb technique. Since his debut at Everton in August, he has rivalled top scorer Andy Carroll as the club’s most impressive player.

 

Tough in the tackle, composed in possession, full of energy, he has been compared to fellow Africans such as Claude Makelele, Patrick Vieira and Michael Essien.

 

And there’s talk that a player first identified by former manager Chris Hughton two years ago is now attracting interest from Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.

 

But Tiote insists he is settled at Newcastle, who today visit Birmingham for Alan Pardew’s first away game in charge, hoping to build on last week’s impressive 3-1 win over Liverpool when the Ivory Coast international was arguably the best player on the pitch.

 

“Everything has been great since I arrived,” he said. “Apart from the cold, it is even more freezing than Holland.”

Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...