High Five o Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 WTF was the point of that shit? You had 8 months to negotiate you twats, no excuses! Ridiculous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_F Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 A statement from Newcastle United Managing Director Derek Llambias Now that the transfer window has closed, we have had some time to reflect on the business we have conducted over the summer. Our aim was to secure young players who represented value for money and could add real strength to the squad. The majority of our transfer dealings were completed in the early part of the window and we feel we have signed some players of exceptional quality. Yohan Cabaye, Sylvain Marveaux, Mehdi Abeid, Demba Ba and Gabriel Obertan were all brought in early and we have seen these players settle quickly into the squad and perform well on the pitch. Earlier this week we were delighted to sign Davide Santon from Inter Milan to fill our left-back position after the departure of Jose Enrique. Davide is an excellent young prospect and we're sure he'll be another superb addition to the squad. We also welcomed young goalkeeper Rob Elliot from Charlton Athletic who will help us retain healthy competition for that position after loaning out Fraser Forster to Celtic. Of course we had also hoped to secure a further striker in the window, in addition to Demba Ba. Work to bring a striker into the club began early in the summer. Negotiations were complex and protracted and unfortunately it was disappointing that ultimately we could not secure our priority target. Whilst we did turn our attention to alternative prospects in the latter stages of the window, we have a very clear transfer policy and will not make knee-jerk decisions at the last-minute which are not in the best interests of the club. We understand that supporters will feel frustrated that we did not sign another striker during the window, but it was not for lack of trying that we did not bring our final target in. edit:http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20110902/newcastle-united-statement_2281670_2439966 Ruiz in a nutshell - fucking dick. At least stick to your own bullshit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 willing to chip in for effigy to burn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pedro_de_geordieo Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Knee jerk? Yeah because you didn't have enough time. Should be sacked and would be at any other company Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Ay? That doesn't even make sense if reports are to be believed. They 'won't panic' but yet will try and hijack the transfer of another player to another club to whom we'd not even been linked throughout the summer? Nonsense. Unadulterated bullshit. No excuse for not finding a striker in the timeframe. None whatsoever. Lists should have been drawn up and contingency plans put in place long before August 31st. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ovesbar Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Nothing they could say in the statement that would please people tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dell Boi Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 "we have a very clear transfer policy and will not make knee-jerk decisions" What the fuck was the Ruiz bid then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 No word about if we're going to pursue the striker search in January as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 It's perfectly fine in theory. But clearly their strategy is not good enough to secure players that will push NUFC forward. No surprise there. We can implement all the wage caps we want, but we need a miracle to find some fucker stupid enough to work for peanuts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Absence of the word sorry, funny that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 I think this should be moved from the pardew thread! I made a tread about it, got deleted by someone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Did Derek just copy and paste some of the posts on here? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 "we have a very clear transfer policy and will not make knee-jerk decisions" What the f*** was the Ruiz bid then. Tbf he is a class player, but it was knee jerk in the respect of the bid. Class something like Carlton Cole as proper knee jerk myself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Nothing they could say in the statement that would please people tbh. And for good reason tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Did Derek just copy and paste some of the posts on here? [img-troll face + eugene levy morph] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Can't get over how terrible that statement is from a PR standpoint. There's no attempt to establish empathy with the audience whatsoever. Gives you a pretty good idea of what kind of person Llambias is, to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Bollocks statement with no genuine apology. Not getting in a striker is completely unforgiveable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Boring statement at it's finest. What is that supposed to achieve? Last I checked, trying was not good enough. You had 8 months to bring a striker in, you didn't and you failed. No need to release this statement, it's clear they feel nothing is wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 So he's pretty much blaming it all on the Gameiro/Gervinho failures which happened like 2/3 months ago? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Boring statement at it's finest. What is that supposed to achieve? Last I checked, trying was not good enough. You had 8 months to bring a striker in, you didn't and you failed. No need to release this statement, it's clear they feel nothing is wrong. It's actually even worse than that. It's clear that they know that there is a problem and people will be unhappy. And they think that a statement like this will actually make people feel better Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 So he's pretty much blaming it all on the Gameiro/Gervinho failures which happened like 2/3 months ago? I think its the Maiga one myself, they thought Sochaux would buckle at the end of window and they didn't, left us nowhere to go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 So he's pretty much blaming it all on the Gameiro/Gervinho failures which happened like 2/3 months ago? I think its the Maiga one myself, they thought Sochaux would buckle at the end of window and they didn't, left us nowhere to go. Gameiro + Gervinho + Erdinc + Maiga = total epic fucking fail Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 So he's pretty much blaming it all on the Gameiro/Gervinho failures which happened like 2/3 months ago? I think its the Maiga one myself, they thought Sochaux would buckle at the end of window and they didn't, left us nowhere to go. Gameiro + Gervinho + Erdinc + Maiga = total epic f***ing fail Aye, no better way to put it than you did Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Also, why LL-Cool-J and not Pards? I can imagine a reason, though: "Go f--- yourselves, I ain't goin' out there!" "Alright then, I'll just CTRL+C and CTRL+V from this online forum I've been checking to see who likes me, and you're buying into the roulette table on Saturday." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Good statement, I feel rejuvenated after reading it tbh. Onward and upwards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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