toontownman Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastles-leon-best-set-for-2m-904448 Blackburn are making a £2million bid for Newcastle striker Leon Best – to replace China-bound Yakubu. A fee has already been agreed, and manager Steve Kean is hoping to persuade the Republic of Ireland to join Rovers as they rebuild following relegation to the Championship. The lure of regular first-team football - Best played rarely last season as Demba Ba and Papiss Cisse fired the Geordies into the Europa League - and a lucrative contract could sweeten the drop down to the second tier. be demanding 3.5m at least tbh. Be upset if we let him go for less, looks premiership quality and his games/goals ratio cant be too bad either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugoinufc Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 best off for 2 mill....then i would rather keep him as 4-5 choice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Seems canny cheap and surely Celtic would be a better option for him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Best is entering the last year of his contract with NUFC. I can understand selling him while we can still get a fee for him. I doubt we'd offer him a new contract. I hope we have an upgrade lined up (De Jong?) if we are selling him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugoinufc Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Best is entering the last year of his contract with NUFC. I can understand selling him while we can still get a fee for him. I doubt we'd offer him a new contract. I hope we have an upgrade lined up (De Jong?) if we are selling him. if in his last year....then we have to sell. 2 mill....think we paid less for him anyway. i would like him to stay as 4th choice....he seems to be happy with his role....especially with european football he would get his share of matches...even with competition from shola Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Best is entering the last year of his contract with NUFC. I can understand selling him while we can still get a fee for him. I doubt we'd offer him a new contract. I hope we have an upgrade lined up (De Jong?) if we are selling him. if in his last year....then we have to sell. 2 mill....think we paid less for him anyway. i would like him to stay as 4th choice....he seems to be happy with his role....especially with european football he would get his share of matches...even with competition from shola I'm not sure he is that happy with it but just not one to whinge in public and maybe understands why other strikers are ahead of him, I'll give him credit that he's not willing to just sit on the bench and collect wages if he want's to leave, in his situation don't blame him at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tyson Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Can envision Best having a career (at least at club level) that's on par with Jason Roberts. They're both similar: limited in terms of technical ability, but they both have the physical attributes needed to just about guarantee a prominent starting role at a low-table club, or even a yo-yo club. basically a club which doesn't have the sort of finances required to build a strong pecking order, particularly the forward options which is most costly (unless the academy is influential). Could be a consistent 10-15 goal striker at a Blackburn etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugoinufc Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Best is entering the last year of his contract with NUFC. I can understand selling him while we can still get a fee for him. I doubt we'd offer him a new contract. I hope we have an upgrade lined up (De Jong?) if we are selling him. if in his last year....then we have to sell. 2 mill....think we paid less for him anyway. i would like him to stay as 4th choice....he seems to be happy with his role....especially with european football he would get his share of matches...even with competition from shola I'm not sure he is that happy with it but just not one to whinge in public and maybe understands why other strikers are ahead of him, I'll give him credit that he's not willing to just sit on the bench and collect wages if he want's to leave, in his situation don't blame him at all. happy might be to much, but professional then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Seems canny cheap and surely Celtic would be a better option for him The Championship is a much better league. Scottish titles are worthless at the end of the day and so is playing in 2 European games before you're knocked out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smal Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Best is much, much better technically than Jason Roberts, man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Best is much, much better technically than Jason Roberts, man Not really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Seen Best skin defenders with some brillliant turns and touches that he has either scored from or set up another chance or goal. Will miss him greatly if he goes. Issue with him is his fitness levels - he seems to get a massive knock every damn season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Graham Carr set for new NUFC scouting mission Jun 21 2012 NEWCASTLE UNITED chief scout Graham Carr will begin a new scouting assignment next month – having presented his final shortlist for this summer’s transfer plans to owner Mike Ashley.Read Read More http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newcastle-united/nufc-news/#ixzz1yR8VLBb2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Best is much, much better technically than Jason Roberts, man Not really. He is a less talented, more energetic version of Ricardo Fuller. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 If De Jong signs, i'd let Best go for anything like what we paid for him. I think he's served a purpose here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Personally think we are doing ourselves a massive discredit if we sell him for £2m, he is worth at least double. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeloEmre Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Personally think we are doing ourselves a massive discredit if we sell him for £2m, he is worth at least double. Not with only one year left on his contract. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brazilianbob Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 But with £2m we can increase our de jong bid to £10m which if paid up front should be enoughfor fc twente who wanted £15m Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 A Morroccan website saying Taarabt is linked with us and Wolfsburg and that 'according to their sources' would like to talk to us. http://www.lionsdelatlas.ma/actualite/actualite/7929-qpr--taarabt-wolfsburg-ou-newcastle-.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeloEmre Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 A Morroccan website saying Taarabt is linked with us and Wolfsburg and that 'according to their sources' would like to talk to us. http://www.lionsdelatlas.ma/actualite/actualite/7929-qpr--taarabt-wolfsburg-ou-newcastle-.html Hopefully we're not interested in talking to him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagten Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 He's spoken about us before. No chance we would take him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Pardew's charismatic man management + Taarabt's unpredictable maverick talent = Yes please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 A lot of players/agents wants to talk to us, most of them get rebuffed. Hopefully and probably will this cunt be one of those. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sifu Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 A Morroccan website saying Taarabt is linked with us and Wolfsburg and that 'according to their sources' would like to talk to us. http://www.lionsdelatlas.ma/actualite/actualite/7929-qpr--taarabt-wolfsburg-ou-newcastle-.html Fuck that tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishmael Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 No thank you. I'm sure Pards has enough sense to avoid signing a seal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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