Guest Rey Mysterio Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Jay 'Danny Guthrie' Spearing. One has plenty of grit but very little ability, the other has loads of it but a heart the size of a pea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 I love how the French seem to be getting the blame yet I can't remember Harper, Taylor, Duff, Owen, Smith, Barton, Nolan, etc. being roundly criticised last time we went down? Quite a few papers ran with it at the same time which suggests it was leaked from within. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Who is Brown Ideye and is he any good? Never heard of him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Who is Brown Ideye and is he any good? Never heard of him According to Dennis Wise he is a half price Balotelli, would be canny alongside Cisse if we stayed up and decided to spend £10m Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugoinufc Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 most irrelevant thread at the moment Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 most irrelevant thread at the moment Not really, outgoing transfer rumours still are Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Who is Brown Ideye and is he any good? Never heard of him According to Dennis Wise he is a half price Balotelli, would be canny alongside Cisse if we stayed up and decided to spend £10m Awesome name. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugoinufc Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 most irrelevant thread at the moment Not really, outgoing transfer rumours still are true Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 I can't wait for us to get a new manager, like. We're going to be fucking amazing! I'd take competent. Not for long. What? Sorry. I meant that you'd not 'take' us being merely 'competent' for very long. I don't know, I'm just not comfortable with statements, in nearly every thread, about how a new manager will automatically flick some switch to help us realise our potential. I've lost count of the amount of players who'd be world beaters under a competent manager. It's not, and obviously never has been, that simple. How do you know how long I would or wouldn't accept competency? I didn't make one of those statements, I said HBA would be great under good management, and I stand by that. Just a guess, mate. It was just a bit of craic really, nothing definitive. But, you're obviously harder to please than the majority, after not enjoying a season when we finished fifth. It didn't seem like too much of a leap to come to that conclusion. I wasn't trying to place the 'player x will be the best under a better manager' entirely on you, though. So apologies if it appeared that way. I immensely enjoyed that season, trust me I was just worried about the football we played because I didn't think it was taking us anywhere long term. That said I completely embraced Pardew by the end of the season and said so, only to end up back where I started a few months in to this season due to various reasons. I just didn't like the insinuation that I wouldn't be happy with a reasonable level of performance because I was worried about where the style of play would take us (and rightly so, as it turns out). If we'd performed reasonably this season I'd still be pissing and moaning about the football (as I was last season) but I don't think I'd be as balls out livid with him as I am now edit - I'm also prone to making hyperbolic statements about HBA, because i love him and I'll be gutted if he leaves. That's all fair enough. As I said, it wasn't a nasty dig, but rather a bit of craic (I'm desperately trying not to use the word banter here). I don't remember peoples posts from last year really, so was just going off what's been said recently. If I've misread that, then it's fine. People are understandably tetchy at the moment, so I should know better. I even managed to offend a couple of lads I wasn't talking to there! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Who is Brown Ideye and is he any good? Never heard of him My fellow countryman. Good player. Tore it up in France before foolishly moving to Ukraine, which annoyed me. Anyway I could well believe we're interested after missing out on Remy. Similar in style to Remy and Aubameyang, in that he has pace and athleticism and can play upront or on the right in a similar way. Like O said also had success in France previously. Might be an alternative option if Aubameyang doesn't come to fruition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Didn't he have a partnership with our old target Maiga? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hatem garrincha Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Didn't he have a partnership with our old target Maiga? Yes he did. Ideye was good at Sochaux. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 would like to see scott sinclair here, think he'd be a great signing. gosling, jonas oot, sinclair in! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 would like to see scott sinclair here, think he'd be a great signing. gosling, jonas oot, sinclair in! Wouldn't be against that signing tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Would be a great signing particularly if we go 4-4-2 next season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Would be a great signing particularly if we go 4-4-2 next season. Would be great regardless IMO, regardless lets focus on staying up first yeah? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Nah, it's the transfer thread...we can wax lyrical. Here is where dreams are made and shattered. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppe Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Checked this thread and the first thing I see is Jay Spearing, we're not signing him are we? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 NEWCASTLE United have frozen their summer transfer plans until their Premier League safety is assured. The Journal understands the Magpies had intended to make a flying start to a summer in which they intended to make wholesale recruitment but that those plans have been mothballed until the club know their fate for the new season. It remains to be seen whether the club’s flirtation with relegation will have a major impact on managing to land their top targets, but the club are yet to follow up initial discussions with St Etienne striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – understandable given their precarious Premier League position. The club also have an interest in Aston Villa’s Andreas Weimann and have been scouting in Holland and Belgium for new recruits, but planned transfer summits seem to have been put back until the end of the season. The club are already planning a major strategic review of the campaign in June which will take in every aspect of the club. Strengthening the coaching team is one avenue being explored by Alan Pardew, who wants to see more Premier League experience in the squad next season. At the moment the club have circled the wagons in an attempt to focus on the job in hand. Recruitment and other matters that would normally be on the agenda at this time of the year have been mothballed until the club have more clarity on which division they will be playing in next year. But there are a number of big decisions that the club will need to make after the season has finished – not least whether they acquiesce to Fabricio Coloccini’s desire to leave the North East. The player spoke of his determination to stave off the threat of relegation yesterday morning but skirted around his future, which is still the subject of plenty of scrutiny. Key figures at the club are apparently resigned to his departure, which nearly happened in January after he made a request to join former club San Lorenzo. United’s prospects of staying in the division improved dramatically on Tuesday when Swansea did them a major favour by beating Wigan at the DW Stadium but they still go to QPR on Sunday needing more points to ensure they stay up. The club have not made detailed plans for the financial consequences of relegation and did not insert clauses in the contracts of the players they signed in January to cater for relegation. The Journal understands Newcastle took the view that they would not be able to sign the players with clauses setting out wage decreases in the event of dropping into the Championship. That is unlikely to change this summer, with Newcastle confident that if safety is assured they will be able to avoid another flirtation with the drop. Regardless of the speculation surrounding his own future, the return of Coloccini has been a major bonus for Newcastle in their battle to avoid relegation. The skipper delivered a classy performance against West Ham and Newcastle will look for a repeat on Sunday. “We have confidence and know that we have to think only of ourselves, not other teams,” the defender said. “We are three points above the last (relegation) place. We just have to do our job. “Then we think about next season. Newcastle has to be in the Premier League.” The club will hardly welcome comments from former winger David Ginola, however, who said the club’s French players might not be concerned about relegation because they could simply leave in the summer. He said: “You have to have the right sort of players for that task and I’m not sure that the players are concerned about it. “The players are thinking, ‘Well, if the club is relegated, then we will leave in the summer’. “Hopefully they are going to find something to help save the club because Newcastle United and the fans need to stay in the Premier League. “I hope they are impressing that importance on to them.” Read more: Journal Live http://www.journallive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2013/05/10/newcastle-united-hold-up-summer-transfer-plans-61634-33308567/#ixzz2SsNYb9P8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 The article's comments make for sad reading, people lapping the French stuff up. Good to see they're looking to Holland and Belgium though, there are some good options available there. Hopefully there's no incomings that disrupt the team too much, the whole Ba/Cisse thing last year is a situation i'd like to see us avoid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 If Pardew is going to have a say in coaching recruitment next season, he's not gonna be sacked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 If Pardew is going to have a say in coaching recruitment next season, he's not gonna be sacked. One of the main things I too from that article. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Hope to god they avoid this French fancy buying policy that we have now ,admittedly players take time to settle but they aint pulling up any trees atm or after the initial 2 game in January were we have been decidedly awful for most parts and Pardew is mostly to blame for that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 If Pardew is going to have a say in coaching recruitment next season, he's not gonna be sacked. One of the main things I too from that article. Newspaper tittle-tattle i hope with no truth fingers crossed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanSkÃrare Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 If Pardew is going to have a say in coaching recruitment next season, he's not gonna be sacked. I think that's just speculation going off the earlier report that he was "looking to do that in the summer". Doesn't necessarily mean anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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