KaKa Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Newcastle apparently had a €30m offer for Alexandre Lacazette accepted by Lyon, but the player turned it down, claims @Julienchaps of BeIN. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Ouch ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 We''ll probably end up with Patrick Bamford. This How depressing is it that you just made me excited that we could get Patrick Bamford in. Apparently Bournemouth are keen and sadly I think they are a better fit and a more attractive option than us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Ouch ... Our reputation is shot to shit so unsurprising. Can't see us spending that much on one player though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 From the Chronicle's blog A full translation of the L’Equipe article is here: The offer was serious enough for Alexandre Lacazette to be notified of its existence. His response, unfortunately for Newcastle, was immediately negative. Lacazette has no intention of risking his chances of a place at EURO 2016 by moving clubs in the middle of the season and is particularly perturbed by Newcastle’s record with French players including Hatem Ben Arfa and Florian Thauvin. Ideally, Lacazette would like to join a club after the major tournament this summer that plays in the Champions’ League. Does that mean that a move for Lacazette to Newcastle this month is impossible? The answer is no. Newcastle will look at other targets in the coming days but have the financial capacity to make a bigger offer for Lacazette, a fee that is over the €30m mark. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Club 'mystified' about reports of a bid apparently. Surprise surprise. Mystified. Fuck sake what a word to be quote. Like David fucking Blaine just started floating in front of them and they're all just shocked and confused. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1pe Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 From the Chronicle's blog A full translation of the L’Equipe article is here: The offer was serious enough for Alexandre Lacazette to be notified of its existence. His response, unfortunately for Newcastle, was immediately negative. Lacazette has no intention of risking his chances of a place at EURO 2016 by moving clubs in the middle of the season and is particularly perturbed by Newcastle’s record with French players including Hatem Ben Arfa and Florian Thauvin. Ideally, Lacazette would like to join a club after the major tournament this summer that plays in the Champions’ League. Does that mean that a move for Lacazette to Newcastle this month is impossible? The answer is no. Newcastle will look at other targets in the coming days but have the financial capacity to make a bigger offer for Lacazette, a fee that is over the €30m mark. You can't exactly blame that lad if that is his reasoning. It makes perfect sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 From the Chronicle's blog A full translation of the L’Equipe article is here: The offer was serious enough for Alexandre Lacazette to be notified of its existence. His response, unfortunately for Newcastle, was immediately negative. Lacazette has no intention of risking his chances of a place at EURO 2016 by moving clubs in the middle of the season and is particularly perturbed by Newcastle’s record with French players including Hatem Ben Arfa and Florian Thauvin. Ideally, Lacazette would like to join a club after the major tournament this summer that plays in the Champions’ League. Does that mean that a move for Lacazette to Newcastle this month is impossible? The answer is no. Newcastle will look at other targets in the coming days but have the financial capacity to make a bigger offer for Lacazette, a fee that is over the €30m mark. You don't say huh, the once brilliant reputation had in France destroyed by who else, Alan Pardew and his band of maggot cunts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Alan Pardew still costing us. Fantastic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Pretty sure he's said all along including summer that he wanted to wait until after the Euros before moving and this was when he was being linked with far better clubs than us, he'd be an absolute moron to move to us given our plight and I'd be amazed if a) it actually happened in the first place and b) that Carr doesn't already fully know all this making a bid totally pointless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Pardew didn't manage Thauvin. Anyway, if true he's absolutely right. Which talented footballer would want to come and waste their career at Mike Ashley's cheap shell of a once great club? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AY Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Expect a few more of these stories throughout the month claiming we've bid huge sums for players who've no interest in joining us so that come the end of the transfer window they can come out and say they did their best to sign a top quality forward but just couldn't get one over the line. A far more sensible strategy would be to sign Austin and get Remy in on loan, bring in a central midfielder and see what happens. Why you think Austin would want to come? Its not certain like.. Nothing's certain but we'd stand a better chance of getting him than Lacazette I know that much. As hopeless a club as we are these days we're still a better proposition than QPR. And there will be few other clubs that are more interesting than us for Austin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_69 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Pardew didn't manage Thauvin. Anyway, if true he's absolutely right. Which talented footballer would want to come and waste their career at Mike Ashley's cheap shell of a once great club? He did manage Cabella though, who was arguably the more talented player. If he had managed Thauvin the lad would probably be stacking shelves in Tesco by now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Pardew man. Set us so far back. No debating about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leffe186 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 From the Chronicle's blog A full translation of the L’Equipe article is here: The offer was serious enough for Alexandre Lacazette to be notified of its existence. His response, unfortunately for Newcastle, was immediately negative. Lacazette has no intention of risking his chances of a place at EURO 2016 by moving clubs in the middle of the season and is particularly perturbed by Newcastle’s record with French players including Hatem Ben Arfa and Florian Thauvin. Ideally, Lacazette would like to join a club after the major tournament this summer that plays in the Champions’ League. Does that mean that a move for Lacazette to Newcastle this month is impossible? The answer is no. Newcastle will look at other targets in the coming days but have the financial capacity to make a bigger offer for Lacazette, a fee that is over the €30m mark. If the other club have accepted the previous offer, and the player is the issue, then the bigger offer wouldn't matter, surely? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Pinkman Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Just remembered that time near the ticket renewal deadline when that sports direct news site said we were in for Rooney Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Just remembered that time near the ticket renewal deadline when that sports direct news site said we were in for Rooney Totally forgot about that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozy Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Pardew didn't manage Thauvin. Anyway, if true he's absolutely right. Which talented footballer would want to come and waste their career at Mike Ashley's cheap shell of a once great club? He did manage Cabella though, who was arguably the more talented player. If he had managed Thauvin the lad would probably be stacking shelves in Tesco by now. Going from what we know they both appear totally unsuited to the Premier League at this stage of their careers. A job well done once again by Graham Carr. Who'd have thought signing players who don't have a position wouldn't work well in a side that hasn't had a philosophy in terms of style or formation in about 12 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Pardew didn't manage Thauvin. Anyway, if true he's absolutely right. Which talented footballer would want to come and waste their career at Mike Ashley's cheap shell of a once great club? He did manage Cabella though, who was arguably the more talented player. If he had managed Thauvin the lad would probably be stacking shelves in Tesco by now. Going from what we know they both appear totally unsuited to the Premier League at this stage of their careers. A job well done once again by Graham Carr. Who'd have thought signing players who don't have a position wouldn't work well in a side that hasn't had a philosophy in terms of style or formation in about 12 years. What we know is that neither player has been given a fair chance to settle into this new league/club. Physically less imposing players have done well in this league, so to suggest these players could never cut it in this league is not something I would take as a given. We are absolutely diabolical when it comes to developing and getting the best out of creative players and wingers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozy Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 To get the best out of those players you need to allow them the creative scope to be a maverick. That needs a strong spine with great organisation. The only time we've come close to having this recently was with prime Colo, Tiote, Cabaye and Ba in the side, and Pardew wasted all that talent. That spine has all moved on or gone to shit and we haven't come anywhere near to replacing it. A spine has to be good players in the prime of their careers. We don't have anyone who's currently in that 'prime' stage. They're all wantaways, washed up, shit or kids. It's a total shambles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_69 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 David Silva thrives in this league and he a piss-weak dwarf. In fact, the same goes for Hwan Mata. Amazing what proper management can do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 David Silva thrives in this league and he a piss-weak dwarf. In fact, the same goes for Hwan Mata. Amazing what proper management can do. Both players can protect the ball a lot better than Cabella could Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Bingo. Physicality helps but to be honest if you're a creative attacking player the pressure is on the defender to provide physical presence. Excessive amount usually results in said attacker getting a free kick anyway. Cabella/HBA/Sissoko whoever have had the weight of expectation squarely on their shoulders and get hung out to dry from it. I'm not convinced by Thauvin either from what I've seen but that not very much is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 We need players now who will hit the ground running not larvae butterfly stuff where you have to wait months and months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakka Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 I rate Lacazette, but why not go for Remy on loan and Austin in right now? Would cost way less than £19m and both are proven Premier League goal scorers. Proven quality is what we need and immediately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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