sempuki Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Must be Diakhate! Don't cry for Lee, Argentina Apr 28 2007 By Alan Oliver, The Evening Chronicle Newcastle United coach Lee Clark heads off to South America next week with instructions to find a new Nobby Solano. Clark, assistant academy director Adam Sadler and education officer Jimmy Nelson fly out to Argentina a week on Monday. And their first port of call is to an academy in Buenos Aires before the United trio take up their invitation to visit Boca Juniors. It was from Boca Juniors that Kenny Dalglish signed Solano for £2.4m just before the start of the 1998 season. United boss Glenn Roeder told me today: "We are sending our people out to Argentina to see what it is all about." And Clark chipped in: "We are the only Premiership club to have been invited out to the academy in Buenos Aires where we will see the best three young players, aged between 16 and 20, from every South American country. "This is a splendid opportunity for us to go out there and it would be foolish to turn it down. "Everybody knows we signed Nobby from Boca Juniors and they have invited us to watch some of their training sessions. "And it goes without saying we would love to unearth and bring home another Nobby Solano." For me, Solano probably just edges ahead of George Robledo and Tino Asprilla as the greatest South American player United have had. Meanwhile United are not letting the grass grow beneath their feet in their search for new players for next season and all talk from people in the know is that they have beaten a host of clubs for the signature of Reading's out-of-contract midfielder Steve Sidwell. Clark was in France last Wednesday night where he took in Bordeaux's game with Nancy and he ran the rule over a defender. Indeed the Geordie boy has certainly been busy in his first season on the coaching side after hanging up his boots at the end of last season. He has now got his A coaching Licence and in September starts his Pro Licence which would qualify him to manage in the Premiership. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 F*cking hell, Lee Clark scouting players. Sums the club up at the minute for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Lee Clark as a scout, nah we wouldn't do better with Allardyce Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Lee Clark - Coach or Scout? Roeder, you're an idiot. As for Anal: Nobby "just edges" ahead of Asprilla as the greatest South American player we've had?? Now, there was no doubting Tino's ability, but coem on, how important has Solano been to us??? Fuck off, Oliver, you're an idiot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Do Boca Juniors have a relationship set up with any clubs? If not, it would be worth trying to follow it through. Imagine having an exclusive link with the club with the best academy and youth scouting setup in South America. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Lee Clark scouting? I think we'll end up with a new Diego Gavilan, not a new Nobby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Do Boca Juniors have a relationship set up with any clubs? If not, it would be worth trying to follow it through. Imagine having an exclusive link with the club with the best academy and youth scouting setup in South America. ...and a manager with no fucking clue. It's be even more annoying than it is now. At least now we know our squad are in the main bollocks. It's be even worse torture watching Roeder destroy us with good players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Do Boca Juniors have a relationship set up with any clubs? If not, it would be worth trying to follow it through. Imagine having an exclusive link with the club with the best academy and youth scouting setup in South America. ...and a manager with no fucking clue. It's be even more annoying than it is now. At least now we know our squad are in the main bollocks. It's be even worse torture watching Roeder destroy us with good players. Tbh, the amount of quality in our squad is depressingly high. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Do Boca Juniors have a relationship set up with any clubs? If not, it would be worth trying to follow it through. Imagine having an exclusive link with the club with the best academy and youth scouting setup in South America. ...and a manager with no fucking clue. It's be even more annoying than it is now. At least now we know our squad are in the main bollocks. It's be even worse torture watching Roeder destroy us with good players. Tbh, the amount of quality in our squad is depressingly high. No, its not. But please feel free to put on some rose tinted (or in some cases entirely opaque) glasses about Ameobi, Dyer, Shambles, Babayaro, Moore, Duff, Luque, Sibierski, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Do Boca Juniors have a relationship set up with any clubs? If not, it would be worth trying to follow it through. Imagine having an exclusive link with the club with the best academy and youth scouting setup in South America. ...and a manager with no fucking clue. It's be even more annoying than it is now. At least now we know our squad are in the main bollocks. It's be even worse torture watching Roeder destroy us with good players. Tbh, the amount of quality in our squad is depressingly high. No, its not. But please feel free to put on some rose tinted (or in some cases entirely opaque) glasses about Ameobi, Dyer, Shambles, Babayaro, Moore, Duff, Luque, Sibierski, etc. Players like Ameobi, Dyer, Duff, Given, Harper, Taylor, Solano, Milner, Parker, Emre, Butt, N'Zogbia, Martins, Owen ... represent the bulk of what could be a very good squad. Obviously, there are some duffers in the squad aswell. However, there is no doubt about it in my opinion - the individual talent on display there is of a high standard. It's case of getting the right manager and the right set-up to make it work and get the best out of the players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Super scout Clarkie. :lol: How did we ever get in such a state? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Do Boca Juniors have a relationship set up with any clubs? If not, it would be worth trying to follow it through. Imagine having an exclusive link with the club with the best academy and youth scouting setup in South America. ...and a manager with no fucking clue. It's be even more annoying than it is now. At least now we know our squad are in the main bollocks. It's be even worse torture watching Roeder destroy us with good players. Tbh, the amount of quality in our squad is depressingly high. No, its not. But please feel free to put on some rose tinted (or in some cases entirely opaque) glasses about Ameobi, Dyer, Shambles, Babayaro, Moore, Duff, Luque, Sibierski, etc. Players like Ameobi, Dyer, Duff, Given, Harper, Taylor, Solano, Milner, Parker, Emre, Butt, N'Zogbia, Martins, Owen ... represent the bulk of what could be a very good squad. Obviously, there are some duffers in the squad aswell. However, there is no doubt about it in my opinion - the individual talent on display there is of a high standard. It's case of getting the right manager and the right set-up to make it work and get the best out of the players. Well, i think you're wrong, but hey ho, thats football. In my opinion, Dyer, Emre, Parker, Harper et al can never be in a "very high" ability list, indeed some of them shouldn't even be on the park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Super scout Clarkie. :lol: How did we ever get in such a state? Subtract Robson add Souness = now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Do Boca Juniors have a relationship set up with any clubs? If not, it would be worth trying to follow it through. Imagine having an exclusive link with the club with the best academy and youth scouting setup in South America. ...and a manager with no fucking clue. It's be even more annoying than it is now. At least now we know our squad are in the main bollocks. It's be even worse torture watching Roeder destroy us with good players. Tbh, the amount of quality in our squad is depressingly high. No, its not. But please feel free to put on some rose tinted (or in some cases entirely opaque) glasses about Ameobi, Dyer, Shambles, Babayaro, Moore, Duff, Luque, Sibierski, etc. Players like Ameobi, Dyer, Duff, Given, Harper, Taylor, Solano, Milner, Parker, Emre, Butt, N'Zogbia, Martins, Owen ... represent the bulk of what could be a very good squad. Obviously, there are some duffers in the squad aswell. However, there is no doubt about it in my opinion - the individual talent on display there is of a high standard. It's case of getting the right manager and the right set-up to make it work and get the best out of the players. Well, i think you're wrong, but hey ho, thats football. In my opinion, Dyer, Emre, Parker, Harper et al can never be in a "very high" ability list, indeed some of them shouldn't even be on the park. Fair enough. In my opinion - our squad, obviously with a few more additions of a similar-to-higher (obviously a LOT higher defense-wise) - has immense potential. But it won't happen with this managerial set-up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Super scout Clarkie. :lol: How did we ever get in such a state? Subtract Robson add Souness = now. Even Souness didn't have Clark as a scout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nguyen Van Falk Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Suppose the positives we can take from this is we're going to be seeing a lot of high potential youngsters and we're actually scouting. Just a shame it's Clark doing the scouting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Super scout Clarkie. :lol: How did we ever get in such a state? Subtract Robson add Souness = now. Even Souness didn't have Clark as a scout. It was the catalyst Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUFC06 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 In Argentina there are always good players,especially in Boca. I hope that Clark can spot some young talent there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 What makes everyone think Lee Clark is a shit scout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 we're sending the academy school teacher out to scout for players! only at newcastle. apart from that, it's good that we're being pro-active. ideally we'd have a scout on our books living in South America doing this full time, with more experience at finding players from that part of the world and dealing with the culture/clubs. maybe we'll see some sort of link-up or dialogue established between the clubs, that would be a positive step. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUFC06 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 What makes everyone think Lee Clark is a s*** scout? He isnt. But that doesnt mean he cant see a good player if they are any! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Diakhate is Senegalese by the way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Diakhate is Senegalese by the way. Playing in the French league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Diakhate is Senegalese by the way. Playing in the French league. So?... yes, I think we've established that. Point was that thread implied he was French when he isnt... but well done Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Monkey Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 What makes everyone think Lee Clark is a shit scout? Why would we think otherwise? He was an average journeyman player, seems ot be a relatively ok coach, and fucking totally unproven scout. But yeah, lets send him round the world, rather than an actual scout. Genius, that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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