Guest Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Rumours in the last few weeks linking Martins with a £15m away, and Owen £11m. If you HAD to sell one and could keep the other, who would you sell? I'd sell Martins, and consider him as a one-year loan deal while Owen was injured with us making a tidy £5m profit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Owen is a much better player, but he's got no long term future here by the looks of things and will be gone for nowt in two years if we keep him. Meanwhile, Martins is young, not intent on leaving and still improving so I'd probably keep him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Martins. He wasn't worth the £10m we paid 12 months ago and hasn't improved one iota. If anyone offered close to £15m I'd snap their arms off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Owen is a much better player, but he's got no long term future here by the looks of things and will be gone for nowt in two years if we keep him. Meanwhile, Martins is young, not intent on leaving and still improving so I'd probably keep him. Agreed.....100% Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 For the figures quoted I'd sell them both. Martins is gash. Owen a mercenary twat. Bring in Anelka and Bent and maybe Nugent with the loose change. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.S.R. Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Owen is undoubtably the better player, but Martins is younger - at least he's supposed to be - and he'll be on much less per week. We'd be able to pay the wages of a few decent players if we got shot of Owen, but I don't think the clubs who'd be able to afford his wages are that keen to sign him, whatever the papers might say. They didn't want to touch him when he left Real, so why now when he's older and his knee has been knacked? We're more likely to shift Martins in the summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newcastle Fan Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Martins for 15, Owen is class when he finds his form, he can score and assist, Martins has the pace and the work rate but he's not consistent nor is he a natural goal scorer,more of a seconed striker type of players.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shido Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Sell owen...you aint takin' my martins away from me damn it.....He'd better stay i swear to god... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LucaAltieri Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Keep Martins, flog Owen. Value for money (wage-wise) Owen just doesn't cut it for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Owen if he wanted to stay & could play 5 games on the trot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparks Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Nobody fully knows yet if Owen will be the same player he once was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Sell both........Buy Anelka and sign Viduka on a free and we have around £12M to put in other areas. And with Anelka and Viduka in our squad/team it will give us much better balance and options when it comes to different systems... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 sell owen for £11m, buy Tevez for £20m. clicked on martins by mistake tho... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Where is all this hatred for Martins coming from? I thought after only one season in a foreign league our fans would be at least some what understanding. What is it that you lot want from a player? Fuckin' hell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 For the figures quoted I'd sell them both. Martins is gash. Owen a mercenary twat. Bring in Anelka and Bent and maybe Nugent with the loose change. Agreed. £15 million is way more than Martins is worth. And Owen doesn't want to be here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Keep Oba Martins. He has the heart and WANTS to play here. 17 goals in his first season, sporadic play, wasteful sometimes, sometimes bloody brilliant. with some proper coaching and better system/tactics/teammates he will only continue to get better. hes cheaper than owen, and wants to be our no.9 and wants to succeed. hes got heart, determination and he does it with some pride. you can tell when you see him on the pitch, no matter how bad hes playing, he never looks like he doenst care. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest @ndy Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Sell them both, should get about £25m, buy Bent, Anelka and get Viduka on a free! Also get rid of Carr, Babayaro, Moore, Bramble, Gooch, and luque Bring in a 2 CB's, possibly ben Haim and campbell, a LB a RB and a CM Would have liked to bring in Sidwell but looks like he is on the way to chelsea, Barton is a good player but unsure about his baggage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posadageordie Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Martins for 15, Owen is class when he finds his form, he can score and assist, Martins has the pace and the work rate but he's not consistent nor is he a natural goal scorer,more of a seconed striker type of players.. Aye, 17 goals in a shit team in his first season in English football -utter gash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Whoever goes, I'd be banging on at Viduka to come in on a Free. Still don't know why people don't rate him. So what if he's fat. Tevez isn't exactly slim is he? Viduka's scoring record and all-round play is excellent. Think he'd be perfect for Owen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmonkey Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Martins for 15, Owen is class when he finds his form, he can score and assist, Martins has the pace and the work rate but he's not consistent nor is he a natural goal scorer,more of a seconed striker type of players.. Aye, 17 goals in a s*** team in his first season in English football -utter gash. Hes not a natural finisher though. Hes shown on plenty of occassions that he can be very hesitant when through on goal. Hes got 17 goals because hes extremely talented, but he has less than he could have because hes frustratingly inconsistent with poor decision making at times. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest posadageordie Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Whoever goes, I'd be banging on at Viduka to come in on a Free. Still don't know why people don't rate him. So what if he's fat. Tevez isn't exactly slim is he? Viduka's scoring record and all-round play is excellent. Think he'd be perfect for Owen. Couldn't agree more, experienced, great target man, scores goals in shit teams and available for nowt. No-brainer for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Does it matter who we buy with the money we get for either? whether its Ronaldinho or Luke Chadwick they are still going to be ripped apart by morons on here. We have a 22 year old who has come into a new league and played more than double the amount of games he has ever played in a season, yet scored 17 times, he has all the attributes to become one of the best players in the league if not Europe, but because he gets a few perfomances wrong we are better off selling him? Give the guy a couple of seasons and some decent coaching please. As for Owen regardless of whether he is on form, injured or not apparently he never had an interest in playing for us so lets drive out another one of our best players in the hope we will bring in someone inferior that we willl obviously be happy with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 What's with all this Owen hatred now anyway? He's had a genuinely serious injury all season, he hasn't said he wants to leave, we all knew when he arrived that Liverpool was his first choice, so what's changed? I still think he'll be here this time next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Where is all this hatred for Martins coming from? I thought after only one season in a foreign league our fans would be at least some what understanding. What is it that you lot want from a player? Fuckin' hell. You'd think so, wouldn't you? I hope it's not just NUFC fans that go on like this, in all honesty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 Martins for 15, Owen is class when he finds his form, he can score and assist, Martins has the pace and the work rate but he's not consistent nor is he a natural goal scorer,more of a seconed striker type of players.. Aye, 17 goals in a shit team in his first season in English football -utter gash. He's definitely not a natural goalscorer... he doesn't have the preditory instincts that someone like Owen has. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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