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Dragutinovic - Set to sign new Sevilla contract


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Spanish press claiming that it's tomorrow that our representatives are due to fly out.

 

Sevilla's president Del Nido met with Juande Ramos and Drago at the team's hotel in Marbella yesterday to discuss, among other things, Drago's future. Apparently no deal has been done as yet but they are expecting representatives from Newcastle at the hotel to discuss a signing tomorrow. Whether this has been affected by the José Enrique news remains to be seen.

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Reckon if we sign Dargutinovic and Enrique then we're pretty much set. Whether they'll be good enough we don't know, but it'll be decent depth and cause to be optimistic.

 

LB : Enrique/Dragutinovic, Babayaro

 

CB: Taylor, Rozenhal, Capaca, Dragutinovic, Huntington/Edgar/Ramage

 

RB: Carr, Geremi/Solano

 

Definitely something to be said for going after a new RB, if there's more money. Get someone very good in and have Carr back him up. That leaves Geremi and Solano to play in midfield more, which will be to our benefit.

 

We'd also be looking at having a pretty deep squad.  :frantic:

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United in for £2.5m Drago

 

Aug 4 2007

 

by Alan Oliver, Evening Chronicle

 

 

Ivica Dragutinovic

 

NEWCASTLE United are to bring in 31-year-old Serbian left-back Ivica Dragutinovic in a £2.5m move from UEFA Cup holders Sevilla.

 

This is because they fear they will lose out to Everton for Wigan Athletic’s England Under-21 international Leighton Baines.

 

The Chronicle reported yesterday that United had bid £5m for Baines and we can reveal today that this is £3m down and another £2m at the end of the season.

 

But the word coming out of Lancashire is that Baines, whose wife is expecting their second child over the weekend, wants to stay in the North West and favours a move to Everton.

 

 

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So United currently do not have a fit left-back on their books, with the Premiership opener at Sam Allardyce’s former club Bolton Wanderers a mere seven days away.

 

That’s why they have gone to Spain and beaten both Manchester City and Roma for the man known as Drago.

 

As a Belgian passport-holder, Dragutinovic will have no problems in being registered in time for the game at the Reebok Stadium.

 

He began his career in his own country with Borac Cacak before heading to Belgium and a spell in their Jupiler League with Gent and then Standard Liege in 2000 where he was a big success.

 

Drago switched to Sevilla two years ago and he is under contract until next summer, meaning United will have to pay a £2.5m fee.

 

He has played 33 games for Serbia and Montenegro and was part of their “famous four” defence which conceded only one goal – to Spain’s Raul – during qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.

 

Meanwhile Baines was deciding between United and Everton and it’s not looking good for Allardyce.

 

Everton have put £4m down on the table with another £500,000 on appearances and another £500,000 if they qualify for the Champions League.

 

Baines was actually pictured watching Everton in action this week and, despite being big pals of United’s fellow England Under-21 internationals Steven Taylor and James Milner, it looks as though he is heading for Goodison.

 

United have already given up on signing Mikael Silvestre after the Manchester United defender insists he will not come to St James’ Park because of the Joey Barton incident with his big pal Ousmane Dabo.

 

But there was some good news with Brazilian international Cacapa agreeing a two-year deal at St James’ Park last night.

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Wasn't it Oliver who said yesterday Baines had turned down Everton?

 

 

Yup.  What an absolute joke.  We knew about the Dragutinovic deal about 2 days ago too.  No mention of Enrique,  no mention that he already said the Dyer deal was done and now this crap about Baines.

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How the fuck has he gotten through a full article on left-backs without mentioning Enrique? :lol:

 

Because me guess is he wrote that last night a 4:55pm just before going home, then the Enrique thing came out.

 

I bet SA & Mort did it on purpose, gave Villarreal permission to release the article anytime after 5pm.

 

 

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Guest firetotheworks

Oliver has done more turns than Parker this summer. Its daft but everything is starting to annoy me about him now, not just his repetition of the same phrases but his use of simple English as well. Im not a grammar Nazi but he is supposed to be a journalist. 'this because....'    'and I can tell you' etc. Reminds me of first school.

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If we sign drago i will be very happy even more if we get Enrique as well our options will have massively improved in that area.

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