The January transfer window will slam shut at 11pm tomorrow evening and fans and managers around the country will know just which players they have to complete the rest of the season with.
A lot of work will no doubt be going behind the scenes at football clubs around the country and Sky Sports News will no doubt be preparing themselves for the 12-hour tug-a-thon that is transfer deadline day.
Harry Redknapp will be featuring heavily again I guess as Sky tease that slippery tongue from his slack jaw, but it’s kind of pointless really as the transfer window doesn’t really apply to him and he can sign players days after the window slams shut. Don’t worry though, old ‘Arry isn’t a wheeler- dealer type you know 
Newcastle are of course still looking to add to their squad and will be hopeful of pulling off ‘one or two’ deals on deadline day. Personally I prefer it when we get our business done early as it stops the club from being able to say ‘well we tried for player x, y and z but nothing came of it,’ which sounds familiar.
Hatem Ben Arfa remains our only signing in this window, but being honest I kind of expected that. Pardew will no doubt claim that he secured the services of the injured Frenchman, but I honestly believe that we would have signed him regardless of who was in charge. It looks to be a good deal, and we all know that Ashley loves a good deal.
The whole fuss around the transfer window and deadline day grates on me though, and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone on that. From day one of the window we have had to put up with many of our players being linked with moves away from the club, although fortunately none of those links have been true and the only loss we have incurred has been Wayne Routledge who ended up back at QPR.
Is it time to do away with the January transfer window though? I mean it’s basically a month of uncertainty and disappointment mixed with overhyped transfer fees whilst being tinged with tiny little bits of excitement, so would it really be a miss? Would anyone miss it?
The European Union bang on about freedom of movement, yet it’s fine to restrict the movement of players to two periods in a season. I understand the transfer window was introduced to stop the rich clubs from buying at will and to protect the smaller clubs, but it hasn’t really worked out like that.
I wouldn’t want a return to the old days of transfers being made at any point during the season, but why not just restrict transfer activity to the summer window? At least that way a team can plan ahead knowing which players they have for the season. It works in a lot of sports, so why couldn’t it work in football?
What do you think?
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“The European Union bang on about freedom of movement, yet it’s fine to restrict the movement of players to two periods in a season”…..”why not just restrict transfer activity to the summer window”……..surely then they would be restricting movement even further?
Seriously tho I’d prefer it just to be just in the summer, then during the season only allow emergency loans for players(as they do with keepers) if it’s absolutely neccesary, i.e when there are no viable options left in the whole 25 man squad, this would also give alot more younger players proper first team game time imo.
ooh ooh….first……….and second
Rich
They could increase the 25 man squad to 30? Bigger squad for a whole season?
..aye or that
I just think alot more young un’s would be able to get game time which has to be good news all round.
That sounds pervy
Well, Tesco awaits. Back shortly
P.S – I’ll be playing with me knobs a bit later so be warned
Anyway, on a more serious note do any of you expats know a cheap way to get a cat out to Spain? first quote I had was £500 and odd
..I’ve suggested a jiffy bag and 2nd class stamp to wor lass but she didn’t seem to keen………he plays with a football,and hates the transfer window(just to keep it on topic) 
pervy?……only to you I suspect
Why do you want to get a cat out of Spain? Aren’t you moving there?
Or is it that big that you won’t move there until that particular cat is out of the country?
out to Spain, not out of
some hack on sunday supplement says his sauces are saying that the spuds havnt even put in a bid for big andy
28craigcoozy // Jan 30, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Guy its all happening now! Lee charney ??bringin 3 players in at 12 clock, hopefully al get sum names, plus shola havin chrisning he must jus had kid!
hitman,
Sunday Sun reporting similar movement at lunch time today.
Good on the porn barons for making an effort to stay in the division, Unlike Ashley and Lambarse jumping out of his helicopter on deadline day like the obese A team in and slapped in bids that had no chance of succeeding for Johnson and Richardson but we did get Raylor for Zog so it wasnt all bad
O’Neil, Ba and Keane are canny signings for a club in whams position…
ireland having medical at newcastle the day..
transfers arriving at midday according to the ever reliable craigcoozy. 3 of em, too. Hope to good they’re decent.
I know it won’t happen but fingers crossed for Krancjar! Hoping for a couplr carr specials as well! HWTL
Aye hes having a medical on sky sports
Really? Haven’t got SSN on..
Check news now
I hate this window aswell but what if you lose 3 or 4 of your top players for the season? It would be bollox if you got relegated because of injuries and the lack of ability to bring in replacements. Maybe they should get rid of the January window and extend the summer one into november or even December. Maybe better than having all this speculation overload in one month.
looks like more than one comig in today or tomorrow
Apparently the Smoggies are bidding for Yannick Djalo, remember we where after him in the summer. Available for 2.5m Euros, I believe in the summer it was reported we bidded 5.5m Euros. Should we not be looking at this kinda guy again.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6710557,00.html
NI I don’t think djalo is prem class. I’m no expert but I have seen a lot of him going back to when he played with nani in the Portugal u21. I liked him a lot back then but he seems to have fluttered. His game is a bit slow and deliberate. He’s not exactly a striker and he’s not exactly a winger but those are the areas he plays in. He does have a powerful shot and at 2.5 mil he may be worth the risk. But I don’t think he’ll cut it in the epl.
be interesting to see who they are! Ireland a good player he just an a******e , n not sure where we are meant o keep fitting in all these centre mids when we need a bit extra width , but we see what happens!
Better to have the problem of too much quality rather than too little. I guess in this window, you just have to the best players you can and worry about where they got later.
Wow I need another coffee. Just told whole words to fk off in that sentence
Bentner, taking the piss out of Huddersfields fans, He really thinks he summit he wouldnt even get in our team…
kin w@nker
Ireland’s dodgy attitude?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1194140/PICTURE-SPECIAL-Training-day–secret-Stephen-Irelands-success.html
Cheers ILM, good read
CC-what is he saying like? I remember him publicly saying he was the best player in the Arsenal team and he couldn’t understand why he didn’t start every week not long ago. He’s a plank and nowt particulary special.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, if this lad was coming from Italy or even Portugal, the toon army would be beggin for him. But since we’ve listening to these journo reports these past years many don’t want him.
That goal was going wide aswell if not for the deflection…
Wow terriers should’ve scored there…
Red for squilacci lol
Jersey-if who was coming from Abroad, Ireland?
Ireland has the most ridiculous tattoo ever!!
Ross aye Ireland.
He showed flashes of brilliance at City like, but when they started to spend big, he wasn’t needed which I can understand. His attitude has always been questioned. Houllier has openly said he needs to show more of a desire to get into the Villa first team has he not? He might not want to be there but he’s a professional and for the money he’s on, he should play like one. He did also fake the death of his granny, lol
Pearceet, aye, think he’ll regret that one lol
the tw@ters are saying we want benzama on loan
Ross aye he may be a total tosser but I’ve never met him personally and all I have to go by are journo reports. Barton gets slagged all the time in the media yet we know what we have in him. Also if Benny was coming from villa instead of France, would as many people be desperate for him with all the reports about his attitude?
I just feel like there are a lot of people who hate Ireland already without giving him a chance, and I don’t think it’s fair on him. It annoys me as well that it would be different if he was coming from abroad and we knew nowt about him.
hitman give them a slap man
Off for my lunch now. Laters
Benzema
Anyone watchin Arsenal v Huddersfield?
Lee Clark next Toon manager providing he gets rid of the side parton!
Benzena was spotted rolling a ciggy outside mistletoe bakery in jesmond.
Jay they sure it was a cig?
I wouldnt even want benzema… Think he’s terrible even he’s better than Shola, his wages would be ridiculous.
Maybe jose rates him and he want him to get comfortable here before Jose becomes the toon boss next year and makes the deal permanent…
dirty diving fckers
If Ireland plays at anything like his maximum ability level, it could only be good for us.
Unfortunately, that’s a big if. He seems like a real flake.
Still waiting to see who thses 3 players are
Who are the latest rumors then, aside from Ireland?
Elmander I think
It’s getting hairy in Egypt–they’ve moved tanks, not just troop transports–into the square.
And they’re doing low fly-overs with fighter jets and helicopters to scare the demonstrators out of the square.
I love me some football, but I’m hypnotized by the scenes in Egypt…
FSOTC …I know mate, things are getting a bit scary in Egypt, who knows where it’ll all end ?
jay jay- yesterday i noticed you look like mcsheffrey.
Although I rate Ireland, where is he going to fit in?
Stuart
Ireland will have to force his way in, but once/if he does he will almost certainly play the no.10 in a 4-5-1.
Maybe Ireland will occupy centre mid and we’ll push JB out on the wing ?
Pardew says he wants to play two up front though?
I cannot see him being brought in as cover.
i agree stuart. but it will give us strength in depth, ireland just needs to realise he wont walk into the team when were at full strength.
Munich Mag
Posted January 30, 2011 at 2:25 PM
Maybe Ireland will occupy centre mid and we’ll push JB out on the wing ?
Nolan and Tiote?
Can he play on the left?
Stuart
Well, if Pardew said that then I don’t have a clue. Surely 4-5-1 is the only option. We have one quality striker, but 5 quality midfielders. Surely it’s a no brainer.
FSOTC
No, mate. He can’t even play CM let alone out on the wing. He can only play the free role behind the striker.
Tiote
Barton Ireland Nolan Jonas
Striker
Barton and Ireland can become our right side partnership to compliment Jose and Jonas on the left with the 2 of them switching position on occasion
Stu….how about Ireland, Tiote and Nolan in the middle, with Nolan pushing onto the lone striker ?…getting a bit crowded there though !
I’m sure Ireland’s aware he aint gonna walk into the first team, but it’s gonna get pretty competitive in midfield ! Where does this all leave Danny Guthrie and Gosling ?…..interesting times ahead, hope they know what they’re doing ?! I’m sure there’s a huge ulterior motive in here somewhere, or am I just being paraniod ?…
At a guess. I would imagine the midfield to look a bit more staggered, like this
——-Tiote————–
Barton—–Nolan——-
——–Ireland—-Jonas
and what aboot when ben arfa is back ,or dont we need him now
looks good to me El Toro….
Aye Batty…it’s gonna get interesting !
I think Ireland arriving is a good deal as I think we will be able to help him rediscover his form. If he’s seen how Barton has improved so much here, he will be inclined to get himself back to his best form. Also I don’t think that Ireland would want to be involved with Villa with regards to their position in the league.
Interesting read here on how the lads have performed so far well worth a read
http://www.newcastlefcnews.com/2011/01/newcastle-fc-201011-player-ratings-so.html
off topic but Wolves have signed O’hara on loan for the rest of the season. That, my friends, is one of the best pieces of business all month. Hope he doesn’t drag them out the relegation mire, were it not for Pompey’s deduction last year he almost would have done the same for them. Canny player, would prefer him to Ireland but I’m not gonna complain when Ireland comes in!
Latest: Reports in Spanish media say #NUFC striker Xisco is on the verge of completing loan switch to former club Deportivo La Coruna. #NUFC
ILM… aye he’s having a medical there tomorrow…allegedly
Just seen what Bendtner did to the Huddersfield fans. Someone should remind him that acting the big boy like that is something that a classy player wouldn’t do.
I hope to god someone snaps the kunts legs!!
Hope it’s true about Xisco aswell
At least Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask
What did Bendtner do like?
Celebrated his goal by cupping his ear to the Huddersfield fans. Dead classy like
Adam Johnson out for three months then.
Hopefully they will pay some of Xisco’s salary. Perhaps the move is related to Ireland and is wages…
pen fulham
1 nil
Can’t stand Bendtner at the best of times anyway
another pen dawson off
2 nil
rich get yaself on the spud blogg
ya been back on like?
oh should have been 3 hit the bar
not yet rich
Is it on telly?
Aye toonsy, seen ya winding up the spuds fans.
yea toonsy espn
I was making vaild points. It was them who spat the dummy
3 nil
Batty – Is it on telly?
toonsy gan back on and make a few more valid poits
should of been 4
espn toonsy
I think it’s a bit out of order, going on other teams blogs and winding them up mesel like
I know, but it’s too easy
Fulham putting in a lot of effort here today like, I think we could catch them on an off day on Wed like, reckon they could be tired
harrys face is class
ilm aye there doing sum running
batty…..how’s the guvnors mum
I’m not sure wishing injury on a player is the right thing to do. We should do well to remember that these are their careers we are talking about.
In other news, what the hell are Spurs up to? Terrible performance.
Fulham looking a very good side, though. A bit worrying…
ET – Bendtner is a special case. Feck him. Hope somebody snaps him in two
4 nil half time
See pardew is at the fulham match, credit them like, they’ve played well
Ermmm, can we play Spurs again instead of Fulham, please?
El T
I’m actually thinking the opposite, spurs will be hurting from this, they will want to make it up with the next game
I’m thinking that Fulham will hopefully be knackered
iam hoping fulham get a few crocked players
ESPN’s transfer blog reports (without confirmation) that Robbie Keane is off to West Ham on loan.
FSOTC – It’s a done deal now.
Should we try to get poor old Paul Konchesky in as cover for Jose?
Toonsy
You say you don’t like Bendtner,but for me Fabregas is worse. Phenomenal player, but a right petulant little pr**k! Torres is the same.
I just think that mocking the fans of a legue one team when he is such an international superstar himself
is a bit rich.
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