Taarabt to the Toon?
Reports in The Chronicle today claimed that Alan Pardew will be looking to sign the 21-year-old in the summer, but I personally don’t think that Neil Warnock will be looking to get rid of his star man, especially if QPR achieve what looks likely and gain promotion back to the Premier League after a 15 year absence.
This seems to be a recurring link as we’ve been linked with this player before. It may just be the same story regurgitated, but at the moment we will just have to wait and see. Whilst he’s been linked with us, he has also been linking himself to the likes of Manchester United and Real Madrid. There is no doubt that he is a very good player, but there are questions over whether he is really as good as he thinks he is.
Taarabt’s record this season speaks for itself, and having scored 15 goals and provided 15 assists it has made him look a huge bargain to QPR who paid a cut price fee of around £1 million when he signed for them last summer. If QPR were to sell we would have to bid a considerable amount more than that due to the fact that QPR aren’t really desperate for money as they’re one of the richest clubs in the world.
After conceding two goals in the first three games of Neil Warnock’s reign due to silly flicks in his own half, Warnock was quick to bring in a rule which meant that if anybody passed to Taarabt in his own half they would be fined and the money would go to charity. Is that really the type of player that we need? In my opinion, I’d say no.
Pardew has been saying how anybody who plays for Newcastle has to be the right type of player and that they have to be able to carry the burden of the shirt. Whilst he would certainly get the fans off their seats he would be very much a passenger in defence, and in the Premier League you can’t afford passengers. Not in the bottom-half of the table anyway.
Another reason why I struggle to believe that this is a viable transfer is the fact that if there is anywhere in our team where we are already strong then it is centre midfield. Kevin Nolan, Stephen Ireland and Hatem Ben Arfa will all be looking to play in the same position as Taarabt which makes me think we would be better to look elsewhere and improve other positions on the pitch.
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Welcome to the darkside Jobey
Some good points raised there like. Would Taarabt be as flashy in the Premier League though? Would he have the time or space?
I’d have him, but I don;t think he would be as successful as he has been in the fizzy.
No doubt he’s a cracking player in that league but then again all our players looked good last year… yes, even Lovenkrands
I just don’t like the way he acts, and no i don’t really think he’d get much time on the ball, especially away from home
‘Is Carroll playing? I thought they just picked up some gypo from the campsite and out him up top?’
‘he’s been shoite. Now he just needs a bad injury’
‘Jobey, he does look very slow!’
England 1- Ghana 0
nowt like a good jinx lads!
Good article jobey, you take after me
On Taarabt I would defiantly have him but I don’t think we will go for him.
DJG-
Aye, he hadn’t had a kick before
DJG – Indeed
Lets try again.
Wolves are going to win on Saturday……
I personally do not want him. They would want a small fortune for him of they are promoted. Plus players playing in england are usually overvalued. Much rather seen the money spent on the continent.
Oh…by the way, bnice article Jobey.
Cheers lads
flashy git,and big-headed,kna ta
Toonsy and his teenage clan
icedog
Posted March 29, 2011 at 8:59 PM
“flashy git,and big-headed,kna ta”
Who? Rich?
Blooody hell.
did you see that touch off Downing. Just shows like, the North East does spaw players, it’s just they fook off after a year or 2 for huge wages and better teams. And ppl on here scratch their heads and wonder why. 
Why is it, young don’t hear of talented young footballers being normal down to earth lads?
They are all fooking nutcases!
BOTH
The North East spawns players?
Aye, as does the north west, midlands, south, south west and south east….etc etc etc
Why is it, young don’t hear of talented young footballers being normal down to earth lads?
They are all fooking nutcases!
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Pretty much sounds like me around 20 years old. If I’d have had several million in the bank it would have been even more of a disaster.
Aye Moreno… my point being they stay in the north west.
Just think if Carroll had come through in the Keegan era. He would have told the bin dippers to naff off.
I blame the North East teams for being so shyte.
Ice/Toonsy….tw@ts
DJG – Really? I blame Maggie Thatcher for ripping the heart out of the area and putting it behind the rest of the country in terms of employment, living standards, and infrastructure.
Well Harry said he had more talent than Modric, I’d have him.
Probably be difficult in getting him though – not like QPR are short on cash like most Champ teams.
RICHIE can you put your caps lock on m8,nee wonder toonsy has trouble seeing the writeing
Asamoah Gyan makes me laugh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjOb6OA3SVo
Ice…eh?
toonsy @11 aye what do ya pay them in icepops
I blame Tony B liar and Labour for coning people like you that they are a party of the North East and a party for the working class. I think you’ll find the gap between the rich and poor didn’t close in 13 years of labour government, if anything the statistics show it increased. Labour are happy to keep people trapped in the poverty trap whereas the coalition have introduced a budget to encourage small business and growth.
I was conned by Labour for years mate, not anymore.
1/4 of jelly babies
DJG,
you divvn’t half talk some utter tripe sometimes like mate
moreno you meen most times
I think you’ll find if ya support any political party ya’ve been conned. They’re all the same, they’re all sh!t and none give a f*ck about you or me or the North East
DJG …give it lowdy big man…the peoples poet…
Tony Blair/Andy Carroll two plastic Geordies…
The first realisation you need to make DJG is not that Labour were conning you, it’s the realisation that they are all conning you. Doesn’t matter which party mate, they only give a monkeys about themselves and the power they have.
richie….great minds mate
batty…
Moreno…yep
aye there all c unts but some bigger than others
Jarvis getting injured would make me smile
Moreno…wish I could break into the parallel universe where the big money earning politicians and there cohorts exist…but the small people have to make do with the scraps which they allow us…….full of shit the lot of them, and only in it for their own gains..
DJG is furiously tapping away with a big nonsensical argument as we speak…
DJG
Posted March 29, 2011 at 9:19 PM
“I blame Tony B liar and Labour for coning people like you”
Not really. It was long before Tony Blair that the back of Maggie’s hand clipped the coalmine that used to be the heartbeat of the community of Crawcrook and whose workers used to keep local businesses, like my family shop for example, alive and kicking.
Once the work went, so did the workers, and the community, and the businesses that had relied upon them.
That’s part of the reason why I’m not in the NE anymore.
Politics is just a load of bull.
Ghandi,
now there’s a bloke who wasn’t in it for the money.
They call all learn a lot from Ghandi
Moreno
Toonsy…I thought you left the north east cos Hexham didn’t have a McDonald’s where you could hang out with the Hexham Crew…
As you can see, my issue is personal
@40 that was
Munich Mag
Posted March 29, 2011 at 9:30 PM
“Toonsy…I thought you left the north east cos Hexham didn’t have a McDonald’s where you could hang out with the Hexham Crew…”
Nah. Hexham was just a birthplace. I actually can’t remember if I’ve ever been back after I was born
When the pie factories went, so did the young Toonsy
And if you don’t believe Tony Blair is a liar, watch the recent dispatches programme about BP. Including the bit about releasing the Lockerbie bomber. And while your at it watch the documentory ‘the secret war on terror’ which shows how people were tortured for information about terror plots. Whilst we and our nearby chums ‘police’ the world against ‘illegal’ activities.
well batty telt me he left as the baliff was on his tail
ice-
See Jobey, look what you’ve started
Reet, off to work. Back on shortly
later Toonsy…when do you start the new job?
Rich – Still waiting on some paperwork to come back. Once that is done I can think about a start date. About 3-4 weeks yet I reckon
Is that ya care in the community release form?
No matter who you vote for – The Government gets in.
The agenda never changes. You get the two different stories in the election build up and then when they get in, they do what they want.
They are supposed to represent the people and do as we wish but they just dictate to us as if we are inferior and need their help.
We just get to pick which Gaddafi controls us every 5 years and I am not sold 100% that the elections are legit either.
The same applies to every country. The riots and protests are only going to increase worldwide.
Makes you wanna whack Jonny Rotten and Sid Vicious on don’t it?
Break a leg jarvis…
Not really, a manufactured band in the same way of Boyzone and Johnny Rotten goes on I’m A Celebrity and sells butter. Anarchy my arze.
great goal by the mackem
FFS!
lol, that was brilliant.
You can’t deny that goal was outstanding. If Rooney did that, he’d be a white Pele. Oh wait, he’s too tired and above this match.
The skippies won in Germany after being 1-0 down at half time…German B team like, but still not too bad…
could we not of had this kid,when we were in in the trampionship?.
good player bags of potential,i’ve said for the last 18 month,we should sign him.
would probably cost us half a mill at the time,now he’ll cost 6 mill upwards,when qpr see us coming.
nice finish by carroll tonight,i fancy him to put the boot into us,when we visit smackland.
i can just picture “jabba the gut” and “owlica roe” sitting in the stands like a right couple of toby’s.
1-1…good…so Judas doesn’t get all the headlines…
Bewildering……… an international the whole country is watching, the 2 goals scored by a sunderland player and a this season newcastle player. Does that happen????
FJ,
Not really, a manufactured band in the same way of Boyzone and Johnny Rotten goes on I’m A Celebrity and sells butter. Anarchy my arze.
You and DJG should start your own club.
The Sex Pistols changed music and started a movement in the UK like no other in recent history, No other band has started anything like them (possibly The Clash)
Honestly, don’t compare them and Boyzone in the same breath.
Because Shaun Ryder and Bez went on one of them shows…what does that mean? They’re now shite because they aren’t out popping pills anymore?
Carroll is thick as pig sh1t…
Shaun Ryder and Bez were just c***z throughout history. Bez isn’t even a musician, he’s just a pillock he danced like an addict.
Could be because he was and is.
Sorry, should have said “what they did in the past was shite…”
rather than “now shite.”
feking hell I only went to the airport to pick the Daughter up and theres a new thread with 70 comments
‘As you can see, my issue is personal’
I can’t really understand why, I mean you were born in Hexham, which you say you can’t remember if you’ve ever been there and don’t even know what it looks like. You have lived in the midlands pretty much all of your life and have a midlands accent. Im sorry but why is ‘Maggie Thatcher’s ripping the heart out of the area’ such a big deal for you.
I have lived here all my life and I couldn’t give a flying fuk.
DJG what are you on about Lad I hope I dont have to slap you about with a wet kipper
Big Dave-
DJG meant to ask you do you not use Paul toon anymore
Jobey you have to keep the wipper snapper in line sometimes
Where is me wingman
Jobey you bender
Im just AMAZED to learn why????? thats all.???????
ime hear dave watching your back while you were at airport
DJG – I moved when I was young because I had to, because my parents, whose families both lived in the tyne valley and surrounding areas for generations, had to get away for work. Now being under 18 I had very little choice in the matter. That was as a direct result of the mines and manufacturing being shut down by Maggie. That makes it personal.
And remember what happened the last time you dragged my accent into it? Just because I talk differently doesn’t change the years I spent in crawcrook or the fact that I’m from the North East.
Now feck off.
Ice ta for watching me back as there is so many knifes about
that was a cert Judas was going to score the fukin tosspot 
hello- such an intelligent comment
DJG someone told me that you sound like a Geordie Alan Carr
Thought you would like it pal ,
Sy, this jobey lad is a bender ain’t he mate
aye and jarvis come through game sound
Jobey – You know who hello is
Spence? If it is, he’s a hypocrite
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Sy
Jobey – its not Spence
Ice maybe the England game will go to his head and will fall apart come saturday when he realises that that he still plays with a shitty team
love crawcrook/ryton/pudhoe me like knew the odd girl there too
Zoggs? Kyle?
Jobey do you want me to get you an old kipper and you can slap the head of Hello then he will be Goodnite
Big dave- that would be much appreciated
DAVE dont worry daglish will stuff it up
Yeah Kyle
Ice I think you knew a few girls everywhere and were a bit of a Casanova
Ice Doglesh normally fuks everything up in time
DAVE you tinker,batty been spreading rumours again has he
theres another 100 that Batty missed out on
Big dave- just slipped in the
face to take the 100 
toonsy – my grandad and great grandad and everybody elses around here worked down the mines. I am from a very similar area in the tyne valley to your family. Coal mining started to become open-cast, miners had strikes and in the early years of the 70′s they had the govenment by the short and curlies and hence got their way with help from the trade unions. Eventually though the government had enough alternative resources to ‘keep the lights on’ to the point where they could fire up additional oil power stations and the coal miners didn’t have the government ‘by the balls’ anymore by striking so to speak. By the 80′s the general population also turned against the coal miners aswell when they became sick of sitting in the darkness. This didn’t just happen in the north east it happen in the midlands aswell (where a lot of coal mine and power station combos were based). It’s similar to British Airways strikes or Royal Mail strikes, the public lose sympathy eventually. The fact that you seem to blame this natural progression of the industrial revolution on the north east and the conservative government baffles me for two reasons. 1) It happened all over the country, 2) It would have happened under either main parties.
its not Kyle either
ime off lads,batty likes a early start
why don’y you just tell me toonsy? i don’t like mysteries
DJG i would give up now if i was you mate,stoney ground and all that,take the hint or hit
DJG – “I was conned by Labour for years mate, not anymore”
DJG – “I have lived here all my life and I couldn’t give a flying fuk.”
DJG – “It would have happened under either main parties.”
What exactly is your message then? Are you saying we should all vote Tory? Or are you saying we shouldn’t give a fook?
If it’s the latter, why you going on about it so much?
Sy ,
them accounts from the fizzy are out 2 moro arn’t they ??
Will you mail me them , or just the figures
Jobey Batty likes to get the 100th mate, and I just couldn’t resist it
as for politics the’re all the same they say what you want to hear untill they get into power then they dont give a fuk anymore until the next elections. They dont even need to let you know when the elections are because you soon know when you see the c@nts the elections are due its the only time you do see them.
DJG whats with the history lessons lad
Rant over
Jobey its Ed Harrison
Ice be good mate catch you tomorrow
DJG – It probably could have happened under any government, but it happened under Thatcher. I’ve never denied that it happened all across the country, but it the North East first which is why a lot of people moved away and why places like Nottingham have a high proportion of North East folk as they moved for the mining work.
I’m not the only one who blames the conservatives for this and it could have been different and we could have been sitting here pointing the finger at other people, but ultimately it was Thatcher in charge so she must take the blame for taking away the industry up in the North East and nit replacing it with anything else
Yeah its Ed , im just came over here looking to copy and paste a bit of stuff
Copy and paste
Night lads.
Still not getting it…… spill hello…
Night mate
AndrewNUFC nite mate im going meself
Catch you’s tomorrow lads be good
Night Big Dave mate
Sy mate post No 111.
Any news on it ??
Sy, check out’ United for Newcastles recent status and comments if you haven’t already
Night Andrew and Dave
Moreno – Can’t gt Facebook at work mate. What’s been said?
Hello – Aye. Tomorrow. I’ll sortit out for ye
Jobey – Clue = Z + you’ve already mentioned his name
Right im off lads, Laters.
Ohh zoggs? daft fecker.
Ooh and toonsy, The geordie website directory on twitter retweeted the link to here the other day, he’s got quite a few followers
Sy ya rat
Alright Jo mate , nice piece on Taarabt , very impressed
Thanks Sy mate ,
Don’t get me wrong I don’t like Baroness Thatcher either but im just trying to turn the argument into a more rationale and sensible direction from ‘let’s blame the tories for everything’.
Cheers mate
DJG – You’re pissing against the wind with that. You won’t change my mind on them, rational or not.
Catch you later Jobey
New thread up anyway
BBC’s website has been DOS attacked into oblivion.
lol
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