Will we see another signing before deadline day?
The deadline day sale of, at the time, our star striker still remains fresh in the memories of the masses, many suspecting it may happen again, and for some, it has almost made the possibility of a top player being sold this January an inevitability.
There is still a week to go before we can breath a collective sigh of relief and there will be many a squeaky bum on Tyneside as the week progresses and the media storm of transfer propaganda intensifies, but this January has been one of incoming rumours rather than all eyes on the departure lounge.
The signing of our new number nine was one of complete surprise and even made those who hold most contempt for Mike Ashley and Co question their standpoint, but we find ourselves still needing a defensive signing coming into the last week with no sign of a deal being struck as yet.
This and the fact that the world and its dog knows Newcastle are in the market for a defender, has given the media and basically anyone with an imagination free license to link every defender under the sun with a move to St James’ Park and after three or more weeks of it I can safely say, I can’t wait for the window to close, regardless of whether we sign someone.
In the past week alone I have heard some absolute belters, the most laughable of which came the day before yesterday when I was told that Eleaquim Mangala was due at the Benton training facility for a medical and was all but signed.
First of all, Mangala signed for Porto at the end of the summer window. Secondly, as with a lot of players at Porto, he has a release clause, but a ludicrous one, said to be in the ballpark of £40 million. Now unless Mike Ashley has completely lost the plot, I would bet my house on him not signing for Newcastle. In fact I’d even throw my grandmother into the deal for good measure.
Next rumour of epic imagination was yesterday. The defender, Brede Hangelaand. Not too unrealistic you might think. The rumoured deal – £4 million plus Gabriel Obertan. Now although feasible under normal circumstances, I would be shocked to a degree where I became permanently speechless if this one came to fruition considering Gabriel Obertan was only bought in the summer, never mind starting 90% of our games since his arrival.
There are so many I could go on all day. While the level of imagination has to be admired, I have got to the stage where being linked with another name has actually started frustrate more than excite. At this point I think it’s fairly clear that nobody outside Ashley, Charnley, Lambias, Padrew and Graham Carr has a monkeys uncle who our targets are.
There are of course some things that become public knowledge of course, such as ‘Arry blabbing about Demba Ba’s clause and a couple of bids from Newcastle for players which have been knocked back almost as soon as they hit the desk of the clubs the players are under contract to.
Now as for the former, I think everyone is in agreement here, Redknapp has no business talking about players contracts that are at other clubs, never mind being players he has not actually made an offer for, or even an intention to bid on at all, but as we all know, ‘Arry just can’t help himself.
The latter mentioned, that being our confirmed bid for players, is an interesting one though. It may well be the case that we are interested in these players, but the low-ball nature of the bids would suggest they are no more than token bids. Some would say to keep the Geordie faithful content in the knowledge we are bidding on players. Others would speculate it is all a smokescreen to veer the media bloodhounds off the scent of our actual target, or indeed targets.
Whatever the case may be, the fact is we are into the last week of the window and no defender has been signed, and as much as we can handle waiting until the summer in certain positions, the centre of defence is not one of them. Without at least someone else in as back-up we are extremely thin on the ground in this regard and one injury to Fabricio Coloccini or Mike Williamson could see us really pay the price and possibly even cost us a European place.
So, with that said I fully expect Pardew has a worst case scenario contingency option in place this time around if moves for priority targets go belly up over the next few days, and with the Geordie nation all kneeling bedside at night for the next week, praying City or Chelsea don’t take out the cheque book, we should see ourselves with all our top stars still at the club come February.
The next week will no doubt be hectic in terms of rumours and with Newcastle already linked with over twenty defenders this window, I think we may well have more players linked to us by the deadline day than we did in the whole of last summer, the next ‘done deal’ more imaginative than the last.
But for now, some rational speculation among the blogs faithful may make for some good debate.
So, of all the names linked to us so far, who do you think could be on their way to Tyneside?
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Nick Purvis @nickpurvis
Hearing #nufc no longer interested in #mufc youngster Ravel Morrison, due to wage demands. Not confirmed by #nufc yet.
Hitman – Didn’t Fergie say he wanted unreasonable wages? Sure I read somewhere he wanted 30k a week
aye toonsy,the lad can do 1
Lame*rse playing hardball again. If the player doesn’t match the club’s valuation they move on. This approach landed Cisse for £9 million instead of the £15 million that was asked for in the summer.
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Understanding on Morrison that one last call was made to DL yesterday to check if #nufc would be back in. Polite no was the answer
3hours…..don’t believe that one, surely Delboy would have said “feck off”
Toonsy…aye, I read about the £30K too.
Canny article…..Who may come here?…..probably it’ll be someone who hasn’t been linked. If Colo were to sign a new deal and we lose none of our first teamers and get a CB(even on loan) I’d be over the moon, not asking too much am I?
I know Llambias is a hate figure with most Toon fans and I suppose he doesn’t give a toss really because after all, he isn’t a businessman in his line of work by saying ‘oh yes please, oh thank you, oh of course I’ll do that, oh tell me if everything suits you, e.t.c.
As Toonsy said, Morrison was asking for way over the top wages and to be honest, it’s like an apprentice electrician asking for the same wages as the experienced old head he’s been working with basing it on the old head telling him that one day he can be as good as him, but the kid already thinks he’s as good if not better.
All kids know it all remember and all the experience of older, wiser heads, know nothing compared to them.
This game has went way, way overboard with money and many of the young footballers who have been bigged up go along with that and believe they are the next superstar and basically play the bluff by saying, ” if you don’t give in to my demands, I’m off to someone that will.”
In effect, it destroys more than half of those young players careers before they even get off the ground because big clubs don;t bow to demands from upstarts unless that club are 99% confident it would be money well spent either in terms of his ability to gain you an upper hand on the field or a profit in future sales.
Llambias, love him or hate him, the one thing he can’t be accused of is, being a pussy and bowing to the so called bigger powers of footballs bigger clubs.
He appears to run this club (under Ashleys’ orders) with a rod of iron, the way any good sensible business should be run to have a way better than even chance of success.
The reason why we are all sat here wondering who will leave and who will come and when will it all happen can be construed as Llambias not being up front, giving us snippets that we like to hang onto.
The reasons for this, we have all heard and all pondered over.
The club have learned to keep a cloak over any dealing in or out because it is the best policy to put fingers on lips in the event of an up and coming transfer deal coming to fruition without being hijacked.
The same can be said for players leaving and naturally leaves the fans wondering if we will lose players and getting frustrated at the lack of communication coming out of the club.
The point is, as we have all heard it and stand by it in a crisis if you like and that is “no news is good news,” and that’s the mindset we should all have really because there is nothing that tells us any different and history isn’t a yardstick to use either because this club moves along and learns from every dealing they do and those that don’t go right, are righted.
If anyone is under any illusions about how this club conduct deals, then look no further than Cisse because he was a real distant rumour to 99% of us, infact he was a ship passing in the night until we all woke up and found that he was moored to our dockside.
Feck Wolfie, learn to summarise!
That was summarise hahahahaha
Well Demba arrives back on Monday, just in time to have a medical done for another club…
Still glad they got knocked out early?
JJ, I like to go into a bit of detail and I can’t help it.lol
You would be a bit pissed if you had read Enid Blytons famous five and it started and finished like this, wouldn’t you.
The famous five were looking for clues and Timmy the dog found them and they all patted themselves on the back and Timmy had a poo in the bushes.
The end.
Wolfie
When I was a kid I wanted people to think I was smart, so I would write on the back of the Enid Bylton novels my gran left… “I have red this book!”
Unfortunately, I don’t know what it was, but they never believed me
“The famous five were looking for clues and Timmy the dog found them and they all patted themselves on the back and Timmy had a poo in the bushes. The end.” -> sounds good to me!
jj.
JJ@11, that did cross my mind. However, I’d be more concerned if Ivory Coast got an early knock-out.
Wolfie@12, that’s my kind of novel, although I’d prefer it with a little more scatalogical articulation.
JJ …
batty says:
January 25, 2012 at 22:36
demba will be back just in time for any dead line day bids for him
Keep up man
any more transfer news?? 5 days to go .. chop chop we need a center half in!! wud love samba hes a beast!!!
JJ…Does the ACoN still raise alot of interest over there when S.A don’t qualify or are people not that bothered?
Think about it, Demba Ba is at a very good club… a big club in terms of fans and stadium and also he now has a strike partner who isn’t alien to him and an immediate bond is there.
That alone is a reason not to move anywhere.
Also, I can’t see the club cashing in on him as Pardew will have told Cisse that the club moves forward with these two as the driving force.
If a stupendously ridiculous unreal out of this world offer comes in for him that even Sheikh Monsour couldn’t turn down, then obviously things would be different.
If there is a clause in his contract, then naturally we won;t sell and it would be up to sweet arse succulent loins…..ermmm, hang on I’ll start again.
If there is a clause in his contract, then naturally it’s up to Ba to make a decision but do you think he would want to leave, knowing he has Cisse by his side and the potential to win things here and be idolised like our other legends?
It all points to positive rather than anything on the downside.
Richie
People arn’t bothered, because our national team isn’t bothers and is such a mess.
They actually did a celebratory lap in the qualifiers because they thought a draw would put them through, meanwhile they had been knocked out on goal difference… Idiots.
Most of out players in Europe don’t care about the national team. Guys like Steven Pienaar, Benni McCarthy, Bongani Khumalo, Aaron Mokoena, wouldn’t even come back to play in the qualifiers.
As for the supporters, Afrikaans South Africans only care about rugby, and cricket. English South Africans and black South Africans only follow the premier league and local league, but hardly even bother watching International games. Its all about Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates, Sundowns etc.
The only time that changes was during the 2010 World Cup when there was massive support from everybody because they team finally showed some passion and committment. Afterwards it was all about the big bucks in Europe.
Its why teams like the Ivory Coast, Senegal don’t do well, some European based players arn’t that in to it. Two of the biggest nations Nigeria and Cameroon and Egypt didn’t even qualify.
*isn’t bothers
doesn’t bother…
F@£k this phone
JJ….the lap of honour must have been embarrassing when they found out
jj duthent wirry aboots thos spalling meat it Japans hon my fown has will
I don’t know much about African football but looking at it from who’s left in the competition I would say the winners are likely to come from Ivory Coast or Ghana.
Colo has a knock according to Lee Ryder on twitter ,
Dan…watching it so far, I’d say that the only likely thing is that the likely winners are most likely not going to win and one of the least likely is more likely to win…..eh!!! ow me heed
Whey ya bugga, I didn’t even know Colo played dominoes
I reckon he’ll be fine, hard as fook
“richietoon
January 26, 2012 at 13:49
JJ….the lap of honour must have been embarrassing when they found out
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Incredibly embarressing. Bit like when we blocked the last ball without realising we needed one run to win when we hosted the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
I think our national teams need to appoint an arithmetic manager or something
Dan
Tunisia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Angola is pretty decent.
On paper, Ivory Coast should win easy. On those pitches, I’d say Angola are dark horses.
Richie, yeah teams like Zambia look decent. One thing that keeps Ivory Coast and Ghana above the rest for me though is their midfield and that’s why I think Senegal struggled.
Yeah Senegal have 5 quality strikers but their midfield has no creativity, Diame and N’dawe, good players but won’t create a lot where as Ivory Coast have Yaya Toure and Kalou and Ghana have Muntari and Ayew who will supply Drogba/Doumbia and Gyan.
JJ, I seen the highlights of Angola’s game, hell of a strike from Manucho. Burkina Faso have a few stand out players too I seen with Pitroipa and Traore.
JJ…..it would appear they already have me as their “arithmetic manager”
Just a quick change of subject whilst you’s fantasise.
If its ever interested you how to improve your voice and sound more sexy, I’ve just been getting some voice coaching and wish to share some tips with those interested;
Always drink a big glass of room temperature water first thing when you wake up, before coffee, orange juice or any other liquid. Squeezing a little fresh lemon juice in the water is also healthful. Coffee is dehydrating so make sure you follow your morning cup with a glass of water. Milk and orange juice can cause phlegm and throat clearing, adding to any extra mucus that built up over night. I avoid them in the morning.
Next, do a little humming. You should feel your nose and lips buzzing when you hum. This helps you find your facial mask and wakes up your voice.
Finally, turn on the TV or radio news and spend a couple of minutes warming up by imitating the announcers. Just copy everything they say, trying to match their inflection, pacing and timing. It doesn’t matter if you get the words right or if you try to imitate a member of the opposite sex or someone speaking another language. You’ll have fun and wake up your voice in the process.
Try this boys and you will sound as sexy as oot!!
I feel soooo much more sexy when I answer the phone noo like.
Troy…any tips that I don’t already know though?
What would this place be without Troys and Wolfies comments
Feck, Collo doubtful, this is why we need a CB in!
Troy, our voices tend to sound lower when we first wake up for three reasons. First, fluids collect in the tissues of the throat while we sleep. It’s the same temporary phenomenon that makes our eyes look puffy when we first wake up. Second, mucous builds up overnight from lack of use. And third, our vocal chords dry out from breathing through the mouth while we sleep. Due to lack of lubrication they cant move together as well as they should to form the higher pitch.
On the subject of Ravel Morrison, isnt he typical of a lot of talented youngsters starting out, i look at Shaun Wright Philips, Adam Johnson and Carroll who all put cash before their careers. Short term they become millionaires but by giving up regular football and playing in short bursts, they have destroyed what they had and its doubtful if they ever recover the spark and promise they were showing.
And its not just confined to younger players, look at Alan Smith, he had the nerve to come out last week and say it wasnt about the money for him, you could have fooled me, cant see any club touching him with a barge pole.
Rodz, didn’t know ye were a biologist.
The interweb is a wondrous resource DJG
…on Morrison, he sounds like an arrogant cock, and troublemaker to me.
I agree with Robert too, on talented youngsters choosing money at the bigger clubs for a career on the bench. A similar thing happened to Wayne Bridge at Chelsea, although to be fair, his injuries were the catalyst to his deselection.
It will be interesting to see what Smith does after the summer. I wouldn’t be suprised if he retires. Isn’t about the money my arse.
Surely this is Owen’s last season at Man U as well?
If it’s not about the money then why is he still here? Rarely gets a game off the bench, whereas in mid table Championship he’d be playing every week. I dont blame him for cashing in on a contract agreed by all parties, but he could at least be honest about it and admit he wont get money like this agin, so he’s going to enjoy it while it lasts…
DJG, Smith will probably go to Orlando who we played in the summer, I remember him saying he has a house there and they were keen to get him last summer.
He gets paid millions of pounds a year to sit in a hairdressers.
Anyway, it’s obvious why he’s staying. No Championship club is going to pay the kind of money it requires to maintain his long golden locks! That’s a full time stylist job and a team of runners to a) carry a mirror around all day for him to check himself out and b) run off to get emergency styling products when he spots a split end.
In a recent interview for Pro Ponce weekly, Smith had this to say:
”It’s not easy being in the spotlight all the time. You have to have the right image. Do you have any idea how hard it is being paid all this money to essentially sit on your arse? It is a vicious cycle.
I had my leg broke by John Arne Riise and the doc’s told me I’d never play at that level again. I knew I had to had to get myself one last big pay day and luckily Sam Allardyce was gullible enough to take the risk – and on massive wages! I could not believe my luck.
Anyway, I made the move and got relegated for the 2nd time in my career. From there on in manager after manager realised I was a dud and I became a Reserve. I had to keep myself busy and make myself stand out. I’m still committed to being at the top of my game, but I just cant do it on the pitch anymore, so I needed other ways to get noticed and respected by my fellow pro’s.
I cast my mind back to when I shared a bath with Cristiano Ronaldo. That man had it all, great player, great looks, always smelt divine. It was then I knew – I’d have the Premiership’s most beautiful hair. It’s an overlooked stat, but so very important to us pro’s. Now everybody wants to be me, but I tell them – respect has to be earnt. It takes commitment and a lot of time to get hair like this. You often need a life difining moment such as my leg break to make you see the light. I have found my calling now, and I’m worth it.”
…I bet Smith’s heart sank when we signed Curloccini. He’s now the mane man for me!
Haha Rodz
All that work with the hair straighteners only to have some foreigner come in and start a new Vogue with curls! Gutted
….2nd best decision Curlo ever made I think.
http://hem.passagen.se/tiffoso/images/FABRICIO_COLOCCINI.jpg
off topic just been trawling the net looking for owt about the toon also looked on eds site,what a evil set of pricks there is on there,glad i never go on made me think what a canny set of lads there is on this site
@icedog
Seriously? Ive been on the wrong site then. See you’s
Shamrock @49-
– Just cheered me up mate with that. Have had a rotten morning , stuck up the hospital with me lad ,back now and that was just the tonic pardon the pun.
yeah Ice, there are still a few decent ones on there though, from back when I used to post, but there are a lot of radgies that can’t string a sentence together, never mind a debate.
I never even bother looking on there nowadays, even when Ed whips out one of his sensationalist ‘Edlines’.
…I think the only time I ever check it is when I want to find a stream.
Troy, do you still comment on there, or are you banned as well?
Ice – couldnt agree more – plastic fans or cyber fans
freedman has said that some of his players may go before end of jan.. i actually thought young Parr looked a good player rather than zaha?
Kimtoon – Glad to help! I hope your lad is OK? My boy is bored waiting for me to finish the Blackburn preview. Feel guilty, but almost done!
Shamrock – That was class
Ice/Anyone – What’s happening on Ed’s?
I daren’t look Toonsy, it has petrification qualities similar to those of the Gorgon.
Ice spot on mate I never go on muppets r us.
and sometimes it did get abit out of hand.
Rod I still see a few from when we were all on but most of the time their opinions are lost to the others.
Though we used to get some real good laughs on there as it was no holds barred
Shamrock – Blackburn
Someone is prepared 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51h9GM6sHSo&feature=related tiote makes rooney look like the c unt he is god i miss tiote
Some brilliant posts on here today. Troy and Shamrock particularly – bloody brilliant.
I’m having a brain-fuck of a day, so it’s therapy for me!
Thanks Shamrock. Yeh they do have a habit of putting us on guilt trips kids don’t they. Lewis (my lad) suffers from epilepsy and went into status this a.m hence visit to A&E. he’s got tons of other issues too bless him .I should add he’s actually 21 ,His wheelchair is covered in toon colours and club crest
yeah Dave it could be a laugh at times, but it was the only ‘proper’ blog about back then so there wasn’t much choice.
…the new story every 5 mins used to piss me off, especially when you’d just read it 20mins ago on the Chronicle website; and at least uncle Toonsy allows us to swear on here, that’s got to be a bonus for me.
Toonsy – Yeah, it’s a quick turnaround this week and I start my next 7 day stint at work tomorrow, so….Whumpie – Smudge deserves the recognition, we dont know him for bugger all else anymore!
Batty@64- Love it
BATTY loved that mate cheers
aye, but scottishtoon95 seems an alright lad
usually speaks some sense. 
Colo’s knock just demonstrates why we need a CB in soon.
Wonder if the club would even consider a loan cb until summer ,at least then we would be better placed to thrash out a deal .Let’s face it everyone knows how desperate we are at present, so we’ll get every chancer/owner asking silly money for average players.
@Rodz
I’ve never been banned from Eds but I never really went on there anyway.
I got banned from Workys but it was mistaken identity and got back on.
But I’ve started a running feud on here with Toonsy and I liked it so much I stayed.
I’ve never looked at the other two sites for about a year now. I’ve spent too much time getting banned and reinstated on here, I haven’t had time to see what’s happening on the dark side.
Besides, Toonsy pays me too much. I’m on 35 pence a post with a clause which means I’m always the highest paid.
@Batty
That video is class!
Tiote was awesome in that game.
Who is this ed’s site ?
For some strange reason I seemed to get banned from most Newcastle sites lol
Troy, you twat, I did wonder why he wouldn’t go past 34p for me.
Wolfie, I think the big difference is Uncle Toonsy isn’t easily offended and also has a warped sense of humour.
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