Alan Pardew and Co have been watching the 19-year-old ply his trade in the Danish Superliga, but they aren’t the only ones as Liverpool and Manchester United are said to also be interested.
Okore has made 33 appearances for F.C. Nordsjælland and has established himself as a first choice defender under their new manager. Born in Ivory Coast, the defender moved to Denmark at the age of three meaning that he has dual nationality. He has chosen to represent Denmark at international level and is already a full international having come through the youth ranks at both club and international level.
Other than that I don’t know an awful lot about him and I’m hoping some of our Danish readers can fill us in. His Wiki page describes him as a “capable and aggressive defender, who is calm on the ball and a good reader of the game, with leadership qualities” which sounds fairly decent but beyond that I haven’t got a clue.
What I will say is, look at the picture of him. At 19-years-old he is already a beast and will only develop further as he “grows up”. Madness.
It will be interesting to see if we make a move for Okore. He fits the blueprint of the club, is highly-rated, and wouldn’t cost the earth which sounds as though the deal is right up our street. And it would sort our defensive crisis out. Get it done before close of play tomorrow I say!
What do you make of it?
@Troyore
when you show me a post saying I said he was the new Fabragas I’ll get my bouncing fingers and look for your threads
tick tock tick tock 😀
mark(Quote)
If Tiote goes we will be even more in need of player reinforcements.
kimtoon(Quote)
I cant see anything on tiote? Is this another rumour column? 🙄
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
My sauce said “no added preservatives”
Whumpie(Quote)
Troy…your source has already proved to be wrong though, if they were done deals when your source said, then that would mean the last few games they played for us, they’ve been on loan…surely? 😯 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Whats this about tiote leaving 😯
batty(Quote)
@the bouncing butterfly
Woo hoo hoo hoo.
It’s the biggest climb down I’ve seen since Thud announced he lived under a mushroom and not a shoebox like everyone thought. 😛
Woo hoo hoo hoo 😛
I love the bouncing butterflys craic like 😛
Troy Stavers(Quote)
@richietoon
i’d take a punt on Troy’s source being paper speculation about a month ago that tiote and Krul could being sold. And giving Troyores pessimist attitute towards Ashley I believe thats all it was..
source, my **** 😯 😉
mark(Quote)
No way Tiote will go to Arsenal. He would play second fiddle to Song?
Why would he leave to sit on the bench.
JJ(Quote)
@richie
You gook. . A done deal simply meant the clubs had come to an agreement. I’ve always maintained it would go through on the final day to make sure the Toon have no time to spend the cash.
It’s spent already on the Cisse deal to be fair.
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Whumpie I would find it hard to believe that anyone wont be dreading the next 40 hrs.
Thats what past experience does for ye.
Troy I often wondered what you said about cabaye, as I can remember you saying that he hadn’t looked that good in his 1st few games, which imo was true.
But I missed where you wrote him off ?? So what did you say bad about him
Big Dave(Quote)
Troy whats happening with krul like? 😯
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
I believe nowt until Cwarr07 says so, is anyone following him, what’s his latest craic?
richietoon(Quote)
DAVIDBIGGMANS DAVID BIGGMANS
Arsenal bid 20 mill for tiote .
2 minutes ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply
batty(Quote)
Troy as always you talking out of what you should be sitting on mate http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/546837901?-11199
TOONARMYELITE(Quote)
best footballer in the league…if u dont have players around him..how can he pass..
asim(Quote)
Arsenal Arsenal.com
Arsenal weighing up a 22million bid for Newcastle Uniteds Cheik Tiote
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mark(Quote)
Woo hoo hoo hoo
I’ve really rattled the bouncing butterfly today. 😛
He’s absolutely jumping. 😆 oh that’s normal. 😆
He’s hissy fitting. Woo hoo hoo hoo 😆
Troy Stavers(Quote)
DAvid bigman ….says it all really 😀
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
Troy…a done deal is when everything is done and finalised, as the term “done” would suggest 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Again sorry i missed the bouncing butterfly bit…. ❓
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
Just thinking there where has Thud went to ? I haven’t seen him from Wolfie started posting 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
@Troyore @85
so in a month since you and your source knew about this done deal, not one, I repeat not one journo or club source has repeated it 😯 🙄 😆
mark(Quote)
http://www.skysports.com/tv_show/story/0,,12384_7448410,00.html
JJ(Quote)
@toonarmylite
I don’t know if it’s true but I can only go by what my source has told me and still tells me.
If its wrong it’s wrong but I trust the source and stick by it.
If it turns out to be wrong then I will be happy as I don’t want him to leave. I will keep Tiote and dump my source. Simples 😛
Troy Stavers(Quote)
@Troyore 😆
I’m unrattleable m8, i’m as calm as a butterfly 😀
mark(Quote)
Richie @88
He says, big news for Toon fans today, that will make everyone happy.
Fecking ****. I already sent him abuse. Who is he anyway. He talks like he’s a journalist but he knows nothing. He says Charver is in Holland to get Douglas. 😆
JJ(Quote)
TROY STAVERS
il remind ya to dump that source after the window bangs shut 😆
TOONARMYELITE(Quote)
Troy…I’ve no idea whether he’ll stay or not, hope he does, I just think Ashley, if he were to sell would try and start an auction for him to get more money.
richietoon(Quote)
tiote…manager has said he wont let any of his players leave the the training camp….no chance…
asim(Quote)
JJ…no idea who he is, just that he’s a good mate of Troy’s and passes him some info every now and again 😆
richietoon(Quote)
@Troy
Please don’t dump your source…
JJ(Quote)
So it’s bollocks, then. Yes, it could turn out to be true – but so could any of the hundreds of paper-flogging rumours we’ll see in today. The string of comments above is exactly what these press scum rely upon to make their amoral living: trigger gossip, then report on the gossip.
Don’t help ’em – please!
Whumpie(Quote)
@liam
Catch up fella . The bouncing butterfly Mark. 😛
He never knows which mode of transport to settle on. The dream bus or the reality train. He flutters about like a butterfly looking for the best flower. Whichever one he believes is winning the argument he settles on.
It’s hilarious watching him. He’s all over the shop with his views. 😳 😛
He got the bouncing Tigger handle when he was bouncing all over when we signed Cisse and thought we were going to rule the world. 😛
Hence the bouncing butterfly. 😛
He’s fizzin this morning like cos everyone is laughing at him. Woo hoo hoo hoo. 😛
Troy Stavers(Quote)
WE signed anyone yet 😆
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
@Troyore
wooo hooo hooo 🙂
mark(Quote)
seriously if we dont sign anyone in the next 2 days BUT keep all our players then i will be delighted!!! ba and cisse will defo give s a spring we need
Army69(Quote)
Liam…aye, Cwarr07 as Public Relations Officer 😉
richietoon(Quote)
“Colin @cwarr07
Expecting big news today from #nufc Should have everyone excited. Ps. Love you Troy… don’t dump me 😥 ”
JJ(Quote)
JJ….divn’t believe that first bit like 😕
richietoon(Quote)
here a post of the butterfly(me) at his finest 😆
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hapwnFwaE
Troy..could I now be know as Gordon the butterfly pls
mark(Quote)
Troy…Did you post as “Bobby Shinton’s Ghost” on RTG a canny while back?
richietoon(Quote)
“Army69
January 30, 2012 at 11:07
seriously if we dont sign anyone in the next 2 days BUT keep all our players then i will be delighted!!! ba and cisse will defo give s a spring we need”
Army, I don’t believe ya! 😀
I heard Mbiwa is a definate!!! He’s definately not coming…
JJ(Quote)
@mark
Ha! Class! 😆
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Balls if cwarr says something it aint happening! 🙄
Right troy im up to date.
I think we have all though tiote rumours have been sniffing around for too long.
I believe toonsy has heard the same too. SMoke and fire and all that 😥
Mark you need an avatar! Fenwicks window 😀
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
@richie
What’s RTG?
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Troy….Mackem message board, but I guess that answered my question 😆 ….just wondered.
richietoon(Quote)
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/A/546910429?-11199 TROY STAVERS dump that source mate
TOONARMYELITE(Quote)
@Liam Southern Toon
Ive got one m8, it represents Troyore and his gloomers 😆
mark(Quote)
TROY STAVERS
how many names you using to post in here ?
TOONARMYELITE(Quote)
@toonarmylite
Bobby shintons ghost might have been my brother . Defo not me. I never speak I’ll of the dead.
Bobby Shinton RIP. 😯
Troy Stavers(Quote)
JJ
January 30, 2012 at 11:13
“Army69
January 30, 2012 at 11:07
seriously if we dont sign anyone in the next 2 days BUT keep all our players then i will be delighted!!! ba and cisse will defo give s a spring we need”
Army, I don’t believe ya!
neither do i 😀
Army69(Quote)
@TAL
I only post under Troy.
Troy Stavers(Quote)
We need a youth prospect if Kadar’s never going to get a game again, so i’d be happy if we brought this lad in!
Newkie(Quote)
Any player staying in the danish league with a taent like Okore is stupid if he refuses NUFC.
But as i said.. it is not a substitute for colo, willo, or saylor right now.
i think we should buy Okore, but for the future..
i saw him play in a friendly tournament in asia just two weeks ago, and he seemed to be in okay shape.
But i still think the move from the Danish League to Premier League is gonna take some time.
If anyone is interested in talents from Denmark in general, i would say that the youngsters brought into our national team at the moment are well more talented than british talents.. Christian Eriksen(New Michael Laudrup), Nicolai Boilesen, Viktor Fischer, Frederik Sørensen, Nikolaj Jørgensen.
DanishToon(Quote)
Danish
Got any new Brian Laudrup, he was absolute class.
JJ(Quote)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90APgxU9TQ
Just throw those 30 mill at Ajax now!!!!
DanishToon(Quote)
JJ
Brian was class… But michael is the king!!!
DanishToon(Quote)
Danish
Na, I preferred Brian. I couldn’t understand why Chelsea bought him, then let him go. He basically played a few games. Was nearly always man of the match, then he left.
His crossing was pin point. I would love a right wing like him now at NUFC.
JJ(Quote)
a matter of taste i think..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7TBtHjDmQw
DanishToon(Quote)
Too many people are worried about how much money Mike Ashley spends and not the quality of player we bring in. I would much prefer to see the club spend £5m on a player like Cabaye than £16m on crocks like Michael Owen. So many fans now hate Ashley bad enought that they no longer care who we sign, just about the amount of money he spends.
This kid fits the blueprint for sure, all I hope is that he has been assessed properly before we make any bids.
Gary Watson(Quote)