Debuchy bid rejected

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Debuchy action hots up
Lille have rejected a bid from Newcastle for right-back Mathieu Debuchy according to the French press.

Both French regional La Voix and French national L’Equipe are reporting that a bid of €5 million has been knocked back by Lille chairman Michel Seydoux.

Debuchy is under contract until 2015 at Lille although there has been increasing speculation over the future of the former team-mate of Yohan Cabaye for some time now, especially as the player continues to impress on the international stage with France over the summer. It is believed that Lille are looking at closer to €8 million before agreeing to any deal.

Crudely translated by Google and refined a tiny bit by me, this is what the Lille chairman had to say on the matter.

“Newcastle proposed a fee this week of five million euros for Mathieu Debuchy who is under contract until June 2015,” said Seydoux.

He added: “We are not sellers. We did not sign a new contract with Mathieu last year to get one further season. He is part of our plans. He is a man of Lille!”

He may well be a man of Lille for now, but everyone has their price and Newcastle can pay that price up front, in one hit, using cold hard cash which gives us the edge in the transfer market in my opinion, and is part of the reason why we seem to have such a strong bargaining hand in the transfer market these days.

I’m assuming that Newcastle will be going back in with another bid considering the one they just offered was in the region of £4 million. A fee of £5 million would give Lille just over €6 million which, as mentioned before, is likely to be paid in one hit. Would that be enough to tempt them to do a deal? or would they be happy to wait another few years or depending on strings attached to a deal to get the full amount they are said to be looking for?

I don’t think we’ll see any real movement until after France get knocked out of the European Championships to be honest. It’s unlikely any player is going to be allowed to leave his international camp to travel for the necessary formalities like medicals and such whilst the competition is ongoing.

Mind you it does seem that after all this time Newcastle are indeed interested and are willing to bid for the player. Hopefully Yohan Cabaye and Hatem Ben Arfa can have a word in Debuchy’s ear and get him to favour a move to us over anything else.

Get to work boys!

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108 thoughts on “Debuchy bid rejected”

  1. I think £5 mil is about right but Lille have the upper hand in this with him having 3 years left on his contract so it may take more then we’re willing to pay to get a deal done.
    Just like we’re doing to other teams with our players we want to keep.

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  2. Really hope we can get a deal done. Throw in one of our players(Obertan, Vuckic loan) as part of the deal?
    JG
    If we can sell Simpson for just over £4m then we would just need generate £2m to give Liile in order to get him, not too much me thinks.

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  3. Toonsy, This is yet another cheapskate offer by us ,£4m is a bit mean ,he’s defo worth £5 to 6m imo ,if what i’ve witnessed is anything to go by. Hopefully they are just testing the water and will go back with a sensible offer and try not to **** Lille off too much as at the moment we got a good reputation in France and don’t wanna go and ruin it. Don’t think it makes any difference him being mates with Cabs and Benny as if Lille wont sell they wont sell simple as that .I would hate to see theDippers or someone get him for £6m that would be a defo loss on our part unless Carr knows an absolout gem we aint heard about. 😉

    Hope this France game resumes soon ,else it’s gonna cause major problems with fixtures. 🙄

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  4. If we get 4 mil for Simpson then I see no problem paying 6 for debuchy especially if the back staff consider him the absolute best option, but I doubt we get 4 for Danny. Wouldn’t be shocked mind.

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  5. JG
    If we can start a bidding war between WH, Fulham and QPR then we could even get 5m :mrgreen: , if only Woy had picked him for England, we could’ve gotten 8m on the back of that 😆

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  7. another low-ball offer. If we want this dude, we’re going to have to pay what he’s worth. What that might be…. is up to Lille

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  9. Ice it wouldn’t surprise me if while we fuk about putting in stupid bids someone else will jump in and offer what he’s worth, we always try to get players for nowt but they say if anyone wants our players they will have to pay over the odds 🙄

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  10. Please, please just pay the €8m!! Even throw in obertan if you want, but get your arses in to gear before somebody gets him first

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  12. not really surprised with that , are we??? after the way he played against england last week, i would of put his value at around the 12 – 16 million mark!!
    if we were interested, why didnt we put in a bigger bid before the euro’s started?????
    just incase anyone has forgot, sunderland are still ***** :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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  14. Dang…there goes my chance to get Cabaye’s shirt…did not pick Menez as a scorer.

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  16. Everyone needs to take a breath.
    Some of you are acting like we’re trying to sign messi 😆
    Arshavin is looking good…. Again…. Fancy another 20 mil transfer for him?
    And surely real Madrid got ripped off 100+ mil for Ronaldo? He looks terrible. Surely he’s worth about 5

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  19. cabaye is good going forward,didnt like the way he was holding his hip before he went off 😯

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  20. Know what you mean Ice, but if this was his last game for them, gives him plenty time to be back and 100% for us.

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  21. Had a look at the that link 3hrswasted. Ashley will be laughing all the way to the bank. Amazing amount of money coming into the Prem now. Perhaps we will spend a bit more but not likely a lot. The Debuchy offer is fairly ridiculous, a waste of time. A full international for 5M? France has an up an coming club and their players (including Cabaye) are going to be worth a lot. The French league is no longer going to be a cheap source of players. Ashley will have to find somewhere else to do business I’m afraid. Get ready to do a lot of travelling Carr!

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  23. Cabaye looked fantastic today. That shot off the post was a great effort as well. I think he will be fine, just being taken off and rested for the next game by Blanc as with Menez. Fantastic effort by the French against a home side today. 😉

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  24. Hi All, does anyone know any reliable streaming sites that will be showing the England match…up here at 5am to watch it, not on tele 🙁

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  25. I think Debuchy would jump at the chance to join Cabaye in England, but it won’t be at Newcastle with bids like that like.
    I don’t want us to pay stupid money for players anymore but to offer half the clubs asking price is stupid and is just going to **** the selling club off and make the player question just how much the buying club want them.
    This is a player who, if his tournament goes as well as the first game, is going to draw alot of attention. If we want him we must act quick and smart, like Andy says, offer them Obertan on loan with them loosing Cole it may appeal to them, but offer decent money first, 1or 2 mill off the valuation may work … half price will get you a **** off!!

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  28. 5M is really a derisive offer. He’s playing himself into 10-15M territory and his club knows it.

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  31. What a power head by AC!!
    Thought he could have done that against France as well had they unleashed him.

    Still a bit cagey at the mo this one though

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  32. Evening all ,What a fantastic header by Carroll ,sheer brute force behind that. Also pleased to see yohan on the score sheet as well . 😉

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  34. Carroll has a fantastic work ethic, the Lad never gives up, I would say most players hate playing against him.
    Sharpy yeah it is a bit of a cagey one, sweden still look dangerous

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  38. Sharpy thats a hard one 😕 I like the lad and think he is a cracking player that has had a hard time at the bin dippers, but I don’t reall want to go back to that style that Carroll thrives on.
    But I still think the like of Carroll with Benny and Cisse would be a nightmare, because Carroll provide loads of knock downs that Cisse would love.

    Prem I thought Ibrahimovitch played for sweden 😀

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  39. Agree with Ice. Never really rated Milner and still say the £12m we got for him was a good deal. Yes he was sold for more from Villa, but to Manchester City who paid just about anything for anyone and still do. If we’d have sold him direct to City I’d have expected usto get more.

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  40. 1-1 now. That is what you get for sitting back when the game is there for the taking 🙄

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  47. Difference at the minute is that they have far more creativity in midfield.

    Walcott RW and Oxlade LW for me.

    That was fucking ***** defending by England that like!!
    Zoltan wanted a fucking slap for his reaction to Hart after the goal … *****

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  51. See now we see the problem with playing someone like Andy Carroll. A bit of desperation and it’s HOOF right up to the big man…

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  58. What was the Sweden goalkeeper doing there though? I mean no way should he have not got that 😕

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  60. Our defenders look really slow. Johnson looked like he was running in treacle just then. I thought he was quite fast usually 😕

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  61. Is it me or do Sweden have the more attacking threat ,we look a mess ,all over the place.

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  67. Dave – I don;t rate him as a defender, but going forward he is a good little player.

    Don’t blow it this time England!

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  69. Toonsy as soon as I hit the comment thats what I thought 😉 he is good going forward and is always forward, but the problem is he’s a defender 😀

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  70. Can still see Sweden grabbing an equaliser. Our defence has been toss tonight and can’t seem to defend a set piece 😕

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  73. Dave/Toonsy – that’s the point I made on the earlier article when it was said we don’t have a good national team.
    For me Richards and Walker are better than Johnson. I think Johnson and Sturtidge are better than Milner, but a squad is only as good as the players selected.

    Anyway, that’s a good win there like but we made hard work of that. Decider against Ukraine now … I’m sure the fans will be fair to both teams 🙄

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  74. F.F that’s over ,so so uncomfortable watching England ,always is .One things for sure we got to dramaticly improve if we are going to progress much further in this tournament. Oh yeh and Milner is **** imo.

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