Newcastle target hoping to sign in “days not weeks”

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Debuchy looking for a way out of Lille
Mathieu Debuchy has reiterated his desire to leave Lille and hopes for a conclusion to be reached in “days and not weeks” as he looks to test himself in another league.

However he revealed that Lille are looking for a replacement before letting him go, which is frustrating the 26-year-old France international.

Newcastle and Inter Milan have both been credited with interest in Debuchy, something that he confirms below, and there has even been news of a bit from Newcastle which was rejected by the Lille board. Debuchy though is hoping that Lille are looking for a reasonable fee stating the fact that he is just a defender and probably won’t attract the huge fee that Lille are looking for.

“This is one of my priorities,” he told L’Equipe when asked about interest from Newcastle. “Inter also enquired about me,” he added as he distanced himself from a move to Inter Milan.

“Lille can refuse any insufficient offers. The clubs must reach an agreement. That is not yet the case. Newcastle have already proposed €5 million. I do not know how much the directors of Lille are seeking. I am a defender. An extraordinary offer cannot be expected.”

Debuchy then stated his desire to leave Lille and denied recent reports which suggested that he was willing to sign a contract extension at Stade Lille-Metropole.

“My wish is to leave. I want to experience another league. I recently read that I would have extended my contract until 2016. This upset me. It is not true. I hope that in the coming days, and not weeks, things will settle,” he said.

“I want to leave LOSC. The coach wants to keep me here, but I will not change my mind. I still keep that hope. I will try to go elsewhere.”

He added: “Right now I’m stuck at Lille, depending on the arrival of another player. LOSC want to find my replacement before I am released.”

“Ten, 15 players have been suggested but I am still here, and it disappoints and bothers me. It’s been 20 years that I have been here and I have never asked for anything. For once I want to discover something else.”

Sounds like this particular deal isn’t too far away from happening anyway…

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240 thoughts on “Newcastle target hoping to sign in “days not weeks””

  2. G2 it does worry me the defence,some fans have short mems,dont know weather our defenders were worn oot and no one to step up but the last few games of the season we were not beaten we were out-classed,something needs doing and quick imo

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  3. @Trumpet

    I am surprised no big bids have come in for Barfa after proving his fitness this season.
    Time yet tho. 😯

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  4. @troy… yep, and no bids despite constant talk from AP encouraging large bids only please for our stars.

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  5. Thanks Hitman @149. If that is true then what was our offer last season? Craig @150 I think Saylor is fit now, they are just being careful with him. It just doesn’t make sense to me to be so thin at CB when we can all name close to a dozen wingers and midfielders in the team now. What is going on? Does anyone in management voice any concerns about this longstanding problem? Surely Carver and Pardew realize this can be a huge problem. One incoming CB will help but to be honest we need several young prospects at those positions as well. This mucking about with Carroll just seems ridiculous to me unless Newkie is right and we are going to play Carroll at CB! 😆

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  7. 😆 this place has gone mad
    Batty what have you been up to Lad I think I need to have a word with you and I think you might be getting a slap with a wet kipper 😉
    On Benny I would prefer him to have a free role with a license to thrill just in behind the front ❓

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  8. Don’t get the A.C bid or paticulary want him back.But it did remind me of our Rooney bid back in the luney days. We had no chance of getting him but it did force Fergie’s hand before he wanted to.

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  9. Craig – True. Only a “strain” though apparently, and it’s not something he has suffered with generally throughout his career unlike say Elastic Enrique so I’m not too fussed.

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  10. Nutmag i agree with you and hitman. Definitely something fishy. They have incentive to force a transfer through to someone else as they get 25% of the sell-on. They can use that on other players (maybe have someone particular in mind). In the meantime the media are chasing their tails running in circles, distracted by AC and ignoring anything else the club is trying to do.

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  11. Are you serious CC @ 156? That is terrible news! Is this why we have been playing Simpson and Perch at CB? We know from last season that won’t work. No offense to Perch, he is a decent DM as a bench player but that is it. Simpson is too short by far. Why didn’t we go after Mariappa again? All the fuss is about attacking players but we had plenty of trouble at the back once Saylor went down last season. A lot of big talk about spending from Pardew but who have we actually brought in? He seems to be pulling himself away from the Carroll business which I think is wise. Focus on the real priorities, Carroll is just for the rags to have a few headlines.

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  12. On the Saylor hammy it is very common for players coming back from longterm injury to pick up these niggles so I don’t think it’s too much to worry about, but it just highlights how weak we are in that area because the only other one we have for back up is Willo the wisp and he has better wrestling skills than defensive skills, and imo is a liability, it surprises me how little stick he get compared to the likes of Simmo 🙄 😕

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  13. Craig – players coming back from long term (4 month+) injuries always pick up little niggles and strains as they get near a comeback. The muscles get weakened from so long without the intensive work out they get when they come back. Only natural

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  15. G2 i think he was right to walk away from mariappa. TBH i would’ve been worried if we’d gotten him in january because even then he was saying we wouldn’t be back in the summer, i.e. he’ll do a job as a stopgap but we can get better. We all know we need a CB and pards carr lamb etc will too

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  17. Ibrahimovic signing confirmed by PSG. May be AC will feel rushed into a big bid for AC now because of our ‘interest’ 😈

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  18. Dubtoon @165, the thing is it’s not just a matter of bringing in one CB and everything is sorted. We have very little depth at all for those positions and we seem to spend very little time pursuing youngsters at those positions. How many decent prospects under 25 do we have in the central midfield? I think there are at least 6. How many decent prospects under 25 do we have at CB? There might be one or two. How does this add up? We will play a lot of games next season and we should be bringing in some youngsters to look at now. I realize Goode is probably signed but let’s bring in a few more.

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  19. G2 completely agree, but i remember the big issue about the restructuring of the reserves and academy was llamb/ash questioning why there was nobody in the system that could step up to the plate last season when injuries hit the defense. It’s definitely an issue. Streete sounds very promising and hopefully the young aussie comes as you say but apart from that the best prospect is tav, and i have reservations about him when he hasn’t played for us at 21.

    I’m encouraged that they’ve acknowledged the issue but like you say, something does need to be done. With young players though you can always be, and need to be in many cases, more patient than getting someone to play in the first team.

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  20. G2 we seem to only be able to get MF’s we have been weak in defence for a while and we have done fuk all about it, just make do and mend 👿
    Ice yeah mate because you know a player , well most of the time 😆

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  21. G2 – “Why didn’t we go after Mariappa again?”

    Because he’s shyte and we dodged that bullet already.

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  22. Dubtoon and Big Dave I’m hoping Carr is spending some of his time looking for decent prospects for defense. We seem to carry a lot of players who look promising at 18 but just disappear as they get older. Can remember quite a few over the last 6 or 7 years. I thought it was a bold move to let so many of the younger players go but when are the replacements coming in? It has surprised me we haven’t seen more signings of 18-21 year olds. Tavernier may go the way of so many others and it can be a mistake assuming the grass is always greener with youngsters from other countries. What is Peter Beardsley’s remit now? Isn’t he supposed to be looking after young strikers? Who are they exactly and who does the same for young defenders? Anyone able to help us with this? 😕

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  24. You could be right Toonsy @171 but on what basis do you say that? I saw him a few times last season and he looked decent although I agree it wasn’t at Prem level. Maybe we will find out this season as we watch him play for Reading. Time will tell.

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  25. GEORDIETWO we have always had a good supply of youguns that had huge potential but none of them come through, there must be a reason for it ? but I don’t think it helps them to be stuck in the reserves I think they need to get sent out on proper loans instead of a month here and there 😕

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  26. Dead right dave, need to get players out on loan. The cub always seem so reluctant to do it and its even less likely this year because we have more games to play (hopefully)

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  27. Spot on Big Dave @175. I don’t think we have ever made enough good loans. A perfect example is Dan Gosling. He should have been loaned out last season. I think Abeid and Vuckic are in the same boat. Get them lots of playing time at a decent level, then have another look at them. I’m sure there are others as well.

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  28. agree on the loan issue. the exception has been Tavernier who has played like 50-something first team matches for other clubs. I’m not sure the croweded fixture list will allow it this year though….

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  29. Problem with loans is that any club at a decent level will want to see the player play at a decent level before putting some faith in him and loaning him. Like Jack Wilshere showed he can do it in the Premier League, as did Tom Cleverley, and both were made available to loan to Premier League teams and were taken by one. Our lads haven’t had that chance, which is a lot to do with fan pressure and also a bit to do with them just not being good “enough” to win a place in the side in a league game.

    That’s why they end up on loan at lower league teams and if they impress, like Tavernier, and prove themselves they end up being loaned by “better” teams

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  30. GEORDIETWO we arn’t long after buying yet another MF in Bigiramana and to me the only difference between him and some of our own younguns with potential is that he had the benefit of proper footie with 26 games last season , fuk our younguns would be lucky to get a handful of games 😯

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  32. Toonsy Vuckic Kadar etc etc they never really get proper footie and Vuckic showed huge potential from yrs ago, yeah I know he got injuried recently but you know what I mean

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  33. Dave, look how close andy carroll came to being discarded before the championship season 😉

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  34. The difference is that our club relies on the youngsters for depth, and especially will do this year. You might be able to send out Abeid and Gosling, but I think Fergie, Vuckic, Bigi and Tavs will be needed this year

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  35. It’s a good debate. I think we should try to make loans to decent Championship sides. Our young uns don’t get the headlines that ManU, Arsenal etc young uns do. It’s possible ours don’t have the skills but we don’t seem to give some of them a good enough chance with a decent run of games. I agree completely about Bigirimana Big Dave he prospered by playing a lot last season. How many games did Gosling get at any level?

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  36. Gosling was a special case. I think he would have got more games but he got injured after the Mackem I game and was out for a while. Then they treated him real carefully and pretty much wrote off last season barring a few appearances at the end. I reckon this season is make or break for him though

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  37. A pleasure talking with you all again. Will join in again when I can. Regards to all Toon fans everywhere.

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  38. SSN saying Arsenal and liverpool are after Kevin Miralles…..he looked class against England and SSN have reported he is available for 6m.

    I thought we would of have known about that!

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  40. @batty

    It looks like Wankys tracked you down. 😛

    Have you locked your doors? 😆

    You might wake up in bed lying next him. 😯

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  41. Bigpapa maybe the club arn’t interested or maybe he’s not interested in us ❓ but im sure they’ll be aware of him.

    Reet an airport run for me catch you’s later 👿

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  43. Troy 😆 hes aboot 30 mile of ,it was nice of him to give me stardys phone numbers and business address time ago it what a nice guy he is ,SNIDE 😉

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  45. Vuckic looked tidy at Cardiff as well but we pulled him back after Bests injury didn’t we? These players simply have to feature this season…will be interesting if Vuckic could fit in a 4-3-3 in Cabaye’s advanced playmaker role? Or slightly out wide? Though neither would be ideal for him.

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  46. Newkie- I think he is best playing off a lone striker or on the wing in a 3-man front. I just don’t think he has the speed to be a realy effective CM. But he seems to really have class in the final 3rd

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  47. MDS-Aye, behind the front man is his main spot, not sure how he’d do out wide, not sure if he has the acceleration to be that good.

    See WHam are apparently getting Maiga for 4.5mil….would have been worth a bid if we hadn’t fcked him over in Jan like 🙄

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  55. aye batts pick the keys up to my flat the morra m8.
    people might say it wasnt worth it(fook them)but it was for me ive went from a 37 your old lass to a 28 stunner so the hitman is happy 😛

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  56. hitman you went from a 37 stone lass to a 28 stone lass good on ya less wieght wen shes on top 😆 😆 😆

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  63. ya cheeky *****,who cares im having fun.i had fk all of that for 10 year.
    life will go on unless the hitman sucks on his own gun 😆

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  64. Just had SSN on. Saw that in the wee information caption at the bottom in the PL section it said we were after Debuchy but he’s saying we are one of many options that he’s considering. Utter bollocks they’ve just twisted what he said when he was talking about Newcastle being his priority despite interest else where. 😡

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  65. ANDY aye but it made you read it mate thats also how rags get you to buy them with **** imfo they say they know this that and the other does your heed in,dont buy the **** 😉

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  67. KIM like the photo,about bloody time 😉 its a lot easyier with a avatar when scrolling down,as you can skip past those ones that dee your heed in,ime saying nowt 😉

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  68. Ice
    True that 😐
    Kim
    yeah if they talk about us than it must have been, though they usually have time t put us down 🙄
    Now who would you be talking about Ice ❓ 😡 😉

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  69. ICE ,I got pissed off cause hazel took his photo on her android but everytime we submitted the photo it came out with this big black border on one side,even though we never cropped it 🙄 . Must of took 20 pics ,he would not look at the camera or smile ,don’t suppose he gives a monkeys really 😆

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  70. It would be typical if Maiga comes to league(WH close to signing him) and he goes on to score a hatrick against us in both matches 🙄 🙁

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  73. I hope we make a signing soon, I want to add new players to Newcastle’s FIFA team :mrgreen: , thats right ladies I’m available 😎 . 😕

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  75. Andy-Exactly…especially as he’s the kinda player we need right now-flexible across a front three and can even play on the wing in a 4-4-2..would have been worth a 4.5mil punt but i guess he and the club would chose anyone over us now…

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