Pardew hopeful on new signings
Naturally the naming of names is something that has been avoided although I’d imagine we can pretty much guess who the three players are – Andy Carroll, Mathieu Debuchy and either Vurnon Anota or Douglas. Or maybe it’s none of them?
The other pleasing thing is that Pardew says we are considering all players who become available over the summer. That’s not to say we’ll suddenly be spending swathes of cash, but instead we will consider of a player is of any value to us and whether it’s worth trying to make a deal happen for.
“Any big player or good player that comes to the table, we need to be involved in it,” Pardew told The Chronicle.
“We need to know what is going on. What is the price? Can we do it, can we afford it? If we can’t we go somewhere else.”
“We want the best quality players and at the moment we have three possible transfers actively being pursued in terms of bids and trying to get a deal where the other club gets what they want and we get what we want.”
As it should be, only the best for Newcastle United, and if they can pull it off I’ll be happy enough with what has been achieved in the transfer market.
Anyway only a short one today folks as I’ve got a bit on today. Who are the three and have we a chance of actually seeing the turn up at St James’ Park? Is three enough?
Comments, as always, welcome…
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Good to hear, hopefully one of those deals cn be wrapped up before the end of next week as I’m getting really bored with just “Newcastle closing in” …and the like.
Anyone else see the Q and A with Jose Enrique on twitter? Was hijacked by toon fans, taking the piss
. Go on that site ‘the Mag’, they’ve kind of summed it up. Worth a look, some of it is quite good and he actually answered one of them 
http://www.nufcfans.co.uk/q-a-with-liverpool-defender-jose-enrique-hijacked/
That’s the link
I would like the three to be a CD preferably M’Baiwa or Sakho although I would expect Douglas. A CDM to play alongside Tiote when away from Home Anita has been mentioned. And an attacking player a WAM eg Affeley.
To me Debuchy we only need if Simmo leaves, although I accept that he may be an improvement. Big Andy is an obvious explore until it ain’t worth it scenario as Pardew talks about. Possibly a 2nd striker eg Guidetti. But who cares. Doesn’t matter. Whoever turns up will be most welcome. And well researched.
Thanks Andy worth a look
I wonder if we can offer Huddesfield 4m + Ranger for Rhodes. He’d be great to have to come off the bench when we need him to. We can ease him in to the PL by having Shola ahead of him in the pecking order, so he’d get a taste of the PL and we’d play him in League Cup games against weaker teams.
Quite funny isn’t it?
There’s talk that Moussa Cissokho could be available. That lad is good in defense AND attack out of the center of midfield. He could be like our Yaya Toure!
Although after already bringing in Amalfitano and Bigi, I doubt we would bring in another center mid, unfortunately.
We definitely need another center back though
As fast as we can sign them, as fast as they can adapt in our team.
Actually I wanna see we get all of demand signings and use pre-season training to get them but it never be that case.
I would guess its 2 defenders and Carroll, as they are the main priority for us as we are well stocked in the middle
Andrew T
Think your thinking of Sissoko from Tolouse, he’ll cost to much for a position that we’re rich in, also bigger clubs are after him and they’d win in a bidding war.
Great work by the scouting system, so effective that none have been signed and we will now consider any decent player who becomes available, not Carrs fault but if the club will not stump up the cash for the players who Carr believes can take us forward what is the point of having Carr, he is being wasted, if the club value Leon Best and Douglas at the same price then we have no chance of getting decent players in.
I dn’t know why we’re working so hard to get Douglas who Twente want to keep, when we could be going after Sakho who PSG are willing to offload. Sakho is younger and is probably better, also he doesnt have a history of going batsh1t on the pitch. He would only cost 1 or maybe 2 million more that Douglas but would be worth it.
Also if we were to secure douglas we’d have to wait until mid-late August before he could join up with the team, whereas we could get Sakho amongst our largely french-contingent straight away
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More lip service to keep the frustrated fans at bay? …. probably not, but bore of hearing this shit now, just get on with it man!
I see Fulham and West Ham are now linked with Douglas today.
Debuchy would be a good buy as he could play RB and RW for us I think.
Personally I’d prefer Sakho to come in over Douglas, I think he’s a better player and could come in now rather than waiting til Aug for Douglas.
Attacking option and I think I’ve made it clear that I don’t really want Carroll back.
Personally I’d like to see us go all out and get Hiollet. Failing that I’d like to see Guidetti or a similarly young strong out and out CF.
I’m with you Sharpy, only 19 days into the transfer window & I’m bored shyteless with all the talk of who may or may not be coming in
I wonder if we could offer Lille James Tavanier on loan for the season as part of the Debuchy deal, would give him first team experience in a more competitive league and would solve Lille’s need for a RB replacement.
well, i presume that the three he is on about are not carroll, debuchy and douglas as we have.. had a loan moved openly told it was a joke by liverpool…offered 6 quid for douglas and 4 million euro for debuchy. so clearly they are not our serious deals. they must be smoke screens to hide from the real ones.. i mean AP has just said if any top draw player comes up for grabs we want to be involved in it…i guess that means a world class top draw player at er… championship prices though alas. We did very well getting those guys last year for sure but they wont get as lucky this time round nad for once we may have to either pay the going rate or lower our bracket of player we are looking at.
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My dream is still@ continue playing the formation we were playing at the back end of last season, push Cabaye back and play him alongside Tiote in place of Jonas, move HBA to the centre instead of Cabaye behind of Cisse, bring in a new right mid, ideally Hoillet.
Cabaye is incredible defensively. He’s very good playing behind the striker, but I don’t think he could be one of the worlds best in that position. However he could be a world class deep midfielder in the role of Alonso or someone.
@Craig how much do you think Simmo is worth?
Nice link ANDYMAG classic
Slant @12 – are you on a wind-up or what? Do you see any big teams out there who have signed up their players already?
Honestly – how good – how unutterably brilliant – does our recruitment team and strategy have to be before they get credit from some people? We’re the envy of the sodding world for recruitment, but still in comes the stick.
Wow. Weapons-grade muppetry.
Andy ,I saw that twitter Q&A with Jose too ,very funny.
How many times has Pards said something along these lines recently . I’m well over it now ,less talk more action please .I don’t wanna know how many we are in for, I just want them over the line for christ sake .Talk is cheap and means feck all if we don’t follow through.
What’s the use of telling me 7.30pm local time (Austria)? I need gmt.
Andy – Rhodes for Ranger +4m would be a cracking deal for us, particularly if we could get someone like Guidetti in aswell.
Debuchy, Sakho, Rhodes and Guidetti would really improve the first team options but still leave plenty of room for youth development
KIM now now calm doon you will end up like dave
they what to get there finger oot,said the other day more patter than four days of rain,look you got me at it now
want
Sharpy – I’ve no idea who the feck Sakho, Rhodes and Guidetti are or what they play like, but they sound like big time charlies.
Solano-I reckon Cabaye is better as the “forward” in the midfield three, he’s got a great shot on him and his passing through the defence is brilliant. He’s a bit wasted when he’s pushed back, his tackling is awesome but we lose a lot of creativity when he’s sat deep-although in the 4-3-3 I thought he roamed well enough.
I’m not sure if Benny is selfless enough to play as an actual playmaker but I would like to see him given a shot this season.
Whumpie@22 We are all aware of our recent success and quality signings ,but we have needed a beefed up defence for I don’t know how long now ,yet it never seems to be properly addressed from what I can tell . We can’t be sure we’ve actually bid for any defenders as nothing as been comfirmed by the club has it .We keep reading about this bid and that bid all of which are so low as to be disrespectfull to the selling club at times. I’m all for a bargain but bloody hell ,if some of the bids quoted are true it’s piss taking on a grand scale and just gonna piss off the selling clubs imo. Frankly if someone offered me £1k for my car when it’s worth £5k ,I’m gonna be very p’d off ,wouldn’t you. Other clubs arn’t struggling to sign quality players ,so why cant we ,that’s all I’m saying.
Ice@26 ,Can’t help it ,lack of sleep is getting to me I think .
B&B…if it helps it’s 19.30 ko local time where I am too
So are people believing the papers that we have bid £3.1m for Douglas? then I take it they still believe those very same papers who said we’d had a £5m bid for him accepted a while back?….or maybe people will be better adopting the sensible approach and take everything in the papers/internet with a pinch of salt as they know the same as the rest of us, which is feck all
If we get linked with a class centre back going by the name of Steel, Charlton, Buchan, Armstrong, Watson or something hard and British like that, then I’ll get interested. HWTL.
Richietoon, for sure.. but it was debuchy himself who said we had offered 4 million euro and rogers hat said our offer of a loan was a joke. The Douglas deal…well, who is to say we are even interested at all?
Solanotrumpet…simmo’s worth… well at present with just coming to less than a year on his contract.. not alot m8. maybe we could get 3 million for him tops. i dont know. However, a debuchy on longer term.. has to be worth the 7 million.
Craig….I suspect Rodgers came out and said that cos he’s had his arse chewed, seeing as he was the one who said he was open to AC going out on loan in the first place and now he’s backtracking like fuck so the only embarrassments his……according to the papers that is
I think we’ll get Debuchy, possibly Douglas tho not that arsed about him though a decent CB is a must and feck knows which striker we’ll get…if any
Obviously we can’t be sure what we have bid except in cases where somebody makes it public.
We can however be reasonably sure we haven’t bid enough if the player concerned isn’t discussing a contract or getting a medical, or if the clubs haven’t announced they’ve agreed a fee.
B&B –
Well thanks for that, input/opinion based purely on their names I take it
Kim – you’re spot on, no one is taking anything way from what signings we’ve made in the past. But let’s not sit back in admiration at deals we’ve done in the past while our competitors are improving their squads now. I agree with everything ya saying – it is very frustrating!
@Craig so why do you think the offer we “apparently made” for Douglas is so outrageous?
We know you have to pay premium for English players.
Simmo is proven in the Prem and was the second best defender for a club that finished 5th.
Douglas has only one more year left on his contract also.
It’s all paper talk anyway!
Solano, I admire your blind loyalty for Simpson, if he is that good, can you tell me what he is good at?
Robert, i think simmo is good tbh and i wish he was staying. he goal line clearances alone last season have put us in europe. Unfortunatly he wont sing on again so we need to get rid.. i would be just as happy getting santon on the right and peiters on the left.
Sky is reporting that West Ham and Fulham have put bids in for Douglas now.
We can’t compete against big spending clubs, I suppose this will end our interest?
Not sure who mentioned Sahko or even why they did but he is a legend! Debuchey and a centre back and I would be happy.
Robert my only point there was that Simmo shouldn’t really be worth less than Douglas. So our offer for a CB that’s out of contract next year, and unproven in any of the top league isn’t actually too bad.
Didn’t you claim Simpson was “one of the worst defenders we’ve ever had” yesterday? He has got pace, rarely gets beaten by a man, good anticipation, good at tackling, great at working in unison with those around him (i.e. the major thing Santon struggled with last year).
Yes he doesn’t offer much going forward. But I think we shouldn’t be blinded by someone like Santon having a decent dribble upfield when his job his first and foremost to defend. Which he was worse at than Simpson last season. Even more telling considering he had Jonas and Colo next to him compared to Simpson who had HBA and Willo!
Also, six clearances off the line last year! I know people will roll out the, “a better RB wouldn’t let it get that far” but that is bull.
Simmo does do plenty of running as well-the amount of times he overlaps gives Benny or others the space to run into and work their magic. Obviously he gets slated for it when he doesn’t sprint back and prevent a goal that’s clearly his fault though, and its perfectly fine for Santon to walk back or go missing after a forward run
Didn’t Simmo have the most accurate crosses last season as well? Just saying…
Good at tackling? I must have missed that game, seriously, drop the goal line clearance shite and tell me what he brings to the team apart from leaving a yawning gap where he is supposed to defend, and dont blame anyone else.
Regarding incoming transfers, the window is still open for a while yet, and it looks like we’ll have to be pretty patient before we get a breakthrough. I’ve no problem with that, though obviously some guys on here are getting a bit twitchy cos he haven’t gotten anyone “over the line” yet.
Still 12 days or so to go before Ba’s release clause becomes defunct. I’ll be happy when that is the case tbh… He looked good against Monaco, would love him to stay and get all this speculation out of the way……..or we sell him for 20 mill at the beginning of August…
Simmo’s biggest problem is that he doesn’t really look comfortable on the ball, and his distribution isn’t too good. But as a defender he does a better than average job imo, and the goal line clearances from last season are a hall mark of his.
It would be a pity if he left, and I’m sure that as soon as the Debuchy move goes through he’ll be offski to Reading. He’s probably got that scenario covered already..
I know i shouldn’t do this but it was a good article from the other site
http://www.nufcblog.org/2012/07/danny-simpson-vs-mathieu-debuchy-whats-the-difference/#.UAhFHmHDfvk
premandup.. thats you barred for life….
yer I know
southhamton look to be doing there bit in the transfer window likes of them and reading westham are all leaving us behind make a 1o mil offer for sturridge we could get him for that 5 mil for douglas and peiters would come to the toon thats 3 players we would get with no stupid offers offer the price they are worth instead of trying to get every one on the cheep does any one no the situation with hoilet
Munich-
Aye, Simmo’s passing is pretty average and he often seems unsure about himself when he’s got the ball-not like santon who gets his head down and starts sprinting, Simmo always seems quite cautious. Which I guess is good in that he doesn’t get caught with the ball, but it also means he tends to hoof it when he comes under pressure.
Prem @48 If those stats are correct theres not much between them apart from the fact Debuchy may pick up more cards than simmo and Debuchy is more attacking . Very strange ,wouldn’t of had them that close tbh.
get the players in the door asap andy the long haired muppit should come home and drink some brown ale in the strawberry
! if we get debuchy, douglas, anita and carroll the word will be pimpn 
obertan is balls get him out and hoillet in 
Robert @ 45 > drop the goal line clearance shite
if we dropped that we wouldn’t be in Europe 
I have said many times that I know Danny has his faults like all players but no way is he as bad as some make him out to be.
I asked lastnight but you wern’t back on, If you think Simmo is Shite what do you think of Willo ?
Moose from talksport says Hoilett had a medical at Qpr on tues……… Little mercenary!!
Little sceptical about all 3 deals because if we get into bidding wars with clubs, more often than not (always) lose!
Big Dave –
I can see peoples point of view Re Simpson – I think that (considering the skills each position require) Willo is a beast in the air, which is an important attribute for a CB, whereas he might generally be poor, he is good at that, and he is the only one in our team currently who is!
With Simpson, I can’t think of anything he excels at! Goal-line clearances?
I just think he makes people nervous when he has the ball and is a poor attacker.. So i would be more comfortable having Willo play than Simpson this season. People say Willo is a liability but so is Simpson in our 18yard box..
And Debuchy puts more tackles in according to those stats.
>>>>>>just read further up and I didn’t realise people already had made those points
Dave, Williamson is limited too, its just that no one says otherwise and no one gets all sentimental about him like for some strange reason they do for Simpson, who IMO just hasnt got it, he is like a fish out of water at times and the biggest examples of this were his idiotic throw in v Arsenal and when he made a proper idiot of himself for one of the Liverpool goals at Anfield.
I just dont get him at all, when the ball goes across the back 4 to left back the crowd are fine, but going to right back the whole crowd draws its breath as the suicidal ball soon follows.
BigPapa I would rather stick Simmo in as CB than Willo
as IMO he is a complete liability atleast if Simmo makes a mistake there is usually a CB behind to help but at CB there is only the goalie, and Willo knows all about that because he has scored 2-3 ogs so far Yeah Willo might be able to head the ball but he cant use his feet too well and he still hasn’t learnt that you can’t drag players about or try to wrestle them and that has cost us already
Robert I think some people feel a bit for Danny because he gets a lot of uncalled for stick, and IMO when one of your own is getting attacked all the time you tend to rally round and defend them
I think I read a while back that the opta stats had him as the 2nd or 3rd place LB last season so I really can’t see how he can be as bad as some say, and yeah I know stats don’t tell the whole story, but for me there has been no one else better to play there so until there is I will try to get behind him
Dave, Agree, he is all we have got but we can do better in both full back positions, its where all our problems are caused, Santon seems to have a bit of football in him but seems to be getting better but Simpson doesnt seem to have his heart in it any more.
So it looks like one of the three is not Hoilett. I suspect it can only be money ,because he could have had either champions league or europa but he picks QPR?
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12691/7914428/Hoilett-agrees-QPR-move
Robert but Maybe if there was someone there to give Simmo a bit of competition he could up his game as I have always believed that there should be competition for every position, remember Santon got dropped a few times for Raylor and he cameback stronger
No matter what your views are on Simpson, shouldn’t we be aiming to bring in another RB and still keep him? If he demands to leave for guaranteed first-team football, so be it, there’s not much we can do. But if we want strength in depth, we need to be adding quality to the squad. Debuchy may very well an upgrade over Simpson, but if we bring in Debuchy only to sell Simpson, our squad is no deeper than it was last year.
Tommy@63
You absolute cynic! Maybe the lad just loves his football and wants somewhere he can play week in week out and constantly improve himself?
Well ,the plot thickens as we now know Douglas is not one of the three deals in the pipeline. According to inside football he has been interviewed and stated ” my agent and I know of no bid from Newcastle” he added ” I want to remain at Twente for another year”. So there you have it ,we can put that one to bed.
KIM aye its here
http://www.insidefutbol.com/2012/07/19/i-dont-know-about-a-newcastle-bid-and-i-want-twente-stay-declares-douglas/65690/?
Ice ,it’s fast becoming a right farce.Spend yonks scouting De Jong without even bothering to see if he fancies PL footie
Then apparently Douglas don’t wanna leave Twente 
,not too sad on that one tbh as you know. And then theres this Debuchy mess with Lille playing hardball and MA likely to walk away from the deal any minute. As for Carroll ,sure that’s not gonna happen .So who the hell are the 3 in the pipeline 
Ice ,I see we’ve had a le mans youngster on trial .19year old Anthony Koura a left sided midfielder come striker .He scored twice for the reserves and is lightening fast apparently.
Right ,I’m off as noones coming out to play.
Hopefully Douglas saying that he doesnt want to come, will mean that we switch our attention to another CB, like Sakho
As people such as Kimtoon have raised the issue again and it wasn’t answered previously; excuse me for my ignorance but how would we be allowed to approach a player to see if it is CL that they want before their club says yes?
thir window has all the makings of an enormous, gigantic dogs breakfast. Does anybody in the heirarchy of Newcastle United know just what exactly’s going on?
The other thing people need to bear in mind is players lie all the time. I mean, how many times do you hear “Big big club, massive history, always wanted to come here, dream come true” literally every person that every signs for a team nowadays trots out that shit.
Just like LDJ saying he only wanted CL and Germany and whatever, if the deal is right they’ll go where they want and say that’s what they wanted.
It’s Friday, that’s when we sign players
Lesh! Same old
In answer to your rhetoric. Yes – they do.
Maybe one in ten thousand rumours are correct through inside info. The rational conclusion with high odds means ingnore every rumour, await real news – and when it comes accept it with the view decisions were made for the betterment if the club. Not for today, tomorrow but for the medium to long term.
my my, the famous Newcastle transfer window panic and paranoia is start to get into full swing now
The transfer window should be renamed the transfer mirror. It seems that fans look into it and see their own hopes and fears
In fact it seems that most of what they see at Newcastle United is a reflection of that very same mirror, and people mistake what they see for reality.
whoa, that is deeeeep Vegas !!
Aussie Magpie Fan
1 hr, 34 mins ago
whoa, that is deeeeep Vegas !!
YOU DISGUSTING MAN! KEEP YOUR BEDROOM ANTICS TO YOURSELF!!!!!!
Yawn indeed
Griff..in theory they couldn’t……but in practice, well…
Ref the window, instead of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7RIgs3eygo
try a bit of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6wok7g7do&feature=related instead, it’s much more enjoyable
Or this one Rich
This lady has just been informed of our transfer dealings to date…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPugcb7QGE
People still expecting a signing.
Didn’t Pardew say there wouldn’t be a signing until perhaps the last week of July?
JJ, clam down, calm down!!
I think there’s some evidence to say that Debuchy is a deal being worked on. Although there’s so much shite going around I can’t remember if what I think are quotes from player and pards are real or whether they are just more lies from media sites.
I don’t think there’s any evidence to say that a Carroll deal is being negotiated. There appears to have been an initial query, but how far that has gone is anybody’s guess. And of course anybody is guessing all over the place.
It would seem as if we missed out on De Jong. Why? Who knows? We can only guess.
Anita’s agent mumbled something about Newcastle once. But agents do that, don’t they?
Apart from that, I can’t recall any hard evidence linking us to anybody. Can anybody add (or subtract) from that?
Not quite sure why some are getting a little panicky here. There is nearly 6 weeks left of the transfer window. I’m sure there’ll be players in, whether they’re the one’s we want we can debate at the time but it looks like there’s money available so we just have to wait to see how they spend it.
Agree with Stuart
I agree with Oz @ 94
Alan Pardew’s side fly to Austria on Friday night and will take on Turkish giants Fenerbahce on Saturday evening (7.30pm kick-off local time) as the final friendly of this leg of the tour.
Shit, I got really excited for a second there..
Woo hoo hoo hoo . . . . Yawn.
Aussie Magpie Fan
1 hr, 34 mins ago
whoa, that is deeeeep Vegas !!
YOU DISGUSTING MAN! KEEP YOUR BEDROOM ANTICS TO YOURSELF!!!!!!
Yep agree with Stuart, we’d all like players in early as I’m sure Pards would too but it doesn’t always happen like that. Players and clubs wait for bigger and better offers, the top 4 can get players in quicker in general as “bigger and better” offers isn’t likely to apply once they go in for a player. We can’t/won’t compete with those clubs wage wise and even if we could offer more cash than the top 4 or a better chance to win a trophy so the player still wouldn’t come here unfortunately. We can’t even compete with the likes of QPR when it comes to wages and the fact that Ashley is a rich fecker is completely irrelevant if he won’t spend his own cash like the Arabs or Roman. The other clubs have made some signings but the majority of them are of a quality I wouldn’t be happy getting in . Last season we were the 5th best team in the league, so to try and improve on that we need to sign quality and ‘cos Ashley can be a tight fecker it has to be quality at the right price which isn’t easy to come by, all we can do is wait and see where we are when the window has shut……….then we can start chucking our toys out the pram if needed
I won’t be upset if we sign only two defenders and that was it… I posted yesterday that I would be happy to see our young guys get a good run this year, even if it means we drop a few league places.. They need to develop and there is no better way than game time…
Troy,
It wasn’t that funny the first three times
Aussie,
I honestly think all we need is two defenders, and maybe a young pacey striker with a lot of potential.
thanks JJ, you saved me the effort
I agree JJ….. the thing is we have tried every avenue for success over the years… other than giving our youth a real go… O.K there have been times when our young guy’s were simply not up to the task but I don’t feel it is the case anymore.. We have some real talent hungry for some game time, so I think we should role the dice a little and see how it goes.. it won’t cost us any silverware
I’d go for 3 defenders, but I’d be happy with 3 defensively minded players, and 1 offensively minded player… and another Cabaye.
Aussie @103
Busy with an article discussing that exact point.
I won’t be surprised to see a Gamerio/Erdinc bid go in to test the waters… We need a small, quick striker to offer something different going forward.. Cisse times his runs superbly but they are when we are already pushed well forward. We need someone that when we release a ball quickly over the top of a flat back 4 they can chase it down.. Obertan has been asked to do that type of thing on occasion but he isn’t a natural finisher in my opinion…
Maybe today is the day
Tis Friday
I think some people need to take their rose tinted specs off when looking into this mystic transfer mirror!
I’m sure there will be players in but when, and how many will be Pardews first choice option?!
It Carrs job to scout the players, it’s Pardews job to decide who he wants in his squad, and it’s DLs job to bring them in.
Carr and Pardew have done their bit, but if DL doesn’t do his bit til the last week of the window and these players coming in take time to settle in, meaning we have a slow start to the season, who gets the blame? – who’s job is at risk?
We are light in defence and up front, and we need these players in sooner than later, not for impatient fans but for the benefit of the team
I don’t understand the panic anyway. Our squad coming into this season is considerably stronger than last. For me anyone who strengthens the starting 11 would be a bonus. Still would like a few more in.
No panic. Still early days. Still one month until the start of the season
I think one of the reasons for some of the panic is that all the teams that were around us last year have added and strengthened, and atm it looks like we’re standing still if not going backwards a bit as we have 5 – 6 players less than last season.
And the longer they leave it the less time the new players have to bed in with us before the season starts.
Aussie – I’d agree with that, that type of CF would be a good addition.
Prem – I don’t read ‘panic’ comments, I read concern and frustration that teams around us are building and improving and giving their new players time to settle in before the new season begins, and we aren’t, it’s that simple.
I also don’t see how letting players go and not bring players in can’t make us ‘considerably’ stronger?!
I know we have brought in 2 young midfielders but we lost Guthrie and Smith, we also lost Loven and Best up front, and have nobody coming through the ranks ready to take their place. That to me makes us ‘considerably’ weaker as a squad
Sharpy again I agree with you mate
I just can’t understand how other fans can’t understand why some are concerned.
Even Pards came out and said he wanted to get some trasnfers wrapped up before the Euros, so it must be important to him to get them in and bedded in so maybe they could question him on why it was so important to get them in early ?
Sharpy this French Youth National they got on trial would be a useful addition to replace Loven.
Can score, pacey, can play on the wing or up front. 19-years-old and he has done well.
Dave….it’s not so much a case of not being concerned, it’s more a case of not getting into a blind panic over something we can’t control as it’s early days yet….the club know what Pards wants/needs and the earlier they’re brought in the better but it’s not always that simple. De Jong wasn’t totally the clubs fault as Twente moved the goal posts and the player himself opted for UCL footy, Douglas, if we get him will probably be August because of his changing nationality thing and Debuchy, Lille apparently want a replacement first, so nowt the club can do(if true) until that happens. Maybe if we offered more deals would get done quicker(or maybe not) or possibly the money saved by being tight feckers may get an extra player in, who knows? yep other teams have strengthened but as I already said the big payers and clubs can always strenghten quicker because of what they can offer, the other teams below us have added players but most are players who wouldn’t get in our team(imo) so I’d like to think we’re looking at and will get better quality than those players. If we can keep what we have and add a FB, CB and striker I’ll be happy……if we don’t then some fecker needs there arse chewing …. imo of course
Richie
so you took the job as PR assistant at the club then 
wait till Batty hears your working for Jabba 
Dave..nowt to to with PR, call me old fashioned but I like to base things on what I know or have more than a good idea about…..for instance if somebody asked me for money for one thing and I gave him some money but found out he’d spent it on something entirely different, then I’d say he’s a dishonest c@nt and had obtained that money under false pretenses…… based on the facts
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