Those clouds are brewing mainly because of the situation with Yohan Cabaye and reported transfer interest from PSG.
Personally I’ve tried to stay away from any transfer talk this window as most of it is baloney, but Alan Pardew’s public doubt regarding the ability to keep Cabaye combined with the transfer blueprint at United are not exactly good signs.
However football is cyclical and players come and go. It would be a shame to see Cabaye leave, especially in the form that he is in right now, but these things happen in football. I’ve long gone past the stage of becoming emotionally attached to players under this regime and we all know that every player has their price and once it is matched then that is generally the end of it.
Anyway I’m in danger of getting into a rant about it so I’ll curtail my thoughts on the matter for if, or when, anything concrete develops. For now it’s back to the football.
Norwich:
Jonas Gutierrez is ineligible to face his parent club as he is only only loan at Carrow Road from United. The Canaries are also without injured duo Michael Turner (hamstring) and Jonny Howson (back) while Elliott Bennett is doubtful.
Newcastle:
Mathieu Debuchy is available once again after serving his three game suspension. Fabricio Coloccini is sidelined with a knee injury while Ryan Taylor continues his long road back to fitness.
Previously…
Newcastle have not won at Norwich for 20 years although admittedly there has only been four games played at Carrow Road since that victory in January 1994.
Unsurprisingly this fixture tends to favour the home side. Of 24 meetings in East Anglia, United have won just six times with ten victories for Norwich.
Overall though we have the edge, just. The 49 games contested between the two sides have yielded 24 wins for the Magpies compared to just 14 for the Canaries.
Stats and facts…
Newcastle are looking for a 300th Premier League victory.
Loic Remy and Yohan Cabaye have scored as many goals as the entire Norwich squad so far this season.
Norwich have not won back-to-back Premier League matches since the final two games of 2012-13.
Final thought…
When Newcastle apply themselves they can beat anyone on the day. This season has also shown that we aren’t afraid to play away from St James’ Park with six league wins clocked up on the road already this term.
However Norwich have a knack of winning when they need to. Much of the talk prior to Norwich beating Hull last time out was regarding the future of Chris Hughton. Apparently a defeat would have signalled the end of his tenure at Carrow Road, but they won the game and the talk has gone away.
I say this every away game, but there are no easy fixtures on the road in the Premier League. Getting back to application, if United can apply themselves and play as we can without any distractions from this whole Cabaye scenario then we have the tools to win.
Howay the lads!
Date: Tuesday, 28th January, 2014
Time: 7:45pm
Venue: Carrow Road
Mike was certainly hot to get some fresh new cash in his pocket. Will we spend 4 or 5 M of it or is that too much to ask. Three days to go big Joe.
GeordieTwo(Quote)
JJ-I think there are add ons and all that nonesense, pretty sure the initial fee is 20mil, guessing the rest comes from number of appearances for psg and that lark. Which given the fact they want to buy Pogba who will want to play might be fairly limited…I guess he’ll be safe while his lover Blanc is in though.
KK-Except that we said it first of course… 😛
Newkie(Quote)
The rumours about Charlie Adam are hilarious. Ashley would never buy him as he has no sell-on value whatsoever. He’ll bring in another young French player like Grenier or Cabella even if he has to wait until the summer because he knows we’re safe this season.
GeordieTwo(Quote)
But by Thor’s mighty hammer we will still crush Norwich tonight. I feel it coming. Ohhhh yeahhhhhh!!!
GeordieTwo(Quote)
We will crush them! Leave them in tatters! Send them crawling home to whimper to their WAGS! Fear our mighty wrath! 😆
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