A little look at another NUFC transfer target

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Yacine Brahimi
If you listen to reports in the French press it would seem that Rennes midfielder Yacine Brahimi is looking to move away from Stade Rennais and has handed in a transfer request.

Combine that with our penchant for all things French in terms of transfer policy and you have another French player who is being linked with a move to us.

Will it happen? Heaven only knows as to be honest we’ve been linked with dozens of players already and the transfer is still yet to open officially. Is this just another in the long line of transfer links that never come to fruition or is there something genuine in us being linked with Brahimi? Time will tell whether or not we see a former team-mate of Sylvain Marveaux appear at St James’ Park.

Brahimi has two years left on his Rennes contract so would cost a bit of cash if we were interested in landing him. At the age of 22 he has represented France at all youth levels and currently plies his trade for the U21s at international level.

He is known as being “technically gifted” and was the subject of much interest after graduating from the famous Clairefontaine academy where he elected to join Rennes citing that he was impressed with the ability to continue his studies whilst playing football at the club.

All in all he’s made 48 appearances for Rennes (with another 34 for Ligue 2 side Clermont prior to that) scoring six goals at Ligue 1 level. The boy has skills, as you can see from this Dennis Wise style video.

The fee required varies according to which report you pick up at any given time, with somewhere in the region of 4-8 million Euros being required to seal any deal. We aren’t the only ones (apparently) interested in him either as Bundesliga outfit Borussia Mönchengladbach, although they are also said to be interested in former Blackburn midfielder Junior Hoilett.

Personally I would prefer Hoilett as he has proved he can cut it in the Premier League, but I think Bracimi would prove to be a belting plan b if, in the likely event it has to be said, that the club don’t share my view.

Your thoughts please…

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152 thoughts on “A little look at another NUFC transfer target”

  1. Kim I forgot that you were one of the few that didn’t want him 😉

    Sharpy I think you’ll find that Rodgers has maybe came off with that as a bit of a joke, but he’ll soon find out that he can’t say what he likes

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  2. lets stick to prem players and get samba and johnson!! infact **** it lets look at french players aswell for a change and get debuchy and brahimi aswell 😀

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  3. Kim
    I liked Douglas until I saw the video where he JB’s everyone, that was four/five months ago though.

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  4. BD
    I think on here it was ‘the few that wanted him’, on other blogs people were singing his praises.

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  5. Dave – my thought was that he said it to win a few bin dipping friends. I think he will have to learn that people don’t take much notice of what the Swansea manager says but the press take note of what the Liverpool manager says

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  7. Rodgers has that ‘douchebag’ look about him, seems like the sort of guy that bullied the other kids (suppressing memories 😥 😆 ), reckon he’ll get found out as a **** manager whilst at Liverpool.

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  8. Don’t particularly like Rodgers but not sure he meant what h said to come across as it did, either way not that arsed, they’ve swapped one dour fecker for another, here’s hoping he does as well in the league as the last one 😆
    Ref Douglas I don’t know enough about him to say whether he’d be any good as a player for us or not, looked to have a slight temper issue on that vid I seen a while back 😆 , but if he’s mentioning the Toon’s name to push for a move to this “bigger club”(assuming he’s actually said that) then he can do one imo.

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  10. Just me but from what little I’ve seen of Douglas he looks like a bruiser of a CH in the Saylor mould. Not a lot of finesse, but strong etc. M’baiwa is the more sophisticated reader of the game, more of a Colo type. Be interested to see who we get though

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  11. M!baiwa agent has said he is not comeing to PL but off to germany,may be a ploy like 😕

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  15. MDS all i can say is he must have been on carrs radar and knew him well must be sumit he didnt like or was it money? who knows

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  16. This article is saying 8-10M euros. They have all that Hazard money to spend i guess.

    news.yahoo.com/martin-agrees-join-lille-164445345–sow.html

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  18. DAVE 😆 😆 your reet

    anyone know what happened to that SOW the striker he was once talked about costing big bucks?
    guess i might have to wait for richie to wake up he will have the gen 😆

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  19. Ice…I wish I was needing to wake up, ain’t been to bed since Sunday neet. Anyhoo, Sow got on the bus to Toon but ended up in Turkey, some lad called Toonsy was driving and got lost…..nae rest for the wicked, more hooses to look at 👿

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  20. RICHIE thats the problem with toonsy those wine gums gan to his heed,things could be worse on the house front mate you could have had batty as a agent,you will get there,everything comes to those who wait well that what wor lass keeps saying 🙄

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  22. Richie as Ice says all good things come to they that wait, and it could be worse still you could have Batts as a neighbor 😆

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  28. Oh well ,bedtime ,no doubt I will get up to read that all our first team are on their way out tommorow. 🙄 😉

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  29. Kim
    Wasn’t that this morning? 😉 night, school tomorrow, a day without it was fun but it couldn’t last.

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  31. Morning/evening Rodz 🙂 how many sherberts you got under your belt tonight mate 🙂 🙂

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  32. eyup my kanga-strapping chum! Not bad here mate, just checking up on progress, as ye dee like 😎

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  37. yeah alright then, saying hello to someone then fucking off somewhat defeats the purpose, in so many ways.

    …I’m not even supposed to be here. 😎

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  38. Rodzilla’s Final thought:

    What kind of a **** is this Will ‘fucking’ I Am anyway 😯 😯

    ….he’s a thick, ignorant ***.

    …..”HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOUR HIGHNESS”

    …..aaahhh. Who invited this ***** to the party. Try not to hurt his feelings, but politely tell him to scarper. ➡

    Fucking hashtag Will. I. Am. A. **** 😎

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  39. I haven’t left Rodz… got work to do 😆 don’t go to the dark side mate, go towards the light 😆

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  40. Aussie, I am the ******’ light mate, why do you think i wear these ******* 😎

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  41. Note to the youth of today:

    divnt botha stabbin nee ****, move te Amerrika and shoot the cunts. 😎

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  42. I like the “good Rodz” better than the “evil Rodz” 😕 😆

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  46. type in – birds of tokyo – look for a song called – plans – mate

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  50. ”’RODZILLATRON”””’MACHINE”””SHORT””””””CIRCUIT””””LIKE a ************ DALEK”””””’ 😯

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  53. I am a product of Thatcher’s Britain.
    But then again, Fanta invented Milk (TM)
    …who’da thunk it eh? 😎

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  54. I can’t believe how much Maggie Thatcher looks like Meryl Streep 😯

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  57. looks like Rodz is out for the count… Richie should be up soon, hopefully I will get a bit more sense out of him, hmmm maybe not :mrgreen:

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  58. What’s happening, we signed anybody yet – in turkey and just managed to get wi-fi !

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  62. Soooooooo Bored, I can feel a couple of hours on the beach coming on 😎
    Roll on the Euros 😯

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  63. have to agree Rich… I am even struggling to come up with stuff to try and take the **** out of you… sad times 😆

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  65. Rich, Never fear though, Ice will no doubt help me out with some inspiration later on today 😆

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  68. Ice 🙂 He is beaching it mate … no wonder the spanish economy is in so much turmoil 🙂 🙂

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  69. AMF the food trade in his area has shot up 100%like you want to see him eat,no cancel that you dont want to see eat,dogs at broth comes to mind 😆 😆

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  70. Ice 🙂 , its the starving children in the city where he lives that I wory about 🙂 They have to go without as a result 🙂 🙂

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  72. It looks like Houghton’s off to Norwich. I’m glad for him, he deserves to be back in the EPL. Standing ovation for him when he returns to St James next season i think 😎

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  74. toonsy says:
    June 6, 2012 at 14:14
    Afternoon all. What have I missed?
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    Just that apparently Rich is la zy and eats a lot, all Aussies look, act, and sound like Paul Hogan, and Rodz is a product of Thatcher’s Britain…. 😉

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