De Jong seems to be the hot topic at the moment and most of the attention is focussed on the 21-year-old Netherlands striker. However as yet no deal has been agreed for the striker although rumours persist over the presence of bids from United.
Interest in De Jong is thought to be high and Newcastle will face competition for the signature of the highly-rated young striker. A full Netherlands international with an impressive scoring record in the Eredivisie, de Jong looks set for great things although it looks increasingly likely he will have to move away from FC Twente if he is to achieve them.
“I can only confirm that there has been interest from Newcastle in Luuk,” de Jong’s agent Louis Laros told the Journal.
“I know that Newcastle are following him, that is no secret, but a club must first agree a fee with FC Twente and so far this has not happened. I really don’t know what will happen next. It is not up to us at this moment, it is up to those clubs to show an interest and agree a financial deal with Twente.”
“They are not the only club that has shown an interest, there has been a lot of clubs from all over Europe. More than five or six – but that is normal for a player who has scored 25 goals in the Eredivisie and is in the national side.”
Laros is keen on making sure his client moves to the right club for the right reasons and insists that other clubs have been rebuffed in their approach for the striker already. However, perhaps tellingly, he also adds that Newcastle are one option that haven’t been turned away, yet.
“It has got to be the right club for Luuk, and a club that Luuk likes. He has already rejected several clubs who are interested because they are not the right move. I can confirm that Newcastle are not one of the clubs that he has rejected,” said Laros.
“He would be the perfect fit for the Premier League. He is only young and there is no doubt about his quality – no-one is debating that. Now the most important thing is to find the right club for Luuk, which is what we will do.”
I get the feeling that this one is just going to drag on before we see a resolution to it, although the good news is that the player himself is seemingly keen on a move to St James’ Park.
What do you think?
aussie magpie fan@73, I didn’t know you could make slide tackles in Aussie rules footy… 😉 😉
Munich Mag(Quote)
Aussie, aye, but they were all bit part players last season….I have a feeling that this year they’ll really come good
Munich Mag(Quote)
Didn’t matter to me Munich 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
http://www.nufc.com/
Wehey that’s me off to Chemnitz !!!
Aussie, you were probably always a bruiser mate… 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
Never pulled out of a tackle Munich, always had a bit of the white line fever flowing…
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
Stay slinky dudes, what’s the word on the street?
Jay Jay(Quote)
Word on the streets is “where has the little ginga fella been?” 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Never pulled out of a tackle, but crimewatch reckons ya pull ya tackle out a canny bit….not sure ya should be coaching kids 😯 😆
richietoon(Quote)
MM dont agree we only need 1/2 players i think we need more than that marv aside i think 4 are needed,to me fans soon forget,towards the end of last season when we had something to play for (CL) m/c thumped us,wigan out-classed us again everton out classed us and they had little to play for imo we have a lot of work to do we will have about 60 games to play next yr
icedog(Quote)
Ice….Agree 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Wouldn’t trust crimewatch Rich… they make a lot of that stuff up… they do…. ……..honest… 🙂 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
I wonder why Rich is thinking about my tackle… hmmm that’s a worry 🙂 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
‘Cos I’m concerned for the kids 😐 😆
richietoon(Quote)
I bet…………. 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
😯 😆
richietoon(Quote)
The chron are saying blackburn have offered a deal that can’t be refused to Best… not sure he would like to drop down a division to be honest… like to keep him for back up…
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
😯 😯 RICHIE agrees with me,going to paste that into my laptop,and thats before the season starts,maybe aussie has ground him down 😆
icedog(Quote)
You caught him at a weak moment Ice 🙂 he was thinking about my tackle.. you always said that he was an old perv 🙂 🙂 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
Aye, just read that. I don’t think he’s going to settle for just being back up anymore and since the club accepted the Celtic bid in January he’s known his days were numbered I guess.
richietoon(Quote)
Being from Denmark and from a City where we have a famous academy because we produce talent and give Them a solid Education at The same time.
This is important!
The club is playing in The Best league but have a very small budget because The City only have about 60.000 people living here.. But we attract The best talent because our talents also gets a really good Education.
This is important for The parents when they send their kids away for football College.
The clubs economy depends on selling youth to bigger
Danishtoon(Quote)
Clubs like FC Copenhagen and Rosenborg.
Fucking iPhone!!!!
Danishtoon(Quote)
Ice…ya can’t be wrong all the time, we’ll leave that to Aussie 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Rich, touche’ 🙂 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
AMF got a felling we are being thrown to the wolves here some how 😕
icedog(Quote)
Here there and every ******* where, like empty seats at the stadium of *****, how’s life richietoon?
Jay Jay(Quote)
Really struggling to get internet access abroad 🙁
Can get it for two mins then it just drops off again 🙁
toonsy(Quote)
TOONSY says Can get it for two mins then it just drops off again
dont worry mate you can get tablets for that noo 😀
icedog(Quote)
Jay…Life’s canny, nice n hot though still nae hoose on the horizon 👿
How’s you, any closer to moving to Newcastle?
richietoon(Quote)
Ice 😆 …..that’s still longer than Aussie’s attention span though 😉
richietoon(Quote)
sounds like one of your hard ons toonsy 😆
house went up for sale last week richie, getting a few nibbles already though 😉
jay jay(Quote)
I dont understand people saying we only need 1/2 players (MM I’ve heard others say it too), even if Simpson, Best and Ranger stays which I really don’t see happening. Can’t see a resolve to the Simpson contract now, Best clearly isn’t wanted and could well end up at Blackburn, and Ranger looks set for Shef Wed.
Id say that would leave us short at full back, Centre Back and Centre Forward, especially during ACoNs.
Our forward options would be Ba, Cisse and Shola, so for me both Best and Ranger would need replacing. There’s 2 for CF.
Then Simmo would need replacing so that’s 3.
We need another CB as the top teams generally have 4 to choose from – there’s 4.
I personally would like another DCM aswell, I know Perch filled in well there last season and I’d still use him but be happier knowing we had an extra bod in to cover any injuries.
That’s 5 for me, then I’d completely confident we had enough in the squad to cope with all the games that we have coming next season.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Jay…. Good luck with the house sale, you renewed ya season ticket?
richietoon(Quote)
SHARPY we are getting closer to agreeing with each other (84) keep takeing those tablets mate 😆
icedog(Quote)
“sounds like one of your hard ons toonsy “….Mrs Toonsy wishes it lasted that long 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Don’t say I have to agree with Ice and Sharpy on the same day 😯 😆
richietoon(Quote)
yeah richie, I’m on the 10 year deal mate 🙂
jay jay(Quote)
RICHIE its your lucky day,quick put the lotto on 😀 or maybe the sun has got to you 🙁
icedog(Quote)
jammy sod, we’ll have to have a pre match pint if I make it over at Xmas, probably only be QPR(H) when I’m over, ya still on the same mob?
richietoon(Quote)
Yeah richie, wont get you a free ticket this time, done us no good last time 😆
jay jay(Quote)
Ice…it may well be, was 37c the other day and the long range forecast has it in the 30’s for the next couple of weeks at least….not even in the hot months yet 😎 ……how’s sunny Co Durham 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Jay… I blame the bairn, he’s a feckin jinx 😆
richietoon(Quote)
I’ll give ya a bell nearer the time then, I look forward to your latest attempt at chatting up a WPC 😉 😆
richietoon(Quote)
aye, knew it couldn’t be my fault 😉
jay jay(Quote)
Richie – Not this day mate 😉
God bless you for taking pity on Ice and agreeing with him. I’m sure it was just a moment of weakness.
Ice – seriously nice try though buddy, you are getting so close to being right, it’s frustrating and exciting all at the same time!!
Don’t worry though mate, well get ya there soon 😉
Sharpy17(Quote)
Jay….Bolton away was your fault though…I’ll take the credit for Brum away 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Sharpy
richietoon(Quote)
you got that all wrong richie 😀
jay jay(Quote)
I deserve to claim Brum being as I had to drive down there fecking twice….and you just had to hop on one of the local buses and pay half fare 😉 😆
richietoon(Quote)
wish i could pay half fare on the trains mate, costs a bloody fortune! Cue toonsy pimping out smegabus 🙂
jay jay(Quote)
RICHIE just normal weather here mate,wind aboot 25mph and pouring down,pup says air-con full hog over there too 🙁
icedog(Quote)
Ice…nae aircon in here 29c in the flat, got the ceiling fans going and a nice cold one opened 😉
Jay…aye he’ll be pimping any second now. You writing any articles?
Reet ganna watch a bit of tv with wor lass…laters
richietoon(Quote)
Haven’t in ages mate, getting up at 3:30am for work is taking it’s toll, as is post season weekend activities 😉
jay jay(Quote)
Ballistic weather here in Bayern…….grill party in the garden planned for this afta…. Glad I divent have to watch “Gone with the wind” with wor lass like Richietoon… 😉
anyone up for Chemnitz…?…should be a canny Friday neet oot…
Munich Mag(Quote)
Gone with the Wind is Friday nights as you well know Munich, as it has to be couriered across to you for Saturday night 🙄 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Richie…there is usually some wind blowing over here but it’s usually on a Saturday morning if you get my drift 😉 … You heading down Lisbon way in the summer to watch the toon ?
Munich Mag(Quote)
Jay..nae excuse, dust of the typewriter and get cracking, I can take care of ya post season weekend activities, that’s what mates are for 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Munich…No mate, need to keep some cash reserves incase there are some Europa games I can get to 😉
richietoon(Quote)
Richie, I was thinking the same, cos I missed the last european trips cos I was living in the states. Chemnitz is closeish to wor hoose though…
Munich Mag(Quote)
Hopefully we’ll draw one(or both) of the Spanish teams, wouldn’t mind a trip to Deutschland too like 😀
richietoon(Quote)
Munich…last one I went to was the UEFA semi final v Marseille, stayed in Nice for 2 days, train up to Marseille on the day of the match, stayed up there the night then back to Nice for another 2 days, cracking time, can’t beat Euro away games like.
richietoon(Quote)
Afternoon all ,God it’s soooo slow without footie . Can’t wait for the new season to start, even the prospect of the transfer window opening is looking fun right now 🙄
kimtoon(Quote)
It will be good if the Toon go to spain, Richie can sit in one stand by himself and it will look like it was full of spporters 🙂 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
Hang in there Kim, we are all feeling the same way 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
Afternoon Kim…tbf Aussie is this slow with or without footie 😆
richietoon(Quote)
Aussie ,you know how people get that SAD condition in the winter and get light therapy for it ,well I think I have WOLF (withdrawal of league football ) 😯 I’m sure there must be treatment avialible for it 🙄
kimtoon(Quote)
weekends are getting hectic richietoon, was in telford a few weeks ago when I should have been in Northampton on the saturday, a missed oppertunity, when I went back to work on the monday I nicked a fucking sasco 😆
jay jay(Quote)
I’m not slow Rich, I just like to take time to think about things 🙂 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
Kim, 🙂 🙂 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)
what ever happened to wolfie these days,must have nicked off with that 25mil he said jabba was going to spend in jan 😯
icedog(Quote)
Jay…ya’ll get yasel in to botha young man 😉 …and whats a sasco?
Aussie… 😆
richietoon(Quote)
AMF just keep writeing slowly richie cannot read quick 😀
icedog(Quote)
Ice, We could do with a few of his mad tales to pass the time.I know he could be a bit saucy at times but he did make me 😆 most of the time.
kimtoon(Quote)
Ice…Aye it’s been a while, it’s probably taken him all this time to write out one comment 😆
richietoon(Quote)
😀 😀
icedog(Quote)
Ice 🙂 Rich can read quick mate, its just that he has trouble seeing the screen due to all the food that he has spilt on it while chewing his snacks 🙂 🙂
aussie magpie fan(Quote)