Granted we’ve lost Demba Ba although I don’t think there was much that could have been done about that. Once a club he wanted to go to met his release clause we would have always been on shaky ground.
However in terms of players in we have just under half of a new starting eleven to pick from should we choose to do so. Mathieu Debuchy, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Massadio Haidara, Yoan Gouffran and, most recently, Moussa Sissoko have joined the ranks at St James’ Park giving us more options all over the pitch and more strength in depth which is something that has proved costly this season.To top it all off, Fabricio Coloccini stays at Newcastle for the time being at least.
Personally I get the feeling our business is done now though. I don’t know why but it was just the way that Alan Pardew was talking after the Sissoko signing yesterday. It was more of a review of our transfer window the way i read it although I could of course be wrong.
So the next question to ask is would you be happy if the transfer window ended now? Do you think we’ve done enough to strengthen? I know a lot of it should have been done last summer, but have the board finally put things right by back Alan Pardew or are we still desperately short somewhere on the pitch?
Personally I’m happy with what we’ve done in this window and if it was the end of January and we couldn’t bring in any more I wouldn’t be bothered at all. An extra striker would be nice but I honestly can’t see that happening.
However what I want to know is what your opinion is on the matter, so get voting and leave a comment below.
[poll id=”74″]
I agree, but if we are playing that style, is Gouffran someone who can play upfront on his own?
funkyjesus(Quote)
Pootle@68, you’re way off the mark mate, you don’t need to use so many words when you are barking up the wrong tree 😆
I don’t want to reopen an old debate, but just for the record, I thought at the time Ba was a better striker than Cisse, and agreed that Pardew should start him in the middle over Cisse. However – that does not at the same time mean I don’t give Cisse my 100% backing 🙄
Big D@67…no 😉 You thought the only reason Cisse was so poor was because of Ba. I disagreed, and still do. However Ba is no longer at the club, I’m not pining for him, and although he scored a lot of valuable goals for us, good riddance to him. I’m only interested in players who play for the toon, and Cisse is one of them.
Munich Mag(Quote)
Cisse has been woeful this season. He cant string two passes together never mind score a goal. Blaming it all on Ba is very harsh. True playing on the flank does not suit Cisse but even with two up top he has been shockingly bad. IMO one of our worst players this year.
I am sure his form will return with the teams morale though and some healthy competition wouldn’t be to bad either would love RVW.
Santii(Quote)
Icedog@70, didn’t you or Big D have access to Steve Wraith who was insinuating something wasn’t right behind the scenes. Apart from the Ba issue, which is now history, it sounds like the Collo issue may have also been going on for a while 🙄 .
Munich Mag(Quote)
Santii@78, I hope you have a tin hat handy mate 🙂 😆 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
“I haven’t been Xie king up on you. Lol ”
That was meant to say ‘checking up on you’.
Predictive text, my ****!
MM. Listen to Big Dave. Review some of the things you said. It was almost like you were blaming Cisse for Ba leaving!!
It was money. We were a necessary financial stepping stone to him.
It always makes me cringe when I hear people talking about mercenaries in football (as with Remy).
Money is a large motivation in most people’s lives, not just footballers.
Most footballers are swayed by money and glory (fame?). Those who aren’t are in the minority. Ba, however, appears to be more motivated by it than most as it appeared to be his main agenda the whole time.
Pootle(Quote)
Hi! I teach Spanish and I have to say that Colo did not write it. It is very flowery and bigs up the two main men of San Lorenzo. I reckon they wrote it to save face and probably got the agent to sign Colo’s name. Colo has to prove his loyalty with his performances on the pitch.
snowdone(Quote)
FJ yeah mate he has played up top 😉
MM not strictly Ba but Pards aswell because Pards gave Ba the assurances before they even kicked a ball in a friendly so that suggested to me that Pards had made the Ba assurances to try to keep Ba and it had nowt to do with form, so that showed little faith in Cisse who finished the last season on a high 🙄
Big Dave(Quote)
Santii.
Surely the fact that pretty much every player has been ***** this season and we have AS A TEAM barely been able to string two passes together would suggest the problem is greater than Cisse’s form.
It suggests to me that Pardew has lost the plot. But there you go.
Pootle(Quote)
Funky-I don’t know mate, I really don’t. But with the back 4 and combative midfield we have, surely we can actually keep some clean sheets this season? We didn’t score that many goals last season truth be told, it was our solid defence that put us near the top.
I’m confident even Xisco could score with the service we should be able to provide 😀
Newkie(Quote)
Big Dave,
I know he has played up front but I wasn’t sure if he was a lone striker type. He seems more Michael Owen than Shane Long.
funkyjesus(Quote)
Pootle@81, you should really stop with your lies.
Not only are you barking up the wrong tree, you’re also one month behind the times.. 😳 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
SNOWDONE I don’t think you can say 100% that Colo did not write that, but even if he didn’t I don’t for one minute believe that he didn’t read it before he signed it or gave the go ahead for someone to sign it for him. I really cant see the club risking the wrath of the Regime by doing something like that.
Big Dave(Quote)
@81
I don’t get all this hatred for Ba. So what if he thought of us as a stepping stone. He still needs to play well if he wants that big money move. He has also arguebly been are best player for 2 seasons now. So if we get anyone else through the door with the same mentality as him and who plays as good as he did for us surely that is a good thing. No?
Santii(Quote)
MM aye mate your right I also say this and get slated but after watching a lot of games over again I am saying cissie body language is not the same as it was,ime just hoping it improves over these last 15games
icedog(Quote)
FJ I am not 100% on it but from what I read it sounds as if he has, but apart from that I don’t think we’ll be using a lone striker as it seems like the players we have are better suited to playing other formations but thats just my opinion
Big Dave(Quote)
Icedog @69 if that’s true someone best av a word in Rangers ear then after last weeks tweets 😆
KIMTOON(Quote)
@84
Im not blaming it all on Cisse for our awful season but he has still been one of the worst players this season. I think injurys have been the main reason are season has been so bad so far. Some of pardews decisions have been very poor aswell.
Santii(Quote)
MM@79. it takes nine months you know lol
icedog(Quote)
Newkie
“we have an ultra mobile midfield I think Shola can link up decently”
Stop it!!!
You’re becoming a Pardew “enabler”. 😉 😆
Pootle(Quote)
Icedog, whereas I’m still a big fan of Cisse’s and will stand by him 100%, he needs to start getting his **** together as far as I’m concerned. He is a bit like Collo, he seems to be a bit of an untouchable cos he’s a fans favourite.
I like the bloke and hope he starts to do the business for the team. If not we’ll struggle and at the end of the day he is a 10 mill striker.
A bit like Collo was a gash 10 mill centre half, then had 2 good seasons, then he turned gash again.
I’m starting to believe there may be truth in that that he didn’t pen that letter to San Lorenzo and that it was a wind up 😆 😆
Munich Mag(Quote)
Pootle.
Alas, I am always loyal to Shola 😀 Not as loyal as Moreno perhaps but………..
Newkie(Quote)
Newkie, I fear that Pardew will start with Shola against Villa. However if Joneas gets a start I’ll be well peeved 😆 😆
See Dortmund won again at the weekend 😉
Munich Mag(Quote)
Apparently the letter was on San Lorenzo’s official twitter site.
KIMTOON(Quote)
NEWKIE@97,we all have our cross to bare mate,feel sorry yours is such a big one
icedog(Quote)
Reet I’m off. Make sure that Pootle doesn’t start telling more porkies … 😉
Munich Mag(Quote)
Nobody thought the letter could have really been to his wife, to show he tried to get back?
Makes me sick folks choose to spin such a serious personal matter into a hate campaign against one of our greatest players and men.
The letter, if real, was dignified and respectful and no doubt in line with the etiquette required of his culture.
Some should hang their head in shame.
Stardust(Quote)
Santii, I don’t love or hate Ba?!
He was a good player but building any kind of plans around him was futile as he was in it purely for the money and the chance to move on for more. He didn’t have a relegation clause he had a ‘offer me big wages and come and get me cheap’ clause. As the top brass at Newcastle agreed to this clause you would have expected them to be a bit better prepared for him wanting away.
Cisse is a good striker as his record demonstrates.
However he is a striker who relies on service which has been spectacularly poor this season. You can’t blame him for that.
Pootle(Quote)
Am happy with the signings we made, all good value for money and an improvement to the squad has to be good thing.
Different note – Was prepared to give Ranger the benefit of the doubt over his past, but not any-more, apart from the possible rape charge, the posting on Twitter on Thursday of him Spelling out his name in £20 was the final straw. Mind you Sammy Ameobi is not far behind him from been a total nugget, his posting of him gambling at a casino with a big pile of casino chips, also annoyed me.
Its time the club took some strong action against these two, technically they may have done nothing wrong, but its sort of rubbing the fans noses in it., they have achieved nothing in the game up to now, yet think they have made it. Spoiled idiots.
ash1001(Quote)
MM, I’m not telling porkies!!!
I honestly think you have unresolved gay feelings for Ba!
😉
Pootle(Quote)
MM-Aye I think so too, imo Jonas has been by far our worst performer and shouldn’t get anywhere near the side, but that’s just me. In fairness to Shola, he’s been just as gash as Cisse has when he’s been out wide this season, surely now we can play an actual winger there, we will? 😕
Ice-Cheers mate, I long for the day where he will enter semi retirement and we will pay him to just turn up for the mackem games and scare their team shitless 😉
Newkie(Quote)
@STARBUST #102 None of us have clue what the problem is, even do not know whether there is one, all sorts of stories but nothing concrete from the club or Colo.
It could all be one mighty scam, Colo and his father have been down that road before, when he first left Argentina for Milan.
ash1001(Quote)
That colo letter seems a bit suspect, name dropping the president and vice president personally and stuff…still, I’ve lost respect for Colo in either way, if he is allowing this club/his dad/whoever to use him like this. Or if its the other and he is actually being a whiney little ****.
Newkie(Quote)
Pootle
#103 – Bang on. Ba is a mercenary just like 95% footballers. He was just a lot more open about it because he doesn’t subscribe to the emotional side of the game. Fair enough. I’d be a lot more p’d off if he behaved like Odemwingie is currently. Claiming to love a club just days before trying to force a move just because Floppy Chops and his gang of merry men have turned up offering more £££. Now THAT to me is disgraceful.
As for Cisse, he’s been well off form, but people writing him off aren’t worth arguing with. His record speaks for itself.
Jelavic has also had a shocking season this year, but Everton fans aren’t writing him off. They know he’s a class act going through a rough patch. Nothing more.
The Kid(Quote)
All this stuff going on with Colo if it wasn’t true surely the club would come out and say that all this stuff is made up.
Which leads me to think its all true. Nothing wrong with it. he wants to go home (I think he has cheated on the wife or something and she’s left him). We cant let him go for free though so surely we go for player exchange.
BTW will always love Colo for his contribution to the team throughout his stay here.
Santii(Quote)
Newkie!!
“In fairness to Shola, he’s been just as gash as Cisse has when he’s been out wide this season”
You’re doing it again!!!!
Cisse’s been gash this season, played out of position and with very very poor service.
Shola has been gash HIS ENTIRE CAREER (except against the mackems, ahem!)
Its time to be tough on Shola, and the causes of Shola.
Pootle(Quote)
Stardy what are you on about you pug nose 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
@the Kid
I am not writing Cisse of incase that was aimed at me i think his form will return with these reinforcements and the team morale will soar now aswell. Hope Pardew play some positive football against Villa and we get a big 5-0 win that will really secure this as one of the best transfer windows in my memory
Santii(Quote)
Woo hoo hoo hoo
You’ve got to love Stardust. 😛
He’s asking people to hang their heads in shame.
This is the man who built the big red bus. 😛 😛 😛
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Pootle, he’s also been class against the mackems throughout his career, no? 😉
Newkie(Quote)
I suppose if it was a real serious personal matter that was affecting Colo then he would be in Argentina with his family on compassionate leave, and not really worrying about san lorenzo or the Toon until his problems were sorted but no, that in itself tells me what I need to know
Big Dave(Quote)
The Kid @ 109
Exactly.
I don’t understand how pople can write Cisse of as a lemon despite his goal scoring record (including his first half season with us, FFS :-\) without noticing that not only have we not been playing to HIS strengths but our general play has been absolutely ATROCIOUS.
Maybe our coaching and general tactics have been to blame eh??
Pootle(Quote)
@Pug nose Stardust
It’s a shame Colo didn’t think of addressing the fans who have paid to 🙄 watch him for the last 4 yrs. 🙄
Now take your pug nose out of Jabba’s ***. 😆
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Troy @ 114 I wonder what he thinks when Willo is getting dogs abuse, I bet Stardy is f ing and bleeding at the screen 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Pootle as I have said on here before in his last 2 season he has scored 22 goals in both, so I don’t know how they worked it out that he was a lemon.
Big Dave(Quote)
Yeah, I’m actually surprised I seem to be one of the main Cisse backers, even though I was classified as very much on the “Ba side” of all this…
Newkie(Quote)
Big D and Troy sitting in a tree – b u m m i n g
Had my pug nose jet washed – no snow in there now 😆
Stardust(Quote)
@ BD
How bloody poignant;
I suppose if it was a real serious personal matter that was affecting Colo then he would be in Argentina with his family on compassionate leave, and not really worrying about san lorenzo or the Toon until his problems were sorted but no, that in itself tells me what I need to know 😉
Troy Stavers(Quote)
@BD
Stardy is like a Gulper Eel but with a pug nose. 😛
A peculiar and odious little creature. 😆
Troy Stavers(Quote)
It’s great how little Gulper surfaces from the deep sea bed when Jabba starts buying in the window.
He’s been scurrying along the sea bed all winter. 😆
Shame its took the reality train to make Jabba see the light. 😉
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Stardy you would know alot about bumming your Jabba’s rent boy only he doesn’t even pay you. as for your nose it’s not the snow that would be the problem as it would never see the snaow as it’s normally lodged in Jabba 24/7.
So run along you little *** bandit as you don’t want Jabba getting angry, as you know how nasty he can be
Big Dave(Quote)
The Telegraph are reporting we have bid 12 million for Wilfred Bonny from vittese Arnhem . I cant believe we would get him he is good enough too walk into any top team in Europe the guy is pure class .
Axel(Quote)
Troy @ 125 I wasn’t surprised to see him pop on as i’m waiting for Wolfie to pop on aswell and tell us all how good Jabba is 😳
Big Dave(Quote)
Cisse is the victim of weak man management (Pards with the Ba issue ) also with poor tactics and ***** hoofball service. Hopeing this is about to change.
KIMTOON(Quote)
Whats with all the ganging up and insults on here. Last time a was on here it was alot more mellow and alot less of grown men acting like 5 year olds.
Santii(Quote)
I’m going unsure as well, mainly for the striker issue. Cisse hasn’t exactly been amazing at all this season, so it’s a lot to ask him, Shola, and newboy Gouffran
AndrewT(Quote)
Santii
It was most certainly not directed at you. I haven’t seen anyone write Cisse off today, but a few weeks ago there were a few saying his goals last season were “lucky”…
Yes, ridiculous, I know.
The Kid(Quote)
@127 That would be amazing if it was true. He has been one of the best strikers in Europe a bit like Cisse last year. Find it hard to believe though.
Santii(Quote)
Axel ,will be gobsmacked if we land Bony 😉
KIMTOON(Quote)
Newkie!!!
😆 Granted. But out of all his career matches how many of those matches were against the mackems (as we’re agreed that’s the only time hes ever looked half decent)?.
I bet its not a good percentage.
Pootle(Quote)
For me, the most positive thing about Cisse’s form is that he continues to play HIS game in and around the penalty area. A lot of strikers when they lose form start hesitating at key times and looking for passes instead of shooting opportunities. Cisse hasn’t done that. He hasn’t hidden once. He continues to believe he can score and shoots on sight. It’s only a matter of time until he is back amongst the goals.
The Kid(Quote)
SANTII @ 130 ? are you referring to the Stardy stuff ? ❓
Big Dave(Quote)
KIMTOON if we got him in then it would truly be the most auwsome Transfer window in our history .It aint gonna happen though if it does i will get naked in Fenwicks window
Axel(Quote)
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/sunday-telegraph-newcastle-in-12m-bid-for-vitesse-striker-wilfried-bony/
funkyjesus(Quote)
@BD
Surely Wolfie can’t show his face now after 4 months absence. 😛
Troy Stavers(Quote)
Wilfred Bony 😕 . Heard if him but don’t know much about him where does he play (team and position), what’s his style (footballing not fashion).
Andymag(Quote)
Axel ,we can dream eh 😀
KIMTOON(Quote)
Kimtoon-Also guilty of perhaps being found out himself by defenders-they know his game and that he is apparently still confused by the offside rule, as well as his own poor form which is a natural part of the game.
Newkie(Quote)
Troy well im sure if Stardy has the brass neck to show his ugly pug nose then whats to stop Wolfie 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
I see Schalke have signed Bastos from Lyon for 7m Euros.
Dirt cheap. We should have got him too. SIGN EVERYONE.
funkyjesus(Quote)
@135
I think Shola is a model pro and must be a very good trainer and thats how he has lasted so long here. He has been mostly poor throughout his career but when you seem to have lost all faith in him he pulls out a performance that Messi would be proud of.
@138
I will join you 😀
Santii(Quote)
RE: Wilfried Bony, I don’t know much about him, but he’s very highly rated. Not sure buying another out and out CF is a good idea though. Waiting for Aubameyang makes more sense due to his versatility.
The Kid(Quote)
Christ those Egyptian footie riotors been handed death sentences and it has sparks violent protest.
KIMTOON(Quote)
Andymag,
He is someone I haven’t seen a lot of but everyone online seems to think he’s the bees knees.
funkyjesus(Quote)
@BD
Unless Wolfie is the mechanic on the red bus and he’s got his hands full trying to get it going. 😆
Troy Stavers(Quote)